In this course, we will be reading British and Irish poetry and fiction from the Victorian period. We will read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kim, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde, and the poetry of Tennyson, Lear, Swinburne, and Yeats. The emphasis in the course will be on the relation of genre to reader response and on the sympathetic imagination required to enter other worlds and appreciate other worldviews. The coursework will consist of weekly short-answer quizzes and three assigned essays. This course will be taught via zoom online. The lecture-discussions also will be recorded and posted under the zoom tab on Canvas and it is possible to take the course entirely as an asynchronous course at your own pace, although bonus points will be available to those who attend and take the quizzes in real time.

 

Works representing main currents of modern American thought and literature.

 

This survey course will introduce students to the academic discourse surrounding science fiction in the academy. Focusing on the figure of the alien, students will read novels and short stories by authors including H.G. Wells, Stansilaw Lem, Nnedi Okorafor, J. Tiptree, and Nalo Hopkinson working to develop interpretations of what the extra-terrestrial represents, both metaphorically and symbolically, as it recurs in science fiction contexts.

 

Ezra Pound’s fiat ‘Make it new!’ sums up the preoccupation of many poets, visual artists, composers, and choreographers in the Modern Period, which falls roughly between Word War I and World War II. During this period for many poets a new aesthetic emerged which embraced fragmentation, disjunction, difficulty, dislocation, destabilization, and globalization or internationalism. Modern poets emphasized the importance of the imagination, which supplanted religion, with its many alternate worlds. Modernism is also characterized by a series of movements which erupted with tremendous energy, only to be replaced by still newer movements: symbolism, imagism, vorticism, objectivism, futurism, and the Harlem Renaissance (which drew on the blues, “folk” culture, and creoles). The poet John Ashbery (1927-2017) spoke of Marianne Moore as “our greatest modern poet,” while other poets and scholar-critics have pointed to W.B. Yeats as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Besides these two “greats,” we shall read and discuss other “greats”: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Hart Crane, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robert Frost, and W.H. Auden.

 

Traditions in dramatic literature: Realist, Naturalist, poetic, experimental (absurdist, etc.).

 

 An overview of American literature, including representative writers of the Colonial, Enlightenment and Romantic periods. 

max of 2 courses (6 credits) can be in lower division for the entire major

max of 2 courses (6 credits) can be in lower division for the entire major

This course takes as its focus the literary and (pop) cultural productions of North American-based Black and Latinx science fictioneers and their generative confrontations with the genre’s fraught colonial, gendered, and racialized technoscientific origins. By combining the rich insights of Black and Latinx Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and Science and Technology Studies, we will consider how Black and Latinx science fictioneers, past and present, appropriate the idioms of science and technology to (1) challenge essentialist narratives of gender, race, and sexuality and (2) to fashion non-normative and/or emancipatory (re)configurations of “gendered,” “raced,” and “sexed” bodies in their speculations of the future. Moreover, we will interrogate how (and to what end) sci-fi writers such as Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Ernest Hogan, Janelle Monáe, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, among others, complicate, reconceptualize, and expand the contours of the “science” in science fiction.

 

The seventeenth-century poet John Milton is a complex figure. Lauded by some as the greatest poet to write in English, he experienced and responded to some of the most dramatic political upheavals on English soil, including the English Civil Wars, the execution of King Charles I (which Milton defended), and the restoration of the monarchy. Milton has been praised by some as an ardent supporter of free speech, democratic government, and freedom of divorce at a time when it was radical and dangerous to espouse these views, but he has also been criticized by some for misogynistic portrayals of women, most notably in his divorce tracts and his epic poem Paradise Lost. This course will examine Milton’s complicated work and legacy by placing his poetry, prose, and drama in relation to its contemporary political, scientific, and theological contexts and reading it alongside less-studied work by seventeenth-century women writers such as Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, and Rachel Speght.

 

We will read nine plays by Shakespeare, with representative examples selected from his comedies, tragedies, and histories. Class discussion, which will focus very closely on the texts, will be accompanied by a generous supplement of video clips from a range of productions, including a cross-dressed staging. We will also screen a Bollywood adaptation of Othello. Among the perhaps unfamiliar contexts within which we will consider these plays are the concept of concordia discors, the conventions of Petrarchan love, and the history of the Wars of the Roses.

 

The British Middle Ages were more than just dragons and heroic boasts (Beowulf ) or headless knights and castle seductions (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ). In this course, we'll read a poetic reimagining of the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE, a French proto-feminist treatise, Old English poetic meditations on the body and soul, a Middle English romance, irreverent Old English riddles, a classical Arabic travel narrative, multilingual dream visions, a bawdy Middle Scots poem, and more. The literatures that we'll cover include texts in classical Arabic, Old and Middle English, Middle Scots, Middle Welsh, Old Irish, Medieval Latin, Old Norse, French of England, and Old French, which means our texts won't be confined to the British Isles but include more of the North Atlantic and Middle East. The Middle Ages was never a monochromatic reality, but rather, a dynamic period filled with multilingual, multicultural, and interfaith exchange, resulting in great literary and artistic production.

Classical Studies Certificate

 

This is an introductory course on the writing of literary short fiction and poetry. From the course catalog: “Guidance and criticism for beginners in writing prose fiction and poetry.” The course will help students to further understand and master the elements of fiction and poetry through: writing of original work, focused readings on craft, workshopping of peer work, and analysis of successful, published stories and poems. The course offers students the rare opportunity in college to create, learn from, and enjoy a community of writers.

Professional & Technical Writing Certificate

 

This is an introductory course on the writing of literary short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

Professional & Technical Writing Certificate

 

Guidance and criticism for beginners in writing prose fiction and poetry.

Professional & Technical Writing Certificate

 

Using elaborate tree diagramming and Chomskyan linguistic theory, the course will teach students to describe the structure of Modern English sentences. The textbook is Max Morenberg’s Doing Grammar.

English as a Second Language Studies Certificate

 

Concentrates on essentials of the short story form through emulations of varied modern authorial styles. Point of view, narrative form, voice, creating characters, tone and atmosphere are some of the topics covered. Students write several stories, revise and critique. Reading consists of single-author collections and anthology selections. Course may be repeated for credit once.

 

This course offers a combination of theoretical background and practical, hands-on experience in the field of literary magazine editing and publishing. Students produce Coastlines, FAU's undergraduate literary journal. Duties include evaluating submissions, editing, publicity, research, budget proposals and more.

Professional & Technical Writing Certificate

 

Studies in Writing & Rhetoric

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