ENGL 462

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Topics in Modern Fiction

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced seminar devoted to topics in British, American, and Anglophone fiction from approximately 1800 to the present day. Continental fiction in English translation may occasionally be considered.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary. May be repeated for graduate credit if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 462 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32235	Lecture-Discussion	1G	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	108 English Building	Gilmore, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: SP25 - ENGL 462 - Topics in Modern Fiction - Monsters and Monstrous Comics - Shawn Gilmore - Why is the monstrous other such a pervasive trope across fiction and what happens when comics make that trope increasingly visible? How do long-standing monstrous types (Jekyll/Hyde, Frankenstein’s creature, Dracula) mesh with newer concerns of individual and collective body and identity horror, across a range of fictions? And how do comics handle those concerns, given their unique narrative and formal properties? In this class, we will tease out some of these connections and the cultural work monstrous comics do, reading a wide range of comics that include monsters, monstrous forms, and the environments that contain (and produce) them. We will explore comics like Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing, various versions of the Incredible Hulk, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Monstress, Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing is Monsters, alongside some of the prose and films that informs how we read these comics now. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32233	Lecture-Discussion	1U	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	108 English Building	Gilmore, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP25 - ENGL 462 - Topics in Modern Fiction - Monsters and Monstrous Comics - Shawn Gilmore - Why is the monstrous other such a pervasive trope across fiction and what happens when comics make that trope increasingly visible? How do long-standing monstrous types (Jekyll/Hyde, Frankenstein’s creature, Dracula) mesh with newer concerns of individual and collective body and identity horror, across a range of fictions? And how do comics handle those concerns, given their unique narrative and formal properties? In this class, we will tease out some of these connections and the cultural work monstrous comics do, reading a wide range of comics that include monsters, monstrous forms, and the environments that contain (and produce) them. We will explore comics like Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing, various versions of the Incredible Hulk, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Monstress, Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing is Monsters, alongside some of the prose and films that informs how we read these comics now. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.