Lycus Journal Of Literary Theory And Cultural Studies

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The Department of English offers over 200 courses for undergraduate- and graduate-level students. These courses focus on a diverse array of topics from across the fields of American and British literature; world literature; critical and narrative theory; film, video game analysis and other areas of popular culture studies; writing, rhetoric and literacy; digital media studies; and folklore. We also offer creative writing workshops in fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

English 6410: Introduction to Medical Humanities and Social SciencesInstructor: Jim PhelanThis course functions both as the core requirement for the Interdisciplinary MA in Medical Humanities and Social Sciences and as an elective for other students with an interest in its subject matters. The course addresses the question of how our understanding of medicine alters when we shift from conceiving it primarily as a science to conceiving it as a cultural practice, something that inevitably has political, ethical, ideological and even aesthetic dimensions. We will divide our inquiry into the following units: medical inquiry, historical foundations, cultural critiques of medicine, disability studies and narrative medicine. By the end of the course, students should have a deeper understanding of the methods and some key findings of the medical humanities and social sciences, and in that way, be well-equipped for further study in the field.Guiding question(s): What happens to our understanding of medicine when we shift from conceiving of it as driven by science and technology to conceiving of it as a cultural practice?Potential text(s): Mukherjee, Sidharth, The Laws of Medicine; Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine; Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; Tweedy, Damon, Black Man in a White Coat; David, Lennard, ed. The Disability Studies Reader; Crosby, Christina, A Body Undone; Charon, Rita, et al. Principles and Practices of Narrative Medicine; Frank, Arthur, The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics; and the documentary How to Survive a Plague, dir. by David French, and the film Gattaca, directed by Andrew Nicoll.Potential assignments: Weekly writing exercises (in class); agenda setting; short analytical paper; abstract, presentation and final paper.

English 6761: Introduction to Narrative and Narrative TheoryInstructor: Jim PhelanThis course focuses on one of the most significant and pervasive modes that humans have developed in order to come to terms with their experiences in the world: narrative. We will seek to establish a dialogue between primary narratives and narrative theory. We will ask both how narrative theoretical constructs can illuminate our selected narratives and how those narratives push back against or elude those constructs in ways that require responsible theorists to revise their ideas. In this way, the course seeks to engage students with the process of knowledge construction in narrative studies.Guiding question(s): What is narrative? Why is it so pervasive? What are its dangers? How do we work on it, and how does it work on us?Potential text(s): The theoretical readings will fall under the rubric of "Foundations and Innovations," which means we will read some older texts that remain crucial to work in the field: Aristotle's Poetics; Shklovsky's "Art as Technique"; Genette's Narrative Discourse; and some recent work on fictionality, cognitive narratology, intersectionality, and, most likely, narrative medicine. Our primary narratives will come from multiple media (print, graphic, film, television) and from the two macrogenres of fiction and nonfiction. Likely texts include Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, Jesmyn Ward's "On Witness and Respair," Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, a graphic narrative to be selected later and a range of short fictions and nonfictions.Potential assignments: Exercises in reading theory; close reading paper; theory and interpretation paper; final paper designed by the student so that it's tailored to their interest.

English 6410: Introduction to Graduate Study in Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Instructor: James Phelan This course, which functions both as an elective in the PhD program and as the core course for the Interdisciplinary MA in Medical Humanities and Social Sciences addresses the question of how our understanding of medicine alters when we shift from conceiving it primarily as a science to conceiving it as a cultural practice. That shift entails recognizing medicine as having political, ethical, ideological and even aesthetic dimensions. We will divide our inquiry into the following units: historical foundations, cultural perspectives on medicine, disability studies and narrative medicine.

English 6776.02: From 1900 to the Contemporary Period Instructor: Adeleke Adeeko The seminar will be organized around the theme of representation. Among the questions to be addressed are: "why represent"? "does representation report or create"? "what does representation create"? "what does it report"? These topics will be approached through "literary theory," that briefcase phrasing used to refer to writings that examine the ends of representation as these pertain to literature and culture. We are going to be reading original texts and (not summaries of concepts) from diverse disciplines, ranging from philosophy to narratology.

English 7889.01/02: Seminar on Digital Media Studies Instructor: John Jones This course will explore the history, theory and practice of computer-based writing and rhetoric teaching and research. We will read foundational research and explore the tools of computers and writing instruction, placing them in the context of theoretical debates that have shaped research and pedagogy in the field. From this foundation we will explore contemporary trends in digital rhetoric, digital media studies and multimodal writing research and practice.

ENG 2110. African-American Literature (3). Spring. African-American literature from the mid-eighteenth century to the present in its historical, political, and cultural context. Germane critical approaches to both literary modes and vernacular tradition. Applicable to the BG Perspective (general education) cultural diversity in the United States requirement.

ENG 3020. Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (3). Fall, Spring. General introduction to study of literary theory and criticism with attention to various schools of 20th century criticism, critical applications, and critical terminology. Extensive critical writing. Prerequisite: ENG 2010. Prerequisite for ENG 3100, ENG 3110, ENG 3140, and ENG 4560.

ENG 3020. Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (3). Fall, Spring. General introduction to study of literary theory and criticism with attention to various schools of 20th century criticism, critical applications, and critical terminology. Extensive critical writing. Prerequisite: ENG 2010. Prerequisite for ENG 3100, ENG 3110, ENG 3140, and ENG 4560.

ENG 3110. Gay and Lesbian Literature and Criticism (3). Fall, Spring. Major issues in contemporary gay and lesbian literary criticism. Discussion of literature and critical writing that addresses gay and lesbian sexuality, with attention to feminist theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic criticism, race, and class. Prerequisites: ENG 3020 or ENG 2020.

ENG 3230. Modern Fiction (3). Fall. Novelistic fiction from English, European (in translation), and American writers of the Modern period such as Flaubert, Joyce, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka, Mann, Faulkner. Focus on development of forms of fiction, styles, and narrative theories, and on cultural, literary, and political contexts of individual works. Prerequisites: any ENG literature course and ENG 112.

ENG 3250. Modern Drama (3). Fall. Dramatic works by British, European (in translation), and American writers of the Modern period such as Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, O'Casey, Anouilh, Giradoux, Brecht, O'Neill, with a focus on dramatic movements and theatrical innovations as well as the cultural, aesthetic, literary, and political contexts of individual works. Prerequisites: any ENG literature course and ENG 112.

ENG 3330. Contemporary Fiction (3). Spring. Fiction by British, European (in translation), and American writers of the contemporary period (since 1945) such as Amis, Pynchon, Duras, Rushdie, Selvon, Naipul, Bradbury, Marquez. Focus on development of forms of fiction, styles, and narrative theories, and on cultural, literary and political contexts of individual works. Prerequisites: any ENG literature course and GSW 1120.

ENG 3350. Contemporary Drama (3). Spring. Dramatic works by British, European (in translation), and American writers of the contemporary period (since 1945) such as Arden, Friel, Stoppard, Deveare Smith, Shange, Valdez. Focus on dramatic movements and theatrical innovations, as well as the cultural, aesthetic, literary, and political contexts of individual works. Prerequisites: any ENG literature course and GSW 1120.

ENG 3850. Studies In Literature-Film (3). On demand. Problems in film's relationship to literature; definitions and theory; specific films and literary works. May focus on author, genre or historical period. May be repeated once if topics differ. Prerequisites: GSW 1120. Extra fee.

ENG 3870. Literary Editing and Publishing (3). Practical experience in literary publishing through work on Prairie Margins, the campus literary journal. Students will solicit and evaluate work for publication, and then will gain practical experience in editing, layout, and production of the journal, as well as in publicizing and promoting the finished product. Includes introduction to the larger literary market, and instruction in preparing creative work for submission and publication. May be repeated once. 2b1af7f3a8