Spring 2010 Graduate Literature Courses
ENGL 5013.001 Intro to Grad Studies / Mayer
CID 12997 TR 3:30-4:45
Topics include research methods, textual scholarship, poetics, interpretation, critical theory, literary history, scholarly forms, and professionalization. Active participation, weekly projects and assignments, and a final paper.
ENGL 5480.001 Seminar in Modern Literature: Modernist Fiction / Grubgeld
CID 19362 W 0645PM-0930PM
This course will consider three novels (Ford, Keane, Bowen) and three collections of short fiction (Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence) in terms of both formal considerations—particularly plot structure, time, and narrative perspective--and wider cultural problems such as class tensions, ethnic and gender identities, the idea of nation, and the concept of the modern. Essays by the writers whose fiction we are studying (in addition to other writers such as James, Forster and Woolf) will inform this discussion, as will selections from narrative theory and cultural studies of the period.
ENGL 5660.001 Seminar in American Literature, 19th Century: Bestsellers
and the History of the Book / Walker
CID 18785 TR 1230PM-0145PM
Seduction, betrayal, murder, moral outrage, mystery, and romance are the narrative engines of American’s most popular bestsellers, often published as series, serials, sequels, and subscriptions. What texts were popular and why? What is the nature of the book and the role of the author, the publisher, and the reader? How did the idea of authorship (and copyright) develop? What can our reading of the book (a historie du livre) tell us about the society that produced and then by the millions, consumed them?
ENGL 6220.351 Seminar in Genre: Georgics--Wendell Berry & Beyond /
Eldevik
CID 13103 MWF 1230PM-0120PM
Everyone knows that, traditionally, Virgil's earliest and latest works validated the pastoral genre and the epic genre respectively. But what are we to make of the fact that Virgil's second work, The Georgics, was a poem about farming? In America today, celebrated farmer/writer Wendell Berry best exemplifies continuing developments in the georgic genre. During the centuries in between come major British writers such as Langland, Dryden, and Addison, plus the early American classic Letters from an American Farmer by Crevecoeur and, in both countries, numerous 19th/20th-century poets and novelists. Film students take note: also included in this seminar is the French cinematic milestone La Terre, with opportunities to explore other georgic works for the screen as well.
ENGL 6250.001 Seminar in Race, Region, or Gender: Journeys and Arrests
in Postcolonial Thought / Rizzuto
CID 13104 M 0430PM-0710PM
This course examines how the figure of journey structures and is problematized by literary, theoretical, and philosophical works. We will consider theories of textuality and ethico-politics that address this issue through the lenses of cosmopolitanism, translation, globalization, and to a lesser extent, migration. Literature includes Caribbean and African novels by Head, Coetzee, Selvon, and Rhys; theoretical and philosophical works by Kant, Arendt, Derrida, Cheah, Balibar, Irigaray among others.
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College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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