Fall 2006 Course Descriptions: Undergraduate Programs in English, University of South Carolina

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ENGL 270-286 Designed for Non-majors.

ENGL 270-001 WORLD LITERATURE MWF 9:05-9:55 DUFFY

Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to the present. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 270-501 WORLD LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 DUFFY

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to the present. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E270-300 WORLD LITERATURE TTH 5:30-6:45 WRIGHT

Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to the present. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-001 FICTION MWF 10:10-11:00 REEVES

This course is designed to examine how characters/authors/readers interact with texts. We will specifically study how texts empower, catalyze change, and or respond to individual, societal, and political worldviews. The books we will be reading include: Northanger Abbey, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Master and Margarita.

ENGL 282-002 FICTION MWF 1:25-2:15 LEPPARD

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-003 FICTION TTH 9:30-10:45 EDMUNDSON

This course will be centered on the theme of "National and Domestic" in nineteenth-century British literature. We will explore how authors deal with personal and political issues in their writing and how literature is influenced by its historical and cultural moment. Texts will include Mansfield Park (Austen), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Bronte), Bleak House (Dickens), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy), and The Bride of Lammermoor (Scott).

ENGL 282-004 FICTION TTH 12:30-1:45 GREER

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. We will read a number of short stories in this class. There will be a quiz every Friday on one of the stories of the week. Attendance is very important. Roll will be taken every day. There will be a final examination. Texts will include Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace; S. Anderson, Hands; E. Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych; F. O’Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge; G. Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; F. S. Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited; A. Camus, The Guest; K. Chopin, Desiree’s Baby; J. Cheever, The Swimmer; J. Updike, A&P; E. A. Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart; W. Faulkner, A Rose for Emily; H. Melville, Bartleby; and F. Kafka, The Metamorphosis.

ENGL 282-005 FICTION TTH 2:00-3:15 FOX

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-501 FICTION MWF 1:25-2:15 SIBLEY-JONES

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
We shall read a wide selection of fiction that spans the last two centuries. Most of our attention will be given to short fiction, but we also shall read three novels. The syllabus is ambitious because of the amount of reading assigned. Your responsibility is to keep up with the reading on a daily basis so that you are prepared to discuss it each day in class.

REQUIREMENTS: Oral report (25%); paper 5-8 pages (25%); Final exam (25%); Class participation (25%). In the oral report (10-15 minutes) you will introduce your classmates to the writer and her/his work. Attention will be given to biographical matters, style of writing, subject matter(s) of primary interest to writer, and suggestions about what material the interested person will want to read. Ideally, your oral report will provide the foundation for a paper, although you may write on a different topic if you desire. The final exam will ask you to discuss a theme that interests you in the literature we read. You will consider how several writers (three or four) treat that theme.

ENGL E282-300 FICTION TTH 5:30-6:45 HUTTO

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E282-301 FICTION MW 5:30-6:45 RIVERS

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E282-851 FICTION MW 5:30-8:15 LEWIS

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-001 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 MADDEN

(Designed for Non-majors)
Love, Loss, and Community
How do we define our communities? What is the relation of family to the larger community? How do love and loss complicate our sense of belonging? How do forms of social difference determine our place in the community? In this course, we will examine British and Irish texts that represent various kinds of community: family, church, neighborhood, nation. As we read the literature, we will also explore the various ways that communities can be structured or fractured. We will also examine texts in which love and loss--sexual and romantic desire, public and private mourning--complicate community formation. Our texts will include the recent novel about autism, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and an Irish play Dancing at Lughnasa.

ENGL 283-002 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50 MADDEN

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-003 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 12:30-1:20 MADDEN

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-004 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50 MADDEN
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-005 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 9:05-9:55 MADDEN

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-006 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 10:10-11:00 MADDEN

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-007 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 11:15-12:05 MADDEN

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-008 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 12:20-1:10 MADDEN

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-009 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 HORNBUCKLE

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-010 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-011 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-012 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 POTTIER

(Designed for Non-majors)
This course will focus on the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British detective and sensation fiction. We will read works by authors such as Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and P.D. James.

ENGL 283-501 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 284-001 DRAMA MWF 12:20-1:10 COMPTON

An introduction to drama as literature and performance. Students will read plays from a variety of periods and genres, as well as attend two plays and have discussions with theatre artists. Plays will be selected from the following: Aristophanes: Lysistrata; Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night=s Dream; Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of An Author; Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun; Caryl Churchill: Top Girls August Wilson: Fences; Tony Kushner: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches; Anna Devoir Smith: Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities; Sudan Lori Parks: Topdog/Underdog Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics; Harold Pinter: Betrayal and Sam Shepherd: True West.

ENGL 285-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 DAVIS

(Designed for Non-majors)
Love, American Style
This course will survey American literature addressing the twin themes of love and loss. Most of our texts will be novels. Students will be expected to submit regular written assignments including short and longer papers as well as to pass both a midterm and final.

ENGL 285-002 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 2:00-2:50 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-003 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 12:30-1:20 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-004 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 2:00-2:50 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-005 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 3:30-4:20 DAVIS
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-006 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 9:05-9:55 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-007 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 10:10-11:00 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-008 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 10:10-11:00 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-009 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 11:15-12:05 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-010 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 11:15-12:05 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-011 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 12:20-1:10 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-012 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 1:25-2:15 DAVIS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-013 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 STOWE
(Designed for Non-majors)
This course will focus primarily on experiments in poetic form of late nineteenth and twentieth century American literature. We will consider what being an American means during the time periods covered through the political and aesthetic implications of playing (or not playing) with traditional forms. We will read from a variety of authors and movements, moving chronologically from the Civil War to the present. Grading will be based on a midterm, final, occasional short writings, a paper, and class participation.

ENGL 285-014 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
The specific topic for the course is "American Dreams and American Nightmares." We will study this topic through the work of Horatio Alger, "Ragged Dick" and "Struggling Upward"; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"; Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"; Richard Wright, "Uncle Tom's Children"; and Langston Hughes, "Selected Poems." Films will be used to supplement the reading assignments.

ENGL 285-015 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 1:25-2:15 SEDBERRY
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-016 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-017 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
The specific topic for the course is "American Dreams and American Nightmares." We will study this topic through the work of Horatio Alger, "Ragged Dick" and "Struggling Upward"; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"; Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"; Richard Wright, "Uncle Tom's Children"; and Langston Hughes, "Selected Poems." Films will be used to supplement the reading assignments.

ENGL 285-018 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-019 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-020 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 NICHOLS
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-021 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-501 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 12:20-1:35 DAVIS
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Love, American Style
This course will survey American literature addressing the twin themes of love and loss. Most of our texts will be novels. Students will be expected to submit regular written assignments including short and longer papers as well as to pass both a midterm and final.

ENGL E285-092 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING SAT. 9:00-2:00 NESMITH
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-300 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 6:00-7:15 WILLIAMS
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-801 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 5:30-8:15 FUNDERBURK
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 286-001 POETRY TTH 12:30-1:45 HIGGINS

This course will offer a survey of nineteenth and twentieth century poetry written in English, beginning with the Romantic era and finally moving into contemporary verse. While some time will be spent on poetic technique and theory, the class will primarily focus on learning how to read poetry deeply and richly and in discovering the wide array of poetic style and voice from the last two centuries. Our readings will favor neither American nor British verse and will favor neither male nor female poets. We will read major authors from all periods, but will spend extra time on the verse of Emily Dickinson and of William Butler Yeats.

ENGL 286-501 POETRY TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Poetry from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E286-851 POETRY TTH 5:30-8:15 RAGAN

Poetry from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 287 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 287-001 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 1:25-2:40 BUTTERWORTH

A study of important American Writers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries: Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Douglas, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, W.C. Williams, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, O’Connor, Bishop, Lowell, and others. Lecture-Discussion. REQUIREMENTS: 2 critical papers (1500 words); mid-semester test; 2 hour final examination. TEXTS: The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Edition); Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

ENGL 287-002 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 2:30-3:45 WOERTENDYKE

Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-003 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 WATSON

This course provides an introduction to a range of American writers and works from the 17th to the 20th century, tracing the development of major literary forms and themes, as well as key historical and cultural trends. Given this broad scope, our readings and discussions will focus on the role of social, religious, and political dissent in the formation of an American democratic culture and the multiple communities within it. Requirements: 3 critical papers (5pp), weekly reading responses, class presentation.

ENGL 287-004 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 JACKSON

ENGL 287 is a survey of American Literature from its colonial origins in the fifteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth. To goal of the course is to introduce you to the broad sweep of American literary history and to help you develop your skills as close readers. Readings will include poems, short stories, novels, and non-fictional prose, and the periods we will cover include the Age of Atlantic Exploration, Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Transcendentalism and Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Assessment will be based on two essays, a midterm, a final examination, and a variety of briefer, in-class and take-home assignments.

ENGL 287-005 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 STAFF

Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-501 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 10:10-11:00 BURNS
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E287-300 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 5:30-6:45 LAMB

This course covers American literature from its 17th century origins to the present day, with an emphasis on how we as a nation got from there to here in our thinking, attitudes and values as reflected in our literature. Readings and discussions will consider the role of social, religious, and political influences, and will focus on how to interpret and analyze what one reads. Class participation and critical papers on three novels will be required.

ENGL 288 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 288-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 10:10-11:00 SIBLEY-JONES

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with some of the great works of English Literature from Beowulf to Paradise Lost, and to develop students’ skills in critical reading, interpretation and writing. REQUIREMENTS: Two 5-page papers (15% each); Mid-term (20%); Final (20%); Class participation and quizzes (30%)

The only way to pass the course is to read the material. You will be questioned and quizzed periodically. If you are unable to answer the questions and pass the quizzes, you will get an F for 30% of your grade. If you miss more than 7 classes, you are disqualified from the course with a grade of F.

ENGL 288-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 11:00-12:15 CROFTON

British poetry, drama, and prose from Beowulf to the 18th century. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 288-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 12:30-1:45 BOLT

British poetry, drama, and prose from Beowulf to the 18th century. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 289 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 289-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MW 12:20-1:35 THESING

Detailed lecture and discussion of some of the major and minor poets and nonfiction prose writers, movements, styles, traditions, and themes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some prose writers to be studied will include: Arnold, Mill, Nightingale, Pater and Va. Woolf. Poets will include Blake, Wordsworth, E B Browning, Tennyson, R. Browning, Arnold, C. Rossetti, Morris, Hopkins, Hardy, and T. S. Eliot. Topics will include: the Industrial landscape, religion and science, conduct of ladies and gentlemen, aestheticism and decadence. We will study some novels by Dickens and Hardy. A standard literary anthology will be used, but please wait until the first class for announcements concerning textbooks and course packets. Many video-screenings will be given to illustrate the art and temper of the times. Class attendance and participation will be important and required. Two essay exams, quizzes, and various writing assignments.

ENGL 289-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 11:00-12:15 MAPP

This course presents an overview of British Literature between 1785 and 2000. As we work to master basic literary terms and techniques, we will investigate the connections between the form of a literary work, its content, and its intellectual, historical, and socio-political contexts. Beginning with the Romantic poets, we will practice our skills in close reading and prosody, and then discuss the poems in the context of the history, political theory, and aesthetic philosophy of the period. We will also read a Romantic-era novel by Jane Austen, whose position in relation to the Romantics helps us understand the intersections between aesthetics and politics. As we move on to the Victorians, we will discuss the mutual influence between poetry and prose fiction, and how changing gender conventions affect both. In our study of the twentieth century, we will contextualize the formal rebellions of the Modernists within the genealogies of intellectual history that we have constructed, and then examine how postmodernism encourages us to be suspicious of any grand narratives to which we may have become attached. My reading assignments are not lengthy; I do, however, expect students to read all of the assignments fully and thoughtfully, to be ready to discuss them in class, and to write very brief weekly response papers. I also give a midterm and a final exam, and assign two critical essays from four to seven pages in length. Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition; Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

ENGL 289-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 2:00-3:15 JARRELLS

In this course we will survey British writing from the Romantic to the modern period (that is, from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century). Readings will be organized primarily by period and genre. However, some close attention will be paid to historical and thematic links across period and genre in particular, those related to authorship, to the development of a national literature, and to the question of how that national literature engages with and participates in a rapidly expanding British empire.

All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292

ENGL 360-001 CREATIVE WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 W. GREEN

(Prereq: All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292) Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 360-002 CREATIVE WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 HEATH

ENGL 360-003 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 HAYNESWORTH

ENGL 360-004 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF

ENGL 380-001/CPLT 380 EPIC TO ROMANCE MWF 2:00-3:15 GWARA

Discussion of major works of literature: the Iliad, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Beowulf, romances by Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. Two papers and a mid-term. Daily quizzes on the readings.

ENGL 381-001/CPLT 381 THE RENAISSANCE TTH 9:30-10:45 RHU

Study of Renaissance literature in England from the court of Henry VIII to the age of Shakespeare. Key precursors on the continent such as Erasmus, Castiglione, Ariosto, and Montaigne will be included. Since the Reformation coincides significantly with the Renaissance in England, the literary consequences of Protestantism will be a central topic as will English lyric poetry of the sixteenth Century.

ENGL 382-001 THE ENLIGHTENMENT TTH 11:00-12:15 SHIELDS

THE ENLIGHTENMENT explores the literary course of that Western intellectual movement that celebrated human reason, liberty, cosmopolitanism, individual rights, a belief in human progress, urbanity, society, and common sense. Beginning in the 1680s and expiring with the political Revolutions in France and Haiti that provoked romantic reaction, the Enlightenment’s greatest achievements in political thought and science will be examined as well as is oddest and most troublesome expressions. Readings will include philosophical essays, a play, poems, satires, political tracts, memoirs, scientific reports, and a short novel. Two papers, a report, a mid-term and an exam.

ENGL 384-001 REALISM TTH 2:00-3:15 STERN

This course will investigate the realist genre in fiction, non-fiction, art, and film. We will read across continents and centuries, including works from eighteenth-century Britain, nineteenth-century France, twentieth-century America, and twenty-first century Hollywood (a country all its own). Implicit in our readings of these texts will be an interrogation of the relationship between representation and reality, and the strategies various authors employ to make that relationship more (or less) seamless. Assignments include weekly responses, two papers, a creative project, a midterm and a final exam.

ENGL 385-001 MODERNISM TTH 11:00-12:15 M. STEELE

This course will examine modernism in Europe and America through a study of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, and film. There will be two tests, an oral report, and a paper.

ENGL 387-001 INTRO. TO RHETORIC TTH 11:00-12:15 SMITH

This course introduces students to major figures and concepts in the history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory, and uses that knowledge to examine contemporary American culture from a rhetorical perspective. We'll begin with rhetoric's emergence in Ancient Greece as a systematic pedagogy and practice of civic life, examining how rhetoric became the cornerstone of education during the Western European Renaissance and beyond. This will be accomplished during the first half of the semester by reading and discussing some of the rhetorical tradition's canonical texts, concluding with some of the most recent work in rhetorical theory. The second half of the semester will be concerned with engaging questions that the history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory pose to us about the connections among language, images, politics, popular culture, social identities, and public life.

ENGL 388-001 HIST LIT. CRITICISM /THEORY TTH 2:00-3:15 M. STEELE

This course will survey some of the important theories of interpretation from Plato to the present. We will cover such figures as Aristotle, Marx, and Foucault, and such topics as feminism, postcolonialism, New Historicism, and psychoanalysis. There will be a ten-page paper, a weekly journal, two tests and an oral presentation.

ENGL 389-001/LING 301 THE ENGLISH LANG. MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF

Introduction to the field of linguistics with an emphasis on English. Covers the English sound system, word structure, and grammar. Explores history of English, American dialects, social registers, and style. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 389-002/LING 301 THE ENGLISH LANG. TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF

ENGL 390-001/CPLT 301 GREAT BKS. WEST WORLD I TTH 11:00-12:15 MILLER

In this course, Great Books of Western World 1, we shall be examining the theme, "Who Wrote the Book of Love." We shall look at poetry, prose and theater throughout the western tradition on the nature of love both sacred and profane. Texts to be read will include Sappho, Plato's Symposium, the Song of Songs, Terence's The Mother-in-Law, Catullus, Julian of Norwich, Petrarch, Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and the poetry of John Donne. Students will write short response papers and a longer research paper.

ENGL 401-001 CHAUCER MW 12:20-1:35 CROCKER

This course focuses on Chaucer’s construction as a “courtly” poet. We will read works that range from the late 1360s through the late 1380s, all of which are connected to the English court in some fashion. Studying works including the Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women and the Parliament of Fowls, we will explore the ways that these works inflect late fourteenth century fantasies of court culture. We will also read works by two contemporaries of Chaucer, John Gower and Thomas Usk, because they demonstrate that at least part of Chaucer’s courtliness is his influence on other poets in what has become known as his “literary circle.”

ENGL 405-001 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES TTH 9:30-10:45 RICHEY

We will read many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, beginning with his early attempts at the genre: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar. We will then take up his late, very great work--Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra. We will focus on issues that shaped Shakespeare’s cultural moment and continue to shape our own, reading these texts for their historical, political, psychological, religious, and theatrical/artistic dimensions. REQUIREMENTS: Daily discussion questions, mid-term, final, and two essays.

ENGL 405-002 SHAKESPEARE=S TRAGEDIES TTH12:30-1:45 RICHEY

ENGL 406-001 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES/HIST. TTH 11:00-12:15 LEVINE

In this course we will study Shakespeare=s comedies and histories in relation to his time and to our own. Looking closely at seven plays (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, 1 Henry IV, Henry V, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night), we will examine the interplay between these popular plays and the Elizabethan-Jacobean culture in which they were produced, taking up such issues as politics, social order, gender, and family relations. Our approach should raise provocative and important questions, which we will then use to structure class discussion and writing assignments. Two papers, quizzes, mid-term, and final exam.

ENGL 413-001 MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 RICE

This course will survey the major writers and concerns of twentieth-century British literature, giving students both experience in reading and critically analyzing works in a variety of genres, and practice in written analysis and interpretation. Authors: H.G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, G.B. Shaw, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Iris Murdoch, and others. Papers (3): a brief diagnostic essay (c. 2pp.) and two critical essays (c. 5 pp. ea.) Examinations (2): midterm and final will comprise primarily identification and critical discussion of representative passages chosen from the authors read. Format: informal lecture and class participation (strongly encouraged).

ENGL 419P-001 TOPIC/THE ROMANTIC CITY TTH 11:00-12:15 JARRELLS

The modern city holds a peculiar place in the public imagination, seducing some with its promise of mobility, autonomy, and excitement while repelling others with its crowds and anonymity, its squalor and violence. Literary scholars have associated this fascination particularly with writers from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—that is, with Modernist writers who sought to reproduce the shock of the city in their works. But the modern city predates this Modernist movement, and to look at representations of the city before fop became flaneur is to find an equally rich engagement with things urban. Our starting point in this course will be the rebuilding of London after the great fire of 1666. The first half of the course will survey works from the long eighteenth century and will include selections from Pepy’s Diary, The Spectator and The Female Spectator, Swift’s “Description of a City Shower,” Montagu’s “Turkish Embassy Letters,” Defoe’s Roxana, Hogarth’s Rake’s and Harlot’s Progress, and Burney’s Evelina. The second half of the course will focus on the Romantic period, a period that has been situated almost exclusively in terms of a retreat from the city. Works will include Blake’s Songs of Experience, Wordsworth’s Prelude (Book VII), Shelley’s Peter Bell the Third, Mary Robinson’s Morning Post essays on the metropolis, verse selections from Byron and L.E.L., Scott’s Heart of Midlothian, and De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Topics will include coffee culture, cosmopolitanism, gender and the public sphere, print culture, political societies, and crime. Cities covered will include London, Edinburgh, Paris, Constantinople, Venice, and Lisbon.

ENGL 421-001 AMERICAN LIT. 1830-1860 TTH 11:00-12:15 WALLS

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, religious and political authority in the United States was in a state of collapse. Sweeping change seemed not just possible, but essential: as a result, Utopian hopes jostled against the brutal realities of slavery, injustice, and the emerging industrial revolution. These conflicts are played out in America’s first great literature, a period often called “The American Renaissance”: America Reborn. This was the time of abolitionism, women’s rights, and Thoreau at Walden Pond; of Emerson’s defiant “Self-Reliance,” Hawthorne’s twisted psychic dramas, Melville’s breakthrough fictions, and the grotesque fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe; of moralistic best-sellers such as Alcott’s Little Women, Whitman’s expansive poetry of the body and Emily Dickinson’s dense poetry of the mind. As we navigate this period, our questions will be: what connects these writers with their time? With each other? With us? Students will write two papers and complete a midterm and a final examination.

ENGL 423-001 MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 FORTER

This course will trace the development of literature in the U.S. from early 20th-century naturalism, through the flowering of modernism in the 1920s, and into the postmodern experiments after WWII. We will look at a variety of expressive genres-poetry, fiction, graphic novel, even film. Our central concern will be with the pressing existential, political, and psychological questions to which American authors addressed themselves: How is the writing of literature related to efforts at effecting social change? In what ways do the history and legacy of slavery mark the American literary imagination, and how is this different in the case of white and black authors? How do the history of gender domination and the struggle to resist it mark this literature? What can 20th-century literature teach us about war and its psychosocial sources? How do these sources differ, according to our authors, from WWI to WWII? What is authentic creativity for authors in the first half of the century-and what thwarts or endangers it? How do writers from the second half of the century amend this view of creativity? How, finally, do American authors memorialize the past in literature, and does their memorializing keep alive thwarted yearnings or insist on their radical unavailability? PAPERS: one 3pp, one 6pp, one 12pp, and informal writings. TESTS: occasional pop-quizzes; no mid-term or final. TEXTS: works by SOME of the following, K. Chopin, T. S. Eliot, W. C. Williams, W. Stevens, L. Hughes, E. Hemingway, F. S. Fitzgerald, W. Cather, W. Faulkner, R. Wright, R. Ellison, J. Baldwin, H.D., K. Vonnegut, A. Spiegelman, Y. Komunyakaa, J. Smiley, T. Pynchon, T. O’Brien, T. Morrison.

ENGL 426-001 AMERICAN POETRY TTH 2:00-3:15 SHIELDS

We will explore five characteristic modes of American poetic expression from the beginning to 1960: the prophetic, the lyric, the demotic, the narrative, and the experimental. Readings will be drawn from every era from the Puritans to the Black Mountain Poets. Poets explored will include Bradstreet, Taylor, Freneau, Bryant, Poe, Whittier, Emerson, Whiteman, Longfellow, Dickinson, Melville, Lanier, Bierce, Lazarus, Santayana, Robinson, Dunbar, Eliot, Stevens, Pound, Millay, H.D., Williams, Moore, Bishop, Hughes, Lowell, Ransom, Tate, Ginsberg, Snyder, Baraka. There will be a section on song lyrics and American vernacular, including folk songs, blues lyrics, Foster, Kern, Porter, and Gershwin. Three writing exercises, two tests, an exam.

ENGL 427-001 SOUTHERN LITERATURE MW 2:30-3:45 THESING

We will read and discuss novels, poetry, and prose written by and about twentieth-century writers who lived in the American South. We will study works by such classic writers as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker. We will study writings and films about coal mining in such Appalachian states as Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee. We will study the life and works of James Dickey, including his poetry and his novel Deliverance. We will read a novel by Pat Conroy. We will also read works by William Price Fox and Ben Greer. A few other poets of the region will be studied. Lecture and discussion. Video screenings in class of the authors and their works. Essay exams (at midpoint and end of the semester). Quizzes throughout the term as well as various writing assignments. Class attendance is very important.

ENGL 428-001 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 8:00-9:15 DAWES

A close textual study of the works of the major African American authors of the last fifty years with close attention to recent African American writers. It will include writers like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Zora Neal Hurston, Jean Toomer, James Baldwin and others. Evaluation: Three essays, one research paper, in class presentations and a final exam. TEXT: Norton Anthology of African American Writers ,ed., Henry Louis Gates.

ENGL 431-001 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 JOHNSON

This course is a broad introduction to the world of contemporary American children’s literature. Students will examine texts which are in some way related to central ideas of and about America and Americans of various ethnicities and backgrounds. Discussion topics will include the meaning of “excellence” in children’s book-writing and illustration, the cultural politics of the children’s book publishing world, and current issues and controversies in the field.

ENGL 432-001 ADOLESCENT LITERATURE MW 2:30-3:45 WILLIAMS

The topic of this course is contemporary young adult literature and how young adults develop an understanding of adult literature through reading this genre. We will examine several issues during the semester: What is the difference between adult literature and young adult literature? What is the history of this genre? What are the classics of the genre? How does the genre illuminate adolescent psychological development? We will read and respond in writing logs to a wide range of diverse YA literature, including several recent Newbery Medal winners as well as multi-ethnic novels and a biography. Assessment will be based on students= portfolios, which will consist of diverse reading logs, a personal essay connected to one of the selections, a critical essay exploring one writer=s work, and a project.

ENGL 437/WOST 437 WOMEN WRITERS MW 1:25-2:40 FELDMAN

A survey of poetry, drama and fiction by women writing during the Romantic era. We will read works by the following authors: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, Jane Taylor, Mary Robinson, Mary Tighe, Joanna Baillie, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and others. Classes are conducted by the lecture/discussion method. Two essays of 3 to 5 pages each, a mid-term exam, and a final exam are required.

ENGL 439O-501 TOPIC/CAUGHT IN THE CREATIVE ACT MW 5:45-7:00 HOSPITAL

Caught in the Creative Act is a new kind of course, one that connects authors and readers, daily life and art, a culture and its living writers. The course consists of alternating lectures and vibrant interactive sessions with the authors of the works being studied (contemporary novels, collections of short stories, poetry, memoirs.) Though the course is available for undergraduate credit, it is also open for audit to any member of the university community, and to the public at large. To ensure wide accessibility, class sessions will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The visiting authors will read from their work, and answer questions. Available for Honors College undergraduate credit.

ENGL 450-001/LING 421 ENGLISH GRAMMAR MW 12:20-1:35 DISTERHEFT

An intensive survey of English grammar: sentence structure, the verbal system, discourse, and transformations. Also discussed are semantics, social restrictions on grammar and usage, histories of various constructions, etc. Please read Chapter 1 of the textbook before the first class meeting. REQUIREMENTS: one midterm, one final. TEXT: Dorothy Disterheft, Advanced Grammar: a manual for students. Prentice-Hall.

ENGL 460-001 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 460-002 ADVANCED WRITING MW 1:25-2:40 BAJO

Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 460-003 ADVANCED WRITING MW 2:30-3:45 HOLCOMB

The purpose of this course is to explore more advanced, more sophisticated approaches to the analysis and composition of English prose. In particular, we will focus on "Creative Nonfiction" (sometimes called "Literary Journalism"), a sub-genre that encourages us to see connections among literature, journalism, memoir, travel writing, and ethnography. While seeking to make such connections, we will develop a vocabulary of prose analysis that will, in turn, enhance our repertoires for producing original prose compositions. We will also experiment with an emergent online format: the weblog. Like Creative Nonfiction, weblog writing constitutes a hybrid genre, mixing the conventions and purposes of journalism, diaries, essays, and so on. During the final third of the course, you will create and then serve as editor for your own weblog. In the end, I hope to make you more aware and more self-conscious as both readers and writers of English prose.

ENGL 460-004 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 SIBLEY-JONES

The purpose of this course is to help students improve their writing. To that end, we shall explore several genres of fiction and non-fiction, including the short story, the memoir and the essay. We shall read selections from very fine writers in an effort to enhance our appreciation and understanding of various literary styles and techniques. We shall ask simple questions, like the following: Why is the verb ‘to be’ not as lively as hundreds of other verbs? Why is the active voice more engaging than the passive voice? Are there occasions that call for the passive voice rather than the active? How do we remove verbal clutter from our writing? How do we make our writing ‘come to life’ for the reader? These questions force us to analyze not only the material produced by successful, published writers, but our own written material as well. And so we move from simple questions and observations to the more complex matter of working through the details of our own writing in order to improve upon it.

ENGL 460-005 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 N. BUTTERWORTH

English 460 is an advanced nonfiction writing class which gives students much practice both in close reading of essay text models and in composing their own. TEXTS: Thomas Cooley, The Norton Sampler 6th ed., and Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory. REQUIREMENTS: Students will write and revise 4 essays in different modes, Narration/Description, Comparison-Contrast or Analogy/Metaphor, Exemplification, and Satire/Persuasion/Argumentation; present one essay to the whole class for group peer evaluation, as well as do small group evaluations on every essay; participate in numerous conferences with the instructor; read and analyze model essays in The Norton Sampler and I Could Tell You Stories, and keep a reading/writing journal. EVALUATION: Grades in the course will be based upon successful completion of all the assignments. Emphasis will be placed on giving the students constructive suggestions for revision. Each essay (except the last) will be submitted, discussed in conference, and revised before a grade is recorded. If the grades are erratic, they will be averaged; however, if the student is making steady progress, the final grade will reflect this improvement. Essays will count 20% apiece; the journal, reading quizzes and test on I Could Tell You Stories and class participation will count about 20%.

ENGL 461-001 TEACHING OF WRITING MW 12:20-1:35 WILLIAMS

This course explores the theory and practice of the teaching of writing in middle and secondary school. During the semester, students will focus on themselves as teachers, but they will inevitably develop their own writing skills as a result of their participation in writing response groups. Assessment will be based on students’ portfolios, which will consist of reading logs, a personal reflective essay, a bibliographical essay, and a report on a project connected to the teaching of writing in public schools.

ENGL 462-001 TECHNICAL WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 SPRAY

Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-001 BUSINESS WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF