ENGL 390

Spring 2015 Part of Term B

Part of Term B
Mar 16-May 6

Advanced Individual Study

Credit: 3 hours.

Advanced study of selected topics.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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ENGL 390 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63176	Lecture	GG	11:00AM -1:20PM	MW	Wohlers Hall	Gasyna, G	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/16/15-05/06/15 Section Info: "Joseph Conrad and Global Consciousness" This seminar offers a critical survey of Joseph Conrad's works dating from the so-called ?major phase? of his writing career, including the novels Nostromo, Under Western Eyes, Heart of Darkness, the quasi-autobiographical A Personal Record, as well as several crucial short stories (?The Secret Sharer,? ?An Outpost of Progress,? "Gaspar Ruiz," "Amy Foster") and some political writings. We will examine Conrad?s modernist innovations within the multiple contexts of his perceived role as a public intellectual, his past as a master mariner on the seven seas, his sense of cultural deracination/assimilation in his adoptive England, as well as his complex and sometimes tumultuous collaboration with contemporaries such as Ford Madox Ford and James Galsworthy, and from a number of theoretical approaches: comparativist, Polonist, exilic/extraterritorial, postcolonial, new historicist. The second key engagement will be with the logics and discourses of global empire, in which Conrad was an agent as a sailor ? and eventually captain ? under the British ensign. Along the way, we shall seek to establish a concrete portrait of the man (in all his plurality and ambivalence of his identity) and his times (in all their turbulence).