ENGL 461

Spring 2015 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. May be repeated for graduate credit if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 461 class schedule data for spring 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
39306	Lecture-Discussion	2G	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	119 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Old and New Media: Print and Digital Culture from Gutengerg to Google Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
52283	Lecture-Discussion	2U	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	119 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Old and New Media: Print and Digital Culture from Gutengerg to Google What does it mean to study literature at the start of the 21C? Are print and its major aesthetic forms archaic or simply mutating? What?s at stake in the shift from analog to digital forms of representation? What was ?a reader??and what will reading be in twenty or a hundred years? To get at these questions, we will work with conventional literary forms (like poems and novels) and consider the material formats in which these genres have historically been consumed (the freestanding ?codex? book, cheap serial formats like magazines and newspapers, but also?now?the Kindle and the iPad). But we will also look at photographs, watch movies, play one or two video games, use apps, and navigate webpages. The way something is produced?its ?mode of production??will, in this way, become an important part of how we think about what literature is. Some questions we might ask include: what aesthetic problems seem to have emerged when old media (like print, photography, cinema, and television) were still new? What aesthetic forms and affects did this old media tend to generate and why? How are the debates that were once generated by old media reflected in our contemporary experience of new media? Does ?new? media?websites, video games, apps?create the conditions for a new kind of art, and what aesthetic experiments (Twitter novels? Vine movies? YouTube channels?) Are these forms producing? Our ?primary? archive will include material drawn from a range of old and new media; secondary readings will include both classic and contemporary theory. Our goal will be threefold: to identify, describe, and theorize a robust array of 15C-21C aesthetic experiences from within the material contexts that produce them. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
54510	Lecture-Discussion	WHG	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	1024 Foreign Languages Building	Hassan, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: International Lit Relations Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39303	Lecture-Discussion	WHU	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	1024 Foreign Languages Building	Hassan, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: International Lit Relations Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.