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English Dept Spring 2008
Course # Title Instructor Meeting Time
EGL 100-01 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Glover TTH 10:45-12:40
EGL 100-02 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Smith TTH 9:00-10:40
EGL 100-03 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Stevenson MWF 8:00-9:05
EGL 100-04 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Heinegg MWF 8:00-9:05
EGL 101-01 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Pease MWF 10:30-11:35
EGL 101-02 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction jain MWF 8:00-9:05
EGL 101-03 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Selley TTH 1:55-3:40
EGL 101-04 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Kuhn MWF 9:15-10:20
EGL 101-05 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Bracken TTH 9:00-10:40
EGL 101-06 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Doyle TTH 10:55-12:40
EGL 101-07 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Kuhn MWF 10:30-11:35
EGL 101-08 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Sargent MWF 11:45-12:50
EGL 205 British Lit in Hist Context: The Renaissance Stevenson MWF 1:50-2:55
EGL 207 Brit Lit in Hist Context: 17th Century Jenkins MWF 10:30-11:35
EGL 209 American Lit in Hist Context: Beginnings to 1800 Murphy MWF 1:50-2:55
EGL 210 Brit Lit in Hist Context: 18th Century Glover TTH 1:55-3:40
EGL 217 American Lit in Hist Context: 1900-1960 Selley TTH 10:55-12:40
EGL 224 Shakespeare after 1600 Stevenson MWF 10:30-11:35
EGL 228 The American Renaissance Kuhn TTH 9:00-10:40
EGL 236 Women Writers to 1700 Doyle TTH 9:00-10:40
EGL 246 Modern African Literature Wainaina MW 3:05-4:45
EGL 248 Yiddish Lit in Translation Heinegg TTH 10:55-12:40
EGL 263 European Novel in Translation Pease MWF 1:50-2:55
EGL 274 Intro to Black Poetry Lynes TTH 1:55-3:40
EGL 279 Epic Heinegg MWF 9:15-10:20
EGL 280 Satire Jenkins MWF 8:00-9:05
EGL 300 Jr Seminar: Poetry Workshop Smith TTH 10:55-12:40
EGL 306 Jr Seminar: Bob Dylan McCord TTH 9:00-10:40
EGL 309 Jr Seminar: Rushdie jain MW 3:05-4:45
EGL 311 Jr Seminar: Irish Lit and Sexual Identities Bracken TTH 1:55-3:40
EGL 401 Sr Seminar: Fiction Workshop Wainaina MWF 11:45-12:50
EGL 406 Sr Seminar: Eliot & Picasso McCord MW 3:05-4:45
Spring 08 Schedule by Time
Time and Course Instructor
MWF 8:00-9:05
EGL 100-03 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Stevenson
EGL 100-04 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Heinegg
EGL 101-02 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction jain
EGL 280-01 Satire Jenkins
MWF 9:15-10:20
EGL 101-04 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Kuhn
EGL 279-01 Epic Heinegg
MWF 10:30-11:35
EGL 101-01 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Pease
EGL 101-07 Into to Study of Lit: Fiction Kuhn
EGL 207-01 Brit Lit in Hist Context: 17th Century Jenkins
EGL 224-01 Shakespeare After 1600 Stevenson
MWF 11:45-12:50
EGL 101-08 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Sargent
EGL 401-01 Sr Seminar: Fiction Workshop Wainaina
MWF 1:50-2:55
EGL 205-01 Brit Lit in Hist Context: The Renaissance Stevenson
EGL 209-01 American Lit in Hist Context: Beginnings to 1800 Murphy
EGL 263-01 European Novel in Translation Pease
MW 3:05-4:45
EGL 246-01 Modern African Literature Wainaina
EGL 309-01 Jr Seminar: Rushdie jain
EGL 406-01 Sr Seminar: Eliot & Picasso McCord
TTH 9:00-10:40
EGL 100-02 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Smith
EGL 101-05 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Bracken
EGL 228-01 The American Renaissance Kuhn
EGL 236-01 Women Writers to 1700 Doyle
EGL 306-01 Jr Seminar: Bob Dylan McCord
TTH 10:55-12:40
EGL 100-01 Intro to Study of Lit: Poetry Glover
EGL 101-06 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Doyle
EGL 217-01 American Lit in Hist Context: 1900-1960 Selley
EGL 248-01 Yiddish Lit in Translation Heinegg
EGL 300-01 Jr Seminar: Poetry Workshop Smith
TTH 1:55-3:40
EGL 101-03 Intro to Study of Lit: Fiction Selley
EGL 210-01 Brit Lit in Hist Context: 18th Century Glover
EGL 274-01 Intro to Black Poetry Lynes
EGL 311-01 Jr Seminar: Irish Lit and Sexual Identities Bracken
EGL 100-01 Intro to the Study of Lit: Poetry TTH 10:55-12:40
Glover
Students will explore the art of poetry, examining a selection of poems of at least three cultures,
considering how poetry conveys its complex meanings through language, voice, image, rhythm, formal
and experimental structures. Possible traditions include African-American, American, Asian, Colonial,
English, Postcolonial, Western European. Particular attention will be paid to developing reading and
writing skills. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 100-02 Intro to the Study of Lit: Poetry TTH 9:00-10:40
Smith
This course is designed to introduce students to the materials and techniques of poetic expression and to
various ways of approaching and discussing poetry. We will focus on the work of a selection of poets
(Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens,
and Robert Hayden) who responded to the poetic tradition by reinventing its lyric and narrative
possibilities. Three papers, one informal in-class presentation. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 100-03 Intro to the Study of Lit: Poetry MWF 8:00-9:05
Stevenson
An introduction to the “other nature” (Sidney) that constitutes every poem, which contains words that
move, patterns that evolve, structure that circles, life experience that any of us can recognize (no matter
how puzzling a poem might seem at first), and a voice that each of us can utter as we enter the poem and
become, along with the poet, its author. The principal text will be Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets,
Poetry. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 100-04 Intro to the Study of Lit: Poetry MWF 8:00-9:05
Heinegg
A survey of some of England's greatest poets, from Shakespeare to Philip Larkin. We'll consider the
astonishing cross-fertilization that took place when English writers drew upon the Hebrew Bible, Greek
and Roman Classics, and the Italian Renaissance to inform their art; and we'll end with a look at the
sometimes desolate landscape of modern poetry. We'll also delve into the complex question of how
poetry works its magic. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-01 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction MWF 10:30-11:35
Pease
This course will introduce students to literary terminology, literary history, and the basics of several
critical approaches. The emphasis will be on acquiring the vocabulary and the skills necessary for
the appreciation of Literature as an Art form as well as on discovering the pleasure of active reading and
re-reading. Assignments will include a careful examination of five or six short stories per week and
writing (several drafts of) three analytical essays of increasing length and complexity. Weekly quizzes
and grammar/writing drills will also be an important part of this course. Faithful attendance
and constructive participation are required of all students. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-02 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction MWF 8:00-9:05
jain
In this course, we will explore the art of narrative, examining literature from multiple cultural traditions,
focusing mostly on the 20th century. We will analyze ways stories get told and investigate reasons for
telling them. Particular attention will be given to developing basic reading and writing skills in relation
to discovering meaning in literary texts. Assigned reading will include various short stories, novellas
such as The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) and Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), and the novels The
Awakening (Kate Chopin), Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), and The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran
Desai). WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-03 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction TTH 1:55-3:40
Selley
This course is an introduction to the terms and techniques that allow the reader to analyze, understand,
and enjoy literary fiction. We will focus on topics such as narrative point of view and themes such as
the journey (up rivers, through histories both personal and national/international, and into the self).
Many works will treat two prevalent themes in literature: encounters with the Other and various forms of
racism. Some attention will be given to reading and evaluating literary criticism. Texts for the course
will include Ann Charters, ed., The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (7th edition)
(for a number of short stories and Conrad’s short novel Heart of Darkness); Jerome Stern, ed., Micro
Fiction; Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and possibly other
novels to be decided. There will be several papers, quizzes, and a final exam. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-04 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction MWF 9:15-10:20
Kuhn
This course will look at a wide range of techniques and strategies writers of fiction use to map the
interior worlds of their characters. Our exploration will range from the Bible to the present day, and
include works from Madame de Lafayette, Goethe, Turgenev, Melville, Woolf, Kafka, James, Faulkner,
and Burroughs. Our focus will be on close readings of individual texts. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-05 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction TTH 9:00-10:40
Bracken
This course will examine the genre of fiction with a particular focus on narrative style and form. It will
incorporate a study of some of the key terms and concepts in narratology, as well as considering
theoretical readings practices. Examining storytelling in terms of a process of remembering, we will also
be paying close attention to memory, style and structure in narrative and the way in which these intersect
with historical and social conditions. We will be looking at a range of novels and short stories including
Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, James Joyce’s Dubliners, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and
Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-06 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction TTH 10:55-12:40
Doyle
Our goal in this course will be to practice the skill of reading attentively and with an appreciation for the
artist’s careful crafting of a literary work. Key concepts will include, among other things, structure,
character, audience, point of view, symbolism, foreshadowing, narrative voice, and irony. We will delve
into the ways in which writers use these devices to express and to provoke thought about culture,
identity, and the limits of fiction. Readings for this section will include Boccaccio’s Decameron,
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only
Fruit, and McCarthy’s The Road. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-07 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction MWF 10:30-11:35
Kuhn
This course will look at a wide range of techniques and strategies writers of fiction use to map the
interior worlds of their characters. Our exploration will range from the Bible to the present day, and
include works from Madame de Lafayette, Goethe, Turgenev, Melville, Woolf, Kafka, James, Faulkner,
and Burroughs. Our focus will be on close readings of individual texts. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 101-08 Intro to the Study of Lit: Fiction MWF 11:45-12:50
Sargent
Students will explore the art of narrative, examining stories and novels of at least three cultures,
considering the ways stories get told, and the reasons for telling them. Attention will be given to such
concerns as narrative point of view, storytelling strategies and character development, the relationship
between oral and written narrative traditions and narrative theory. Particular attention will be given to
developing reading and writing skills. WAC, EuL-AmL
EGL 205-01 Brit Lit in Hist Context: Renaissance MWF 1:50-2:55
Stevenson
Attention to selected literary texts from ancient Greece and Rome, consideration of their “rebirth” and
influence on aesthetic and intellectual work produced in western Europe from the 14th century to the
17th, and consequent close attention to the achievements of one or more major literary figures of the
English Renaissance. WAC, Eu-LS
EGL 207-01 Brit Lit in Hist Context: 17th Century MWF 10:30-11:35
Jenkins
This course will look at seventeenth-century literature and culture through the idea of revenge, which
became a dominant form in an age of turmoil, injury, and change. We will begin with the early revenge
plays of Shakespeare, Tourneur, Marston, Ford, and Webster, proceed through the cosmic revenge of
Satan in Paradise Lost, and end with the ironic revenge exacted on moral goodness by the Restoration
poets, playwrights, and philosophers. WAC, Eu-L
EGL 209-01 American Lit in Hist Context: MWF 1:50-2:55
Murphy Beginnings to 1800
This course will take a revisionist approach to the traditional canon of American literature. While not an
entire overhaul of the norm, students will read texts that traditionally may not be included in mainstream
early American literature courses. The course will be divided into indigenous oral traditions,
ethnic/minority texts, and women’s writing, but will also include texts from the established canon of
Early American literature. Examples include the corrido, a popular 18th century ballad form of the
mestizo Mexican cultural area of the American southwest, the alabado hymns sung by the Penitente
brotherhood, the Slave Narrative, and the Captivity Narrative. We will also read, discuss, and write
about Puritan crimes and the history of the American elegiac tradition. WAC, Am-LS
EGL 210-01 Brit Lit in Hist Context: 18th Century TTH 1:55-3:40
Glover
Beauty, Filth, Genius, Mockery, and Despair. Many people today imagine the eighteenth century in
Britain as an optimistic, progressive era in which Enlightenment ideas of science, technology,
democracy, and human rights established themselves as hallmarks of modern life. Yet many
writers at the time found little to cheer about. In this course we’ll examine what one influential study
called “the politics and poetics of transgression”: the often violent struggles to establish (and subvert)
basic categories of modernity including gender, class, sanity, and the self, and the astonishing variety of
literary forms those struggles took. WAC, Eu-LS
EGL 217-01 American Lit in Hist Context: 1900-1960 TTH 10:55-12:40
Selley
This course will focus on how urbanism, psychology, science, secularism, “The Great War” and World
War II, consumerism and feminism influenced poets and fiction writers of the pre-Modern and Modern
periods. Writers might include: Henry James, Henry Adams, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Robert
Frost, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Ralph
Ellison, Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and/or Adrienne Rich. Poetry of the
period will be generously represented in the syllabus. There will be several papers and a final exam.
WAC, Am-LS
EGL 224-01 Shakespeare After 1600 MWF 10:30-11:35
Stevenson
Close readings of the later plays, including the five great tragedies, as both poems and dramas.
WAC, Eu-L
EGL 228-01 The American Renaissance TTH 9:00-10:40
Kuhn
An introduction to major American writers of the 19th century beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The course focuses on the period known as the American Renaissance and includes writers such as
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Of particular interest will be the gradual
emergence of a distinctly American imaginative literature and sense of cultural identity in the years
leading up to the Civil War. WAC, Am-L
EGL 236-01/ WGS 214 Women Writers to 1700 TTH 9:00-10:40
Doyle
This course examines texts written by female authors from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. We
will be most interested in how women related, both as readers and authors, to the almost exclusively
male textual traditions of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. What sort of literary and historical
gender roles did they encounter? How did these roles affect them as authors? To what extent did they
replicate, or feel free to critique, the system of values within which they and their audiences moved?
We will also discuss the issues that arise when modern feminists attempt to analyze texts from so long
ago. What are the goals of feminist literary criticism? What are its pitfalls? Prerequisite: EGL 100 or
101, OR, alternatively, any Women’s Studies course. WAC, Eu-L
EGL 246-01 Modern African Literature MW 3:05-4:45
Wainaina
This is an introductory course to African writing in English. We will focus on contemporary urban
Africa; on the fluid relationships of characters to the State; on identity and culture as expressed in
modern African writing. CDAA, LCC
EGL 248-01 Yiddish Lit in Translation TTH 10:55-12:40
Heinegg
A survey of the brilliant, but tragically brief flowering of Yiddish poetry, drama, and fiction in the late
19th and 20 century. Students will also sample klezmer, learn to speak a little Yiddish, and perhaps see
a few Yiddish movies, while studying the amazingly rich (and steadfastly secular) culture that mostly
disappeared after the Holocaust, but is still alive today. WAC, Eu-L
EGL 263-01 European Novel in Translation MWF 1:50-2:55
Pease
This course will expand and deepen students’ knowledge of Literature through a closer acquaintance
with parts of the European literary tradition. We will examine and discuss elements of style, historical
and cultural contexts, as well as the philosophical underpinnings of literary works. The assignments will
include reading novels and short stories translated from Czech, Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, German,
Yiddish, and Russian. Students will write several analytical essays and do research on individual
authors. Weekly quizzes and grammar/writing drills will also be an important part of this course.
Faithful attendance and constructive participation are required of all students. WAC, Eu-L
EGL 274-01 Intro to Black Poetry TTH 1:55-3:40
Lynes
This course will survey poetry written by African Americans from the late 18th century to the present,
with an emphasis on the poetry of social and literary movements. The emphasis will include the
resistance to and rewriting of poetic traditions, as well as the using of and adherence to poetic practices.
We will explore the poetry of the abolitionist and racial uplift movements, the Harlem Renaissance, and
the Black arts movement. We will end by considering Spoken Word and experimental poetries of the
late 20th and early 21st centuries. Most of the poetry is by poets who are American, but we will also
include poets who are neither American nor British but who write in English. We will read poetry in
anthologies; we will also read several full books by individual authors, and will listen to performance
poetry on CD and DVD.
Some questions to consider in the course: How is poetry related to community, literacy, and activism?
What is the function of poetry in power relationships? What is the function of poetry in relation to other
forms of art? How does poetry and poetics function in the construction and reconstruction of
communities? How does sound matter in these poems? Where does poetry live—in books? In public
spaces? In ourselves? This course is collaborative in nature, and as such students should bring their
interests and curiosities to add to the mix. A partial list of poets we will read includes Phillis Wheatley,
Frances EW Harper, Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson, Gwendolyn
Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Tracie Morris, Harryette Mullen,
Kamau Brathwaite, Yusef Komunyakaa, Vievee Francis and others. Am-L, CDAA, LCC, WAC
EGL 279-01 Epic MWF 9:15-10:20
Heinegg
Back to basics: this course will read the three most important poems in western literature Homer's
Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid (which deliberately emulates both of them, even as it opens up
completely new artistic and imaginative perspectives. Some topics to be covered: the oral roots of epic,
the conventions of epic poetry, epic themes in later drama and prose fiction. WAC, An-L
EGL 280-01 Satire MWF 8:00-9:05
Jenkins
Satire is a paradoxical art, a form of social chemotherapy: it mocks and scorns in order to correct and
improve. And since humanity provides a constant supply of follies and pretensions, it is an enduring
and universal art as well. This course will study satire through time and various cultures, from
Aristophanes and Petronius to Swift and Pope and up through Catch 22, Slaughterhouse Five, The
Simpsons, and our own Peter Heinegg. WAC, Eu-L
EGL 300-01 Jr. Seminar: Poetry Workshop TTH 10:55-12:40
Smith
This is a course for students with a serious interest &/or some experience in the writing of poetry. We
will be looking especially at how poets can develop the qualities of the lyric in more extended poems
and sequences. We read several books in which these possibilities are explored; writers will include
Anna Ahkmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGrath, George and Mary Oppen, and
Joanne Kyger. Students will be asked to keep a journal and to complete a final portfolio of poetry.
PETITION. WAC
EGL 306-01 Jr. Seminar: Bob Dylan TTH 9:00-10:40
McCord
This seminar will focus on the prophetic and contemporary, rebellious and conventional, provocative
and sentimental, enigmatic and crystal clear lyrics and music of Bob Dylan. Our attention will be on the
songs themselves--- what they say as poetry and how they express what they say through music.
Subjects for discussion will include: Dylan’s use of recurrent diction, images, themes to elucidate (or
confuse); his consistent (or inconsistent) messages; the significance (or not) of literary references; the
significance (or not) of musical influences; the extent to which he is traditional (or original); the
relationships in his songs between personal experience, politics, social reform, and spirituality; his
apparent (or not) changes in direction and possible reasons for them; helpful (or unhelpful) biographical
influences; his creative process as calculated and methodical (or free-wheeling).
Attendance and regular participation are required. Students will give in pairs two or three presentations
throughout the term and write a final creative, critical and/or research paper of 12 to 15 pages.
PETITION. WAC, Am-L
EGL 309-01 Jr. Seminar: Salman Rushdie MW 3:05-4:45
jain
The class will study iconoclast Salman Rushdie both in terms of various literary styles in which he
writes and his public persona, since he seems to be the quintessential cosmopolitan writer-as-celebrity.
We will read novels and collected essays, including Haroun & the Sea of Stories, The Jaguar Smile,
Imaginary Homelands, and Shalimar the Clown. We will particularly focus on The Satanic Verses and
the global controversy that surrounded the novel, as manifested in such things as riots and death threats
against the author. PETITION. WAC, LCC, SCMJ
EGL 311-01/ WGS 311 Jr. Seminar: Irish Literature & TH 1:55-3:40
Bracken Sexual Identities
This course will examine a number of Irish literary texts, focusing on issues relating to gender and
sexuality in the post-colonial culture of 20th century Ireland. We will be looking at the ways in which
traditional configurations of gender and sexuality are destabilised in these texts, operating as a response
to conservative prescriptions of nationalist Irish identity. Attention will be paid to representations of the
body, and the manner in which these representations are connected with language and writing. Texts
will include James Joyce’s Ulysses (selections), Kate O’Brien’s As Music and Splendour, Samuel
Beckett’s story “First Love”, Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman, Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan,
Eavan Boland’s Outside History and Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. PETITION. WAC,
Eu-L
EGL 401-01 Sr. Seminar: Fiction Workshop MWF 11:45-12:50
Wainaina
An advanced workshop course in the writing of fiction. PETITION. WAC
EGL 406-01 Sr. Seminar: Eliot and Picasso MW 3:05-4:45
McCord
In this seminar we will be studying all of T.S. Eliot’s poetry and a selection of his prose along with the
drawings and paintings of Pablo Picasso. Comparative topics for discussion will include Eliot’s and
Picasso’s lives and/in/separate from their works; modernism and [as?] classicism; modernism and
Picasso-ism; classicism and romanticism; tradition and experimentation; old symbols and new materials;
smut and high seriousness; the death of civilization and possibility of new life; chaos and order; love and
lust; violence as inspiration; life, death, and rebirth of body, heart, mind, and spirit; nihilism and faith;
autocracy and diversity; past, present and future; poetry, art, aesthetics and philosophy.
Attendance and regular participation are required. Students will give in pairs two or three presentations
throughout the term and write a final creative, critical and/or research paper of 12 to 15 pages.
PETITION. WAC, Eu-L
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