ENGL 475

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Lit and Other Disciplines

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring the intersection of literary study and other scholarly disciplines. The disciplines students study vary each term, but past courses have examined connections between literature and psychology, forensic science, environmental studies, and the law.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary.May be repeated for graduate credit if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 475 class schedule data for fall 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
49208	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:50PM	W	English Building	Carico, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Slavery's Afterlives Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Slavery's Afterlives In this seminar we'll think about what happens to slavery in America after 1865. Does it simply vanish? Or does it somehow remain, and if so, where do we find its remnants in our national life? We?ll spend much of our semester together surveying the boundary lines imagined to separate slavery and freedom. This also means that we?ll be questioning the times and spaces that are thought to be proper to "slavery" and "freedom." Anchored in nineteenth-century America but extending into our present, our readings will address the loopholes of freedom, the life and death of the slave commodity, and the meaning of mass incarceration. We'll approach slavery in America as a kind of historical crisis, as a crime that isn't redressed and as a story that resists being told. Working with slave narratives, novels, paintings, and films, alongside the work of contemporary scholars, we'll examine accounts of slavery that grapple with that institution's legacy. From Frederick Douglass's narrative to Django Unchained, a host of questions will attend our journey: What's the connection between an enslaved past and a "free" present? How does one write about a slavery that hasn't yet ended, and where do we locate slavery's continued presence? To whom does slavery's inheritance fall? And what are the possibilities for beginning, at last, to tell a free story? Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
49207	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:50PM	W	English Building	Carico, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Slavery's Afterlives Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Slavery's Afterlives In this seminar we'll think about what happens to slavery in America after 1865. Does it simply vanish? Or does it somehow remain, and if so, where do we find its remnants in our national life? We?ll spend much of our semester together surveying the boundary lines imagined to separate slavery and freedom. This also means that we?ll be questioning the times and spaces that are thought to be proper to "slavery" and "freedom." Anchored in nineteenth-century America but extending into our present, our readings will address the loopholes of freedom, the life and death of the slave commodity, and the meaning of mass incarceration. We'll approach slavery in America as a kind of historical crisis, as a crime that isn't redressed and as a story that resists being told. Working with slave narratives, novels, paintings, and films, alongside the work of contemporary scholars, we'll examine accounts of slavery that grapple with that institution's legacy. From Frederick Douglass's narrative to Django Unchained, a host of questions will attend our journey: What's the connection between an enslaved past and a "free" present? How does one write about a slavery that hasn't yet ended, and where do we locate slavery's continued presence? To whom does slavery's inheritance fall? And what are the possibilities for beginning, at last, to tell a free story? Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
47884	Lecture-Discussion	NS	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Foreign Languages Building	Senna, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Critical Theory:Made in Brazil Section Info: Meets with LAST 490 and ENGL 475. TITILE: "Critical Theory: Made in Brazil" This course aims at presenting an important school of literary criticism in Brazil, as it was developed at the University of Sao Paulo since the sixties in the works of Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz and others. The idea here is to investigate what has been the experience of the dialectic in Brazilian thinking about literature, which could function as a model or at least inspiration for other disciplines. The main concern will be to critically describe how literary form can crystalize social life. Depending on the reading skills of the class texts in Portuguese will also be used. Methodologically, the course will consist of close readings of critical writings accompanied by the literary works on which their insights are based.
61971	Lecture-Discussion	SRU	3:30PM -5:50PM	M	Foreign Languages Building	Ruiz, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Latina/o Performance Section Info: Meets with LLS 496. How does one read a body and a body of work? This course will take as its basic premise that all bodies ask to be read, whether these bodies are socially, culturally, racially, and sexually coded, or bodies of work. In this course we will trace the historical underpinnings of Latina/o performances from the 1960s to the present in order to underscore the relationship between exercises of everyday life and acts on stage. The Latina/o body is not only marked by modalities of difference, but is an essential instrument of the subject-oftentimes unheard, unsayable, and unnoticed. Therefore, in this course a double gesture in bodily reading will occur: one that brings to the fore a particular type of performance as an intellectual corpus, and the other that highlights specific enduring bodies in times. To that end, we will critically engage with performance scripts, media works of performances, theorizations of Latinidad and the body. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.