Courses for Spring 2009

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ENGL 674: Bibliographical Methods: This course—labeled the world over as “bib methods”—is designed to put the methods and materials of literary research into perspective and to use.
ENGL 676: Critical Approaches to Literature: This course will introduce students to issues in critical theory through the use of film study.
ENGL 761/861 Topics in American Literature before 1870: Literature of Abolition and Women’s Rights: We will read works written from the 1830s through the end of the nineteenth century, with some emphasis on the 1850s.
ENGL 762/862 Realism and Naturalism in American Fiction: The course will examine representative writings of the American realists and naturalists from 1880 to 1945, including local colorists and muckrakers.
ENGL 764/864 Topics in British Literature since 1660: Hogs, Logs, and Bogs: British Perceptions of America in the Nineteenth Century: This course will trace British impressions of American culture in order to trace the status of Anglo-American relations during the nineteenth century.
ENGL 765/865 Topics in Literature as Genre: Poetry: This course will be grounded in the practice of close and creative reading and will move students towards an appreciation for the contemporary conversation about poetry.
ENGL 766/866 Topics in Comparative Literature: Paired Thematic Novels and Plays in U.S. and Irish Literatures: This course will serve well students interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature and also students drawn to major Irish authors of the same period.

ENGL 772/872: Postcolonial and American Multiethnic Women’s Literature: This class introduces the diverse, dynamic and empowering literary traditions of the twentieth-century Anglophone Postcolonial and American Multiethnic (Asian American, American Indian, Latina American, and African-American) Women’s Literatures.
ENGL 773/873 Intertext and Intrahistory: The Novel in the Américas: Explore the intertextual and historical relationships of American, Latin-American, and transnational narratives as they attempt to represent the vast array of subjects and citizens of the Americas in a postmodern/postcolonial context.
ENGL 797/897 Independent Seminar: Independent Seminar provides an opportunity to pursue interests not accommodated by course offerings.
ENGL 955 History of Criticism: This course will be not so much a history of ideas as an exploration of those significant cultural conflicts which have produced the society, the disciplines, and the vocabulary with which we describe ourselves and our literature.
ENGL 956: Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer: In this course, we will explore major intellectual formations of literary theory and practice from the late nineteenth century to the present.
ENGL 984 Seminar in British Literature: Psychological Approaches to Renaissance Literature: Psychological approaches to literature continue to fascinate and unpack whole new ways of viewing and interpreting literature.
ENGL 763/863: Middle English Classics: Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain-Poet: The primary course goal will be gaining strong reading proficiency in the various dialects of Middle English, including Chaucer’s “standard” dialect.

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