ENGL 119

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Literature of Fantasy

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the rich traditions of fantasy writing in world literature. While the commercial category of fantasy post-Tolkien will often be the focal point, individual instructors may choose to focus on alternate definitions of the genre: literatures of the fantastic, the uncanny, and the weird; fantasy before the Enlightenment and the advent of realism; fantasy for young adult or child readers; and so on.

Same as CWL 119.

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ENGL 119 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	65040	Lecture-Discussion	M	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.