Fall 2007 Graduate Literature Courses

ENGL 5093.351 Milton, Politics, and the American Founding Fathers / Jones
MWF 10:30-11:20 310 M Milton has always been admired more in America than in England. This course will look at the ostensible reasons why: his expression of republican notions in his prose writing of the 1640s and 1650s and Paradise Lost. In tracing Milton's ideas of authority and state from the execution of Charles I to the restoration of his son, this course will also consider how his poetry and prose were read, admired, and put to very different uses by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 1 seminar paper, 1 presentation, 1 exam, and 1 tutorial.
CID 18311

ENGL 5163.001 Middle English Literature: Canon & Culture / Price, M.
TR 10:30-11:45 208 M We will read a number of Middle English texts, including both the frequently and the infrequently anthologized, in order to open up discussion on high and popular culture in the Middle Ages and today. Students will be expected to make presentations and lead discussion on their chosen text. Assessment includes translation assignments, a presentation, and a research paper.
CID 18313

ENGL 5660.351 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville / Decker
MWF 9:30-10:20 310 M We will read major works of Douglass and Melville (along with selections from Jacobs, Walker, Whitman, and Thoreau) in an effort to understand black and white canonical literature within multiethnic, national, and transnational frames of reference. One critical review, one seminar paper, and a final examination.
CID 18317

ENGL 6220.351 Seminar in Genre - Literature and Disability Studies / Grubgeld
MWF 12:30-1:20 310 M Working with theories of the body drawn from gender studies, postcolonialism, material rhetoric, theology, legal writing, and autobiography and narrative theory, the course will analyze representations of the disabled body from a wide variety of sources, including performance art and new media as well as traditional genres such as fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry. Readings will be taken primarily, although not exclusively, from the 20th century, but students are welcome to pursue a seminar topic in the area of their specialization. Book list available on request.
CID 13066

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