ENGL 396

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English Honors Seminar

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Credit: 3 hours.

An open-topic, discussion-oriented seminar aimed at majors who have shown high skill and intensive interest in the area of English studies.

May be repeated up to 6 hours in the same term to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English majors.

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ENGL 396 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40420	Lecture-Discussion	E1	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Honors Seminar Section Info: FA22 ENGL 396 Contemporary Narratives of Slavery, Chris Freeburg What is it about African American literature and culture that prompts scholars to examine it through the lens of an historical event that ended over a century and half ago? This course will look at contemporary African American literature that focuses on slavery as well as important texts that preceded these works that focus on Black life outside of slavery. This course will discuss what these literary texts have in common and how what they have in common produces a contemporary discourse of slavery. We will use the writers, historians, and theorists in this class to think about the relationship between literary form, philosophical themes, and historical contexts. This students in this course will analyze the writing of Toni Morrison, Sherley Anne Williams, William Styron, Octavia Butler, and Colson Whitehead as well as the essays of Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. There will be a midterm and final paper.
	32226	Lecture-Discussion	S	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	English Building	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Madness in Literature Section Info: FA22 - ENGL 396 Madness in Literature, Manisha Basu If according to Michel Foucault the exclusion of madness is the fundamental act in organizing a modern scientific regime of truth, then it might also be said that madness, at least intermittently, contests the limits of reason, and reason must be continually vigilant in the face of such a threat. Madness must be kept out of ‘rational spaces’ in order to construct them as rational, it must be constrained in institutions that serve the purpose of managing its feral indiscipline and limiting its spread and effects. In literary universes however, madness is often manifest as oppositional, insightful, even inspired, spilling over into the fenced spaces of reason. Employing Michel Foucault’s work as a kind of framing device, we will read across a range of texts that appear in different parts of the globe at different times—poems by the British poet Robert Browning and the American poet Sylvia Plath, plays by the Nigerian Wole Soyinka, short stories by the Navajo writer, Reid Gomez, the Pakistani writer, Sadat Hasan Manto, and the Russian writer, Nikolai Gogol, the Antiguan writer Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-bending text, The Autobiography of my Mother, and the classic nineteenth-century British novel, Jane Eyre—to track appearances of madness (both as psychic and affective states) in global literary forms and to ask whether the binary between reason and madness is a false one and whether positivist science merely pushes to the margins of its own spaces whatever it cannot explain.