English 166

Special Topics: Medieval Fantasy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones

Section	Semester	Instructor	Time	Location	Course Areas
1	Summer 2020	Stevenson, Max	MW 2-5		Special Topics

Description

Writers in the 20th and 21st centuries have continually looked to the Middle Ages — or, more to the point, to their idea of the Middle Ages — when constructing epic narratives in fantastic worlds. In this course we’ll ask what it is about the medieval that writers of fantasy find so useful, as well as consider what aspects of the medieval — especially race, gender, and sexuality — their accounts ignore. We’ll read both the medieval literature that modern fantasy draws on and works by (this is a likely list, but subject to change) J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as view film and television adaptations.

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spring, 2021
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166/2	Special Topics: Literature and Art at the Border	Padilla, Genaro M.
166/3	Special Topics: Autofictions and the Literature of Confession	Danner, Mark
166/4	Special Topics: The Social Media of Literature	Zeavin, Hannah

fall, 2020
166/1	Special Topics: Writing as Social Practice	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/3	Special Topics: The Age of Crisis	Strub, Spencer

spring, 2020
166/2	Special Topics: The Literature & Art of Incarceration	Padilla, Genaro M.
166/3	Special Topics: Moby-Dick	Breitwieser, Mitchell
166/4	Special Topics: Pomo: Exploring the Landscape of Postmodernism	Danner, Mark
166/5	Special Topics: American Humor: Books & Movies	Starr, George A.
166/6	Special Topics: Art of Writing: Grant Writing, Food Writing, Food Justice	Schweik, Susan
166/7	Special Topics: Arthurian Romance	Nolan, Maura

summer, 2020
166/2	Special Topics: Global Catastrophe and Modern Literature	Nathan, Jesse
166/3	Special Topics: The Broadway Musical	Drawdy, Miles

fall, 2019
166/1	Special Topics: Getting Global: Literature & Film of an Expanding & Unequal World	Saha, Poulomi
166/2	Special Topics: Literature in the Century of Film	Goble, Mark
166/3	Special Topics: Writing as Social Practice	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/4	Special Topics: Literatures of the Asian Diaspora in America	Lee, Steven S.
166/7	Special Topics: Charles Dickens	Breitwieser, Mitchell
166/8	Special Topics: Green Thought in a Green Shade	Turner, James Grantham
166/9	Special Topics: New Orleans	Wagner, Bryan
166/11	Special Topics: The Works of Vladimir Nabokov	Naiman, Eric

spring, 2019
166/1	Special Topics: Gothic	Duncan, Ian
166/2	Special Topics: Marxism and Literature	Gonzalez, Marcial
166/4	Special Topics: Poetry and Prose of Race and Social Class	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/5	Special Topics: Asian American Literature - World, Nation, Locality	Leong, Andrew Way
166/6	Special Topics: Realism, Then and Now	Cordes Selbin, Jesse
166/7	Special Topics: Anton Chekhov	Muza, Anna

fall, 2018
166/2	Special Topics: Alfred Hitchcock	Bader, Julia
166/3	Special Topics: Journeys: British World-Building, c. 700-1700	Miller, Jasmin
166/4	Special Topics: "this morning's minion": Sonic Mysticism in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson	Stancek, Claire Marie
166/5	Special Topics	Le, Serena

spring, 2018
166/1	Special Topics: Comedy & Violence	Flynn, Catherine
166/2	Special Topics: Romantic Science	Goldstein, Amanda Jo
166/3	Special Topics: Classical & Renaissance Drama	Knapp, Jeffrey
166/4	Special Topics: Marxism & Literature	Lye, Colleen
166/5	Special Topics: Emily Dickinson	Shoptaw, John
166/6	Special Topics: Speculative Fiction	Jones, Donna V.

summer, 2018
166/1	Special Topics: Speculative Fictions, Possible Futures	O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
166/2	Special Topics: Games of Thrones, Medieval to Modern	Strub, Spencer

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English 166

Special Topics: Medieval Fantasy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones

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