Fall 2007 Course Descriptions

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

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

ENGL 270-002                       WORLD LITERATURE         TTH 9:30-10:45                        STAFF

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

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

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

ENGL 282-002                                 FICTION                     MWF 2:30-3:20                         STAFF

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

ENGL 282-003                              FICTION                       TTH 3:30-4:45                               STAFF

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                               STAFF

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre.  For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E282-092                     FICTION                     SAT 9:00-2:00                                    WRIGHT

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

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 BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50   GECKLE

The Concept of the Alien

The basic theme (or central idea) underlying all of the works to be studied in this course is that of the person who is treated as an alien or becomes alienated from his or her environment.  In other words, what does it mean to be an alien? to be of foreign or other origin? to be excluded from the privileges of citizenship?  Or what is it like to be of a nature or character differing from that of the dominant culture? to be alienated from family, religion, or country? to be "the other" in your society? This course will explore expressions of alienation in various forms of literature--drama, prose, and poetry--from the time of dramatists Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616) to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1818) ) to poems by World War I (1914-1918) poets such as Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) and Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) to Pat Barker's novel about World War I, Regeneration (1991), as well as other works. REQUIREMENTS: weekly quizzes and class participation in the discussion sections, two 5-6-page papers, a midterm exam, and a two-hour final exam.
           
ENGL 283-002         THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50   GECKLE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-003     THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING     MW 11:15-12:05, TH    12:30-1:20   GECKLE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-004       THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50   GECKLE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-005        THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, F 9:05-9:55   GECKLE
 
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-006        THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, F 10:10-11:00   GECKLE
 
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-007        THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, F 11:15-12:05   GECKLE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-008       THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      MW 11:15-12:05, F 12:20-1:10   GECKLE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-009           THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      TTH 3:30-4:45                      STAFF

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      MWF 2:30-3:20                      STAFF

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 11:00-12:15                   STAFF

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 11:00-12:15                   STAFF

Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture.  For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-501           THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING      TTH 3:30-4:45                        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

Drama from several countries and historical periods. Attendance at several theatre productions will be required.  For more information, please contact the instructor.

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

American Neurosis/American Sanity

Ezra Pound defined literature as "news that stays news."  William Carlos Williams adds: "It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there."  This course will consider American psychological health as reflected--positively or negatively--in our national literature.  We'll read mostly short stories and short novels (including a couple of complete collections of short fiction by Flannery O'Connor and J. D. Salinger), with occasional forays into the work of poets such as Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost.  TEXTS: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition. [July 2007] Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (HarperCollins ISBN: 0060931671) Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Harcourt Brace ISBN: 0151707553) Flannery O'Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge (Noonday Pr ISBN: 0374504644 ) J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories (Little, Brown ISBN: 0316769509)

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.      

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

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-009    THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING  MW 9:05-9:55, F 11:15-12:05   COWART
           
Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL E285-300         THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING       TTH 5:30-6:45                  NESMITH

Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture.  For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-301         THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING       MW 6:00-7:15                WILLIAMS

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       TTH 5:30-8:15                  RALPH

Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture.  For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-851         THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING   MW 5:30-8:15                FUNDERBURK

Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture.  For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 286-501                    POETRY                       TTH 11:00-12:15                               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 E286-300                  POETRY                       TTH 5:30-6:45                                    WRIGHT

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 287-001           AMERICAN LITERATURE            MWF 11:15-12:05     WOERTENDYKE

This course is designed to introduce a broad spectrum of American Literature with a particular focus on the development of a national literature from an Atlantic World context.  From its earliest points of contact with Europe, South America, the West Indies, and Africa to modern forms of nationalism, American Literature remains a complex mix of Puritanism, Enlightenment, Romance, and Realism.  We will read poetry, tales, non-fiction prose, gothic romances, political treatises, trial reports, cartoons, advertisements, and novels in the semester.  Requirements include reading quizzes, written critiques/summaries, one good essay, a midterm and a final exam.  The course is designed for English Majors.

ENGL 287-002              AMERICAN LITERATURE                   TTH 11:00-12:15           KEYSER

English 287 provides an introduction to American literature from the colonial period to the early twentieth century.  We will discuss works by major American writers such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman, Douglass, Twain, Alcott, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Faulkner, and Hurston.  Participants in the class will develop close reading skills while learning about prominent authors, themes, and movements from American literary history.  Discussions will center on changing depictions and conceptions of national identity, literary form and genre, and ethnic and gendered perspectives on the American experience.  REQUIREMENTS:  Two critical essays, reading responses, a mid-term, and a final exam.

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

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

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

ENGL 287 is a survey covering American literature from the Puritans to the present, paying particular notice to the tensions that arise between historical injustices and the nation's ideals of democracy and freedom. Our goal will be to attend to the ways that writers respond to these tensions, and to think about what such responses can teach us about America and its history as well as its literature. Our readings will be drawn from a diverse range of authors and from multiple genres including fiction, memoir, and poetry. REQUIREMENTS: class discussion, responses, two papers, a mid-term, and a final examination.

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

Survey of American literature from settlement through the twentieth century, emphasizing ties between representative works of fiction, poetry, and drama and the cultures from which they emerged. Evaluation will include frequent brief writing assignments and three exams. Text is the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed. in one volume, ed. by Nina Baym et al., 1999.

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 professor.

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

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Survey of American literature; major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the professor.

ENGL 288-001                ENGLISH LITERATURE I           MWF 8:00-8:50                         STAFF

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

ENGL 288-002               ENGLISH LITERATURE I             MW 2:30-3:45                    GIESKES

ENGL 288 covers a wide range of important English texts from Beowulf to the early eighteenth century.  We will undertake the critical reading of texts from the beginnings of literature in English to the later English Renaissance.  Our intention will be to recognize the diversity of the English tradition while also recognizing important connections between works from very different times and cultures.  Readings in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (volume one) to include:  Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Spenser’s The Faerie Queens, Milton’s Paradise Lost, poems by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare, as well as drama from the middle ages to the Renaissance.

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

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

ENGL 288-501                ENGLISH LITERATURE I            TTH 12:30-1:45          CROCKER

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
British poetry, drama, and prose from Beowulf to the 18th century.  For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 289-001           ENGLISH LITERATURE II                  MWF 11:15-12:05                STAFF

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

ENGL 405-002        SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES         MW 1:25-2:40               D. MILLER

This course should deepen your understanding Shakespeare’s plays.  It should improve your experience whether reading or watching them.  It should also give you a chance to improve your skills of critical analysis and expository writing.  We will read six plays—four major tragedies along with two plays normally listed as comedies—so we can think about differences between the genres.  Discussion will key on aspects of Shakespeare’s dramaturgy, including plot design, the construction of individual scenes, style (verse and prose), and recurring themes, especially Shakespeare’s sense of social and political life as a drama characterized by role-playing.  Requirements include three critical essays, one brief class presentation, and participation in a major course project:  during a two-week period in the second part of the semester, we will meet in the moot court trial room at the USC law school and try Othello for the murder of Desdemona.  TEXTS: We’ll read the plays in paperback editions; also required, John Trimble’s Writing with Style.  Plays to be studied:   Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear.

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

This course examines 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’ll 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 410-001           RESTORATION & 18TH CENTURY            TTH 12:30-1:45                    RIVERS

Poetry and prose from 1660 to the later 18th century.  For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 411-001           BRITISH ROMANTIC LIT.                TTH 3:30-4:45                JARRELLS

In keeping with a certain contrary spirit long associated with the Romantics, we will survey British writing from the 1780s to the 1830s by focusing NOT on the terms and categories that most often dominate accounts of the period (nature, the self, feeling, imaginative genius, and nation), but INSTEAD on their opposites: society, the collective, enlightenment, popular (print) culture, and geopolitics.  Of course, we will not completely neglect privileged categories like nature and the self – after all, if rebellion too is Romantic we’ll have to have our bit of conformity.  But these categories will be resituated in relation to the diverse range of genres that comprise the period (poetry, novels, newspapers, essays, magazine tales, plays, prints, and paintings) and to questions like the following: what was the threat posed by the new urban spaces from which poets of the period sought escape?  How do Romantic writers and artists conceive of peoples from outside or beyond British borders?  In what sense do various “invented traditions” of the period also signal a culture highly self-conscious about its own modernity?  And how does this culture relate to, challenge, or engage with the ever-pressing question of political violence – state and revolutionary?  Readings will be selected from works by Barbauld, M. Robinson, J. Hogg, P. Egan, Wollstonecraft, Blake, De Quincey, Scott, Burke, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Wordsworth, J. Galt, Byron, J. Baillie, P. Shelley, and T. Moore.  Requirements include weekly response papers, two essays (4-5 pages; 8-10 pages), and  a final exam.

ENGL 412-001           VICTORIAN LITERATURE               MW 2:30-3:45                  THESING

Survey of major and selected minor Victorian poets; emphasizes the development of Victorian poetic theory and the contemporary critical response.  Some poets that we are likely to study will include: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Hardy as well as E B. Browning, Christina Rossetti, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Michael Field, and several others.      Some general themes to be considered will include: Victorian poetry and the city, religion, science, social and historical issues, gender relationships, and art.  Several weeks of the course will also be devoted to reading some Victorian novels (by Dickens, Hardy, and others) as well as selections of Victorian nonfiction prose.  Supplementary xerox packets and materials will be available at Universal Copies.  Students should not purchase any textbooks until the final, definitive list is distributed at the first class meeting.  Feel free to contact the instructor if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns.  REQUIREMENTS: quiz grades; 2 essay exams; a 5-page term paper; regular class attendance and participation.

 ENGL 413-001           MODERN ENGLISH LIT.                  MWF 11:15-12:05                COHEN

This course will trace major concerns of twentieth-century British literature, with special emphasis on shifting ideas about nation, empire, and history. We’ll look at the role gender plays in these configurations, and the way literary form is deployed in their redefinition. Texts will include works by some or all of the following: Wells, Forster, Shaw, Lewis, West, Woolf, Greene, Auden, Bowen, Larkin, Rhys, Churchill, Kureishi, Evaristo. Evaluation will be based equally on several 2-page response papers, one 10-pp paper, a final exam, and class participation.

ENGL 419P-001         TOPIC/ 17TH CENTURY LYRIC        TTH 12:30-1:45                      RICHEY

The Art of Intimacy: Public and Private Revelation in the Seventeenth-Century Lyric

This course explores how early modern subjectivity takes form in the Seventeenth Century Lyric as an art of intimacy. We will begin by considering how the lyric is informed by textual, psychological, and sociopolitical currents that illuminate its public and private contours. Poetry was public, of course, but even this public dimension had two faces: poems were circulated in manuscript privately among friends and fellow writers or they were put into print for a much wider public. In this class, we will consider the relationship between print and intimacy, and we will look at intimacy in all its forms (between family, friends, lovers, God, church members and political allies). We will look at writers, too, who pursue many forms of intimacy and others who tend to emphasize one form of intimacy above all others. TEXTS: George Herbert, The Temple; The Poems of Henry Vaughan; Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets ed. Hugh Maclean (Norton) (abbreviated BJ); The Poetry of John Donne (Norton); Katherine Philips poems and Diana Primrose’s A Chain of Pearl (Xeroxes); Milton’s Shorter Poems; The Poems of Andrew Marvell; The Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer (Oxford)  REQUIREMENTS: Daily Lyric analysis (for class discussion), one long paper (6-8 pp), and a final exam.

ENGL 419Q-501        TOPIC/LONDON 1880-2007             MWF 9:05-9:55                       COHEN

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

"Contested Terrain: Representing London  1880-2007"

The London of the 1880s was the largest city in the world, with four million inhabitants; the archetypal modern city, it was the nerve center of nation and empire.  Yet even as Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee was marked in London by processions of sepoys in an orchestrated celebration of imperial unity and might, the increasing  attention paid to “Outcast London” revealed the city itself as a nexus of contradictions.  According to Judith Walkowitz, the 1880s saw a shift in the “prevailing imaginary landscape of London” from one that safely separated rich and poor to one “whose boundaries were indiscriminately and dangerously transgressed.”  Indeed, from that period onward, London in literature is a contested space, its streets the real and metaphoric venues for mingling and struggle among classes, genders, and cultures. This course will trace representational battles for literal and figurative control of the streets of London from the forays of late-Victorian “social explorers” and slumming decadents, through suffragist activism,  modernist transformation, and the imaginative remappings of war, to the multicultural ferment, artificial “tradition,” and historical  negotiations of the London of today.

ENGL 420-001           AMERICAN LIT. TO 1830                 MW 1:25-2:40                         WALLS           

Founding father. The last frontier.  The last of the Mohicans.  The city on a hill.  Love it or leave it.  Who created the idea of “America,” anyway?  And how did it become the governing ideal of the United States?  This course proposes that “America” was created through language and literature, starting with the first tentative imaginings of explorers, propagandists, and settlers, shaped by the fighting words of Paine and Jefferson, and refined by the post-revolutionary fictions of early American novelists and playwrights.   We will conduct a thematic survey of early American literature, in cultural, political, and philosophical context, exploring the creation of the idea of “America.”  How did the colonists came to define themselves as “American,” separate from both the Indians and the English?  Why did “nature” become so closely tied with American literature and identity?  How does the witch trial fit in with an emergent democracy?-or Jeffersonian democracy with a slave society?  How, during the turbulent Revolution, did early American fiction and drama help us define ourselves to ourselves?  And how are we even yet using the past to tell ourselves who we are today?                        

ENGL 421-001           AMERICAN LIT. 1830-1860               TTH 12:30-1:45                JACKSON

English 421 offers an intensive introduction to the literature of the antebellum period, an era of explosive social, religious, and political ferment.  Against a background of territorial expansion, debates over slavery and women's rights, the rise of big cities, the advent of evangelical revivals, the emergence of the middle class, and the development of mass media, authors grappled with what it meant to write about America and what it meant to be an American writer.  Our readings will include novels (several of them substantial), short stories, poems, and a variety of non-fictional genres: some of theses texts are utterly ethereal, others painfully gritty.  Authors will likely include Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Lydia Maria Child, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and N. P. Willis.  Topics to be explored will include transcendentalism, sentimentalism, the gothic, abolitionist writing, urban journalism,  travel narratives, regionalism, nationalism, and feminism.  REQUIREMENTS: several essays, a midterm, a final exam, and some in-class assignments.

ENGL 423-001           MODERN AMERICAN LITER.          TTH 2:00-3:15                        KEYSER

What does it mean to be “modern,” and what is “modernist” literature?  This course considers American literature from the dawn of the twentieth century to the 1950s.  We will examine the formal experimentation that characterized high modernist texts by writers like T.S. Eliot and William Faulkner.  We will also look at the work of popular writers in more traditional forms, including Fitzgerald, Parker, and Millay, and we will consider the versions of modernism that Harlem Renaissance writers like Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen created to reclaim black culture and pinpoint the difficulties of modern racial identity.  Throughout the course, we will discuss how modernist texts respond to the changes in American historical and cultural life created by the boom in mass culture (magazines, radio, movies), two world wars and the Great Depression, and on-going racial injustice.  We will end the course with a look at what it might mean to be “post-modern” and how the legacies of modernism infuse the work of writers like Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison.

ENGL 427-001           SOUTHERN LITERATURE       TTH 12:30-1:45                         POWELL

Southern literature of the past and present contributes in interesting ways to regional and national dialogue.  Studying it not just as excellent American literature, but as the output of a particular regional tradition and set of circumstances, is useful to readers from all different backgrounds who are interested in how literature is created and its relationship to the society in which it is written, published, and read.  With these assumptions, this course introduces key characteristics, phases, and issues in southern literature through a systematic survey of selected major authors from Thomas Jefferson to Yusef Komunyakaa, with special emphasis on slave narratives, the Southern Renascence, and contemporary literature of the New South.  Students prepare several short essays, one research paper, and a presentation.  Expect quizzes, group work, discussion, a midterm, and a final exam.

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.  The course will include writers like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Zora Neal Hurston, Jean Toomer, James Baldwin and others. TEXT: Norton Anthology of African American Writers ,ed., Henry Louis Gates. REQUIREMENTS: Three essays, one research paper, in class presentations and a final exam.

ENGL E429A-300       FLANNERY O’CONNOR                  MW 5:30-6:45                         ASHLEY

The majority of course time will be spent on the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, in many cases approached by her essays and especially by her letters.  Two papers will be required.  The first paper will treat a short story of the student's choice in terms of its composition and meaning.  The second paper will deal with one of the two novels, both of which are required reading.  There will be two examinations.  TEXT: O'Connor, Complete Works, ed. Sally Fitzgerald.

 ENGL 429U-001  AMERICAN MODERNISM & VISUAL CULTURE   TTH 3:30-4:45      GLAVEY

In the twentieth century, the cultural authority of literature was seriously challenged by the power and popularity of visual media. This course will examine the ways in which literary texts position themselves in relation to visual culture as a means of staking their claim to modernity. Our study will be organized around ideas of modernism radiating from two different places at two different historical moments: expatriate Paris between the wars and post-war New York. In addition to painting, sculpture, and film, works we may consider include poetry  by John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Joe Brainard, H. D., Barbara Guest, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Lorenzo Thomas, Jean Toomer, and William Carlos Williams; and fiction by Djuna Barnes, Ernest Hemingway, Mina Loy, Bruce Nugent, and James Schuyler.

ENGL 430B-501     POSTMODERN BLACKNESS       MW 11:15-12:30                    WHITTED

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

Postmodern Blackness: Contemporary African-American Fiction

How does African-American fiction manifest the fragmentation, historical demythologization, and deep cultural questioning of the postmodern condition? In what ways are the identity politics of Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights era literatures transformed through the hybrid subjectivity of what Barack Obama recently dubbed, “the Joshua generation” of black people in a global society? Our goal in this course is to assemble a working definition of postmodern African-American fiction through selected texts from the last four decades. We will consider how “master narratives” are deconstructed in the works of Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones, and Kevin Young; the intertextual pastiche of Randall Kenan; race and science in Octavia Butler’s fiction; the impact of American suburbanization in Aaron McGruder’s comics; and the means through which Colson Whitehead rehearses social constructions of identity through naming and popular culture. We will also discuss the views of black cultural critics such as bell hooks and Cornel West. Grades will be based on class discussion, weekly written assignments, a critical annotated bibliography, three essay exams, and a final paper.

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          TTH 9:30-10:45              JOHNSON

The subject matter of this course is contemporary American young adult literature. Students will examine texts which are in some way related to central ideas about America and Americans of various backgrounds and experiences. Discussion topics will include the meaning of literary excellence in the YA literature world, the politics of the children’s book publishing industry, and current issues and controversies in the field, including awards, censorship, gender, authorship, and race.

ENGL 434-001           ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE   TTH 9:30-10:45                 BARILLA

“Nature” has inspired a powerful body of American literature, yet what do we really mean by the term? Are humans “natural?” What are the distinctions between nature and culture? Where are we headed – toward ecological apocalypse, or utopia? This course will explore the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical dimensions of “Nature” as an expression of American consciousness and narrative. We will encounter the howling wilderness, the transcendent, sublime wilderness, and the threatened wilderness. We will look at alternative landscapes and literary inspirations, such as the pastoral, agrarian landscape extolled by Thomas Jefferson as the foundation of our democracy. We’ll consider Nature not just as a place, but also as a representation of the animals that inhabit it. Our approach will include reading contemporary novels and foundational nature-writing essays, participating in the kind of outdoor exploration that inspired some of the readings, and attempting some nature writing of our own, all with the goal of understanding “Nature” as a dynamic interplay of forces.

ENGL 437/WOST 437           WOMEN WRITERS   TTH 11:00-12:15                              JAMES

To gain an understanding of the diversity of women’s literature in English, we will read early (medieval and renaissance), middle (enlightenment and nineteenth-century), and late (twentieth-century) texts from a variety of genres and cultures about such themes as authorship, education, spirituality, sexuality, and myths of womanhood.  TEXTS: To be announced. REQUIREMENTS: class participation, frequent brief writing assignments, oral report, mid-term and final exams. 

ENGL 438C-001         STUDIES/ IRISH WRITERS             MW 4:00-5:15                           MADDEN

In this class we will examine the literature and culture of Ireland, concentrating on selected works of the last two centuries.  We will read well-known and representative writers such as James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, as well as contemporary writers, and we will examine a variety of genres, including film and popular culture.  Our objectives will include: to gain familiarity with the themes, issues, characteristics, and socio-historical contexts of Irish literature; to become more aware of the social and political issues that animate Irish culture; and to enrich our understanding of literature and its relation to social, historical, and cultural contexts.

ENGL 439W-001        TOPIC/SPORTING IMAGES                        TTH 2:00-3:15                    FENSKE

The purpose of this course is to explore the ways in which contemporary popular print and visual media rhetorically depict and construct individual and group identity.  The specific topic through which this issue will be examined is contemporary sport.  Throughout the semester we will consider issues of body, nation, gender, sexuality, and race in the practices and representations of individual athletes, sports teams, and sporting events.  Texts to be considered will include journalism (print and TV), film, cultural practices in sport (trash talk, community/team building, training, fandom), and sports within circuits of capital (advertising, commodification of individuals and teams etc.).

ENGL 450-001/LING 421      ENGLISH GRAMMAR           TTH 12:30-1:45         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.  TEXT: Dorothy Disterheft, Advanced Grammar: a manual for students. Prentice-Hall.  REQUIREMENTS: one midterm, one final.

ENGL 455/LING 441           LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY        MW  1:25-2:40                        CHUN

Study of language patterns within and across social groups and contexts, focusing on how language reflects and creates speakers' memberships, relationships, and identities. Special attention will be given to dialects and styles in U.S. settings.

ENGL 457-001           AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH        TTH 11:00-12:15              WELDON

This course is designed to introduce students to the structure, history, and use of the distinctive varieties of English used by and among many African Americans in the U.S.  We will examine some of the linguistic features that distinguish African-American English (AAE) from other varieties of American English. We will consider theories regarding the history and emergence of AAE. We will look at the representation of AAE in literature. We will examine the structure and function of various expressive speech events in the African-American speech community. And we will consider attitudinal issues regarding the use of AAE, especially as they relate to education and the acquisition of Standard English.   Cross-listed with LING 442, AFRO 442 and ANTH 442.

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           MWF 1:25-2:15                                   STAFF

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

ENGL 460-003           ADVANCED WRITING               MW 4:00-5:15                                 STAFF

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

ENGL 460-004           ADVANCED WRITING               TTH 9:30-10:45                  HAYNSWORTH

This is an advanced class in nonfiction writing, with particular emphasis on creative, or literary, nonfiction, a hybrid genre that borrows techniques and approaches from journalism, fiction, and even poetry to create innovative new ways of narrating the stories of our lives and interpreting the world around us.  Because it does incorporate elements of so many other genres and because it gives writers a lot of room to experiment with their own voices and approaches, creative nonfiction affords students a lot of flexibility to focus on whatever specific writing goals they may have.  The class will be run with that diversity of potential student interests in mind: assignments will be open-ended enough to allow each student to tailor them to his or her interests/objectives.  TEXTS:  William Zinsser, On Writing Well, and Joyce Carol Oates, ed., The Best American Essays of the Century.  REQUIREMENTS:  Students will read and write a review of an acclaimed book-length work of nonfiction and write and revise 3 essays:  a personal narrative, an interview/profile, and a final piece that fuses both memoir and journalistic reportage.  The total amount of writing required for the class will be in the neighborhood of 20-25 pages.

ENGL 460-005           ADVANCED WRITING           TTH 3:30-4:45                                     STAFF

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

ENGL 460-501           ADVANCED WRITING           TTH 11:00-12:15                    SIBLEY-JONES

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

ENGL 461-001           TEACHING OF WRITING     MW 2:30-3:45                        HOLCOMBE

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       TTH 8:00-9:15                      RIVERS

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, contact the instructor.

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

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.    

ENGL 463-002           BUSINESS WRITING                        MWF               8:00-8:50                     STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.    

ENGL 463-003           BUSINESS WRITING              MWF 2:30-3:20                                 STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-004        BUSINESS WRITING                     TTH 8:00-9:15                                          STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-005                    BUSINESS WRITING               TTH 9:30-10:45                                STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-092                 BUSINESS WRITING       SAT. 9:00-2:00                            PARROT

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-300                BUSINESS WRITING        MON. 5:30-8:15                      ANDERSON

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-301                BUSINESS WRITING        WED. 5:30-8:15                      ANDERSON

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-851                BUSINESS WRITING        TTH 5:30-8:15                         MCMANUS               
Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 464-001                      POETRY WORKSHOP          TTH 2:00-3:15                        GREER

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
Workshop in writing poetry for students who have successfully completed ENGL 360.  Please contact the instructor for further information.

ENGL 465-001                       FICTION WORKSHOP      MW 2:30-3:45                               BAJO

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
This course explores the intricacies of the literary elements studied basically in English 360 to  teach students how to write literary short stories. Students will use models and discussion to gain an understanding of the level of story composition at stake in this course, then they will begin submitting new stories of their own to workshop assessment in order to discover how to enhance readerly impact. The course is designed for writers aspiring to MFA fiction programs or to students of literature who wish to deepen their perspective on language by exploring the other side of the printed page.

ENGL 465-002                       FICTION WORKSHOP      TTH 3:30-4:45                              FOX

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
This is a special section of 465 devoted to comedy.  The workshop will cover some of the uses to which comedy is put in writing the novel, the short story, and articles, as well as in film, television, and drama.  In addition to classroom editing of work you may have done in the past, we will work on new material you will write during the semester.  There will be no textbook, but I will be handing out photocopies of material that will help you understand this kind of writing. 

ENGL E465-300                     FICTION WORKSHOP      TTH 5:30-6:45                              LAMB

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
This is a fiction workshop. The idea is to learn by doing, as well as by studying how others did it: why a story works, if it does, and why it doesn’t work if it doesn’t. Everybody has stories to tell and the ability to tell them. How good they are is another matter, but, generally speaking, the secret to good writing is rewriting. We also explore the creative impulse and the magic of story.

ENGL 474-001           HISTORY OF CINEMA I       MW 3:35-4:50                                     STAFF

Survey of international cinema from its inception until 1945.  For more information, contact the instructor.  Film screenings will be held on Wednesdays from 5-7 p.m.

 ENGL 492-001          ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP     TTH 2:00-3:15         BLACKWELL

(Prerequisite: ENGL 465)
Open to students who have completed ENGL 465, this is an advanced workshop designed for students seeking more intensive study of the art and craft of writing fiction. It is ideal for those planning to apply to MFA programs--and other students who want to write for the rest of their lives. Our goal is to write--and help each other write--ambitious, well-crafted literary fiction. The class format will be a workshop combined with some analysis and studio learning. The course assumes significant experience reading literary fiction and mastery of craft basics. By the end of the semester, you will be the author of two ambitious, complex, polished short stories (or a novella or partial novel). Your original fiction and the critiques you write for others will comprise the majority of your work for this class. Discussion of short readings, exercises in technique, and consideration of professional issues (MFA programs, publishing, the writing life) will fill out our time.

ENGL 566A/FILM 566A         TOPIC/THE WESTERN    TTH 2:00-3:15                              HARK

This course will examine the western genre according to the paradigm of genre development that includes the four stages; primitive, classical, revisionist, and parodic.  Ways in which the western at any given moment illustrates the political, social, and economic concerns of the moment in which the film is produced, as well as of the 19th-century American reality it depicts, will also receive emphasis. Films screened will include The Great Train Robbery, Stagecoach, Red River, High Noon, The Searchers, The Man from Laramie, Shane, Ride the High Country, A Man Called Horse, Ulzana’s Raid, Unforgiven, and Blazing Saddles,  REQUIREMENTS:  Undergraduate students will take a mid-term and final exam and write two five-page essays devoted to critical interpretation of one or more films.  Graduate students will write 20-page term papers that focus on one of the historical, socio-economic, political, or industrial contexts.  Film screenings will be held on Wednesdays from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

ENGL 566B/FILM 566B        TOPIC/COEN BROTHERS   MW 2:30-3:45                         HARK

Beginning as independent filmmakers who financed their first feature, Blood Simple, from private individual donations, many from among their parents’ friends, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced a quirky oeuvre over the last 23 years that has attracted major studio distribution and the participation of big stars like George Clooney and Billy Bob Thornton--but they have never gone totally mainstream.  A distinguishing feature of their films is the postmodern dialogue each conducts with predecessors from the classic studio years, particularly the 1940s.  This course will examine six Coen texts in these contexts, with an emphasis on film noir and the films of Preston Sturges.  The pairings will be as follows:  Blood Simple/The Killers; Raising Arizona/The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek; Miller’s Crossings/T he Roaring Twenties; Barton Fink/Sunset Boulevard; Fargo/The Asphalt Jungle; O’ Brother  Where Art Thou?/Sullivan’s Travels; and The Man Who Wasn’t There/The Postman Always Rings Twice.  REQUIREMENTS:  Undergraduate students will write two short analytical papers and take a midterm and a final.  Graduate students will write a 20-page research paper in place of the second short paper.  Film screenings will be held on Thursdays from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

ENGL 566D/FILM 566D        TOPIC/THE MUSICAL          TTH 3:30-4:45             COURTNEY

Icon of wholesome family values or hotbed of transgressive sexual desires?  Vivid cultural record of segregation or instructive history of interracial influence?  Mainstream Hollywood fluff or popular outlet for avant-garde experimentation?  The Hollywood musical, arguably the most bizarre of popular American film genres, is all of these things and more.  As such, this course studies the genre both as an intriguing cultural phenomenon in its own right, and as a fascinating case study of the historical and conceptual complexities of even some of the most mainstream of Hollywood products, and of popular culture more generally.  Through close analysis of a range of musicals from the 1930s through the present, and of film criticism and theory illuminating them, we will pay particular attention to how these films comment—often loudly, brashly, and spectacularly—on questions of sexuality, gender, race, class, national identity, and cinema itself.  We will consider the particular cinematic pleasures in which the genre repeatedly invites us to indulge, as well as mutations in the genre over time as it shifts to accommodate changing social and historical preoccupations. Film screenings will be held on Mondays from 5:00-7:00 p.m.