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English (ENGL) 1 ENGL 1009 (c, FYS) The Ravages of Love ENGLISH (ENGL) Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. ENGL 1003 (c) Shakespeare's Afterlives Examines examples of overwhelming love in eighteenth and nineteenth Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. century novels from England, France, and Germany. Through close reading and intensive writing, considers the intersection of love with Romeo and Juliet as garden gnomes, Richard III as Adolf Hitler, King Lear the difficulties created by class and gender difference; the power of as aging patriarch of an Iowa family farm...these are just some of the desire to challenge social convention and the terms of ordinary reality; ways that Shakespeare’s plays and characters have been reimagined in the confrontations between love, egotism, and seduction; and the literature produced in the time since he lived and wrote for the London implications of love’s attempt to dare all, even at the risk of death. stage. Placing individual plays by Shakespeare in conversation with Discusses the political overtones of these narratives of love and their particular adaptations, we examine the aesthetic, cultural, and political place within the construction of gender, sexuality and subjectivity in dimensions of Shakespearean drama and his literary and cultural legacy Western culture. Authors may include Prevost, Goethe, Laclos, Hays, as found in later fiction, drama, and film. Plays by Shakespeare may Austen, Bronte, and Flaubert. (Same as: GSWS 1009) include 1 Henry IV, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest, together with adaptations by Oscar Wilde, Tom Stoppard, Jane Smiley, Previous terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017. and Arthur Philips. ENGL 1010 (c) Creating Monsters Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. Previous terms offered: Fall 2020. ENGL 1005 (c) Victorian Monstrosity What makes a "monster"? What does it mean to think of oneself as a Aviva Briefel. monster? What obligations do their creators, and their societies, have Non-Standard Rotation. Fall 2021. Enrollment limit: 16. to the monsters they have created? This course will focus on famous literary monsters, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Examines various monsters and creatures that emerge from the pages Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In addition of Victorian narratives. What do these strange beings tell us about to reading the literary works that gave birth to these creatures, we literary form, cultural fantasies, and anxieties; or about conceptions of will explore the film representations that have helped to shape these selfhood and the body? How do they embody (or disembody) identities monsters in the cultural imagination. that subvert sexual, racial, and gendered norms? Authors may include Lewis Carroll, Richard Marsh, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Previous terms offered: Fall 2018. H.G. Wells. (Same as: GSWS 1005) ENGL 1011 (c) Trolls, Frogs, and Princesses: Fairy Tales and Retellings Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. ENGL 1006 (c) Seeing White: Constructions of Race and Strategies for Antiracism Explores the resiliency of fairy tales across cultural boundaries and Meredith McCarroll. historical time. Traces the genealogical origins of the classic tales, as Non-Standard Rotation. Fall 2021. Enrollment limit: 16. well as their metamorphoses in historical and contemporary variants, fractured tales, and adaptations in literature and film. The class is What does “white” mean as a racial identity? What are the differences designed to help students write confidently and with power in a variety in white privilege and white supremacy? How do film, television and of contexts, harnessing the resources of grammar, style, rhetorical form, literature hold up and construct whiteness? Film scholar and cultural persuasion, argumentation—and magic, of course. (Same as: ,THTR 1007, critic Richard Dyer calls us to “see whiteness” as a social construction by CINE 1007) “making it strange”. Students in this class will make whiteness strange through a study of the historical meaning(s) of American whiteness and Previous terms offered: Fall 2020. the representations of whiteness, as well as a personal engagement ENGL 1012 (c) Jane Austen with whiteness at Bowdoin. Anti-racist whiteness, multiraciality and Ann Kibbie. whiteness, a contemporary rise in white supremacy, and non-white Non-Standard Rotation. Fall 2021. Enrollment limit: 16. conceptions of American whiteness will all be topics of this course. A study of Jane Austen’s major works, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Previous terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2017. Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion. (Same as: GSWS 1025) ENGL 1007 (c) Joan of Arc Emma Maggie Solberg. Previous terms offered: Fall 2019. Non-Standard Rotation. Fall 2021. Enrollment limit: 16. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431 at the age of nineteen. This course explores the long history of this warrior, heretic, and saint, beginning with the medieval records of her trial and execution and then moving through the centuries and the countless stories told about her in literature, art, music, and cinema all the way up to the present moment. Previous terms offered: Fall 2019. 2 English (ENGL) ENGL 1014 (c, FYS) Memoir as Testimony ENGL 1026 (c) Freedom Stories Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. Tess Chakkalakal. Non-Standard Rotation. Fall 2021. Enrollment limit: 16. Explores cultural movements and moments in the US and beyond through memoirs, graphic memoirs, and personal essays as well as critical essays Explores the ways in which the idea of American freedom has been on the memoir form. Examines how the story of an individual life is defined both with and against slavery through readings of legal and always, also, the story of a historical moment. Readings may include literary texts. Students come to terms with the intersections between work by Alison Bechdel, Eula Biss, Thi Bui, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Garrard the political, literary, and historical concept of freedom and its relation to Conley, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sonya Livingston, Rian Malan, Claudia competing definitions of American citizenship. (Same as: AFRS 1026) Rankine, Loung Ung, J.D. Vance, Jesmyn Ward, and others. Writing assignments critical and creative in form. Students both analyze these Previous terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019. works and produce their own, capturing and interrogating what historical ENGL 1027 (c) The Real Life of Literature moments they themselves are living through. Guy Mark Foster. Non-Standard Rotation. Fall 2021. Enrollment limit: 16. Previous terms offered: Fall 2018. ENGL 1015 (c, FYS) Dystopian Americas Examines literary fiction set against the backdrop of actual historical Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. events, such as wars, social protest events, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Holocaust, and political assassinations. Explores recent dystopian fiction by multicultural writers in English who Students not only analyze the literary strategies writers employ to imagine America’s near futures. While the dystopian genre has long been fictionalize history and to historicize fiction, but also explore the used to challenge prevailing power structures, we focus on works that methodological and philosophical implications of such creative gestures. further feature minority protagonists, combining examinations of race In the end, this two-fold process transforms both categories in ways that and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in relation to contemporary permanently unsettle the status of fiction as merely imaginative and the themes of climate change, immigration, terrorism, globalization, and historical as merely fact. Potential authors: Virginia Woolf, Octavia Butler, biotechnology. Authors include Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Omar Yasmina Khadra, David Mura, Nicole Krause, Andrew Holleran, among El Akkad, Chang-rae Lee, and Sabrina Vourvoulias. Also introduces the others. fundamentals of college-level writing, from a review of grammar and mechanics to discussions of textual analysis, thesis development, Previous terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018. organizational structure, evidence use, synthesis of critics, and research ENGL 1033 (c, FYS) Modernity at Sea methods. (Same as: ASNS 1042) Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. Previous terms offered: Fall 2018. Beginning with Walt Whitman’s celebration of a seafaring globe “spann’d, ENGL 1018 (c) Jane Eyre, Everywhere connected by network,” the figure of the oceanic has spoken to a dream Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. of embracing everything, from far-flung peoples to the earth’s most evasive animal life. Makes use of of twentieth/twenty-first-century Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, “Jane Eyre,” had a profound impact not century American visual and textual materials to consider the ways in only on subsequent nineteenth-century fiction, but also on twentieth- and which poetry, stories, film, and multimedia works have advanced and twenty-first century literary representations of female experience. Begins critiqued Whitman’s vision of a unified modernity. Subtopics include with a close reading of Brontë's novel and then moves on to exploring modernist aesthetics; globalization and its limits; place, space, and modern literary rewritings of this narrative. Considers both how Brontë's the representation of landscape; and the artistic retrieval of lost or themes are carried out through these various texts and why her narrative