ENGL 119

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Literature of Fantasy

Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the rich traditions of fantasy writing in world literature. While the commercial category of fantasy post-Tolkien will often be the focal point, individual instructors may choose to focus on alternate definitions of the genre: literatures of the fantastic, the uncanny, and the weird; fantasy before the Enlightenment and the advent of realism; fantasy for young adult or child readers; and so on.

Same as CWL 119.

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ENGL 119 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47149	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	Henry Administration Bldg	Barrett, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Info: While fantastic narratives are as old as human culture, fantasy as an explicit literary and commercial genre is less than a century old. In this class, we?ll track that genre?s history on a decade-by-decade basis, beginning with Lord Dunsany?s 1924 The King of Elfland?s Daughter and ending with N. K. Jemisin?s 2010 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Along the way we?ll look at J. R. R. Tolkien?s 1937 The Hobbit, Mervyn Peake?s 1946 Titus Groan, Poul Anderson?s 1954 The Broken Sword, Ursula K. Le Guin?s 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea, Patricia A. McKillip?s 1974 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Robin McKinley?s 1984 The Hero and the Crown, Diana Wynne Jones?s 1998 Dark Lord of Derkholm, and China Mi�ville?s 2002 The Scar. We?ll certainly discover how a literary tradition comes into focus and learns to critique itself, but we?ll also learn what the literature of the impossible has to say about the cultural possibilities of the so-called ?real world.? Assignments will include a small number of short essays and a pair of exams.