ENGL 461

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Topics in Literature

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced seminar on any of a variety of literary topics.

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. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 461 class schedule data for spring 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
39306	Lecture-Discussion	1G	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	115 English Building	Carico, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Genres of Amer Frontier Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Genres of the American Frontier What is the frontier? And where, and when? As we read and view and listen this semester, we?ll think broadly about the ?frontier? as a space of time that?s in flux, poised between changing orders of law, economy, and culture?from William Shakespeare?s The Tempest to Werner Herzog?s Fitzcarraldo, from the Dred Scott case to Django Unchained!, and from paintings of the American West to field recordings of the American South. We?ll also figure out how new forms and categories?new ?genres??try to re-order that space and time. Westerns are surely concerned with frontiers, but so are folk songs and zombie apocalypse narratives. As we think critically about the frontier, we will also explore its history of violence and domination, especially with regard to the indigenous and the enslaved. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
52283	Lecture-Discussion	1U	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	115 English Building	Carico, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Genres of Amer Frontier Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Genres of the American Frontier What is the frontier? And where, and when? As we read and view and listen this semester, we?ll think broadly about the ?frontier? as a space of time that?s in flux, poised between changing orders of law, economy, and culture?from William Shakespeare?s The Tempest to Werner Herzog?s Fitzcarraldo, from the Dred Scott case to Django Unchained!, and from paintings of the American West to field recordings of the American South. We?ll also figure out how new forms and categories?new ?genres??try to re-order that space and time. Westerns are surely concerned with frontiers, but so are folk songs and zombie apocalypse narratives. As we think critically about the frontier, we will also explore its history of violence and domination, especially with regard to the indigenous and the enslaved. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
58625	Lecture-Discussion	2G	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	150 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Realism(s) Section Info: Topic Section 2G: Realism(s) This course examines the literary tradition of realism, primarily through close analyses of several of its most celebrated nineteenth-century exemplars. We will then follow that portion of the course with a briefer view of twentieth- and the twenty first-century versions of realism to observe how this literary form changes, how it adapts to vigorous remappings of US culture and new perspectives on the real, while focusing on what remains constant for writers who embrace the realist aesthetic. Our course will be predominantly interested in realism in the American imagination, but wherever appropriate, we will also try to explore other varieties of realism.
58624	Lecture-Discussion	2U	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	150 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Realism(s) Section Info: Topic Section 2U: Realism(s) This course examines the literary tradition of realism, primarily through close analyses of several of its most celebrated nineteenth-century exemplars. We will then follow that portion of the course with a briefer view of twentieth- and the twenty first-century versions of realism to observe how this literary form changes, how it adapts to vigorous remappings of US culture and new perspectives on the real, while focusing on what remains constant for writers who embrace the realist aesthetic. Our course will be predominantly interested in realism in the American imagination, but wherever appropriate, we will also try to explore other varieties of realism.