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Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 271)

Section: 01W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 8:15 am - 9:05 m
TBA

ENGL 271 01W is a writing intensive class.

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Section: 02W
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA

ENGL 271 02W is a writing intensive class.

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Section: 055
Instructor: J. Goetz
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

A poem teaches us how to read it-the class will work largely from this assumption. All our exercises will be in reading, and in articulating our experiences of reading. In this class, you may learn new ways of paying attention to language. You may also gain access to new expressive forms through a conscious sensitivity to their effects. You'll get practice in writing prose on poetry. And together we'll test the idea that in calling for our attention, poems call us to pay better attention to language, the world and each other. Ultimately, we'll be reading some wonderful poems in this class, and our experience of them will surpass our attempts to explain it.

Section: 056
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

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Section: 057
Instructor: L. Krueger
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

ENGL 272 teaches students about the history and contemporary relevance of theatrical performance. The course will also cover a wide range of topics from elements of production, play development, performance theories.  Through an intense textual study of early Greek drama, Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekhov, on through to the work of the Group Theatre, the off-Broadway and off-off Broadway movements, on to contemporary playwrights of the last two decades; students will be familiar with the diverse voices (of playwrights, directors, and actors) within the theatre that have brought centuries of entertainments and social change to the world. The course will also include viewings of local productions and the practical considerations of making live theatre that resonates long after the final blackout.

Section: 03W
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA

ENGL 273 03W is a writing intensive class.

Introduction to Fiction

This course is an introduction to structure and designs of prose fiction (short stories and novels).   In this module we will concentrate on the process of reading and interpretation of literature (student-reader responses).  A selection of short stories, accompanied by longer novels, will provide the basis of our investigation.  We will analyze and discuss the style, structure, and themes within each of these works, focusing on the technical language and philosophical interpretation of literary criticism.  Writers to be discussed are: James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O’Connor, Oscar Wilde, Carson McCullers and Herman Melville.

Section: 04W
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA

ENGL 273 - 04W is a writing intensive class

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Section: 058
Instructor: J. Vukmirovich
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
TR 10:00 am - 11:30 am
TBA

We first will read a number of short fiction works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Kate Chopin, in order to learn how fiction "works" (i.e form and structure, style and voice), how writers have used fiction to explore moral and ethical problems (good verses evil, racism, slavery, poverty), and how they also have used fiction to give voice to the marginalized of society. At the end of the semester, we will read one long novel, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, which will pretty much sum it all up. Ellison's novel costs $12.95; the other  works cost a total of $12.50. The texts for this class then, with tax, should just be a shade under $30. I can't make it more accessible to all of you than that. There will be four short papers (4-5 pages long) from a selection of possibile topics, a midterm and a final. Both the midterm and final will be identification/essay response.

Section: 059
Instructor: B. Frauhauff
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

In this course we will read novels and short stories from the late-18^th century to the present to gain a broad sense of the history of prose fiction, asking how stories speak to their age as well as our own and how and why we should read fiction anyway. After developing terms for analyzing and discussing stories, we will explore such topics as historical, cultural and biographical contexts; genres and conventions; and issues of identity such as race, class, gender and religion. One of the goals of the course will be to better understand one’s motivation in and practice of reading fiction.

Section: 060
Instructor: T. Whitt
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 am - 3:45 pm
TBA

Introduction to Fiction will focus both on short works of fiction and on the novel from a variety of time periods and genres.  Course work will include in-class discussion of the texts, short graded responses to the texts via Discussion Board in Blackboard, context quizzes, two interpretive papers, a midterm, and a comprehensive written final exam.  Short stories will drawn from on-line sources - you must be able to access the Internet to read and print off these stories for in-class discussion, as there will be no assigned textbook for the short stories.  The three novels we will cover in the second half of the course are as follows:

Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Choderlos de Laclos (in English)

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Mary Shelley

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Introduction to Shakespeare (ENGL 274)

Section: 05W
Instructor: H. Cramond
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA

In this course, we will study eight of Shakespeare’s plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories and romances, as well as eight of his sonnets.  The class will explore literary sources may have influenced him, political issues at the time he was writing, and the repetition of themes, images, and dramatic devices throughout his development as a writer.  We will also explore the various ways his plays have been produced and interpreted in accordance with changing critical theories and dramatic conventions.  Students may be required to see a production of Othello at Chicago Shakespeare on Navy Pier.

Section: 061
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

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Section: 062
Instructor: M. Jarenski
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

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Section: 06W
Instructor: M. Jarenski
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 277 06W is a writing intensive class.

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Section: 063
Instructor: D. Braud
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA

This section will focus on novels, poetry, drama and short stories produced in the United States after the Civil War. Topics will include, but are not limited to; the construction of gender, class, and race as socially-defined descriptors, and how these are upheld or questioned in literary works; an analysis of literary movements in the United States during this period; the interaction between literary production and the larger social forces which help to shape form and content. Authors include, but are not limited to, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, HD, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, and Mohsin Hamid.

Section: 07W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 278 07W is a writing intensive class.

This course will chart the development of Modernism in American literature and culture from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its ascendancy and dominance throughout the greater part of the twentieth.  The authors we will read—among them, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Hart Crane, Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bishop—address the perennial American issues, but they do so within the context of a dialogue with the forces that give Modernism its distinctive character. Our first question will be historical: for these authors, what does it mean to be “Modern?” Our second question will be cultural: what does it mean to be American in the Modern period?

Section: 604
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

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Section: 065
Instructor: A. Higl
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA

Games are an important part of leisure and entertainment in any society. Today, we are surrounded by highly visible games and competitions such as Major League Baseball, American Idol, the presidential race, or the latest version of the video game Halo. In the Middle Ages, games and sports served an important social function. In this course, we will work towards a definition of the term game and the term play. How broadly can we use the terms? How did these terms function within the literature and public culture of the Middle Ages? We will look at the narration of games in literature, the function of literary and textual activities as games, and the games played in society for leisure and social interaction. We will read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, selections from The Canterbury Tales, selections from cycle drama, Morte d’Arthur, and other literary texts. We will also read some primary and secondary accounts of games and sports played in medieval public culture.

Section: 08W
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 279-08W is a writing intensive class

What were "the Middle Ages" about in England? The period stretched, by most measures, from the 7th century to the 15th, some 800 years of history, literature, and life. Hallmarks include Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, works almost all of us have read, in part at least, in high school. We will, in addition, read texts about various conflicts that helped to shape what would come to be known as "medieval English culture." These conflicts include conversion (what has to happen to change a people's belief to a religion?), labor and the environment (how do texts help to manage work and resources in a social system?), warfare (how does one people handle its conflicts with another?), and, especially, gender (what do texts tell us about how one became a man or a woman?). We will use two texts: The Medieval Period, part of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (2006), and Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (2002). At Beck's Books.

Section: 09W
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 279-09W is a writing intensive class

Medieval masculinities: visions and variations on a theme  

In this class we will be reading selected narratives and then watching film versions of these same narratives that dramatize ideals of men and masculinities during the medieval period.  The ideal of the warrior-hero (Beowulf, for example) transforms into versions of the chivalric ideal, the knightly hero who can be found in the context of Arthurian romance (Lancelot, Tristan and Gawain, for example).  We will investigate the way in which these written narratives transform into contemporary visualizations of medieval ideals, whether Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac or Hollywood’s First Knight; we can trace the way in which these ideals, these masculinities, have been historically and culturally constructed and yet have been translated into contemporary cultural currency.  This class is writing intensive; there will be regular short response papers to movies and readings, as well as several short papers and a longer final paper or project.  

(crosslisted with BWS 282)

Section: 064
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 282 064 is a writing intensive class.

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Section: 065
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

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NOTE:  The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.

Section: 10W
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA

ENGL 282 10W is a writing intensive class.

This course serves as an introduction to African American literary production. In addition to reading and interpreting works by major black writers from the era of slavery to the contemporary present, we will discuss the major shifts and movements that have constituted the black literary tradition.  Some questions we will consider are: What is African American literature? What are some major themes and concerns that have defined African-American literature? How have certain writers attempted to break from the notion of a “black aesthetic?” And, where does the future of African-American literature seem to point? To help us address these questions, we will conduct close readings of “representative” texts from each significant African-American literary period alongside a critical or historical essay that will help to inform our readings of the texts and our class discussions. The course is structured as a seminar (though I will lecture occasionally) and participation is expected from all students.

Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.

(crosslisted with WOST 283)

Section: 066
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA

Women in love, women on love 

Sappho calls it “sweet-bitter” though it is usually translated as “bitter-sweet.”  Literature offers readers innumerable stories of burning passion, passionate lovers consumed by the flames of their own desire.  Some of those lovers whose stories we know so well belong to the realm of myth, while others have no names, no claim to fame other than the searing heat of desire.  In this course we will be reading a range of texts that attempt to give expression to the experience of this “bitter-sweet,” the “icy fire” of those delectable torments belonging to the occasion of “love.”  We will read texts by Lawrence, Hemingway, Duras, and Jelinek, among others; we will watch films by directors such as Campion, Resnais/Duras, and Fassbinder.  This will enable us to explore notions of “love,” “passion,” “desire” or even “lust” as these have been constructed and constrained within the limits of patriarchal culture and patriarchal myth-making; we will investigate the possibility of experiencing and understanding the “bitter-sweet” of erotic passion and desire otherwise – from the perspective of a woman loving a man, or a woman loving another woman.  Since this is a writing intensive course, there will be regular short papers and a longer final paper or project.

Section: 067
Instructor: N. Kalich
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

The problem and question of representation has long been a source of critical discussion in both feminism and literature.  This course will engage in that discussion by not only examining and analyzing representations of women in a variety of time periods, but also re-presentations of women in more contemporary literature and film.  The literature in this class will focus on visions and revisions of women, and why there seems to be a “remixing” trend in contemporary novels about women.  Fiction will include, but not be limited to, Austen’s Jane Eyre, Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Cunningham’s The Hours, and Atwood’s The Robber Bride.  Students will also be reading some of the criticism surrounding these texts, as well as criticism that focuses on the more general issues of feminism that are exhibited in the literature of the course.  Course assignments will include three essays, oral presentations, quizzes throughout the term, and a final exam.  Participation will also be a factor in the determination of the final grade.

Section: 068
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA

Course description not yet available

Section: 11W
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 283-11W is a writing intensive class

Women in love, women on love 

Sappho calls it “sweet-bitter” though it is usually translated as “bitter-sweet.”  Literature offers readers innumerable stories of burning passion, passionate lovers consumed by the flames of their own desire.  Some of those lovers whose stories we know so well belong to the realm of myth, while others have no names, no claim to fame other than the searing heat of desire.  In this course we will be reading a range of texts that attempt to give expression to the experience of this “bitter-sweet,” the “icy fire” of those delectable torments belonging to the occasion of “love.”  We will read texts by Lawrence, Hemingway, Duras, and Jelinek, among others; we will watch films by directors such as Campion, Resnais/Duras, and Fassbinder.  This will enable us to explore notions of “love,” “passion,” “desire” or even “lust” as these have been constructed and constrained within the limits of patriarchal culture and patriarchal myth-making; we will investigate the possibility of experiencing and understanding the “bitter-sweet” of erotic passion and desire otherwise – from the perspective of a woman loving a man, or a woman loving another woman.  Since this is a writing intensive course, there will be regular short papers and a longer final paper or project.

Introduction to Film History (ENGL 284)

Section: 069
Instructor: G. Phillips SJ
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TBA
M 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm LECT
F 1:40 pm - 3:30 pm SCRN

The relationship of cinema to fiction and drama is studied by tracing the first half century of film history from Chaplin through Hitchcock. Representative films will be screened, but contractual agreements require that the screenings be open to class members only. The primary text will be Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema by Gene Phillips, S.J. Lectures, discussion, one term paper, midterm and final essay exams.

Section: 12W
Instructor: A. Kessel
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
CL-318

ENGL 284 12W is a writing intensive class.

This course will examine the history of global cinema from 1930-1970, considering film as a visual and narrative art form, as well as a technology and an economic enterprise. We will view, discuss, and write about movies and film makers from various nations, including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, India, Sweden, Great Britain and -- of course -- the United States.

Section: 070
Instructor: A. Bonvicini
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

Nature: green and luminous on the one hand, terrifying and tempestuous on the other.  We will read texts from different eras of human literary history, noting how people in successive eras saw the workings of “nature” in the ongoing drama of human affairs.  Readings will include dramatic texts ranging from the Classical era thru the modern period, from Sophocles to Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot.  These texts will be available at the Loyola Bookstore.  Requirements will include, but are not limited to, the following: two course papers, two examinations, and avid participation and discussion.

Section: 13W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 288 13W is a writing intensive class.

We will treat the idea of  “Nature” in the broadest possible sense, as that which is other than us, and we will be reading texts that provide the widest possible historical range of attitudes toward it, discussing them in the historical sequence in which they occur.  The syllabus will include the following texts: the Bhagavad Gita; Plato’s  Phaedrus; the Book of Job from the Old Testament; St. Paul’s Epistles; Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; a selection of poems by William Wordsworth; Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Society and Literature (ENGL 289)

Section: 080
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA

In this class we will read, discuss, write about, and view scenes from nine of Shakespeare’s plays, representing comedy, history play, tragedy, and tragicomedy:  The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, 1 Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest.  We will consider Shakespeare’s theatre, the relationship between text and performance, the varying reception of Shakespeare’s plays over time, dramatic genre, and topics such as family relationships and issues of race, religion, class, and gender.  If possible, we will attend a performance of Othello at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.  We will also attend the McElroy Shakespeare Celebration on Shakespeare and Islam.  Requirements: three essays (including a research paper), brief in-class tests, final exam, class participation.

Section: 604
Instructor: E. Byville
3.0 credit hours Lecture 
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in the English canon; he is also one of the most versatile. Instead of specializing in one literary niche, Shakespeare produced masterworks in several mainstream genres of his period, such as comedy and tragedy, and also in subcategories that are harder to define, such as tragicomedy, "problem plays," romance, and satire. This course will pay special attention to the satiric dimension of Shakespeare’s plays. As a literary mode, “satire” cuts across the traditional generic divisions of Shakespeare’s canon (comedy, history, tragedy); it emerges in melancholy figures such as the title character of Hamlet, and in the cynical social criticism of plays such as King Lear. Although it has a special focus on satire, the course will cover a number of Shakespeare’s major works in the central genres, and will examine persistent themes such as family crisis, loss of identity, madness, imitation, fidelity, melancholy and love. In addition to shorter assignments, students will write two papers and a final exam. The required text is The Norton Shakespeare (ed. Greenblatt), which will be available at Beck’s.