ENGL 109

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Intro to Fiction-ACP

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to critical analysis of prose fiction. Explores a wide range of short and long fiction across historical periods; examines narrative strategies such as plot, character, and point of view. Special emphasis placed on good literary critical writing. Course is similar to ENGL 103 except for the additional writing component.

Credit is not given for both ENGL 109 and ENGL 103. Prerequisite: Completion of campus Composition I general education requirement.

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

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Advanced Composition

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ENGL 109 class schedule data for spring 2024
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34586	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	English Building	Rivera Lopez, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: English 109 is designed to introduce students to the critical analysis of prose fiction. By reading a wide range of short and long fiction across several historical periods, we will examine how such narrative strategies as plot, character, point of view and language construct meaning. Individual instructors will bring a variety of texts and interpretive methods to their courses, but special emphasis will be placed on concepts and skills central to good literary critical writing. Course requirements include papers and paper revisions totaling 25-30 pages. Papers are assigned according to the judgment of individual instructors, but will include assignments of various lengths and several opportunities for review and revision. TEXTS: Readings vary from section to section but always include an anthology of short fiction and three or four novels. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
47237	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	English Building	Freudenburg, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: SP24 ENGL 109 - Intro to Fiction - Annah Freudenburg - Gothic Fiction - While the title “Introduction to Fiction” sounds overwhelmingly open ended, this course will focus on one particular genre: the Gothic. Named for its characteristic elements of the fantastic, terrifying, and even macabre, Gothic literature is generally not contained to our world of realism and lawful nature. Instead, it crosses boundaries—social, gendered, political, (super)natural, etc.—and, in doing so, it illuminates and fractures the borders we set as a society. Carmen Maria Machado writes that “the Gothic can be conducive to suppressed voices emerging, like in a haunted house. At its core, the Gothic drama is fundamentally about voiceless things—the dead, the past, the marginalized—gaining voices that cannot be ignored” (Electric Lit, 2019). In our class, we will examine the Gothic in this way—a framework for voicing past and present traumas—and we will dive into the history of the Gothic while reading Gothic novels that prominently feature hauntings (haunted houses, haunted grounds, haunted people...) inspired by a history of imperial violence. In doing so, we will make an effort to identify and listen to the unique voices at work in each text, including voices of both the oppressed and their oppressors. While exploring questions involving race, class, gender, sexuality, and Gothic tradition as they relate to the project of empire, we will hopefully be able to identify moments of both complicity and resistance against imperial ideologies within Gothic texts. Our course goals are to: • Identify particular borders and boundaries set by society and examine the ways in which the Gothic seeks to transgress them and why. • Analyze the symbolism of hauntings and explore houses/homes, land, and other physical spaces for their connections to the social and psychological. • Better understand the web of empire and the project of settler colonialism, locate their presence in Gothic fiction, and identify voices of both imperial and colonized subjects in Gothic literature. • Gain familiarity with historical backgrounds that will make textual reference more meaningful and further develop skills of critical reading and theoretical analysis. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
31925	Lecture-Discussion	L	3:30PM -4:45PM	MW	English Building	Cordell, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: SP24 - ENGL 109 - Intro to Fiction-ACP - Ryan Cordell - Fictional Tech - The literary critic I.A. Richards famously described "the book" as "a machine to think with." While we don't always consider books as technologies, this course will consider the idea of "fictional tech" from two complementary angles. First, we will survey a range of fiction—historical and contemporary—that imagines, interprets, or interrogates the promise and peril of new media technologies. How can fiction expand our collective technological imagination, and what strategies does it offer for resistance? Second, we will explore the media technologies that have evolved in tandem with fictional genres—from the novel to video games—and consider how the media of fiction shapes its audience, reception, and cultural messages. How does the history of communications technology help us understand the evolution of fiction itself, and what might that history offer our interpretations of literature?
31922	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	Landes, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: English 109 is designed to introduce students to the critical analysis of prose fiction. By reading a wide range of short and long fiction across several historical periods, we will examine how such narrative strategies as plot, character, point of view and language construct meaning. Individual instructors will bring a variety of texts and interpretive methods to their courses, but special emphasis will be placed on concepts and skills central to good literary critical writing. Course requirements include papers and paper revisions totaling 25-30 pages. Papers are assigned according to the judgment of individual instructors, but will include assignments of various lengths and several opportunities for review and revision. TEXTS: Readings vary from section to section but always include an anthology of short fiction and three or four novels. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.