MDVL 514

Fall 2018

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Seminar in Medieval Literature
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 514. See ENGL 514.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
39528
Lecture-Discussion
E
1:00PM -2:50PM
W
29 English Building
Barrett, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/18-12/12/18
Section Title:
Ecocriticism and Early English
Section Info:
Ecocriticism and Early English Drama This seminar surveys early English drama through an ecological lens, exploring the enmeshment of nature and culture on public and private stages in the three centuries leading up to the closing of the theatres in 1642. We’ll begin with the transcorporeality of Christian psychomachia in the early fifteenth-century Castle of Perseverance and end with the enclosure and privatization of common green spaces in Richard Brome’s 1635 Sparagus Garden. In between we’ll consider such topics as agency and ecofeminism (e.g., the N-Town Mary plays and William Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor), ecological apocalypse (e.g., the York Last Judgment play, John Lyly’s Galatea, and Thomas Nashe’s Summer’s Last Will and Testament), environmental justice and race (e.g., John Rastell’s Play of the Four Elements and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness), and the oceanic “blue humanities” (e.g., the Digby Mary Magdalene and John Fletcher and Philip Massinger’s Sea Voyage). Other topics will emerge over the course of the semester—I certainly intend to work a Harawayan approach to critters into our discussions whenever possible, and student interests will formally become part of the class through the regular composition and publication of brief Instigator posts on the course website. Finally, I will be breaking the usual Seminar Paper assignment into two stages for easier handling: students will first generate a proposal for workshopping in class during the week before Thanksgiving Break and then write an essay based not only on their research but on the feedback their proposal received from their peers.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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