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Georgetown - Chaucer

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Shakespeare

Credits: 4
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Georgetown - Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Milton

By starting with the early literary productions in poetry and prose and concluding with /Samson Agonistes/, written in old age, when Milton, like his champion, was blind and disillusioned, we will give attention to the development of his literary powers. But we will spend most of our time on /Paradise Lost/. With all due reverence for Chaucer's /Canterbury Tales /and Shakespeare's /Hamlet/ and /King Lear/, Milton's epic is the greatest single work ever written in English. We will try to understand it mostly on our own but also with help from a few of the best contemporary essays.
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Georgetown - Muslims and Jews in Renaissance Drama

How do we understand the frequent representation of Muslims and Jews in the plays of early modern England during a time in which neither group was officially permitted to live there? Why are Muslim and Jewish characters so often represented in the same plays? Are Jews and Muslims seen as sharing an important connection, or as relating to each other in significant ways? Do the substantial religious upheavals England following the Reformation, and the resulting struggles to define new religious identities, encourage the English to explore the ways in which they differ not only from other Christians but also non-Christians? In this course we will read sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English plays which represent some of these concerns in their accounts of two non-Christian religious traditions: Judaism and Islam. We will consider the significance of these representations both to discover what the English thought about religious difference as well as what these thoughts reveal about English culture. We will also attend to the ways in which representations of religious difference intersect with early modern ideas of race and gender.
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Georgetown - Tutorial: Medieval/Renaissance Literature & Culture

Arranged by the student with an English department faculty member. See department for approval and section number. Fall and Spring.
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Georgetown - Literature of the Atlantic Empire

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Melville and Douglass

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Staging Anti-Slavery

In this course, we’ll examine late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century women’s anti-slavery texts, in hopes of understanding how concepts of race, religion, and gender became entangled during the formative years of the United States. What is the relationship between self-love and sympathy within women's abolitionist performances? What propels women to enter the risky world of abolitionism, and how do they protect themselves as they enter fiercely contested public debates? We’ll track the changes in how abolitionists gained access to the public sphere or redefined the “private” sphere, and search out archival materials as we analyze anti-slavery poems, essays, plays, speeches, short stories, letters, and autobiographical novels. Our readings may include Phillis Wheatley’s poems, Susanna Rowson’s plays, Maria W. Stewart’s speeches, and Ellen Craft’s narrative, along with a host of lesser-known anti-slavery texts.
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Georgetown - Sem: The Romantics

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Sem: Wordsworth and After

The first half of this course will focus on William Wordsworth’s radical experiments and innovations in poetic form and content, set within the context of the radical politics of the 1790s (especially with reference to the French Revolution). In this light we will explore the ways in which poetic forms and theories of language are connected to questions of class, gender, and power more generally. We will examine Wordsworth relation to the poetic traditions that preceded him, especially in light of Keats’s claim that “Wordsworth is deeper than Milton . . . [who] did not think into the human heart as Wordsworth has.” The second half of the course will explore the kinds of poetic experiments (in diction, syntax, genre, and content) that occurred in the wake of Wordsworth’s poetic revolution by focusing on British and American poets such as John Keats, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, and Adrienne Rich. Our exploration of these poets will be set within the personal, aesthetic, and political contexts within which they wrote. In addition to a rigorous reading of the poetry, some attention will be given to such poetic manifestoes as Wordsworth’s “Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1800” and Whitman’s “Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass.” Several brief writing assignments, a longer final essay, and daily class participation will be required.
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Georgetown - Wicked: Morality’s Complex 19th C Literary Portraits

This course examines, via literature and philosophical excerpts, the 19th century’s “requirements” to be good in order to probe the complexity of the wicked. Is wicked the opposite of good? Is wicked synonymous with evil? Who determines/identifies another as wicked? How do different writers explain how someone “becomes” wicked? Does the 19th century believe that one might be born wicked and do they distinguish natural wickedness from learned ill behavior? With what other factions of human nature and society does this century align the wicked: gender, age, class, educational background, genetic background, etc? What causes the reader to sympathize with the wicked rather than spurning them? How do the wicked prompt our fear and anger? What happens to the wicked? Also to be considered is how discovering and pursuing the wicked shapes the narrative – are there discernable common characterizations, patterns in plot, or implied purposes in these novels? Or do the wicked provoke as many distinct styles, moods, and voices as stories focused on individuals who are weak or struggling unjustly? These quests and others will direct our reading of Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima, George Eliot’s Adam Bede, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Students will produce several short response papers, a major class presentation, and a final research paper.
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Georgetown - Literature of the Irish Revival

The making of the modern nation state of Ireland was not only a complex political event but also a political event that had its origins in the country's literary, cultural, and linguistic heritage. This course examines how that heritage was adapted and deployed in the years leading up to the coming into being of the modern Irish state.
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Georgetown - Black British Literature

Although there has been a sustained black presence in Britain for the last 400 years resulting from the slave trade, it appears, at first glance, that ‘blackness’ only came to complicate ‘Britishness’ once Britain began to receive large amounts of immigrants from its former colonies immediately after World War II. In this course, we will read contemporary novels, poetry and drama that not only deal with this cultural conflict but also give rise to a ‘black British’ cultural identity that attempts (and, perhaps, fails) to incorporate African, Caribbean, Asian and mixed-raced peoples as a united political group. But our particular investigation of this contemporary cultural identity will also be informed by, and grounded in, the black presence in British literature that preceded World War II. Beginning with Shakespeare’s Othello, we will map out a historical and political trajectory of the black presence in British literature prior to 1945 using four perspectives: the literature written by and about blacks in Britain, the literature published by blacks in Britain, and the literature written about people who were likened to blacks in Britain. In this way, the course will explore not only the ongoing changes of black representations in British culture from the 17th to the 21st centuries but also how heavily the contemporary ‘black British’ cultural identity has its roots in political struggles and literary representations of the ‘black British’ past.
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Georgetown - The Female Bildungsroman: Coming of Age in US Women's Literature

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - American Expatriate Writers

This course will explore the fiction and poetry of some of the principal American Expatriate writers, a tradition which has emerged as a rich vein in American Literature. In particular, we will investigate how their perception of America, coupled with their interaction with modern art and with each other, stimulated an experiment in realignment of traditional American values with corresponding innovative literary techniques. Short stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; novels by Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf; poetry by Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, e.e. cummings and T. S. Eliot. (Virginia Woolf was not American, but a significant feminist contemporary.) Students in this four credit course will also research, create, and offer a power point presentation—either individually or in a group—on selected issues to further enrich our study of the period. Some of these presentations will be offered in an occasional extra class period of one hour.
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Georgetown - Gender and Sexuality in African Literature

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Faulkner

This course will investigate one of the greatest American literary achievements of the modern era. We will begin with Go Down, Moses, a collection of interrelated short stories as an entree into the world of Faulkner. Subsequently, we will read and discuss, in chronological order, the major works of Faulkner’s most prolific years: The Sound and the Fury; Sanctuary; As I Lay Dying; Light in August; and Absalom, Absalom. We will discuss these works in terms of predominant themes, psychological and sociological, and Faulkner’s corresponding experimentation in a rich variety of literary techniques. We will also view and discuss The Reivers in movie form. Requirements: a mid-term examination, two 5 page papers and one 10-12 page final paper (or a journal).
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Georgetown - American Short Story

This course principally examines the short story in the 20th century, building upon the strong foundation for story that comes from oral narrative in everyday life. We will analyze both the writerly acts and the readerly responses as we explore works by Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Paule Marshall, Breece D’J Pancake and a selection of very recent authors’ works as found in contemporary anthologies and magazines such as the New Yorker and Atlantic. Throughout the course we will grow more critically aware of contexts around authors and their characters by emphasizing the impacts of class, race, gender, culture, and history on and in the literature. In addition to frequent BlackBoard postings, students will take one test, write one creative piece and one long analytical paper as they explore and experience this flexible genre. [Counts as CIV-- IV option in American Studies. Cross-listed in Program in Justice and Peace] Prerequisites: ENG 040 or 041 or 042 or 043.
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Georgetown - Poetics of Diaspora

This course will primarily examine poetry out of the anglophone Caribbean (including poetry being written in England and Canada), together with pertinent essays and literary criticism. We will pursue these general questions: How do Caribbean poets view their own relation to this history, and how do they go about creating a poetry distinctively inflected as Caribbean, as other than English? What is, or ought to be, the relationship between poetic practice and the cultural environment? Topics that will concern us include: the legacy of slavery and of the plantation system; the use of standard English in collaboration with the Creole vernacular; the handling (or mis-handling) of British literary tradition; Africa in the New World imaginary; articulations of the black female subject within, and against, the history of male mastery; the problem of culture and hybridity; and the place of poetry in the project of national formation.
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Georgetown - 20th Century Women Poets

Credits: 3
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Georgetown - Booker Prize Novels

The Man Booker Prize, the world's most prestigious award for literary fiction in English, has caught the attention and imagination of the international English-reading public. Controversy frequently surrounds the novels selected annually for the competition which leads eventually to the winner announced at an October awards ceremony in London broadcast live on BBC television. This Advanced 4-credit Seminar will read and discuss the shortlist of six finalists for 2008; follow the progress of and participate in the 2009 competition as it unfolds; study past winners from recent years; and conclude with a brief survey of the Booker Prize global "family" of literary awards: the Caine Prize for African Writing, and the Man Booker International Prize. Members of this Advanced Seminar, designed for Juniors and Seniors, will be expected to investigate the nomination process, monitor actively the international press and online coverage of the award, and analyze the cultural and commercial as well as the literary influences and forces at work on Man Booker authors, sponsors, and judges.
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Georgetown - Queer Cinema

This course provides an overview of contemporary queer cinema in the US and Canada. We will examine the emergence of queer cinema, exploring its relation to the American film industry as well as the social conditions of queer life in the late 20th century US and interrogating its aesthetic and political values and goals. We will also closely consider what “counts” as a queer film, including issues of authorship and audience, along with the question of what these films might or should represent in relation to past and present LGBTQ cultures and communities and to mainstream cinema. No prior experience in either queer studies or film studies is required. Course requirements include regular and active participation in class discussions, several short response papers and longer essays, and an independent research project and presentation. Attendance at weekly film screenings is mandatory.
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Georgetown - Tutorial: Modern/Post-Modern Literature and Culture

Arranged by the student with an English department faculty member. See department for approval and section number. Fall and Spring.
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Georgetown - Intro to Creative Writing

This course will introduce you to genres of creative writing by studying and practicing four modes: fiction, dialogue, poetry, and personal prose. We will explore and discuss great models of each of these forms; we'll hear craft lectures from the great writers in our Department and elsewhere who produce them; we will write critical prose on selected works; and then we'll try our hand at composing poems, stories, personal essays, and dialogue (for radio). Among the authors studied: D.H. Lawrence, Michael Ondaatje, and Anna Deavere Smith. You should already have experience in studying and writing in one of these genres, and be prepared for intensive research in how each form of writing happens, how it renders human experience, voice, plot, and vision. Be prepared both to experiment with literary forms and to share your work with others.
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