Maymester

ENGL 4039: Critical Studies in English

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ENGL 4039: Critical Studies in English Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/13/2020 - 17:47

Uncommon Arrangements: Love in Modernist Fiction

This seminar will examine the representation of love and relationships in modernist novels published between 1910-1945, a period spanning the two world wars in which a radically new order of gender, sexuality, and class relations coincided with innovations in literary representation. We will look closely at a range of affectionate relationships including: traditional marriage, unconventional domestic arrangements, same-sex couplings, friendship, childlike relationships, and creative attachments of emotional or political necessity. Beginning with some early essays and short stories on the topic of love and romance, we will generate a series of problems and questions in order to ask: Did the sexual frankness of the moderns contribute to cultural stability or disorder? Do unconventional arrangements work? How is romantic experimentation depicted? Can betrayal be channeled into something that strengthens the tie between people? Is it possible that some extraordinary arrangements are more enduring than ordinary marriage? By exploring such questions we will attempt to understand why the topic of love was such an enduring source of cultural fascination for modernist writers.

Taught by Jane Garrity ONLINE during Maymester (May 11 - May 29, 2020).

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ENGL 3164: History & Literature of Georgian Britain

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ENGL 3164: History & Literature of Georgian Britain Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/13/2020 - 17:37

Augmester

The historical period known as Georgian England runs from 1714-1830. That period encompassed a time of extraordinary change: Great Britain has by 1800 arguably become the most powerful nation in the world; it had gained an empire in the new world that it then lost with the American Revolution; cities (especially London) grew explosively; the IGeorgian England is a dynamic moment in British history. It covers the literature, life, and history during the reign of four King Georges (1714-1830). It was a time of the revival of Greek classicism’s serenity and in contrast a time of explosive revolutions. It begins with conservative ideas and values and ends with radical ones which challenge conventional gender constructions, social hierarchies, slavery, women’s rights, and tyranny. Nature and Poetry reign supreme!

Possible texts include novels by Austen and Mary Shelley and poetry by Finch, Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley.

Taught by John Stevenson ONLINE during August 3 - August 20, 2020.

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ENGL 2058-001: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Maymester, Summer 2019)

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ENGL 2058-001: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Maymester, Summer 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/17/2018 - 16:35

Jeremy Green

“For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write. Some one of the grotesques had made a deep impression on his mind and he wanted to describe it.” (Sherwood Anderson, “The Book of the Grotesque”)

Many American writers have been moved by the impulse that grips Anderson’s old man. What is the grotesque and why has it dominated the work of so many twentieth and twenty-first-century writers? In this course we will try to find out. Our reading will include fiction and poetry by William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Toomer, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Paley, and Karen Russell.

Please contact me for further information (Jeremy.Green@��ֱ��.EDU).

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