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For the advanced writer. Writing about any sport involves one in complex cultural issues that transcend the sport itself. We'll examine work by such authors as Bissinger, Halberstam and Maraniss for voice, craft, and research methods. Students will be required to produce their own pieces of sports writing that explore, through critical research and analysis, the place of sports within the larger culture. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Prerequisite: EL 13, 16, 18, 114, 116, 118, or 119 (ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190). S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Prerequisites: (Undergraduate level ENGL 0130 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0160 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0180 Minimum Grade of S) Return to Previous New Search
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The literary memoir offers students inspiration and warning as to the possibilities and limits of using their own experience as text. We study personal essays, narratives, and prose poems by a variety of writers. Advanced writers only. Writing sample required on first day of class. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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For the advanced writer. Investigates the ways science, scientists, and science-related issues have been represented in fiction and nonfiction written for general audiences. Writing assignments include an informal online journal, literary/cultural analyses, fiction or personal essay, and scientific journalism. Readings from literary, journalistic, and scientific writers. A background in science is useful but not required. Science and humanities students welcome. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Prerequisite: EL 13, 16, 18, 114, 118, or 119 (ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190). S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Prerequisites: (Undergraduate level ENGL 0130 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0160 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0180 Minimum Grade of S) Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the relationships between two dominant intellectual paradigms-science and religion-and asks students to respond by writing their own "sacred" and science-related texts. Genres to read and write will be poetry and critical/literary nonfiction. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: EL 13, 16, 18, 114, 116, 118, or 119 (ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190). Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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It was the Vietnam War, the American War, the Southeast Asian diaspora. By reading varied genres responding to the experience of the war in Southeast Asia and its aftermath, we will study how any experience is multitudinous and how genres manipulate experience in different ways. Analysis and practice of memoir, fiction, poetry, and oral history. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: EL 13, 16, 18, 114, 116, 118, or 119 (ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190). Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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A study of literary language from the writer's perspective that draws on Chomsky's universalist linguistics to refashion structuralist poetics and narratology. Small written experiments with literary word choice and literary sentence structure prepare for a final experiment with narrative structure. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Prerequisite: EL 13, 16, 18, 114, 118, or 119 (ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190). S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Prerequisites: Undergraduate level ENGL 0130 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0160 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0180 Minimum Grade of S Return to Previous New Search
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For the advanced writer. How does one narrate the twists and turns of a life while simultaneously doing justice to whatever literature the subject managed to produce as he or she plodded through each day? We will examine examples of literary biographies for, among other things, voice, form, and research methods. Students will be required to produce their own pieces of literary biography. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, or 0180. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor permission. Enrollment limited. S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Prerequisites: Undergraduate level ENGL 0130 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0160 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0180 Minimum Grade of S Return to Previous New Search
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For advanced writers. What is Creative Nonfiction? Writers have flocked to it; scholars have questioned it. Does it harm the truth? Is it narrative with too much "I" and too little "Eye"? What makes it significant? To help us explore persistent questions about form, point of view, method, and ethics, readings will include historical examples, recent practitioners, editors, and critics. Intensive reading responses, research, drafting, and revision. Two critical essays; one piece of creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Prerequisites: Undergraduate level ENGL 0130 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0160 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ENGL 0180 Minimum Grade of S Return to Previous New Search
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Tutorial instruction oriented toward some work in progress by the student. Requires submission of a written proposal to a faculty supervisor. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Provides an introduction to the study of the English language from a historical, linguistic, and philological perspective, and an overview of the study of the "Englishes" that populate our globe. While providing students with the ability to identify and explain language change through historical periods, also examines language as a social and political phenomenon. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Rediscovery and reconsideration of works by early modern women have changed the literary canon: works by women are becoming mainstream, and they are changing the way we read ¿traditional¿ texts. This course includes poetry, drama, fiction, letters, diaries, and essays by writers including Lanyer, Wroth, Cavendish, Behn, Manley, Haywood, Scott, Fielding, and Montagu. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Colonial British-Americans were called, among other names, monstrous, wild, impotent, and grotesque. They could not, it was said, produce writing worth reading. We will explore the ways in which American writers embraced and/or challenged these charges of cultural and bodily degeneracy. In the process, we will examine the development of modern notions of literature and identity. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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In the literatures of the European Renaissance, stylistic innovation is a marker of cultural change. The production of sonnets, of neoclassical epigrams, and of poems aspiring to be Ovidian or Vergilian opens up a theoretical space for arguments about faith, thought, words, the self, and society. Readings from Wyatt, Surrey, Gascoigne, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, and others. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Ovid's Metamorphoses , an epic compendium of classical myths, narrates with wit and pathos the transformations of body and mind wrought by sexual passion. Central to Renaissance conceptions of the human, it inspired drama, poetry, and narrative. Readings: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Spenser, Milton. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Investigates how distant peoples and places, from Ireland to the West Indies, from East to West, are constructed for the English stage. We will read Marlowe's Tamburlaine , Fletcher's Island Princess , Heywood's Fair Maid of the West , the anonymous Stukeley play, Shakespeare's Othello , and Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk to observe what dangers and freedoms these plays ascribe to specific geographies. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Why does the early modern period witness a flourishing of utopias from More to Milton? We will explore this question, in reading a range of utopias by writers such as Montaigne, More, Ralegh, Bacon, Hall, and Cavendish, engaging them not just as visions of ideal societies, but as efforts at reform of England and Englishness. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will show how the literary materials for modernity were made out of the tropes and figures of the early modern. We will read a variety of texts and genres by such authors as Jonson, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, Marvel, Defoe, and Richardson to see how such familiar topics as the body, labor, and family are used in early modern writing. We will then follow such categories as they undergo transformation, change content, or appear in a different form in modern writing. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Where does American literature begin? Can it be said to have a single point of origin? Can writings by people who did not consider themselves American be the source of our national literary tradition? Does such a tradition even exist and, if so, what are its main characteristics? Authors may include Columbus, de Vaca, Shakespeare, Bradstreet, and Native American tales. Students should register for ENGL 1310H S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Conference, Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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How did the men and women of 16th- and 17th- century England apprehend themselves as individual human subjects? In relation to the law and the state? As creatures of God? As humanists interrogating the texts of the past? Readings include works by More, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wyatt, Erasmus, Luther, Tyndale, Askew, Hooker, Hebert, Donne, Browne, de Montaigne, Ascham, Jonson, and Herrick. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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An introduction to the great classics and some less-known gems of a stellar period in English drama. Plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, and Ford, in the context of urban culture, English nationhood, gender and sexuality, playhouses and playing companies, and forms of theatricality. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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A survey of writing and cultural history in England between 1660 and 1750, emphasizing innovation and experimentation in drama, satire, poetry, and fiction. Readings include work by Behn, Rochester, Swift, and Defoe. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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A survey of English drama and theatrical practice from the reopening of the theatres at the Restoration to the early eighteenth century. Works of the major playwrights, including Dryden, Congreve, Wycherley, Gay. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Survey of poetry from 1660 to 1700, emphasizing poets such as Marvell, Dryden, Rochester and Traherne. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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We will examine materials from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries that engage one of the key problems of identity confronting British American colonists. How, we will ask, did literary works re-imagine what it meant to be English or British in order to accommodate living in a supposedly "alien" environment? Authors include Thomas, Hariot, Anne Bradstreet, and Benjamin Franklin. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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