CWL 581

Fall 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 21-Dec 6

Seminar Lit Themes

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Credit: 4 hours.

Study of a theme or type (the Faust myth, the romantic hero, etc.) to discover its essential components in all the literatures studied and the significance of national variations. The subject of the seminar varies each term.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary.

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CWL 581 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	49410	Lecture-Discussion	BK	3:00PM -5:00PM	M	1118 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Kaplan, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Section Title: Whaley Seminar Section Info: This course will meet in Siebel Design Center, room 0060. This course explores literatures intersecting environmental and memory studies through a focus on whales and water. We’ll practice close reading and literary analyses as we work through a series of texts probably including Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Undrowned, Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale, Yuri Rythheu’s When the Whales Leave, and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. We’ll also be looking at performances such as Sarah Cameron Sunde’s 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea and Mayfield Brooks’s Whalefall. We will not be reading all of Moby-Dick because we at Illinois are graced with a brilliant world expert on Melville who will be teaching a seminar on same. I encourage you to take Professor Jamie Jones’s course when it’s next offered. Very fortunate confluences for fall 2023 include Deke Weaver’s amazing Cetacean which will be performed in late September and a visit through the Humanities Research Institute of Alexis Pauline Gumbs on November 1. As we see waters rise, glaciers mourn, temperatures rise/fall/fluctuate, magnolias bloom in February, forests burn, and mud sliding down mountains and hills, we’ll need to think more about how we can listen to whales.