Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3091 Section 001: The Literature and Film of Baseball (52930)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
Course Catalog Description:
The study of baseball writing by genre including poetry, novel, essay, memoir, and film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?farbe004+ENGL3091+Spring2017
Class Description:
This course fulfills the Literature core requirement.

The literature of baseball takes the game as a microcosm of society, usually explicitly, sometimes implicitly. The philosophy of how our society actually works, however, varies widely from text to text. In the class we work through how it is that some (e.g. Giamatti, Kinsella) look at the game and see the contradictions of a society based on individualism and communities of difference worked out in an ideal form of what the country is; while others (e.g. Kahn, Greenberg) see it as place far from perfect but much to be loved; while others (e.g. Bouton) see it as replication of our society in a darker sense, with its clear inequities of class, race and sex; while others (e.g. Malamud) see it more darkly still, as a society that promises success but allows only failure. In exploring various views of a single society we consider the place of the subject and how it can make the same experience appear differently.


Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52930/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
7 October 2015

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