2012 English Course Offerings & Descriptions
English Department Undergraduate Courses Summer 2012
For detailed and up-to-date listings of instructors, course times, room numbers, and open/closed/waitlisted status, see the University's official online Schedule of Classes.
For past syllabi or more information on a specific course, contact the English Department at 502-852-6801.
300-level classes for the Summer 2012 Semester (1 section)
372 - : Special Topics in English and American Language and Literature
Instructor: Cancelled, Cancelled
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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400-level classes for the Summer 2012 Semester (1 section)
460 - 10: 19th Century American or British Authors – WR
Summer 2012
Slices of Arthur Conan Doyle
Instructor: Rosner, Mary
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English 460 WR. While he is most famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories (and we'll read several), Arthur Conan Doyle was widely published in other kinds of literature as well, including analyses of 'true crimes,' attacks on imperialism, historical romances, science fiction, and arguments about spiritualism. In this intensive three-week WR class, we'll sample some of his various sides. In addition to reading carefully and discussing enthusiastically, expect some practice with MLA, regular informal writing, in-class work on writing, some research, some practice reading academic essays as well as some practice writing academic essays and taking exams.
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500-level classes for the Summer 2012 Semester (2 sections)
506 - : Teaching of Writing – WR
Summer 2012
Instructor: Schneider, Stephen
Meeting Times: MTWRF 11:20am-12:50pm TERM II
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English 506 is an introduction to the history, theory, and practices that inform the teaching of writing. While we’ll initially look at theories of what writing (and the teaching of writing) is, we’ll also examine how these theories developed historically and what that history means for how and why we teaching writing now. This means we’ll also look at how theory governs pedagogical practice, and vice versa; to that end, we’ll examine both the pedagogical approaches that govern the teaching of writing, and the various practical activities—curriculum design, assignment design and sequencing, classroom activities and management, formative and summative assessment—we might use to ground and elaborate those approaches in the classroom.
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547 - : Studies in Modern British and/or Irish Literature
Summer 2012
Literature of the 1930s
Instructor: Jaffe, Aaron
Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:40am- ? TERM III
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Engl. 547 Studies in Modern British and/or Irish Literature Later Modernisms and the Thirties. We will concentrate on the "later modernisms," the second wave, and focus on the dimensions of what Auden called a “low dishonest decade” in which revolutionary subject matter began to outpace revolutionary form: the 1930s. We’ll likely read Orwell, Beckett, Auden, Huxley, Isherwood, Bowen, Wells, Storm Jameson, maybe some Woolf. By necessity, we’ll concentrate on shorter fiction and poetry; assignments will include several shorter essays and an annotated research project.
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English Department Undergraduate Courses Fall 2012
200-level classes for the Fall 2012 Semester (6 sections)
202 - 01: Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2012
Instructor: Miller, Kristen
Meeting Times: MWF 9:00AM-9:50AM
Room: TBA
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English 202 introduces students to the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama with their attendant vocabularies, traditions, and forms. In the course of the semester, a 202 student will: Locate and refine his or her individual writing process. Learn frameworks for interrogating his or her own work and providing meaningful responses to peer work. Write within (and riff upon) literary traditions and forms in each of the three genres.
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202 - 02: Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2012
Instructor: Miller, Kristen
Meeting Times: MWF 1:00PM-1:50PM
Room: TBA
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English 202 introduces students to the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama with their attendant vocabularies, traditions, and forms. In the course of the semester, a 202 student will: Locate and refine his or her individual writing process. Learn frameworks for interrogating his or her own work and providing meaningful responses to peer work. Write within (and riff upon) literary traditions and forms in each of the three genres.
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202-03: Introduction to Creative Writing : Canceled
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202 - 04: Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2012
Instructor: Weinberg, Brian
Meeting Times: TTh 4:00PM-5:15PM
Room: DA208B
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Class Description: This course gives you the opportunity to explore the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama. Your main projects will be a short story, a series of poems, and a ten-minute play. The first month will be a primer in four areas of craft applicable to all three genres: detail/image, voice/point-of-view, character, and setting. You’ll experiment with these foundation elements in writing exercises and discuss how published writers apply them. For the remainder of the semester you’ll take a closer look at each genre in mini-units, and you’ll be introduced to the creative writing workshop, in which you’ll exchange constructive criticism of your fiction and poetry.
This class has significant reading and writing requirements, and a strict attendance policy. It's designed for students who are truly interested in creative writing, meaning students who are prepared to take it seriously. The best students will take it personally, practicing sophisticated methods of expression not for a grade, but toward the aim of exploring what it means to be human.
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202 - 75: Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2012
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Meeting Times: TTh 7:00PM-8:15PM
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250 - 01: Introduction to Literature - H
Fall 2012
Instructor: Yohannes, Tamara
Meeting Times: TTh 11:00AM-12:15PM
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Class Description: In this Humanities General Education Course, we will explore different ways of reading a text. We'll read IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER, an experimental novel that demonstrates various ways of reading, and will also focus on American Literature since 1945. Daily response papers and a mid-term and a final along with other informal assignments along the way.
300-level classes for the Fall 2012 Semester (26 Sections)
300 - 01: Introduction to English Studies – WR: Canceled
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300 - 02: Introduction to English Studies - WR
Fall 2012
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Meeting Times: MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM
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300 - 03: Introduction to English Studies - WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: Wise, Elaine
Meeting Times: TTh 9:30AM-10:45AM
Room: TBA
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300 - 04: Introduction to English Studies - WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: Henke, Suzette
Meeting Times: MW 4:00PM-5:15PM
Room: TBA
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Class Description: This course will offer an introduction to English Studies by providing an overview of forms such as poetry, drama,and the novel, and an introduction to terminology and methods used in analyzing literary texts.
We will focus on exemplary texts from the modernist period. The class will read and discuss poetry by W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot; fiction by Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham; and dramatic adaptations for film and stage of the texts under investigation. Students will be required to write at least three research papers offering comparative and theoretical interpretations of the works discussed in class. The class is intended to introduce basic critical terminology, as well as theories of interpretation essential to upper-level courses in English literature.
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Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 105 ; resticted to approved majors in English. Note: Approved for the Arts and Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication(WR).
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300 - 75: Introduction to English Studies - WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: Paice, Brett
Meeting Times: TTh 5:30PM-6:45PM
Room: TBA
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301 - 01: British Literature I
Fall 2012
Instructor: Dietrich, Julia
Meeting Times: TTh 1:00PM-2:15PM
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Class Description: We will read a selection of the writings of English-speaking peoples from 660-1700. We will focus on the ways they constructed their views of the world and on the role of writing in that construction, paying particular attention to changes and continuities in cultural values.
This course is heavy on “content” because knowledge of the literature and the culture is an essential foundation. But the course is also designed to develop your skills in thinking critically, particularly about the interactions of texts and cultures.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to do the following: 1) interpret and analyze texts from the period; 2) identify the meter, rhyme scheme, and poetic form of any given poem from the period; 3) explain how cultural constructs are created and negotiated across a range of texts from a particular time; 4) define and use the literary and cultural terms appropriate to the period.
Students will be asked to write short essays (ca. 100 words) in response to questions about each day’s reading and to write three essay tests.
Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature (ninth edition), Volumes A, B, and C.
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301 - 02: British Literature I
Fall 2012
Instructor: Dietrich, Julia
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Class Description: Distance Ed. We will read a selection of the writings of English-speaking peoples from 660-1700. We will focus on the ways they constructed their views of the world and on the role of writing in that construction, paying particular attention to changes and continuities in cultural values.
This course is heavy on “content” because knowledge of the literature and the culture is an essential foundation. But the course is also designed to develop your skills in thinking critically, particularly about the interactions of texts and cultures.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to do the following: 1) interpret and analyze texts from the period; 2) identify the meter, rhyme scheme, and poetic form of any given poem from the period; 3) explain how cultural constructs are created and negotiated across a range of texts from a particular time; 4) define and use the literary and cultural terms appropriate to the period.
Students will be asked to write short essays (ca. 100 words) in response to questions about each day’s reading and to write three essay tests.
Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature (ninth edition), Volumes A, B, and C.
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302 - 01: British Literature II
Fall 2012
Instructor: Clukey, Amy
Meeting Times: MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
Room: TBA
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Class Description: In this introductory course, we will undertake a chronological overview of the major literary and social movements of British literature from Romanticism to the present. Over the course of the semester, we will consider poetry, short stories, drama, essays, and novels from and about England, the Celtic Fringe, and the British colonies. This course will provide you with the opportunity reflect on how British literature reflects issues of empire, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, and diaspora. Assignments will include: daily quizzes, a presentation, short papers, and exams.
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303 - 01: Scientific and Technical Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105.
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303 - 02: Scientific and Technical Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MWF 1:00PM-1:50PM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105.
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305 - 01: Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
Fall 2012
POETRY
Instructor: Petrosino, Courteney
Meeting Times: MWF 1:00PM-1:50PM
Room: TBA
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Class Description: This intermediate course is for poets who are interested in sharpening their skills as writers, readers, and critics. Successful students in this course will actively engage in a regular writing practice, and will take seriously the processes of composition, critique, and revision. We will spend most class sessions “work-shopping” student poems, but we will also devote time to discussing assigned reading and to performing various writing experiments. Assignments will include: responses to peer manuscripts [250 words each], three book reviews of assigned poetry collections [500-750 words each], a midterm recitation [at least 10 lines of memorized poetry + brief conversation with the instructor], a final portfolio [12-15 finished poems], and a Final Challenge [a creative assignment that the instructor will personalize for each student]. Students will also be required to compose a portfolio letter [100-1250 words] introducing the work in their portfolios.
[Note: This course requires from each student significant commitments to reading and writing.
Consistent attendance is also required. Students must observe all deadlines noted in the syllabus.]
Special Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Texts (ordered as of April 2012):
(Subject to change pending availability. All texts will be stocked at the University of Louisville Bookstore):
1) Young, Dean. The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction. Graywolf Press, 2010. Paperback. ISBN: 1555975623.
2) Notley, Alice. In the Pines. Penguin, 2007. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0143112546.
3) Dennigan, Darcie. Madam X. Canarium Books, 2012. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0982237685.
4) Young, Dean. Fall Higher. Copper Canyon Press, 2011. Hardcover or Paperback. ISBN-10: 1556593112.
5) Lantz, Nick. We Don't Know We Don't Know. Graywolf Press, 2010. Paperback. ISBN-10: 1555975526.
6)Original Magnetic Poetry Kit. (set of words on magnets). ISBN-13: 9781890560010.
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305 - 02: Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
Fall 2012
Instructor: Weinberg, Brian
Meeting Times: TTh 9:30AM-10:45AM
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Class Description: Intermediate Creative Writing – Fiction. In ENGL 305-02, students with a growing commitment to fiction writing will rhapsodize about craft, write and revise two short stories, and engage in the art of constructive criticism. Weekly writing exercises will help generate new story ideas and increase mastery over characterization, first and third person narration, dialogue, setting, and scene development. Students will be encouraged to experiment with their writing, to try out different approaches. A creative research project will encourage students to write about people and places previously unfamiliar to them. Reading assignments will consist of essays on craft and stories that vary greatly in style, by authors from around the world.
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306 - 01: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MWF 8:00AM-8:50AM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 02: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MWF 9:00AM-9:50AM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 03: Business Writing - WR
Instructor: McGuffey, Allan
Meeting Times: MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
Room: HM 015
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 04: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: TR 1:00PM-2:15PM
Room: HM 015
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 05: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: TTH 9:30AM-10:45AM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
Class Description: This section is restricted to students admitted to the Honors program.
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306 - 06: Business Writing - WR
Instructor: McGuffey, Allan
Meeting Times: TTh 11:00AM-12:15PM
Room: HM 015
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 07: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: TTH 2:30PM-3:45PM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 08: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: TTh 4:00PM-5:15PM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 09: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MWF 10:00am -10:50am
Room: DA 206
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 10: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MWF 10:00am -10:50am
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 50: Business Writing - WR
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
Class Description: Distance Ed-Online
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306 - 53: Business Writing - WR
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
Class Description: Distance Ed-Online
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306 - 54: Business Writing - WR
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
Class Description: Distance Ed-Online
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306 - 55: Business Writing - WR
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
Class Description: Distance Ed-Online
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306 - 75: Business Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: MW 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Room: HM 104A
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Prerequisites: ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 76: Business Writing - WR
Instructor: ,
Meeting Times: MW 7:00PM - 8:15PM
Room: HM 111
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 77: Business Writing - WR
Instructor: ,
Meeting Times: TTH 5:30PM - 6:45PM
Room: HM 015
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 78: Business Writing - WR
Instructor: ,
Meeting Times: TTH 7:00PM - 8:15PM
Room: HM 103
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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306 - 98: Business Writing - WR
Instructor: ,
Meeting Times: S 8:30AM -12:00PM
Room: HM 113
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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309 - 01: Advanced Academic Writing - WR
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Meeting Times: TTH 1:00PM - 2:15PM
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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309 - 02: Advanced Academic Writing - WR
Instructor: Rogers, Linda
Meeting Times: T 4:00PM - 6:45PM
Room: HM 213
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Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105
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310 - 01: Writing About Literature - WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: Biberman, Steven
Meeting Times: MWF 10:00am -10:50am
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310 - 02: Writing About Literature - WR
Fall 2012
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Meeting Times: TTH 11:00AM - 12:15PM
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310 - 03: Writing About Literature - WR
Fall 2012
Writing About Interactive Narrative
Instructor: Fenty, Sean
Meeting Times: TTH 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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Class Description: In this section of English 310, we will be reading and writing about Interactive Narratives (e.g., hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, and videogames narratives). Building on the critical reading skills and the expository and argumentative writing strategies you learned in English 101 and 102, this course will help you to engage new media texts more thoughtfully and write about new media texts more effectively.
You do not need any prior experience with interactive narratives to be successful in this course. However, you should be willing to play them, think about them, and write about them. You also do not need any prior knowledge of critical theory in new media and videogame studies. However, you should be willing read and talk about critical theories in new media and videogame studies, and incorporate them into your writing about interactive narratives.
Note: The videogames we will be engaging in this course are available and playable on entry-level PCs and MACs as well other gaming platforms. Unless your computer is over five years old, and you do not have access to a newer computer or game console, you should have no technical difficulties playing the games we will use in this course.
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310 - 75: Writing About Literature - WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: Lu, Min-Zhan
Meeting Times: MW 5:30PM - 6:45PM
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311 - 01: American Literature I
Fall 2012
Instructor: Golding, Alan
Meeting Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
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311 - 02: American Literature I
Fall 2012
Instructor: Anderson, David
Meeting Times: TTH 9:30AM - 10:45AM
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312 - 01: American Literature II
Fall 2012
Instructor: Yohannes, Tamara
Meeting Times: TTH 2:30PM - 3:45PM
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Class Description: This reading course surveys the literature by American Authors from the Civil War to the present. We will focus on the various schools of literature and approaches to interpretation while we read a diverse variety of texts in an attempt to grasp the sweep of American Literature during this historical period. Expect daily response papers, a variety of critical thinking activities, a few quizzes and a mid-term and a final. We'll use Volume II, C, D, and E of the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
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325 - 01: Introduction to Linguistics
Fall 2012
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Meeting Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
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Class Description: Cross listing: LING 325-01
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330 - 01: Language and Culture
Fall 2012
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Meeting Times: MWF 1:00PM - 1:50PM
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Class Description: Cross-listed: LING 330-01
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333 - 01: Shakespeare
Fall 2012
Instructor: Stanev, Hristomir
Meeting Times: TTH 11:00AM - 12:15PM
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Class Description: We live in a world of idioms and proverbs; one such is that Shakespeare is our contemporary. Is he indeed? What did we appropriate by naming him so? What do we really know of the Bard and his works, and how did Shakespeare become our contemporary? Are we aware how his social and cultural milieu influenced his drama? Moreover, how does one read Shakespeare? How is one supposed to understand his dramatic language and its structural complexities? The course will attempt to answer these and some further questions by examining a number of Shakespeare’s tragedies, histories, romances, comedies, and sonnets. We will contextualize some of the major socio-political and cultural changes in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which influenced the Bard, and our discussions will explore how he reflected on, as well as contributed to, the dynamism of Tudor and Stuart society, as well as to the theory and history of dramatic literature. We will further watch and discuss Roland Emmerich's Anonymous (2011), tracing some of the most prominent recent debates on the Bard’s legacy and the authorship of his works.
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369 - 01: Minority Traditions in American Literature - CD1
Fall 2012
Instructor: TBA
Meeting Times: TTH 2:30PM - 3:45PM
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371 - 01: Special Topics in English and American Language and Literature
Fall 2012
Art and Animation in American Culture
Instructor: Hall, Dennis
Meeting Times: MWF 1:00PM - 1:50PM
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Class Description: ENGL 371 is cross-listed with HUM 361. This course is an historical survey of the development of animation from its beginnings in the 1890s through what some consider its golden age under the influence of Disney and the studio system and down to the present, with attention to the ways animated films both reflect (and possibly influence) American society and culture and may be appreciated on their own as an art form. It is also a course for gown-ups, for only late in its history were animated films targeted to children, and even these are often not without their sometimes alarming underpinnings. Since many (make that "most") members of the class know more about contemporary animation, especially Anime, than I, we will be especially dependent upon class members in developing our understanding of this more recent material, and you will be asked to contribute to the class in this realm via exercises prepared outside of class.
We will spend a lot of class time watching cartoons and other animations, so you will need to actually attend class with greater care than is (sad truth to tell) common at the University of Louisville (yes, I will take roll), and you will need to maintain good discipline in reading the texts, for we will not be able to discuss them as fully as we might otherwise. You will need to apply your evolving knowledge of the theory and practices of cultural studies animated films.
Goals:
*Develop a control of the critical and technical concepts and terminology of animated films.
*Develop a control of the history of animated film.
*Develop a sense of the role of animated film plays in American culture, as a device that both reflects culture and constructs it.
*Practice in critical thinking and reading, of both film texts and written texts. Film texts may be easy to watch, but they often are not easy to “read” or understand.
*Practice in writing and research, expressed in appropriately documented academic prose.
Course Projects:
#Read with care, attention, and comprehension the assignments in the syllabus.
#Faithfully attend class and carefully "read" the films shown.
#Satisfactory completion of any exercises (if an exercise is not judged satisfactory, you will have as many as three opportunities to resubmit); you will be asked early in the term to make a flip book, for example. Exercises may include hunting the web for cartoons.
#Participation in class discussion and any collaborative activities.
#Midterm test
#Final exam
#Term paper: 7-10 page critical essay developing a thesis. You must make a coherent argument about cultural meaning; you may not simply describe something.
Texts:
Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: History of American Animated Cartoons. New American Library, 1987.
Kevin Sandler, ed. Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation. Rutgers UP, 1998.
(I am not sure if the Maltin book is still in print, but there are many copies available on line at very reasonable prices, especially the used ones. The Sandler book is still in print but seems to me pretty pricey; I suggest that you get a copy on line.)
Since there are only two texts, we will be dependent upon library (principally in periodicals, for the library’s holdings of books on this subject, apart from those on Disney, are thin) and Internet resources.
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373 - 01: Women in Literature - CD2
Fall 2012
Instructor: Sheridan, Mary
Meeting Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
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Class Description: Cross-listed: WGST 325-01
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373 - 02: Women in Literature - CD2
Fall 2012
Instructor: Journet, Debra
Meeting Times: TTH 1:00PM - 2:15PM
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Class Description: Cross listed: WGST 325-02. This section will center on contemporary fiction by women. More details and book list will be posted soon.
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374 - 01: Gender and Children's Literature
Fall 2012
Instructor: Heinecken, Dawn
Meeting Times: MW 1:00PM - 2:15PM
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Class Description: Cross-listed: WGST 326-01
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381 - 01: Modern Poetry in English
Fall 2012
Instructor: Golding, Alan
Meeting Times: MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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400-level classes for the Fall 2012 Semester (13 sections)
401 - 01: Honors Seminar
Fall 2012
Holy Men and Holy Women in Medieval Culture
Instructor: Rabin, Andrew
Meeting Times: TTH 2:30PM - 3:45PM
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Class Description: Works on saints, sainthood, and the holy life form one of the most diverse and influential bodies of literature surviving from the Middle Ages. In these texts-which range from the humorous and fantastical to the tragic and sublime-writers expressed their ideals and anxieties concerning medieval culture and their place within it. More than just biographies of exceptional individuals or prescriptions for ethical perfection, texts on holiness provided a means to explore issues of politics, social status, and gender identity. In this course, we will study a variety of such texts, including the Rule of St. Benedict, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, the Lives of the dog-headed St. Christopher and St. Euphrosyne the transvestite, the Little Flowers of St. Francis, and the trial of Joan of Arc. We will also consider how texts on saintliness influenced other forms of literature, particularly the Arthurian legends. As this is a discussion-based class, we will no doubt cover a wide variety of topics, and I strongly encourage students to bring their own intellectual interests into the classroom.
Special Notes: Cross-listed: HON 436-01: HON 446-01
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414 - 01: British Literature Shks Neocl – WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: TBA,
Meeting Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
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415 - 01: 19th Century British Literature - WR
Fall 2012
BEYOND THE GOTHIC (preferred title)
Instructor: Rosner, Mary
Meeting Times: TTH 8:00-9:15
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Class Description: Beyond the Gothic--a WR course. While Gothic fiction was very popular in the eighteenth-century, it did not disappear when that century ended but was revised in a number of ways.
To get our bearings, we will begin with definitions of the Gothic and 2 classic eighteenth-century Gothic novels, Walpole's A Castle of Otranto and Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance. But most of our attention will be on texts from the nineteenth century: Austen's Northanger Abbey, James' Washington Square, Polidori's The Vampyre, LeFanu's Carmilla, Doyle's The Parasite, The Fate of Fenella, maybe 1 other. As a requirement for the course, we all need to have the editions in common so we can refer easily to specifics we interpret. Because English 415 is a WR course, expect practice with MLA, regular informal and formal writing in-class and out-of-class, research practice.
Requirements: participation in an electronic discussion list, careful reading, enthusiastic participation in class discussion, reading quizzes, some practice in research and in MLA documentation, and work on your writing.
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417 - 01: Contemporary British/Post Colonial Writings
Fall 2012
Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture
Instructor: Clukey, Amy
Meeting Times: MWF 1:00PM - 1:50PM
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Class Description: This course will survey Irish literature since 1950. Writers may include: Patrick McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Edna O'Brien, Brian Moore, Sam Hanna Bell, Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, J.P. Donleavey, William Trevor, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Eavan Boland, Aidan Higgins, among others. Assignments will include: daily reading quizzes, two short papers (two pages each), a presentation, and a major research paper (preceded by a proposal and annotated bibliography).
Special Notes: Non-majors are welcome to enroll, but should be aware that the class will feature intensive reading and writing appropriate for an upper division literature course.
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419 - 01: American Literature 1830-1865
Fall 2012
Instructor: Mattingly, Carol
Meeting Times: TTH 9:30AM - 10:45AM
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Class Description: Course Description and Goals: The slavery issue in the U.S. was the most pressing in the 19th century, with repercussions we still experience. This seminar examines the conversations about U.S. slavery prior to the Civil War in a variety of genres in an effort to understand the workings of both pro- and anti-slavery proponents. We will read and discuss speeches, essays, poetry, treatises, narratives, and fiction influential in supporting or destroying slavery. By the end of the semester, you should:
- Recognize defining moments in the conversation about slavery
- Understand the primary arguments used to defend and oppose slavery
- Be familiar with a wide variety of literature participating in the slavery debate
- Understand the climate that provided the context for slavery literature
- Understand the impact of slave revolts and the rhetoric and literature surrounding them
- Be able to draw connections between early slavery rhetoric and contemporary rhetoric about race and other controversial issues
- Recognize the power and purpose of a variety of genres
- Write a variety of genres, including argumentative writing
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420 - 01: American Lit 1865-1910
Fall 2012
Instructor: Chandler, Karen
Meeting Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
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Class Description: This writing-intensive course will examine poetry, fiction, and other writing produced from 1865 to 1910. The course will focus on prominent literary methods, the proliferation of ethnic writing, and changing concepts of America during the period. Assigned writing may include work by Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, James, Chesnutt, Zitkala-Sa, Eastman, Jewett, Chopin, Eaton, Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, London, Marti, and Dunbar.
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422 - 75: American Literature 1960 to Present – WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: TBA
Meeting Times: MW 5:30PM - 6:45PM
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423 - 01: African-American Lit 1845-Present – WR
Fall 2012
Instructor: Anderson, David
Meeting Times: TTH 1:00PM - 2:15PM
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ENGL 450: Cooperative Internship in English Studies
Sections for the Fall 2012 Semester:
Instructor: Willey, Beth
Meeting Times: Variable
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Catalog Description: An individually-arranged course for an academic project cooperatively arranged with the student's employer. May not be used to fulfill minimum requirements for the English major; may be repeated for up to 6 hours of credit.
Prerequisites: : Overall 3.00 GPA in 60 credit hours (at least 24 at the University of Louisville); departmental GPA of 3.25 in at least 6 hours beyond freshman composition; ENGL 303, 306, or 309. An individually-arranged course for an academic project cooperatively.
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470 - 01: Renaissance City Comedy Writing: Canceled
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491 - 01: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present
Fall 2012
Instructor: TBA
Meeting Times: MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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491 - 02: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present
Fall 2012
Instructor: Hadley, Karen
Meeting Times: TTH 11:00AM - 12:15PM
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492 - 01: Special Topics Theory
Fall 2012
Alien Epistemologies
Instructor: Jaffe, Aaron
Meeting Times: TTH 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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500-level classes for the Fall 2012 Semester (12 sections)
501 - 01: Independent Study
Instructor: Variable
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Prerequisites: Overall average of 3.0, an average of 3.5 in the department, and at least 18 semester hours credit in the department.
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506 - : Teaching of Writing - WR
Instructor: Cross, Geoff
Meeting Times: TR 4-5:15pm
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Prerequisites:ENGL 309 or ENGL 310, or consent of instructor.
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506 - 75: Teaching of Writing - WR
Instructor: Cross, Geoff
Meeting Times: TTH 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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Prerequisites: ENGL 309 or ENGL 310, or consent of instructor.
Class Description: In introducing you to the teaching of writing this course focuses both upon 1) the nature of writing and 2) approaches to its teaching. In focusing upon the nature of writing, this course will introduce you to: basic rhetorical concepts, critical pertinent concepts from linguistics; cognitive theory of individual and group writing processes; tone; structure; logic; knowledge of the effect of dialects and the student's right to his/her own oral language; and the opportunity to improve your own writing through study, teaching, and practice.
In focusing upon the teaching of writing, this course will address planning lessons; sequencing assignments and planning units; classroom teaching; evaluating writing formatively and summatively,; evaluating tone, syntax, arrangement, format, and ideas; evaluating the teaching of others and oneself; and developing reflective practice.
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510 - 01: Grad Coop Internship MA Level
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Special Notes: This section requires permission from the Director of Graduate Studies.
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518 - 01: Foundations of Language
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Meeting Times: W 4:00-6:45 PM
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Class Description: Dr. Patton has not submitted a course description for this course, but you may look at other iterations of this course by clicking the link below or look at past terms.
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520 - 01: World Englishes
Instructor: Soldat-Jaffe, T
Meeting Times: MW 2:00-3:15PM
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Prerequisites:Junior standing
Class Description: English has rapidly spread throughout the world over the last few decades; it has replaced other (national) languages or taken the function of "the other" (additional) national language –a so-called intranational language. Why English? Is it just a historical accident? How can we understand the role of English in a foreign country if a (national) language is generally been used as a tool for unifying a nation, for establishing political boundaries, and for creating dissent. What do the different World English varieties have in common and how do they differ? We will explore how English varieties have their own sociological, linguistic, and literary manifestations in different countries, and we will investigate what the motivations and attitudes favoring the spread of English are. What is the perceived status of English? Is it an institutionalized or just a performance variety? And, last but not least, what is the difference between an international and a global language? Is it World Englishes or World English? This is a sociolinguistic course exploring the above questions in an interdisciplinary manner.
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522 - 01: Structure of Modern American English
Instructor: Stewart, Thomas
Meeting Times: TTH 11:00-12:15PM
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Class Description: Course Description and Objectives: This course is designed as a linguistic exploration of the various forms and combinations words, phrases, and sentences that contemporary speakers of English typically recognize as belonging to language, i.e. “English”.
To help in this exploration, students will:
- examine both popular and technical conceptions of “grammar”
- examine that variety of English referred to as Standard American (SAE)
- consider some of the ways in which one can vary from SAE and still be speaking English consider the role of situation, audience, etc., in determining “appropriate use”
- acquire terminology and methods that permit clear description of English grammar
- collect real-life examples of actual English usage for detailed description
- identify and monitor trends in English usage to evaluate “changes in progress”
Required Textbook:
Kersti Börjars & Kate Burridge. 2010. Introducing English Grammar. 2nd ed. London: Hodder. ISBN: 978-1444109870.
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551 - : Animal Studies (Special Topics in Literature in English)
Instructor: Ridley, Glynis
Meeting Times: MWF 10:00-10.50 a.m.
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Class Description: ENGL 551-01 Special Topics: Animal Studies.
Please note: this course meets the 1700-1900 literature requirement at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
What is Animal Studies? In 1975, Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation provided a sustained – and highly controversial – engagement with questions about man’s treatment of non-human animals. The book is widely held to be a foundational text for the modern animal rights movement, and it is this movement that many – wrongly – assume to be the sole focus of Animal Studies. Certainly the questions that Singer poses in his book are inescapable in the field, but discussion of bio-ethics and modern agri-business is by no means the entirety of the discipline, which touches upon subjects as diverse as Art History, Cultural Studies, History, History of Science, Law, Literature and Philosophy. In the last decade, scholars working in every period of literature have begun to ask questions about the representation of animals. Their role in the medieval bestiary or the fable seems obvious, but even here, the gulf between a particular species and its artistic or literary representation can be a wide one. Indeed, many of the most famous species of the bestiary (such as the dragon or unicorn) have generated their own field of crypto-zoology (the description of - and lore surrounding - animals that do not exist). Given such a vast field, any course must therefore necessarily be selective, not simply in terms of texts, but with regard to the branch of Animal Studies explored.
The course will take as its focus the representation of animals in literature of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The class will read seminal modern works in the field of Animal Studies, such as Singer’s Animal Liberation, but we will apply these modern concerns to consideration of the representation of animals in an earlier age. The 18th and 19th centuries are chosen as a pivotal in man’s engagement with the natural world due to several factors including: the doubling of the number of known animal species in the first half of the 18th century (largely as a result of imperial exploration); Bakewell’s manipulation of the bodies of livestock animals at New Dishley; the trial of animals during the period, for crimes including treason and murder; and the rise of the indoor dog and cat, sharing its owner’s food and domestic accommodation. It is the latter development that, perhaps more than any other, drives the 18th century development of experiments with point of view, so that by the time of Kendall’s Keeper’s Travels (1798), an author attempts to take his readers inside the mind of a dog, showing its experience of a wide range of recognizably human emotions. The course will include time spent in Special Collections in the Ekstrom Library, working with Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie and examining its representation of the natural world.
Primary texts studied will include (but are not limited to):
Francis Coventry, The Adventures of Pompey the Little (1751)
Dorothy Kilner, The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1783)
Sarah Trimmer, Fabulous Histories (1786)
Edward Augustus Kendall,Keeper’s Travels (1798)
Secondary material discussed in class will include the following (some of which may be assigned as extracts):
Thomas Nagel, “What is it like to be a Bat?” (1979)
Frank Palmeri, Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2006)
Harriet Ritvo, The Platypus and the Mermaid (1997)
Kathryn Shevelow, For the Love of Animals (2008)
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (1975)
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551 - A: A survey of first books (Special Topics in Literature in English)
Instructor: Petrosino, Courteney
Meeting Times: MW 4pm-5:15pm
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Class Description: ENGL 551: A Survey of First Books (Special Topics in Literature and English) A survey of contemporary Anglophone poetry, with a reading list composed of the debut or "breakthrough" collections of seminal poets. Students will explore the special nature of “first books” and trace commonalities in theme, structure, organization, and urgency across a diverse reading list. Written work will range from critical essays to creative assignments in which students may choose to explore their own poetry projects. This course should be of value to students who are interested in expanding their scholarly knowledge of contemporary poetry, and to students who would like to devote a semester to starting or advancing an original manuscript. Successful students will enter the course with some familiarity in close reading/literary analysis; creative writers of all skill levels are welcome to join.
[Note: This course requires from each student significant commitments to reading and writing.
Consistent attendance is also required. Students must observe all deadlines noted in the syllabus.]
Special Notes:
Texts (ordered as of April 2012. Subject to change pending availability. All texts will be stocked at the
University of Louisville Bookstore):
1. Ginsberg, Allen. Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, etc. Harper Perennial, 2006. ISBN-10: 0061137456.
2. McCrae, Shane. Mule. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010. Paperback. ISBN-10: 1880834936.
3. O’Hara, Frank. Meditations in an Emergency. Grove Press, 1996. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0802134521.
4. Olds, Sharon. Satan Says. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0822953145.
5. Plath, Sylvia. The Colossus. Vintage, 1998. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0375704469.
6. Rankine, Claudia. Nothing in Nature is Private. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1994. ISBN-10: 188083409X.
7. Reddy, Srikanth. Facts for Visitors. University of California Press, 2004. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0520240448.
8. Richards, Peter. Oubliette. Wave Books, 2001. ISBN-10: 0970367228.
9. Schiff, Robyn. Worth. University of Iowa Press, 2002. Paperback. ISBN-10: 0877458200.
10. Stanford, Frank. The Singing Knives. Lost Road Publishers, 2008. Paperback. ISBN-10: 091878655X.
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563 - : Milton
Instructor: Billingsley, Dale
Meeting Times: TR 7pm-8:15pm
Room: Strickler 111
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English 563: Milton
Fall 2012, Tuesday and Thursday 7-8:15 pm
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 or 105; Junior standing
Class Description: Intensive reading of Paradise Lost, with collateral readings in the Milton's prose and other poetry as well as secondary criticism.
Graded course work includes regular contributions to a Blackboard discussion group, assigned reviews of current secondary criticism, occasional brief in-class exercises, and a long paper. For graduate credit, students will also compile an annotated bibliography.
Text: John Milton: The Major Works, ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg (Oxford, 2003).
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567 - : Post-Colonial Voices: Writing Experience in African Literature - WR
Instructor: Willey, Beth
Meeting Times: TR 1-2:15pm
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Prerequisites: ENGL 102 or 105; Junior standing.
Class Description: In this class, we will be investigating the use of music as a trope in recent and contemporary African novels and films. From its use to invoke diasporic connections, "traditional" inheritance, or semiotic resitance to semantics of governance, music figures in complexly layered and overdetermined ways in contemporary African cultural products. We will be looking at novels such as Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins, short stories such as Emmanuel Dongala's New York jazz series from Jazz and Palm Wine, poems from Leopold Sedar Senghor, or Senegalese filmmaker Joseph Gai Ramaka's film "Karmen Gei," a reinterpretations of Bizet's opera "Carmen."
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599 - : Literature of Migration (Advanced Studies in English)
Instructor: Chandler, Karen
Meeting Times: MWF 11? noon? TBD
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Prerequisites: ENGL 310; Junior standing
Class Description: ENG 599--Special Topic: Literature of Migration. This course will survey fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama about individuals’ migration to the United States from the nineteenth century up to the present. The texts focus on portraying life in an adopted world, and in doing so, they suggest how earlier experience in another land has molded the protagonists and prepared for life in America. Migration is both physical and psychological, and the texts treat this complicated experience in interesting ways.
One objective of this course will be familiarizing students with formal and thematic features within this literature. The class will explore questions raised in particular works, questions pertaining to identity, tradition and cultural memory, sense of place, ideas of community, and ideas of America. Another objective of the course will be to offer students the opportunity to explore ways writers used these texts to situate and define themselves within American society. Another goal will be familiarizing students with aesthetic, national, and ethnic influences from writers’ native cultures that inform their texts.
Required texts may include works by Bernard Malamud, Bienvenido Santos, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Gene Luen Yang, Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Chang-Rae Lee. Critical works by Werner Sollors, Carinne Mardorossian, Gustave Firmat Perez, José Saldívar, Kate Capshaw Smith, and others will complement our reading of the literature.
