ENGL 455

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Intensive study of the work of one or two major authors.

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 455 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40444	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	150 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Weird Writers Section Info: Weird Writers: Poe, Lovecraft, VanderMeer, Miéville - This course will be devoted to two centuries of the strange, as imagined in the minds of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Jeff VanderMeer, and China Miéville. “Weird fiction” is a real and very popular genre, carrying with it an implicit celebration of the odd, the otherworldly, the deviant, the scientifically implausible, the unimaginable—the weird. For these four authors, that means a series of knowledge-defying encounters with madmen, mushroom-people, extra-terrestrials, and other Lovecraftian blob-monsters of the deep. Some questions we might ask include: what is the relationship between weird literature today and earlier (also weird) literary modes like the Gothic and science fiction? Why are weird stories, which often carry with them some form of horror or discomfort, so pleasurable and so popular? But most of all, what makes something weird—and does the when of that weird matter? Along the way we’ll read many weird novels and stories, play at least one weird videogame (called Bloodborne), and investigate some (also) pretty weird scholarship from of today’s most powerful feminist theorists and “speculative” philosophers--who, it turns out, are just as interested in weird things as these weird writers are. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	39507	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	150 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Weird Writers Section Info: Weird Writers: Poe, Lovecraft, VanderMeer, Miéville: This course will be devoted to two centuries of the strange, as imagined in the minds of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Jeff VanderMeer, and China Miéville. “Weird fiction” is a real and very popular genre, carrying with it an implicit celebration of the odd, the otherworldly, the deviant, the scientifically implausible, the unimaginable—the weird. For these four authors, that means a series of knowledge-defying encounters with madmen, mushroom-people, extra-terrestrials, and other Lovecraftian blob-monsters of the deep. Some questions we might ask include: what is the relationship between weird literature today and earlier (also weird) literary modes like the Gothic and science fiction? Why are weird stories, which often carry with them some form of horror or discomfort, so pleasurable and so popular? But most of all, what makes something weird—and does the when of that weird matter? Along the way we’ll read many weird novels and stories, play at least one weird videogame (called Bloodborne), and investigate some (also) pretty weird scholarship from of today’s most powerful feminist theorists and “speculative” philosophers--who, it turns out, are just as interested in weird things as these weird writers are. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.