Announcement of Classes: Summer 2011

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Course #				Instructor	Course Area

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N117S/1 Shakespeare MTuTh 2-4 Session:	This course has a general purpose, to provide an intensive introduction toShakespeare by focusing closely on selected plays. It also has a specificmode of operation: we’ll consider important aspects of Shakespeare studies(new stagings, poetics, source...(read more)	Schweik, Susan Schweik, Susan	Shakespeare
N118/1 Milton MTuTh 10-12P Session:	In this course we will read two of Milton's most influential poems very, very closely. We'll read Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained closely both in order to understand Milton's style, his sense of poetic form, and his thinking about religion and po...(read more)	Puckett, Kent Puckett, Kent
N130A/1 American Literature: Before 1800 MTuTh 2-4P Session:	This course provides a survey of English-language American literature to 1800. We will explore a wide range of texts from narratives of discovery and exploration through the literature of the American Revolution and the formations of an early nationa...(read more)	Tamarkin, Elisa Tamarkin, Elisa	American Literature
N130D/1 American Literature: 1900-1945 MTuTh 10-12P Session:	A survey of American literature tracing the literary response to the emerging shape of modern life in the first decades of the twentieth century. We will read across a range of genres and styles to assess the particular influence of modernism and oth...(read more)	Goble, Mark Goble, Mark	American Literature
N132/1 American Novel TuTh 2-4P Session:	We will concentrate on the central issues deeded to the American novel by democratic ideology -- refusal and autonomy, loyalty, guilt, and atonement, futurity and the burden of the past -- and try to figure out how the formal innovations in the Americ...(read more)	Breitwieser, Mitchell Breitwieser, Mitchell	American Literature
N135/1 Literature of American Cultures MTuTh 4-6P Session:	This course will analyze the categories of “disability,” “race” and “ethnicity” critically. “Disability” as an identity category is always raced, whether we attend to that intersection or not, and people defined in racial terms are also always placed ...(read more)	Schweik, Susan Schweik, Susan	American Cultures
N166/1 Special Topics: A Critical Approach to Children's Literature MW 12-2P Session:	With a jump-start from the 19th century with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we will focus on books written for and/or read by children in the 20th and 21st centuries. Using a variety of critical techniques we will examine a range of texts (includi...(read more)	Wright, Katharine E. Wright, Katherine	Special Topics
N176/1 Literature and Popular Culture MTuTh 4-6P Session:	Detective narratives have been some of the most poplar forms of entertainment in the last century and a half. The narrative structures of the detective story have also been the favorites of scholars of narrative theory. I plan to look at some instan...(read more)	Hutson, Richard Hutson, Richard

There are no special instructions for Summer 2011 English Department courses, other than to note in which session each course is offered.

The following courses are offered in Session A (May 23-July 1): English N130A, N130D, and N176.

The following courses are offered in Session C (June 20-August 12): English N1A, N1B, N132, and N166.

The following courses are offered in Session D (July 5-August 12): English N117S, N118, and N135.