Spring 2008 Graduate Literature Courses
ENGL 5013. 001 - Intro to Graduate Studies / Walker
MWF 1:30-2:20. CID 12828 Methods of research from bibliography, to book reviewing, to textual editing.
ENGL 5480. 351 - Seminar in Modern Lit: Ulysses in Context / Walkiewicz
TR 12:30-1:45. CID 18095 The seminar will focus on one "primary" work: James Joyce's Ulysses. We will read Ulysses as a product of early twentieth-century European culture and/or as an epitome of the modernist aesthetic and/or as a post-colonialist text, etc. We will also investigate the ways in which what we learn reading Ulysses can be applied to other texts. At the same time, we will use the reception/interpretation of Ulysses as a means of attempting to track the courses of twentieth-century literary/critical history. Seminar presentation/paper, term paper, midterm, final.
ENGL 5630. 001 - Seminar in Early American Lit: Crime & Narrative in Early American Culture / Frohock
MWF 10:30-11:20. CID 18097 In this seminar we will study a wide variety of crime and crime narratives, from the beginning of the colonial era to the emergence of crime fiction in the early 19th century. Topics we will cover may be as diverse as the New England witch trials, Caribbean piracy, religious “crimes” of dissent (figures like Thomas Morton, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson), “crimes” of sexual conduct, infanticide, and cannibalism. Readings will include venerable classics (sections from Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation to stories of Edgar Allen Poe) as well as some less familiar examples of the early criminal biography. In addition to primary material, we will work through theories of criminality, such as those articulated by Durkheim and Foucault, and samples of contemporary literary criticism to aid us in our study of legally and culturally transgressive acts.
ENGL 6220. 351 - Seminar in Genre: History and the Novel from Defoe to DeLillo. / Mayer
T 4:30-7:10. CID 12935 The class will treat major works from the British and the American traditions that focus in one way or another on the nexus of fiction and history in the novel. Writers will include: Defoe, Scott, Cooper, Conrad, Dos Passos, Woolf, Doctorow, and DeLillo. We will also spend several weeks discussing theoretical considerations of the fiction-history link by such writers as Lukacs, Ricoeur, and Hutcheon. Reports, weekly short papers, discussion, seminar paper.
ENGL 6250. 001 - Seminar in Race, Region & Gender: White & Right in Oklahoma / Mason
W 6:45-9:30. CID 12937 Seminar in Race, Region & Gender: White & Right in Oklahoma is a graduate-level introduction to critical studies of whiteness in the context of three episodes of Oklahoma history: the Tulsa race riot of 1921, the mid-century rise and fall of the Tulsa-based Christian Crusade, and the 1995 bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. In addition to films (eg. Birth of a Nation, Blackboard Jungle) and fiction (eg. The Turner Diaries), we will consider scholarship that theorizes race, gender, sexuality, narrative, American literature, right-wing movements, and millennialism. Contingent upon logistics, we will visit sites in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, as well as the Wilcox Collection of Political Movements in the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas.
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