ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURSE BULLETIN SPRING SEMESTER 2017

Note to Majors: We are delighted by your interest in our upper level classes, and we look forward to working together. One word of advice: Upper level classes are challenging, with strong reading and writing requirements. Please ask yourself how many upper level classes you can really take well in one semester, without throwing the course reading overboard or writing hastily and regrettably. The department, in general, recommends no more than two upper level English courses in a given semester. Also, we have observed in past semesters the custom of students registering for a number of upper level classes, only to drop them at some point “later” in the process. This practice can clog up registration and create enrollment headaches for your peers and our waitlists. As Hamlet counsels, “Pray you, avoid it.” We wish you the best on your intellectual growth, and we look forward to sharing our love of great with you. Those interested in a great humanities elective are welcome too.

Note to Future Majors: We are happy that you are interested in the English major, and we welcome you to join our community of teachers, thinkers, and writers. If you choose to major in English, be sure to declare your major with the Registrar and transition to a major advisor in the English department. If you have any questions about the English major, please feel free to make an appointment with the department chair. For those starting out on the English major, the best course of action is to make your way through the 300s (the core of our major) to the 400s (our seminars), with good and deliberate order. You will note, for example, that many 400s have a specific 300 as a prerequisite. Your major advisor will help you choose a good path through the major program and beyond.

Note to First Year Students: We look forward to introducing you to the love, adventure, and glory of studying great literature in the Spring. As you know, English 104 is our required core course, which all first year students must take in the Spring semester. Please be sure to register right away in an open section of 104; those who choose not to register will be placed in open sections later by the Registrar. For now, we’ll leave you with this: “Behold that shade whose right hand wields the sword, that one who comes before other poets as their lord -- that is Homer, the sovereign!” ~ Dante Alighieri

1 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 300 LEVEL COURSES SPRING SEMESTER 2017

English 310-01: Anglo Saxon and Medieval Dr. J. A. Jackson T/TH 1:00-2:15pm

Hwæt! Students will be introduced to major works in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval British Literature. The study of is very much interdisciplinary, so students will engage history, of course, but also theology (medieval theories of atonement, Christology, Triadology), biblical hermeneutics, philosophy of language, and semiotics. The poetry of these two eras is exquisite and the theopoetics wonderful, mesmerizing. Among other works, we will read Beowulf, “The Wanderer,” “Dream of the Rood,” a selection of The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and two magnificent pieces of mystical theology—Revelations of Divine Love (by Julian of Norwich) and The Cloud of Unknowing (Anonymous). Students will be introduced to Old and Middle English phonology and will learn how to pronounce Old and Middle English, demonstrated by their own readings of Beowulf and Chaucer. You may not know exactly what you’re saying, but you’ll sound pretty sweet, if not downright fearsome, saying it.

English 320-01: British Literature Dr. Debra Belt MWF 11-11:50am A literary survey of English Renaissance poetry and drama in the context of their age. Readings will include works by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, Donne, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton.

English 330-01: Restoration and Romantic British Literature Dr. Dutton Kearney MWF 2-2.50pm

This course is a literary survey of Restoration and Romantic British Literature in the context of its age, from 1660 to 1830. We will examine England’s literature as it transformed from Augustan to Romanticism. We will begin with John Dryden and the great hopes England had in the Restoration of 1660, a new era for England that was to be a new Augustan Age. However, Charles II was a king of questionable moral fiber, which undermined poets’ desire and ability to write the epic of Great Britain. What emerged instead was the mock epic of Alexander Pope, and along with it, a flourishing of satire that culminated in Jonathan Swift. The subsequent generation of poets rejected the Augustans’ reliance upon rationality and heroic couplets, preferring imagination and a variety of poetic forms. Not only do the Romantics restore the role of imagination to its rightful place in poetry, they also reinvigorate British poetry with its own tradition—forms such as odes, ballads, and sonnets re-emerge. There will be many different genres for our study: the essay, satire, painting, biography, poetry (both lyric and narrative), as well as a new and emerging genre, the novel. Authors to be studied include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. 2

English 340-01: Victorian and Modern British Literature Dr. David Whalen T/TH 2.30-3.45pm

A literary survey of Victorian and Modern literature in the context of its age. Authors may include Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Newman, Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, the Inklings and Heaney.

English 360-01: 1820-1890 Dr. Christopher S. Busch MWF 11:00-11:50 a.m.

A literary survey of American Romanticism, the American Renaissance and Realism in the context of the age. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Howells and James.

English 370-01: American Literature 1890-Present Dr. Michael M. Jordan T/TH 9:30- 10:45am A literary survey of late 19th-century and 20th-century literature in the context of the age. Authors will include Chopin, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Williams, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, O'Connor, Wendell Berry, and Cormac McCarthy.

3 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 400 LEVEL COURSES SPRING SEMESTER 2017

English 401-01: Special Studies in British Literature Victorian Lyric Poetry and Formal Poetics (may also count as an English 404) Dr. Dwight Lindley T/TH 9:30-10:45

Course Description: In this course, we will study four of the great Victorian lyric poets with the care their craft deserves, working our way up from the ground level of poetic form, to the upper flights of synthetic imagination. We will begin the semester with a general study of meter, verse-form, figures, and tropes, for the sake of paying particular attention to the technical aspects of prosody and rhetoric that were the finely-wrought tools of these poets’ trade. What C.S. Lewis wrote of the Early Modern poets is in some degree also true of the great Victorians: “The ‘beauties’ which they chiefly regarded in every composition”—its formal poetic and rhetorical aspects—“were those which we either dislike or simply do not notice. This change of taste makes an invisible wall between us and them.” It follows that, if we can surmount this wall by developing a ready sense of poetic form, we will stand a much better chance of understanding the Victorians as they understood themselves. As we learn to read their lyrics closely, we will also learn to look with these poets’ penetrating gaze at the great challenges of developing modernity. Pre-requisite: ENG 340, or permission from the instructor. Requirements: Grades will consist of at least three formal poetic analyses, at least six poem memorizations, a final, and a 20-page essay.

Reading List: Adams, Stephen. Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech. Peterborough, Canada: Broadview, 1997. ISBN 978-1551111292. Browning, Robert. The Major Works. Ed. Adam Roberts. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. ISBN 978-0199554690. Hardy, Thomas. Selected Poetry. Ed Samuel Hynes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. ISBN 978-0199538508. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Major Works. Ed. Catherine Phillips. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. ISBN 978- 0199538850. Tennyson, Alfred. The Major Works. Ed. Adam Roberts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. ISBN 978-0199572762. Selected Poems from Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and A.E. Housman.

A Victorian Close Reading 4 English 401-02: Special Studies in British Literature

The Metaphysical Poets (may also count as an English 404) Dr. B. Whalen MWF 1:00-1:50 Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could Dispute, and conquer, if I would; Which I abstain to do. Course Description: This course will consist of close study of a group of poets from the 17th century, commonly called the “metaphysical poets”, and it will include both their religious and non-religious verse. Additionally, the course will include the study of formal poetics, a brief reading of the immediate poetic predecessors of the metaphysicals (most notably, Shakespeare), and selective, supplemental reading of later poets and critics who have used (or abused) the name “metaphysical” when discussing this group of poets. The poets who will feature most prominently in the course are: John Donne; George Herbert; Richard Crashaw; Andrew Marvell; Thomas Traherne; and Henry Vaughan

Prerequisite: Eng. 320 or permission from the instructor.

Requirements: Seminar Participation; Regular Poetry Memorization (and Recitation); Seminar Paper; Final Exam

English 401-03: Special Studies in British Literature

Woe and Wonder: Later Shakespeare Dr. Stephen Smith W 2-5pm

Course Description: An intensive study of Shakespeare’s later masterworks, with special focus on the themes of poetry, virtue, theology and education.

Shakespeare, Othello Shakespeare, King Lear Shakespeare, Macbeth Shakespeare, Coriolanus Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale Shakespeare, Cymbeline Shakespeare, The Tempest

Prerequisites: English 320 or permission of instructor. Requirements: Quizzes; critical reflections; midterm; Cubs fans, ca. 1606 seminar paper; comprehensive final examination. 5 English 402-01 Special Studies in American Literature

Modern American Novel Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin T/TH, 1:00-2:15 PM

Course Description: This seminar-style course offers an in-depth study of the American novel from the late nineteenth century to the present. Beginning with Realism and Naturalism in Crane and Wharton, the course then explores some of the most important authors of (Fitzgerald, Wilder, Faulkner, and Ellison); then, with O’Connor and Robinson, we will read two novelists whose singular contributions build on their precursors to stake a lasting claim for narratives of faith in the realm of Post-Modern fiction.

Required Texts: Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. Norton Critical Editions, 4th ed. (2008). ISBN: 978-0-393-93075-7 Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. Norton Critical Editions, (2002). ISBN: 978-0-393-96794-4 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Simon and Schuster (1994). ISBN: 9780743273565 Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Harper Perennial (2015). ISBN: 978-0-06-0757502 Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Norton Critical Editions, 3rd ed. (2014) ISBN: 978-0-393-91269-2 Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Vintage Books, 2nd ed. (1995). ISBN: 978-0679732761 O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. FSG (2007). ISBN: 978-0374530631 Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Picador (2006). ISBN: 978-0312424404

Prerequisite: ENG 360 or ENG 370, or permission from instructor. Requirements: Twenty to twenty-five pages of writing, including several short interpretive papers, an oral presentation, and a final critical/research paper.

"Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God."

Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

6 English 403-01: Special Studies in Western Literature

Russian Literature Dr. John Somerville MW 12-1.15

This course is intended as a survey of , primarily of the nineteenth century. Among the writers we may read are Aleksandr Pushkin (Stories, Eugene Onegin), Mikhail Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time), Nikolai Gogol (Stories and/or Dead Souls), Ivan Goncharov (Oblamov), Ivan Turgenev (Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, Fathers and Sons), Leo Tolstoy (Stories, Anna Karenina or War and Peace), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment), Anton Chekhov (Stories, The Cherry Orchard), Andrei Bely (Petersburg), Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel (Stories), and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich).

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Either ENG 330 or ENG 360 or professor's permission.

Requirements: Midterm examination; final examination. Substantial writing assignments totaling 20- 25 pages.

"[Ours is a] conceited age of the popularization of knowledge–– thanks to that most powerful engine of ignorance, the diffusion of printed matter . . . ." (War and Peace, Epilogue, Part II, Chapter 8)

7 English 403-02: Special Studies in Western Literature

The Copy of an Invisible World: The Rise of Narrative Realism Dr. Lorraine Murphy MW 2:00 – 3:15 pm

Course Description: What makes the novel new? On what grounds are its representations more truthful than those of the chivalric romance? Precisely how does it disclose an apprehension of reality? How can literary conventions of any kind claim to be “real”? Like Don Quixote on his skinny old nag, this course bravely (or foolishly) ventures forth to answer such questions. We seek encounters with the great tradition of Continental Realism, proceeding from Cervantes’ mockery of romance through the groundbreaking works of Balzac, Flaubert, and Tolstoy. We conclude the semester with two authors, Kafka and Mann, who stage remarkable confrontations between the realism of concrete particularity and the shadowy realm of myth and symbol. The course will include careful study of the works listed below, selected secondary readings on the topic of realism, and close textual analysis of narrative conventions. Again and again, we will ask how narrative technique filters, informs, promotes, and/or confuses our understanding of the real and the true.

Texts (in translation): Cervantes, Don Quixote Balzac, Père Goriot Flaubert, Madame Bovary Tolstoy, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich Mann, Death in Venice Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Course Requirements: Coursework includes a mid-term exam, an annotated bibliography, a 20-25 page seminar paper, and a final exam. Please note: for class alone, you will read approximately 2000 pages over the course of the semester, or an average of 150 pages per week.

8 English 404-01: Special Studies in Genre, Literary Criticism and Writing

History of the English Language (may also count as an English 401) Dr. Patricia R. Bart T/TH 6-7:15pm

Freak, fraud, farad, falafel! Thral, threat, thrill, threnody, theremin!1

This course will explore the development of English from a collection of tribal dialects into the most dynamic social phenomenon of the twenty-first century. The faculty of language is inscribed within human physiology, so we will first consider how we were made for language. Moreover, the history of a people is inscribed in its language. Therefore, we will balance study of historical linguistics generally, in the Indo-European context, with an examination of social, religious, literary, scientific, political and economic history as it is inscribed in the English word-hoard, from the prehistoric association of lords and ladies with the kneading and protection of loaves to the invention of rigorous scientific nomenclatures and infuriating political spin. Students will become familiar with the tools and methods of systematic, synchronic and trans-historical language study, from the individual phoneme to inter- textual studies and language-corpus analysis. Throughout the term, we will ground our study in selected passages of writing in English—whether it is English writing, or writing in English by someone else entirely.

Prerequisites: ENG310 or 320, or intermediate knowledge of French or Latin or German, or permission of the instructor. Coursework: A challenging syllabus of readings, standard graded writing and assessment: term paper and final examination. This is a full seminar-style course.

1 Henry Fitz Empress, Geoffrey Chaucer, Bartolomaeus Anglicus, William Shakespeare, Neil Armstrong, Elvis. Wifman, werman, chairman, Man and Superman. Osama/Usama, Khadaffi/Ghadaffi/Qadaffi. Moslem/Muslim, Peking/Beijing, Ceylon/Sri Lankha, Bombay/Mumbai. Weird, nice, blond, churlish, pencil. Parsi, Farsi, Paradise, jungle, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dinner jacket. Shall, she, shampoo, Shangri-la, shoo-bee-doo-bee-doo. Regime change, police action, insurgency, terrorism, incursion, invasion, War Department, Department of Defense. DoD, OSS, MI6, CIA, FBI, NSA, FEMA, U.N.C.L.E., C.H.A.O.S. XML, DTD, CSS, WWW. 007, .223, 9mil, 16d, 45, 33lp, 2000ppi, 1080p, 4G. LCpl, Spec, Adm (ret.), KCBE, Bart., Ph.D., MBA, Mrs., Esq., M.D., D.O. Croissant, crescent roll, scone/scone, tomato/tomato. Clique, gang, Viking, pirate, privateer. Wassail! Skoal! L’chaim! Hasta la vista, baby!

9 English 404-02: Special Studies in Genre, Literature Criticism and Writing

Bibliography, Bibliophilia, and Bibliomania: A History of the Book from Gutenberg to the Digital Age Prof. Mark Maier T/TH 2:30-3:45

Course Description The printed book as we know it today has a long and surprisingly complicated history. This course studies the history of printed books beginning with those produced by the first Gutenberg hand press (1450s) and continuing through the digital revolution of the 21st century, with an emphasis on the development of the book in England and the United States. Using illustrative examples from important books, we will examine the changing nature of the physical book, the intellectual impact of changes on authors and readers, and current and future trends in book publishing. In addition to these theoretical concerns, the course will also offer opportunities for students to handle rare books from Mossey Library’s special collections. Some students might wonder what a course in book production or the book as artifact has to offer them. Indeed, some critics claim that books are simply containers for ideas and that all that matters are the words, words that could just as easily be read on a screen as in a printed book. Others, however, argue that the physical characteristics or “bookness” of books matter, that paper, ink, bindings, even the smell impact the reading experience in a meaningful way. Given the fact that current technological advancements make it possible to conceive of a quite possibly bookless future, the examination of book as artifact can help modern readers understand and respond to modern trends from a broader historical context.

Specific topics discussed will include the following: ¥ The Gutenberg Bible and the English Bibles of the 16th and 17th century ¥ The Book of Common Prayer ¥ The publishing history of Shakespeare (particularly the story of The First Folio) ¥ Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language ¥ William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience ¥ Serialization and the Victorian novel ¥ James Joyce’s Ulysses ¥ The Fine Press Movement ¥ Paperback books and their impact on book culture in the 20th century ¥ The effects of the digital age on reading, book ownership, scholarship, etc.

Class attendance and participation 10% Weekly assignments / quizzes 10% Mid-term Exam 20% Annotated Bibliography 10% Major Paper and Presentation 30% Final Exam 20%

10 Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Departmental Announcements

v End of Semester Party for Majors and Potential Majors:

When: Friday evening, December 9th at 6pm Where: Location to be announced

v Spring Poetry Memorization Contest:

Announcing the First Ever “Distracted Globe Shakespeare Memorization Contest,” to be held in the Spring 2017…. Details forthcoming….. For now, follow the counsel of Odysseus: “Think of the glory!”

v Summer School 2017 Forecast

L. Murphy: Summer I: Eng. 201 D. Whalen: Summer I: Eng. 201 P. Bart: Summer I: Eng. 310 or Eng. 340, according to need. P. Bart: Summer II: Chaucer, Arthurian Literature, or Gardens in Literature (acc. to interest) D. Lindley: Summer I: Eng. 401: John Henry Newman J. A. Jackson: Summer I: Eng. 403: Reading Biblical Narrative B. Whalen: Summer I: Eng. 320 or Eng. 401: Shakespeare D. Kearney: Summer I Eng. 403: Contemporary Literature

11 The Hillsdale College English Major in Brief

The English major consists of at least 27 hours of English beyond 104-105 and 201. NB: English 201, Great Books Continental, is of course recommended, but that course fulfills the tier two core requirement in literature, and is not part of 27 hours of the English major.

For the major, students must take three of the four British Literature period courses: English 310 Anglo-Saxon and Medieval British Literature: 600-1500 English 320 Renaissance British Literature: 1500-1660 English 330 Restoration and Romantic British Literature: 1660-1830 English 340 Victorian and Modern British Literature: 1830-present Likewise, majors must take two of the three American Literature courses: English 350 American Literature: Colonial-1820 English 360 American Literature: 1820-1890 English 370 American Literature: 1890-present

As these courses together comprise the core of the major, students are encouraged to take as many as possible before venturing into the more specialized courses at the 400 level.

In addition to the 15-hour minimum in historical period courses, students must also take at least 12 hours (four courses) at the 400 level: English 401: Special Studies in British Literature English 402: Special Studies in American Literature English 403: Special Studies in Western Literature English 404: Special Studies in Genre, Literary Criticism and Writing

At least three of the four 400-level course areas must be represented, and at the instructor’s discretion, prerequisites among the 300-level courses may apply to a specific course at the 400 level.

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