Summer 2019

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@Colorado.EDU).

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ENGL 3164-200: History & Literature of Georgian Britain (B-term online, Summer 2019)

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ENGL 3164-200: History & Literature of Georgian Britain (B-term online, Summer 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/17/2018 - 16:24 Professor John Stevenson

The period of history known as Georgian England runs from 1714-1837, a period that encompasses a period of extraordinary change. Great Britain became by 1800 the most powerful nation in the world and during this period it gained and lost an empire; its cities, especially London, grew explosively, the industrial revolution begins, the novel as a literary genre is born, women and the working classes begin to assert their rights, and much else besides. Literature and the arts—in poetry, in fiction, in painting, in music, and drama and architecture—are at a pinnacle.

Using thematic modules such as Politics, Crime and Punishment, Love and Marriage, and Romanticism, we will explore the period’s fascinating history and literary greatness. Readings will include such writers such as Swift, Austen, Wordsworth, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, and Keats, as well some primary source material. We will also examine the rich visual legacy of the time.

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ENGL 2102-100: Literary Analysis (A-term, Summer 2019)

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ENGL 2102-100: Literary Analysis (A-term, Summer 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/17/2018 - 16:03

By Tiffany Beechy

Develops the skills of seeing, hearing, noticing, and describing that are the foundation of literary study. We all have feelings about what we like and don’t like, but can you articulate precisely what it is aboutthatbook,thatsong,thatfilm, that makes it amazing and sets it apart from everything else? Doing so imparts the ability to understand and evaluate complexity in a broad range of fields, making the study of English excellent preparation for any further study and any future life. The course also provides introductory knowledge of the grammar and history of English, the mechanics of academic writing, the scansion of poetic meter, and the traditional periods and genres of literature in English.

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