ENGL 115

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Intro to British Literature

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Credit: 3 hours.

Acquaints students with the rich diversity of British prose, poetry, and drama. As a basic introduction to English literature, the course explores a series of literary texts, often thematically related, which appeal to modern readers and at the same time provide interesting insights into the cultural attitudes and values of the periods which produced them.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 115 class schedule data for spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	68287	Online	X	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	n.a.	Chatterjee, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: "How do I love thee": Desire, Romance, and Amour Down the Ages Alan Badiou, in "In Praise of Love" mourns, how, in the current consumerist world, love has been reduced to a risk-free adventure, a "mere variant of desire and hedonism". We could take this as a cue to sit back and interrogate how love has conceptually evolved down the ages and what different shades of its representation in literature could mean. In this course, we shall limit our attention to British literature and read closely an eclectic selection of texts across genres right from the medieval ages to the modern era. We shall ask ourselves how amour has been informed by the politics of their time and space, and how we could employ our contemporary sensibility to interpret the canonical subjects and objects of amour without compromising on the pleasure of reading. We begin by studying the Arthurian romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, before turning our attention to sonnets by Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare. In due course, we shall read a bit of John Donne and Andrew Marvell as we subsequently move on to Wordsworth's Lucy poems, selections from Keat's letters to Fanny Brawne, Elizabeth Barett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, a novel by Thomas Hardy, and a play by James Joyce. We shall end with TS Eliot's celebrated Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. We shall bring in perspectives from Marxism, postcolonialism, as well as gender studies, to enrich our understanding. Course requirements include short reading responses, a final term paper, and a go-as-you-like assignment where you would be given the chance to unleash your creative energies.