ENGL 261

Spring 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 19-May 4

Topics in Lit and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introductory study of variety of topics in literature and culture, including those that bridge traditional historical periods, focus on themes or movements, and cross disciplinary boundaries.

May be repeated up to 6 hours in same or separate terms if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 261 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62181	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Dean, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Literature and Sex Section Info: Topic Section Q: Literature and Sex This discussion-based class introduces students to the range of ways that sex can be portrayed in literature. We will consider how, after US obscenity law shifted its attention to visual images, writers experimented with a new freedom to discuss this fundamental aspect of the human experience. What can be described in literature that cannot be represented in film? How does literature fit into the history of pornography and should a boundary be drawn between the two? When does sexual explicitness in writing serve a feminist agenda? How do laborers in the sex industry represent their work in writing? What concepts or frameworks do we need to think clearly about literary representations of sex? The course will tackle these questions—and others that students bring to the table—by reading a range of primary texts alongside critical articles by feminist and queer thinkers such as Pat Califia, Samuel Delany, Scott O’Hara, Gayle Rubin, Darieck Scott, and Michael Warner. Regular response papers and a final exam. You do not need to be an English or humanities major to take this course, but you do need to be willing to read books and discuss them with an open mind.