English 166

Special Topics: Readings for Writers/Narrating the Nation

Section	Semester	Instructor	Time	Location	Course Areas
1	Spring 2009	Mukherjee, Bharati Mukherjee, Bharati (a.k.a. Blaise, B.)	TTh 3:30-5	155 Barrows	Special Topics

Other Readings and Media

Flaubert, G., Madame Bovary; Hawthorne, N., The Scarlet Letter; Fitzgerald, F.S., The Great Gatsby; Morrison, T., Beloved; Erdrich, L., Love Medicine; Mukherjee, B., Jasmine; Conrad, J., Heart of Darkness; Forster, E.M., Howards End; Rushdie, S., Midnight’s Children; Coetzee, J., Disgrace.

Description

This course will focus on each author’s representation or invention of foundational national myths. Students will explore the intimate connection between narrative strategy and construction of meaning.

Other Recent Sections of This Course

fall, 2022
166/1	Special Topics: Form and Invention in Native American Literature	Piatote, Beth

spring, 2022
166/1	Special Topics: Beckett	Danner, Mark
166/2	Special Topics	Naiman, Eric

summer, 2022
166/1	Special Topics: Epic Poetry	Delehanty, Patrick
166/2	Special Topics: The Rise of the Young Adult	Baker-Gibbs, Ariel
166/4	Special Topics: Introduction to Popular Fiction	Ghosh, Srijani

fall, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: Writing Race: Faulkner and his Progeny	Danner, Mark
166/2	Special Topics: Burn it Down/Build it Up: Protest, Dissent, and the Politics of Resistance	Saha, Poulomi
166/3	Special Topics: "Race, Social Class, Creative Writing, and Difference"	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/4	Special Topics: The Literature of the Fin de Siècle	Viragh, Atti

spring, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: The Graphic Memoir	Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
166/3	Special Topics: Hemingway and Masculinity	Danner, Mark
166/4	Special Topics: The Social Media of Literature	Zeavin, Hannah
166/5	Special Topics: Anton Chekhov	Muza, Anna

summer, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: Broadway Musicals	Drawdy, Miles
166/2	Special Topics: Law and Literature in the United States	de Stefano, Jason
166/3	Special Topics: Queer Tourism	Eisenberg, Emma Charlotte
166/4	Special Topics: Four Nobelists: Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Seamus Heaney	Nathan, Jesse

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
166/1	Special Topics: Medieval Fantasy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones	Stevenson, Max
166/2	Special Topics: Global Catastrophe and Modern Literature	Nathan, Jesse
166/3	Special Topics: The Broadway Musical	Drawdy, Miles

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