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English Graduate Courses Spring 2007

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ENGL 4603 World Englishes

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 3603W; meets Lib Ed req of International Perspect Theme; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive)
66450 -001 WKS, 06:20 P.M. - 08:50 P.M., W (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 315, TCEASTBANK, Escure, Genevieve J, 4 credits
The “English Only” movement in the U.S. considers that English is endangered because of the large recent immigration of non-English speakers, who now constitute a substantial portion of the population. But English-only measures are akin to declaring crabgrass an endangered species. Indeed, English has become a global lingua franca, thus carving a niche besides— rather than in competition with—local languages. As it spread, English underwent extensive diversification that reflected local, ethnic and national identities, which justifies the plural “Englishes.” We will examine the wide range of structural and functional variation represented in the use of English on various continents. As a pidgin or a creole (in Atlantic and Pacific regions), English has incorporated African or Melanasian influences. As a contact vernacular (in Singapore, or with African Americans), it has become a marker of ethnic or national identity. As a trade or business language, often learned as a second language (e.g., Indian English, or Hong Kong English) it reflects phonological and syntactic features of native local languages. The course includes a theoretical, as well as an empirical component. The current status of current linguistic and sociolinguistic research is reviewed, and theoretical models for analyzing language variability are briefly outlined and evaluated.

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ENGL 4613 Old English II

(Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: ENGL 5613; prereq 3612, 3613, 4612; credit will not be granted if credit has been received for ENGL 5613)
66451-001 DIS, 09:45 A.M. - 11:00 A.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 217, TCEASTBANK, Scheil, Andrew, 3 credits
The second semester of Old English is devoted to a full translation and study of the great Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf." J.R.R. Tolkien wrote of the poem that "its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote." "Beowulf" is an exciting tale of strife and heroism; but it is also a subtle meditation upon the character of humanity as it struggles to understand the hazards of a harsh world, the inscrutability of fate, and the nature of history itself. "Beowulf" is not only important for a detailed understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture, but it is also a significant and moving poetic achievement in the context of world literature. We will read and translate the poem in the original Old English; thus ENGL 4612 (or a similar course resulting in a basic reading knowledge of Old English) is a prerequisite. "Beowulf" has been the object of intensive scholarly study; we will delve into the debates over the poem's date, genesis, manuscript and historical context and critical interpretation. Spending an entire semester studying one complex work can be an invaluable experience. Please contact the instructor for any questions concerning the prerequisite.

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ENGL 4722 Alphabet to Internet: History of Writing Technologies

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 3633)
59617 -001 DIS, 02:30 P.M. - 03:45 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), FordH B80, TCEASTBANK, Hancher, Michael, 4 credits, 8 seat(s) reserved for graduate student
Technologies of writing—the alphabet, handwriting, printing, and electronic text— and their cognitive and social consequences. Topics include writing and memory; literacy, power, and control; printing, language, and national identity; alphabetization and other ways of ordering the world; secrecy, privacy, and publicity; typography, legibility, and design; theories of technological determinism; the future of reading after the internet. Readings will range from Homer and Plato to Wikipedia, Facebook, and the most recent issue of Wired magazine.

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ENGL 5002 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

(prereq grad or instr consent)
61499 -001 LEC, 12:45 P.M. - 03:15 P.M., Th  (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Brennan, Timothy, 3 credits, 15 seat(s) reserved for English grad student
This is an introduction to contemporary literary and cultural theory. The goal is to give you a foundation in theory’s terminologies, the different methodologies used in literary and cultural analysis, and a sense of the various schools of criticism that have developed in the postwar period. There is no effort here to present a specific case for the history of theory or to argue on behalf of one critical school. On the contrary, the ideal outcome is for you to learn about as wide a range of theoretical positions as possible in a single semester. Apart from discussing specific textual and cultural problems, we will investigate the work of well-known thinkers themselves. We will attempt to understand and, if possible, master their most characteristic styles of argument without necessarily internalizing their lessons in a subservient way.

In recognition of our uneven levels of training, the course has been set up to accommodate the greatest number of you while retaining the goal of rigorous intellectual preparation. We will work through individual chapters from the anthology, Critical Terms for Literary Study. These chapters correspond to basic problematics such as  “representation,” “value,” “class,” "imperialism," "ideology" and “desire.” The anthology has been designed to present this deceptively simple material in everyday language. It largely succeeds in this effort, but does not always provide adequate information or interpretation on important subjects. For this reason, we will often supplement its chapters with essays from a course packet. The packet is also intended to introduce students to the seminal work of theorists who defined fields of inquiry rather than merely commented on those fields at a later date. We will therefore read essays from the course packet so that they correspond to these chapters; or when necessary, the essays from the packet will replace chapters in the anthology that are not well-done. Often the readings will not merely illustrate the chapters, but go significantly beyond them. Some of those we will read, apart from the obvious, are: Saussure, Volosinov, Williams, Butler, Althusser, Bourdieu, Badiou, de Lauretis, Zizek, Negri, Jameson, Said. There will be quizzes, a mid-term essay exam and a final essay of 15-20 pages.

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ENGL 5090 Readings in Special Subjects

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: ENGL 5100; prereq grad student or instr consent )
64111-001 LEC, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 207A, TCEASTBANK, Damon, Maria, Writing the Body (Politic/s), 4 credits.
Although the phrase "writing the body" has been overused to the point of exhaustion, there is merit in returning to the topic through a discussion of style and form as well as content and intent. We will look at the work of writers such as Kathy Acker, Jean Genet, Adeena Karasick, Carla Harryman, Kenny Goldsmith and others to ask what exactly is writing, and what/whose body speaks/writes. There may be a "workshop" component but it will consist more of in-class writing exercises or spontaneous assignments.
Meets with: ENGW 5130 section 001

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ENGL 5110 Readings in Middle English Literature and Culture

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5210; prereq Grad student or instr consent )
61503-001 LEC, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., M (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 302, TCEASTBANK, Krug, Rebecca L, Women in the Middle Ages, 3 credits
In this course we will study the amazing range of life experiences recorded in writing by and about medieval women. We will, for example, read Chaucer's Troilus, a poem about a widow who falls in love with a knight and then "betrays" him; Margery Kempe's Book, a prose narrative about a woman who goes on pilgrimages, has visionary experiences, and confronts Church authorities; Margaret Paston's letters, correspondence written to her family and business associates describing gossip, business, and legal actions; and Christine de Pisan's City of Ladies, which offers an extended discussion of women's roles in medieval society.
Meets with: MEST 3610 section 003, ENGL 3110 section 001

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ENGL 5200 Readings in American Literature

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; prereq Grad student or instr consent ; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5120)
66476-001 LEC, 12:20 P.M. - 02:50 P.M., M  (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 229, TCEASTBANK, Griffin, Edward M, The Colonial & Early National Periods, 3 credits
A few years ago a young professor lamented in an article that his students lamented that early American material doesn’t have enough “Rambo action.” As far as I am concerned, however, colonial and early American literature is all Rambo action. Conflict, adventure, disaster, close calls, and fierce disputes over big, important ideas dominate the intellectual landscape; for more than two hundred years, eccentrics, wags, scoundrels, slaves, geniuses, heroes, saints and villains—male, female, red, white, black—pop up all over the seacoasts, plantations, and forests. I do not consider this period a mere warm-up for “the real stuff” in the nineteenth-century. We haven’t yet even read all this writing. Much of it lies buried in archives or in the Wilson Library sub-basement, where we keep the old books. This course takes us hurriedly across that landscape, and along the way it will also take you into the basement of Wilson Library and to your computer, for in the past couple of years various companies have been remarkably busy scanning these texts and making them available on-line. Consequently, no longer must you attend a university on the banks of Charles River in order to have access to the primary materials. I presume that the students in this course don’t arrive with a working knowledge of the early American field but that they sense that they need one; hence, 5200 is a “readings” course functioning as a grad-level, rapid survey. Inevitably, we’ll mix history and literature, and we’ll also look at paintings. In this kind of survey I don’t demand a traditional “critical” graduate seminar paper. Instead, you’ll have a steady reading load, some quizzes, plenty of discussion, and a research project requiring you to dig out some primary sources and make sense of them. At the end of the semester, you should have encountered some genuine Rambo action while gaining a good purchase on the writing, chiefly in English, produced in North America from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. (Our terminal point will be about 1835.)

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ENGL 5630 Theories of Writing and Writing Instruction

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5630; prereq Grad student or instr consent)
60142-001 DIS, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., M (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Flash, Pamela, 3 credits
In this seminar we examine writing instruction as it is (and can be) practiced in a variety of academic disciplines. Students consider writing processes (invention, drafting, revision) and major theories of writing pedagogy (from ancient Greece to current trends) in order to extrapolate those ideas and strategies that are relevant to their specific teaching contexts and disciplinary discourses. Classroom-ready writing assignments, commenting strategies, and grading schemes grow out of our theoretical discussions.  Other course activities include conducting classroom observations, micro-teaching, responding to and grading samples of student writing, leading discussions on selected topics of interest, and developing philosophy of teaching statements.

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ENGL 5711 Introduction to Editing

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5401)
59626-001 WKS, 04:40 P.M. - 07:10 P.M., Tu (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), SciCB 529, TCEASTBANK, Zuckerman, Jeffrey Jay, 4 credits
This course is an introduction to the editing process—specifically, learning about the editor-author-publisher relationship, with an emphasis on building skills in basic copyediting, style, grammar, and mechanics. We focus primarily on nonfiction editing; assignments vary from newspaper and magazine articles to academic editing and, briefly, fiction editing. Professional editors from the community visit on several occasions. The course texts include The Chicago Manual of Style and several copyediting textbooks. Weekly practice homework assignments are given. There are two midcourse exams and one final. Each has two parts: a take-home portion, in which students have one week to edit an article and query the author, and an in-class portion, in which students show their knowledge of mechanics, grammar, and style in a deadline-driven (and open-book) publishing environment. Email access is required.

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ENGL 5880 General Topics

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed)
67383-001 DIS, 03:35 P.M. - 06:25 P.M., W (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), SciCB 529, TCEASTBANK, Fellows, Mary L, Law and Literature, 3 credits, 5 seat(s) reserved for Grad or Law student
This course on law and literature will focus on literary works with legal themes, such as Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure (law in literature) and interpretation of legal texts, such as contracts, wills, and legal opinions (law as literature). In both instances, we will examine and apply different literary theories of interpretation. The course also will consider how law has affected the development of literature with specific attention to the censorship and copyright laws. The final unit of study will build on these earlier topics as it considers a specific legal question─what constitutes violence against women. Through issues surrounding violence against women, we will explore how literature and law have attempted to define violence against women, how literature has influenced the law and vice versa, and the difficulties faced by literary writers and legal experts in addressing such questions. Throughout the course we will read primarily English and American literature from the medieval period through the twenty-first century. I will grade you based on class discussion, a twenty-to-thirty page research paper, and a presentation of that paper.

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ENGL 5992 Directed Readings, Study, or Research

(max crs 45; 15 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent , college consent )
64672-001  DRD  (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007)  , TCEASTBANK  , 1 - 3 credits
66005-002  DRD  (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007)  , TCEASTBANK  , 1 - 3 credits

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ENGL 8090 Seminar in Special Subjects

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Engl grad student or instr consent )
66471-001 SEM, 12:20 P.M. - 02:50 P.M., M (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 305, TCEASTBANK, Scandura, Jani, Materiality & Modernity, 3 credits
This class will engage much of the current research on objects, things, and materiality. In particular, it will look at the ways that things become metaphor. If in rhetoric, metaphor is double, in modernist philosophy we might say that metaphor is triple. It brings two unlike things into relation and undergirds them with a third: the masking of an originary metaphorization that is thought, and by extension language. “Metaphor," writes Jacques Derrida, "always carries its death within itself." That is, a so-called “live metaphor” also carries with it its negation, “dead or frozen metaphor,” the literal. And, extending from Nietzsche, it is the forgetting of the literal, the making-dead of metaphor, and the forgetting of that forgetting that is necessary for the animation of the subject. Far from setting metaphor in opposition to matter, then, as has been the case until recently in many works in cultural studies, Nietzsche suggests that the two are not just intertwined but coterminous—and both are implicated in the formation of subjectivity. It is only through the forgetting of the original metaphors for perception and the preservation of the fiction of perception-as-truth, Nietzsche argues, that man can forget himself as a subject and thereby “live with some degree of peace, security, and consistency.” To reanimate those dead metaphors means to revisit perception and unsettle the making of self. This class will read across a variety of literary genres, film, theory and finally, think about what it means to read things. Works by Nietzsche, Derrida, Bergson, Bruno Latour, Bill Brown, Primo Levi, Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Bergin, Jean Anouilh, Alain Resnais, and others.

64994-003 SEM, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., Th  (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 202, TCEASTBANK, Brown, Tony C., The Animal, 3 credits
Lately the animal has been subject to much scholarly and theoretical attention. Our focus will be three-fold. First, we will read the major recent works on the topic (above all Derrida, but also Haraway, Agamben and others). Second, we will take a long view of attempts to think the non-human animal (Aristotle through Montaigne, Descartes through Heidegger). Third, we will examine literature that attends to the animal, with especial emphasize laid on the 18th century (La Fontaine, Swift, Smart, cat poems by Dryden, Cowper, Shelley, as well as work by London, Rilke, a film by Robert Bresson, etc.). The course will provide students the opportunity to write a substantial research paper on a fresh topic of marked and increasing scholarly consideration, and it will be of particular interest to students of literature, philosophy and anthropology.

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ENGL 8120 Seminar in Early Modern Literature and Culture

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; A-F only, unless otherwise noted; prereq Grad major or instr consent)
67381-001 SEM, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., Tu (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), FolH 131, TCEASTBANK, Brewer, Daniel, Elfenbein, Andrew, Passionate Work: Emotions in 18th-Century Lit, A-F only, 3 credits
This course will have two purposes. The first will be to examine the project of comparative literature itself in taking the eighteenth-century relations between Britain and France as a example. What does it mean to compare the literature of two nations? In what ways does a comparative project reinforce or challenge our understanding of the nation state? To what extent can literary texts serve as metonymies for national cultures? The second will be to examine the revalorization of emotion in the eighteenth century away from its traditional negative associations with dangerous irrationality. Emotion undergoes a series of new theorizations during the century in such discourses as natural philosophy, theology, and political debate. We may consider such questions as, what exactly is an emotion? How does one distinguish between private, interpersonal, and communal emotions? Under what circumstances can emotions be understood to do work? How do literary genres hierarchize themselves in relation to the expression of emotion?
This course will meet simultaneously with FREN 8270 section 001. All French readings will be available in translation.

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ENGL 8150 Seminar in Shakespeare

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; prereq Engl grad student or instr consent )
63549-001 SEM, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., M (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 207A, TCEASTBANK, Clayton, Tom, 3 credits
The Shakespeare Seminar of Spring 2007 will be concerned especially with several plays in multiple perspectives, concentrating especially on the texts of the Hamlet play or plays, depending upon how one views the fascinatingly different substantive texts, Quarto 1 (1603), the shortest; Quarter 2 (1604-05), the longest and single most authoritative; and the Folio (1923), which has been the textual foundation—or "copy text"—of virtually every edition of the play offered for the past two and more centuries until the latest: the Arden 3 Hamlet (2006) is based on Q2. Hamlet is a play so often exalted and assumed sacred that it is left to speak for itself, often without an audience (except in the theater, where it is less than it used to be) and with all too many applauding without earning the right to applaud by the study the right demands. Detailed reading of Hamlet in the Arden 3 (2006) with regular reference made also to its predecessor, the New Arden Hamlet (1982), and the No Fear Shakespeare "Hamlet" (2003, "the play plus a translation anyone can understand"), with consideration of ethical, political, and aesthetic issues in several comparable plays, certainly Coriolanus (Shakespeare's "most assured artistic success," according to T. S. Eliot, who thought Hamlet defective especially in its "objective correlative"), and probably either Julius Caesar or Macbeth or both. I like to have a collective investigation of some issues but also to accommodate whatever range of prior interests presents itself, often for assimilation into collective perspectives as they arise in the course of the seminar. Please address questions to Tom Clayton at tsc@umn.edu or raise them in person.

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ENGL 8200 Seminar in American Literature

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Grad major or instr consent )
56588-001 SEM, 12:45 P.M. - 03:15 P.M., Tu (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 202, TCEASTBANK, Ross Jr, Donald, Writing in America 1850-1860, 3 credits
The goal of this seminar will be to discover what else was being written (and read) during the decade 1850-1860 beyond the bestsellers and classics— Whitman, Stowe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Child, Thoreau, and others. We will scatter to the four corners of the library to track down personal letters and journals, travel writing, abolitionist tracts and poems, songs, conduct books, temperance novels, campaign speeches, plays, newspapers and magazines, textbooks—anything written in the United States and its territories is fair game.

We will try to figure out:

  • literary artists' awareness of public events;
  • their responses to each other
  • how race, gender, economic class and immigrant status are articulated
  • attitudes toward nature and the environment
  • views on labor (free and slave), capital, industry and agriculture

We will also look at the book trade and how it was affected by:

  • changes in transportation—railroads and steamboats;
  • communication—telegraph, postal service)
  • schooling (K-12 and college) and general literacy
  • perceived and really limited audiences—by gender and region

During the term, each student will be responsible for tracking the public and private writings of one literary figure and one public figure, as well as sampling one magazine or newspaper. This reading might build upon previous acquaintance with the selected writers, or it might go into new territory.

In addition to contributing to an already-extensive annotated bibliography, students will develop a professional-quality research plan or dissertation (chapter) proposal on an appropriately limited topic. We will collectively make notes on what the selected writers and periodicals read, and put all that together in a big compendium.
http://english.cla.umn.edu/Faculty/ROSS/COURSES/8530.HTM

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ENGL 8444 FTE: Doctoral

(No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent)
64673-001 THE (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 1 credit

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ENGL 8666 Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits

(max crs 60; 4 repeats allowed; No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Max 18 cr per semester or summer; doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral)
64674-001 THE (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 18 credits

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ENGL 8888 Thesis Credit: Doctoral

(max crs 100; 10 repeats allowed; No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required)
64675-001 THE, TCEASTBANK, 1 - 24 credits

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ENGL 8992 Directed Reading in Language, Literature, Culture, Rhetoric, Composition, or Creative Writing

(max crs 15; 15 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent, dept consent)
64676-001 DRD (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 9 credits

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EngW

ENGW 5130 Topics in Advanced Creative Writing

(max crs 16; 4 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent )
64027-001 WKS, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 207A, TCEASTBANK, Damon, Maria, Writing the Body (Politic/s),4 credits, Topic prereq - grad student.
Although the phrase "writing the body" has been overused to the point of exhaustion, there is merit in returning to the topic through a discussion of style and form as well as content and intent. We will look at the work of writers such as Kathy Acker, Jean Genet, Adeena Karasick, Carla Harryman, Kenny Goldsmith and others to ask what exactly is writing, and what/whose body speaks/writes. There may be a "workshop" component but it will consist more of in-class writing exercises or spontaneous assignments.
Meets with: ENGL 5090 section 001

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ENGW 5205 Screenwriting

(prereq Jr or sr, one EngW 3xxx course, dept consent permission number available in creative writing office)
53353 -001 WKS, 06:20 P.M. - 08:50 P.M., Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 203, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits
Introduction to the craft of screenwriting: dialogue, scene, structure, story. Must be a junior or a senior with at least one 3000-level creative writing, composition, or literature course or a graduate student.

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ENGW 5207 Screenwriting II

(prereq 5205, one Eng W or EngL or EngC 3xxx course, jr or sr, dept consent )
63364-001 WKS, 06:20 P.M. - 08:50 P.M., W (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 203, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits
Continuation of Screenwriting I

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ENGW 5993 Directed Study in Writing

(max crs 18; 18 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent)
51477-001 DST (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 4 credits
54945-002 DST (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 4 credits

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ENGW 8110 Seminar: Writing of Fiction

(max crs 16; 4 repeats allowed; prereq dept consent )
64659-001 SEM, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., M (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 202, TCEASTBANK, Fitzgerald, Maria J, Constructing Longer Fictions, 4 credits
In this seminar we will examine the structure of nine novels of varying length and from a variety of periods and countries. I haven’t finally decided on the novels, but I expect to include Pride and Prejudice and What Maisie Knew; perhaps The Good Soldier (Ford Maddox Ford), The Leopard (Lampedusa), A House and its Head (Compton-Burnett), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (Weldon), Reader’s Block (Markson), Austerlitz (Sebald), The Hothouse by the East River (Spark) and In a Hotel Garden (Josipovici). Anyone joining the seminar is welcome to make suggestions about novels that may be of interest to the class for structural reasons: I will need the title and a paragraph about the reasons for choosing it before the end of the semester so that I can make an assessment about whether it would be widely useful, and then order it. Please make sure that any novel you name is actually in print. I do not expect to do workshops in the course of the semester, but to look in detail at possible structures for your projects.

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ENGW 8120 Seminar: Writing of Poetry

(max crs 8; 2 repeats allowed; prereq dept consent )
64585-001 SEM, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, Gonzalez, Ramon, World Poetry in Translation: Poet & Translator, 4 credits 

This course is both a survey course of major poets from around the world and a study of the translation process. We will read a number of modern poets from different countries, discussing major poems and literary movements and focus on how the influence of these poets has transformed poetry into a world-wide art form. Alongside this immersion in various cultures, we will examine the art of translation and how the translator recreates poetic experience and changes it into a different poem in a second language. We will look at individual poems translated by different people to see how each version is different and discuss how translation affects the interpretation of world poetry. You do not need to know a second language to take the course, though translation projects are encouraged and past offerings of this course have resulted in several students undertaking such challenges. Short, written responses to some of the readings and class presentations will be required.

Required Texts:
1. Anna Akhmatova. Poems of Akhmatova. Translated by Stanley Kunitz. Mariner Books edition.
2. Paul Celan. Poems of Paul Celan. Translated by Michael Hamburger. Revised and expanded edition.
3. Federico Garcia Lorca. Poet in New York. Translated by Greg Simon and Steven F. White. Noonday Press revised edition.
4. Ho Xuan Huong. Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. Translated by John Balaban. Copper Canyon Press.
5. Pablo Neruda. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. Various translators. City Lights Books.
6. Rainer Maria Rilke. The Essential Rilke. Translated by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann. Ecco/Harper Collins.
7. Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud Complete. Translated by Wyatt Mason. Modern Library Paperbacks.
8. Wislawa Szymborska. Poems New and Collected. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Harcourt.
9. Ana Enriqueta Teran. The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems. Translated by Marcel Smith. Princeton Paperbacks.

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ENGW 8130 Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction

(max crs 8; 2 repeats allowed; prereq dept consent)
56562-001 SEM, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., W (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 207A, TCEASTBANK, Sugnet, Charles J, 4 credits
The seminar will begin with discussion of reading selections from published writers, but the balance will shift toward workshopping more and more of our own work as the term progresses. All kinds of writing projects are welcome, but the instructor's interests tend away from conventional memoir toward the discontinuous techniques that enable writers like Eduardo Galeano (Memory of Fire, Book of Embraces), Roland Barthes (Fragments of an Amorous Discourse), or Susan Griffin (Woman and Nature, A Chorus of Stones) to cut the connective tissue and organize in juxtapositional, nonnarrative ways. The seminar will also attend to writing that succeeds in connecting "the personal" with a ballast of history, politics, or landscape (perhaps through selections from Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land or Assia Djebar's Fantasia/Algerian Cavalcade).
NOTE: Any student intending to register for this course should drop off a current writing sample so the instructor can familiarize himself with the students' work before finalizing the syllabus.

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ENGW 8333 FTE: Master's

(No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Master's student, adviser and DGS consent)
55134-001 THE, TCEASTBANK, 1 credit

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ENGW 8990 MFA Creative Thesis

(max crs 48; 24 repeats allowed; prereq 8140, 8150, 8160, creative writing MFA student, instr consent)
53161-001 THE (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 2 - 8 credits
54946-002 THE (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), TCEASTBANK, 2 - 8 credits

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EngC

ENGC 5051 Graduate Research Writing Practice for Non-native Speakers of English

(prereq Grad student)
54547-001 WKS, 12:45 P.M. - 02:00 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 325, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

56444-002 WKS, 02:30 P.M. - 03:45 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 340, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

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ENGC 5052 Graduate Research Presentations and Conference Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

(prereq Grad student, non-native speaker of English or instr consent)

58667-001 LEC, 12:45 P.M. - 02:00 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 320, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

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Professor Jani Scandura leads graduate seminar

Professor Jani Scandura leads graduate seminar