Department of English
Course Descriptions - Fall 2007

Graduate Courses

ENG 401 Old English Literature

ENG 408 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

ENG 413 Metaphysical Poetry

ENG 422 Nineteenth-Century British Novel

ENG 427 American Moderns

ENG 428 African American Drama

ENG 442 Authors, Editors, and the Literary Marketplace

ENG 444 Geneaology of Tragedy

ENG 445 20th Century Fiction

ENG 445 Comic Books

ENG 452 Theatre in England

ENG 455 Silent Cinema

ENG 459 Film Noir

ENG 467 Changing Genres of Erotica

ENG 475 Advanced Creative Writing

ENG 487 Studies in Translation

ENG 489 Selznick Colloquium

ENG 507 Gower and Langland

ENG 526 Literary Lives: The Life of the Author

ENG 530 Victorian Others

ENG 540 American Renaissance

ENG 571 Writing Pedagogy

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Full Descriptions

ENG 401 Old English Literature

Instructor:

Higley, S

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 201

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 201.

CRN:

92041

Day/Time:

MW 1230 1345

Room:

MOREY 505

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 408 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Instructor:

Kegl, R

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 208

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 208.

CRN:

92064

Day/Time:

MW 1230 1345

Room:

HYLAN 618

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

 

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ENG 413 Metaphysical Poetry

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 213

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 213.

CRN:

92088

Day/Time:

TR 1400 1515

Room:

LATT 203

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 422 Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 222.

CRN:

TBA

Day/Time:

TR 1230 1345

Room:

HUTCH 138

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

3/23/07

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ENG 427 American Moderns

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 227.

CRN:

47371

Day/Time:

TR 1105 1220

Room:

DRAMA HOUSE

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 428 African American Drama

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 228.

CRN:

47385

Day/Time:

TR 1230 1345

Room:

MOREY 501

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 442 Authors, Editors, and the Literary Marketplace

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 242.

CRN:

92140

Day/Time:

MW 1230 1345

Room:

MOREY 401

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 444 Genealogy of Tragedy

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 244.

CRN:

47419

Day/Time:

TR 1105 1220

Room:

MOREY 504

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 445 Studies in International Literature: 20th Century Fiction

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 245.

CRN:

92195

Day/Time:

TR 1230 1345

Room:

MOREY 402

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 452 Theater in England

Description:

Fall 2007. See description for ENG 252.

CRN:

47441

Day/Time:

TBA

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 455 Introduction to Film History: Silent Cinema

Instructor:

Loughney, P

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 255; FMS 255B; WST 243

Description:

Fall 2007. Please see description for ENG 255.

CRN:

47453

Day/Time:

T 1650 1930

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 459 Pop Film Genres: Film Noir

Instructor:

Grella, G

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 259, FMS 251F

Description:

Fall 2007. Please see description for ENG 259.

CRN:

47464

Day/Time:

R 1650 1930

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 467 Changing Genres of Erotica

Instructor:

Bleich, D

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 467, WST 267

Description:

Fall 2007. Please see description for ENG 267.

CRN:

47503

Day/Time:

TR 0940 1055

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 475 Advanced Creative Writing

Instructor:

Scott, J

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 275

Description:

Fall 2007. Please see description for ENG 275 .

CRN:

TBA

Day/Time:

T 1400 1345

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

3/23/07

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ENG 487 Studies in Translation

Instructor:

Michael, J

Crosslisting(s):

ENG 287

Description:

Fall 2007. Please see description for ENG 287.

CRN:

92215

Day/Time:

TR 1525 1640

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 489 Selznick Colloquium

CRN:

47259

Day/Time:

T

Room:

TBA

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/7/07

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ENG 507 Gower and Langland

Instructor:

Peck, R

Description:

The seminar has several goals: First, the close reading of two major poems of the late fourteenth century, John Gower's Confessio Amantis and William Langland's Piers Plowman, within their cultural environment, whether that be ethical polemics, theory of literary compilation, theory of rhetoric, social and political structures, or, especially, the developing of psychological structures that define concepts such as self, soul, and time. Second, we will explore the development of the use sophisticated first person narrators to develop fictional "autobiography" as a means of examineing epistemological as well as philosophical matters. Third, the seminar will be a phenomenological study in "being there," not so much in terms of our effort to historicise the material (though we will, of course, be doing that) as it will be a consideration of how medieval writers attempt to access themselves, i.e., to place themselves and their progressive enlightenments and frustrations within some kind of metaphysical relationship with imagined conditions of being. We will be concerned with several disciplines as the personas attempt to educate themselves amidst what Langland calls "a field full of folk" located between a tower and a pit, an image that suits well with Gower's wandering "middel-weie" amidst an existential desert. Seminar work will include two reports (one about 30 minutes in length, and another of about 15 minutes; a couple of one-page position papers, designed to lead to discussion; and a research paper ca. 15-20 pages in length.

CRN

92239

Day/Time:

M 0930 1210

Room:

Morey 403

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/8/07

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ENG 526 Literary Lives: The Life of the Author

Instructor:

Mannheimer, K

Description:

Fall 2007. In 1967, Roland Barthes famously proclaimed the Death of the Author. Yet the Life of the Author has long occupied, and continues to occupy, a central place in both the popular and scholarly imagination; as we scrutinize the biographies behind creative minds, what is it we hope to discover? the key to their works? to their artistic power? to the nature of “genius”? This already-fraught enterprise is made only more difficult by authors themselves, whose imaginative renderings of reality nearly always extend to their own lives as well, thus eluding and deluding future assessors. This course will work to theorize and historicize our culture’s attempts to separate “Author” from “Self,” “Representation” from “Reality,” “Public” from “Private,” by examining instances of
biographical criticism, literary biography, and writerly self-fashioning. Authors and (auto-)biographers will include Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Keats, Gaskell, Proust, and Nabokov, among others; we will also read texts by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Roger Chartier, Adrian Johns, Mark Rose, and Martha Woodmansee.

CRN

92250

Day/Time:

R 1400 1640

Room:

Morey 403

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/8/07

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ENG 530 Victorian Others

Instructor:

London, B

Description:

This course takes as its point of departure the so-called subculture of the Victorians --what, referring to the underworld of Victorian sexuality, Steven Marcus first named in 1966 the "Other Victorians." Extending and critiquing Marcus's formulation, this course examines a number of sites of cultural conflict in the Victorian period, including Victorian pornography and sexuality, prostitution, working class identity, the colonial empire, Jewish nationhood, madness and hysteria, "new women," criminality. We will look at a number of literary texts by both canonical and noncanonical writers, with attention to the question of what authors and works defined Victorian identity for the Victorians and for subsequent generations of academic and common readers. Literary texts considered will include such works as George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Princess, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. We will also look at recent trends and developments in Victorian studies to consider how these “other” Victorians may have now become the Victorian mainstream.

Restrictions:

Open only to graduate students in offering department

CRN

92242

Day/Time:

T 1400 1640

Room:

Morey 403

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/8/07

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ENG 540 American Renaissance

Instructor:

Michael, J

Restrictions:

Open only to graduate students in offering department

CRN

47876

Day/Time:

W 1400 1640

Room:

Morey 403

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/8/07

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ENG 571 Writing Pedagogy

Instructor:

Rossen-Knill, D

Description:

Fall 2007. This course introduces graduate students to the scholarly issues on rhetoric, composition, literacy, and cultural studies that focus on the teaching of writing. The class will examine a significant range of theory and research on teaching and academic writing. Using this background of research, students will create a syllabus for English 103, and they will write a syllabus rationale for the course.

CRN

47902

Day/Time:

T

Room:

TBA

Offered:

Fall

Updated:

2/8/07

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