Oklahoma State University Graduate Programs in English
Literature Course Offerings for Spring 2007
ENGL 5013.001 CID 20140 Introduction to Grad Studies : Literature/Jones.
MWF 11:30am-12:20pm 102M. Methods of research from bibliography, to book reviewing, to textual editing.
ENGL 5680.351 CID 20187 Seminar in Contemporary Literature/Fitz
TTh 2:00pm-3:15pm 310M. We will read closely and discuss the fiction of contemporary writers from a rainbow of cultural backgrounds. Writers and texts will include Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart; Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go; Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies; Diane Glancy, Flutie; J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello; Ha Jin, War Trash; Julia Alvarez, How the Garcίa Girls Lost Their Accents; V. S. Naipaul, Half a Life; and Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain. The goal of this seminar is for each participant to produce an essay which, with some reworking, would be submitted to a scholarly journal.
ENGL 6220.351 CID 20244 Seminar in Genre/Eldevik
MWF 12:30-1:20pm 310M. The 16th-century text The Mirror for Magistrates has lent its name to a widespread and long-lasting literary genre (also known as the "princes' mirror" genre) that provides advice and models of correct conduct for the ruling class, both lords and ladies. We shall explore "princes' mirror" texts across a thousand years of English literature, from Beowulf to the 18th-century novel Sir Charles Grandison, with side excursions to works from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, China, India, and Central Asia. Special option for Old English students to read Beowulf in the original; modern translation of Beowulf will be used by other students.
ENGL 6240.001 CID 25189 Studies in Literature/Austin
TTh 12:30-1:45pm 310M. Literature and memory. A study of the representation of memory and its various forms and contexts (spatial memory, nostalgia, mourning) in nineteenth and twentieth-century texts, including Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tennyson’s In Memoriam, Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, and Proust’s Swann’s Way. Some theoretical material from the two centuries as well.
ENGL 6250.001 CID 25190 Seminar in Race, Region, Gender/Smith
MWF 2:30-3:20pm 307M. For American Indian authors, being “in place” is significant, and specific locations are often invested with religious or ritual importance. At the same time, these locations are not pristine vistas removed from activities of humans; urban spaces, reservations, or places in-between are all a part of American Indian environments. Over the course of the semester, we will determine how Native ideas about the environment are unique, answering the following questions: How do these ideas differ from stereotypes of American Indians as spiritual caretakers of the Earth? What role does environmental justice play in American Indian texts? What role does folklore play in American Indian relationships to the natural world?
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College of Arts & Sciences
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