CWL 119

Fall 2019

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Literature of Fantasy
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 119. See ENGL 119.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
65041
Lecture-Discussion
P
9:30AM -10:45AM
TR
119 English Building
DeVries, B
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/26/19-12/11/19
Section Info:
At its heart, this course has two goals. First, as a 100-level literature course, it aims at equipping you with the skills to think and write not just about the stories we’ll read this semester but about literary texts more generally. To that end, we’ll work together to develop a vocabulary for discussing fiction, cultivating along the way the practices of sound literary analysis. Second, insofar as this course is specifically about fantasy, we’ll also think hard about what fantasy is and does. How do we define “the fantastic”? What sort of work does “fantasy” perform as a genre? How does fantasy—how do Old Ones and scriving, orogeny and Bokoblins—help us imagine our circumstances, even the world, differently? To answer these questions, we’ll focus our attention on very recent fantasy, on stories published within the last five years by writers like Ruthanna Emrys, Robert Jackson Bennett, and N. K. Jemisin. We’ll also dip our toes into fantasy video gaming, with 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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