ENGL 581

Fall 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 23-Dec 8

Seminar Literary Theory

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to criticism or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 581 class schedule data for fall 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40464	Lecture-Discussion	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	Foreign Languages Building	Hunt, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Section Title: Sites of Grief Section Info: "Sites of Grief: the Politics of Mourning and Forgiveness" Americans are stubbornly unmoved by death,” so ran a Washington Post opinion piece on March 23, 2021. Between the pandemic, mass shootings, and the systemic racism highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, the US has ample cause for mass mourning. Accordingly, on April 12, 2021, the NYT published the opinion that “The Grief Crisis is Coming.” But what if it doesn’t? The nation seems to be trapped in melancholic stasis. What if this unmourning persists? What if – instead of a coming grief crisis – the crisis is the unmourning that grips us already? Since the turn of the millennium, mourning and melancholia’s potential political power has attracted increasing scholarly attention. To probe critical theory’s interest in the political potential of mourning and melancholia, this class will turn from Freud and Benjamin to Eng and Kazanjian and to Butler and Moten. Central to these conversations will be the problem of reconciling a community torn asunder by unmourning – or paving the way for the community to come. Antigone will be an important figure in our discussions on state-imposed unmourning. We will read Sophocles, Hölderlin, Brecht, and Fugard’s adaptations and watch Antigone in Ferguson. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.