Undergraduate Literature Courses Summer 2009

ENGL 3333.211  Short Story / Walkiewicz
MTWRF 1130AM-220PM. CID11584
As we trace the evolution of short fiction over the course of the past one hundred and fifty years, we’ll encounter Satanists in Colonial New England, a recovering alcoholic expatriate in Paris, and a platoon of “grunts” on patrol in Vietnam. We’ll also view a cinematic adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead. Students’ final grades will be determined by their performance on three weekly examinations and their participation in class discussion.

ENGL 3363.211  Readings in Drama  / Wallen
MTWRF 1130AM-220PM. CID14923   
For anyone who ever wondered why people would stick needles in their eyes or bite their tongues off, this just might be the class for you.  What could be a better means of passing the month of May than to read about Greeks going mad, Romans getting drunk, and English having visions?  And in case you were worried, everything shall be very, very wholesome.

ENGL 3813.231  Readings in the American Experience / Frohock   
MTWR 0900-1140AM. CID14924206
In this class we will study a wide variety of crime and crime narratives, from the colonial era to the development of crime fiction in the 19th century. Topics will include the New England witch trials, piracy, religious “crimes” of dissent, and cannibalism.  Writers include Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne.  We will also read theories of criminality and some samples of contemporary literary criticism to aid us in our study of legally and culturally transgressive acts.  Assignments will likely include short papers, exams, and a presentation.

ENGL 4723.231  Shakespeare / Walker
MTWR 1200-0240PM. CID11585305
Explore Shakespearean comedy (especially the comedies of remarriage), with an eye as to how we (and some Hollywood filmmakers) view life through the comic lens (as opposed to the tragic lens) and use it as a mode of representing human experience. The concern will be with comedy as a mode of vision and with the resources of comedy (wit, humor, satire, irony, parody) which, in their various ways, implement that vision.

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