Course details

Name: ENGL - 494

Title: SEMINAR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
This seminar examines the interplay of text and image in four distinct genres and historical periods. We will begin in the English Renaissance, with Edmund Spenser’s illustrated poem cycle The Shepheardes Calendar, and study early modern theories of literature and vision alongside it. William Blake’s illuminated books will provide our next case, and we will pair his work with contemporary thinking about the capacities and risks of imagination. The concluding parts of the course will focus on experimental manipulations of text in early twentieth-century modernism and, finally, on recent graphic novels. For these last two units, we will also be reading selections from twentieth century theorists such as W.J.T. Mitchell and Frederic Jameson. Please note that this course meets on Mondays in a physical classroom, and on Wednesdays in a live, online session with individual web-cam feeds (like Skype, but on Canvas). This means that on Wednesdays you can attend class online, from anywhere with a solid internet connection and a functional webcam and microphone. If you prefer, you may attend Wednesday class in person instead.

Please note that this course meets on Mondays in a physical classroom, and on Wednesdays in a live, online session with individual web-cam feeds (like Skype, but on Canvas). This means that on Wednesdays you can attend class online, from anywhere with a solid internet connection and a functional webcam and microphone. If you prefer, you may attend Wednesday class in person instead.

Last updated on 2016-03-31 By Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
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• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Is course canceled: No