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Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3960W Section 001: Senior Seminar -- Sensational Fiction at the Fin de Siècle (65054)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 155
Course Catalog Description:
Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major adviser approval, dept consent
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lcucullu+ENGL3960W+Spring2017
Class Description:

"Sensational Fiction at the Fin de Siècle" From 1886 to the end of the century, a series of characters burst onto the literary scene and soon gained iconic status at home and abroad - Jekyll and Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Salomé, Kurtz, and Dracula. This course examines these eccentric figures and the fictional works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, and Bram Stoker in which they first appear to better understand this transformative period in literary and cultural history. What material conditions, technological innovations, and cultural changes fueled this unprecedented eruption of unconventional figures? What role did science play as its secular disposition pressed against religious orthodoxies, whether in its methodology or in the new knowledge being produced around questions of degeneration, urbanization, and madness? And to what can we attribute the longevity of these figures? We shall consider the cultural moment of each and the impact of this subgenre on readers and audiences near and far as these characters continue to haunt the purlieus of popular and high culture more than a hundred years later.

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65054/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 September 2016

Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3960W Section 002: Senior Seminar -- Contemporary Poets and British Romantic Poetry (65055)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Amundson Hall 124
Course Catalog Description:
Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major adviser approval, dept consent
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?goldb016+ENGL3960W+Spring2017
Class Description:
Contemporary Poets and British Romantic Poetry:
We'll begin with a reading, or re-reading, of a dozen or so major Romantic works by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats, and we will then consider the way a selection of 20th- and 21st-century poets have responded to this body of material. The latter group is yet to be finalized but will include William Butler Yeats, Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, and Jorie Graham.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65055/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 October 2016

Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3960W Section 003: Senior Seminar -- Race, Subjectivity and Legibility in US Literature (65056)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Amundson Hall 120
Course Catalog Description:
Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major adviser approval, dept consent
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cpexa+ENGL3960W+Spring2017
Class Description:
Race, Subjectivity, and Legibility in US Literature: This seminar will examine literature written by Native American and African American authors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Together we will read a body of work for what it can reveal about how authors such as Mourning Dove, Charles Eastman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Sutton Griggs, among others, used a variety of literary forms to make legible some of the everyday forms of native and black life that had been obscured by totalizing stories of race. Just as importantly, we will read for how these authors, while negotiating their publicness, also withheld local ways of knowing, being, and doing, and so practiced for themselves and their communities what Kevin Quashie has called "the sovereignty of quiet." Theoretical readings will include Quashie's The Sovereignty of Quiet, and excerpts from Eve Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet, Philip Deloria's Indians in Unexpected Places, and Saba Mahmood's The Politics of Piety.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65056/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 October 2016

Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3960W Section 004: Senior Seminar -- Spectatorship and Medieval Drama (65057)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 01:10PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 118
Course Catalog Description:
Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major adviser approval, dept consent
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?krugx001+ENGL3960W+Spring2017
Class Description:
Spectatorship and Medieval Drama:

In this seminar we will read a selection of medieval English plays (texts might include morality plays such as Mankind and Everyman; Corpus Christi plays including the Towneley Second Shepherd's Pageant and the York Crucifixion; and saints plays such as the Digby Mary Magdalene). Our goal will be to study the plays and performance history closely in order to come to new understandings of drama's effect on audiences. The seminar paper for the course will combine theater history and literary analysis with creative and theoretical approaches to the study of reception. Plays are largely from the fifteenth century and written in a very late version of Middle English. Students do not need to have taken a course in medieval literature to enroll in this seminar but must be willing to read and pronounce Middle English (easily picked up over the course of the semester).
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65057/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 September 2016

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