Fall 2007

Fall07 AML2010 01
American Authors to 1875
Cristobal Silva

This course is a survey of American literary history from the European conquests to the mid-nineteenth century. While the course is intended to help students develop their close reading and critical writing skills, we will do so by continually interrogating our notions of what "America" is, of how writers and thinkers have tried to express what it means to be American, and of what it is that literary critics do. Authors we will read include Winthrop, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Franklin, Equiano, Wheatley, Murray, Emerson, Hawthorne, Douglass, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman.

Fall07 AML2600 02
African-American Literary Tradition
Jerrilyn McGregory 644 3161, WMS 458, jmcgregory@english.fsu.edu

A survey of the canonical works of African Americans, typically including Douglass, Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker.

Fall07 AML2600 03
African-American Literary Tradition
Maxine Montgomery 644-1906, WMS 433, mmontgomery@english.fsu.edu

A survey of the canonical works of African Americans, typically including Douglass, Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker.

Fall07 AML2600 04
African-American Literary Tradition
Staff

A survey of the canonical works of African Americans, typically including Douglass, Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker.

Fall07 AML2600 05
African-American Literary Tradition
Maxine Montgomery 644-1906, WMS 433, mmontgomery@english.fsu.edu

A survey of the canonical works of African Americans, typically including Douglass, Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker.

Fall07 AML2600 06
Honors Introduction to African American Literature: Literary Politics and Politics in Literature
Robert Patterson

The purpose of this honors seminar is to introduce students to some of the seminal texts and authors that have shaped the field of African American literary studies. Through fiction, drama, autobiography, poetry, short stories, spirituals, and critical essays, we will explore formal and thematic concerns that simultaneously unite and disjoin African American literature and the African American literary tradition. To that end, we will interrogate the ways in which the literary texts engage historical events (slavery, Reconstruction, WWI, WW II, the Civil Rights movement), legal events (segregation and integration) and activist events (the women's liberation movements, gay and lesbian rights movements, and the black feminist movements), and social practices (racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia), while also considering the emergence, re-emergence, and reconfigurations of ideologies, themes, concepts, and formal techniques within African American literature and the literary tradition. While previous familiarity with African American literature is not a requirement for this course, regular attendance and a firm commitment to succeed are! Authors will include: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and August Wilson. Reading assessments, three 4-5 page essays, an annotated bibliography, class participation, and attendance will determine course grade.

Fall07 AML3041 01
American Authors Since 1875
Staff

Significant works by representative Realists, Literary Naturalists, Modernists, and contemporary writers. Authors typically covered include Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, Eliot, Hemingway, Frost, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Wright, Baldwin, Morrison, and O'Connor.

Fall07 AML3041 02
American Authors Since 1875
Staff

Fall07 AML3311 01
Major Figures in American Literature
Staff

Examination of selected works of major American writers.

Fall07 AML3311 02
Major Figures in American Literature
Staff

Examination of selected works of major American writers.

Fall07 AML3311 03
Major Figures in American Literature
Staff

Examination of selected works of major American writers.

Fall07 AML3311 04
Major Figures in American Literature
Staff

Examination of selected works of major American writers.

Fall07 AML3630 01
Latino/a Literature
Cadence Kidwell 645 0104, WMS 456, ckidwell@english.fsu.edu

The purpose of this interactive class is to understand who Latino/as are through their contemporary writings and to understand what Latino/as add to our understanding of American culture. We will investigate literature written by Americans of Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, Cuban and Mexican heritages. (Latino/a writers are men and women writers with a Latin American heritage raised in the United States. In this course they will be writing in English.) The goals of this course are to: analyze literature in relation to its cultural context, to provide a background in Latino/a literature, and to develop critical skills through writing. Final grades are determined by performance on Inquiry Papers (2), Peer Review of Inquiry Papers (3), Discussion Boards (8), a (Team) Study Guide, and a Take-Home Final Exam. The reading list includes: In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez; Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia; 90 Miles, Virgil Suarez; Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Philip Santos; Tattooed Soldier, Hector Tobar; Drown, Junot Diaz

Fall07 AML3673 01
Asian American Literature
Chris Shinn 644-7430, WMS 432, cshinn@english.fsu.edu

This course introduces students to selected works of Asian American literature, focusing on Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Cambodian, and Vietnamese American writers. Common topics include issues of diaspora, dislocation and cross-culturality.

Fall07 AML3682 01
American Multi-Ethnic Literature
Chris Shinn 644-7430, WMS 432,

Introduction to cross-cultural literary traditions, looking at historical rationales and interconnections among communities as well as vital differences.

Fall07 AML3682 02
American Multi-Ethnic Literature
Staff

Introduction to cross-cultural literary traditions, looking at historical rationales and interconnections among communities as well as vital differences.

Fall07 AML4111 01
19th c. American Novel
Paul Outka 644-2619, WMS 228, paul.outka@english.fsu.edu

In this course we will read a wide range of nineteenth-century American novels, with a concern to bring into dialogue well-known and lesser-known works, particularly around issues of racial identity and gender identity. Readings include works by James Fennimore Cooper, Lydia Marie Childs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Harriet Wilson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Stephen Crane and others.

Fall07 AML4111 02
19th c. American Novel
Staff

This course introduces students to the American novel, from Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper to Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and Crane.

Fall07 AML4121 03
The 20th-Century American Novel
Staff

This course introduces students to the American novel, including such authors as Kate Chopin, Henry James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Stein, Wright, Ellison, Pynchon, Updike, Morrison, and DeLillo.

Fall07 AML4261
Literature of the South: The Undead Past
Diane Roberts 644 1749, WMS 434, droberts@english.fsu.edu

In this course we will look at the ways history has shaped (some would say warped) the Southern Present. Authors studied include Poe, Chesnutt, Chopin, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison. Students will produce frequent essays and one large research project.

Fall07 AML4604 01
The African American Literary Tradition
Staff

An examination of selected works by major African American writers.

Fall07 AML4604 02
The African American Literary Tradition
Staff

An examination of selected works by major African American writers.

Fall07 AML4604 03

Staff

An examination of selected works by major African American writers.

Fall07 AML4604 01
Movements, Clashes, and Definitional Shifts: 20th Century African American Literature and Literary C
Robert Patterson

This course will examine African American literary criticism from the beginning of the 20th century until the present, considering the key developments and conversations that have defined and transformed this field of study. In accordance with the text from which we will draw our literary criticism, our investigation will be divided into critical periods, including 1) the Harlem Renaissance, 2) Humanistic/Ethical Criticism and the Protest Tradition, 3) The Black Arts Movement, 4) Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the African American Critic, and 5) Gender, Theory, and African American Feminist Criticism. Furthermore, we will read novels, poems, plays, and short stories, analyzing the ways in which they influence and are influenced by the various modes of criticism that we are investigating. While we will move chronologically through these periods, we will not consider African American literary criticism or literature as developing linearly. Although previous familiarity with African American literature is not a requirement for this course, regular attendance and a firm commitment to succeed are! Authors will include: W.E.B. Dubois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, asha bandele, Toni Morrison, and Colson Whitehead. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (1994) Ed. Angelyn Mitchell will be the primary text from which we will draw our literary criticism. Reading assessments, two 3-4 page essays, a mid-term examination, a final examination essay, class participation, and attendance will determine course grade.

Fall07 AML4680r
Studies in Ethnic Literature
Staff

Advanced study offering a survey of a particular ethnic literary tradition and adopting a cultural studies model.

Fall07 CRW3110
Fiction Technique
Staff

Analysis of and exercises in the elements of fiction: point of view, conflict, characterization, tone, and image.

Fall07 CRW3311 01
Poetic Technique
Staff

For aspiring poets and critics. Study of the elements of poetry, some practice in writing poetry.

Fall07 CRW3311
Poetic Technique
Barbara Hamby 644 4131, WMS 454, bhamby@english.fsu.edu

This class is a basic introduction to the writing of poetry. We study the fundamentals of poetic craft, including images, line, voice, diction, and syntax. We will begin with contemporary free verse poetry and move on to contemporary formal poetry, ending the semester with classes on performance poetry and language poetry. Each student will write at least ten poems, revise each poem at least once, and have his or her work critiqued by the class at least once during the semester. However, the greater part of the class will be devoted to discussing craft and a wide variety of contemporary poems. We will use The Poet?s Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux and a compendium of poems compiled by the professor.

Fall07 CRW4120r
Fiction Workshop
Staff

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Practice in short story, novella, or novel. Students will be expected to work toward submission and publication of manuscripts. May be repeated for a total of twenty-four (24) hours credit.

Fall07 CRW4320r
Poetry Workshop
Staff

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. For poets who approach excellence and aspire toward publication. May be repeated for a total of twenty-four (24) hours credit.

Fall07 ENC1101 All
First-Year Composition and Rhetoric
Staff

This course is designed with the major purpose of helping students grow as writers and critical thinkers. The major text for the course is the students' own writing. Students write either four papers taken through a series of drafts, or in some sections, they write three papers and complete a multi-media project, for a total of 22-25 pages of polished writing by the end of the semester. Students receive frequent written and oral feedback to their writing from both their teacher and peers and spend class time discussing readings from the common text, Wendy Bishop's On Writing, working on invention exercises, workshopping each others' writing, and working on in-class writing exercises. Teachers meet with students twice each semester in individual conferences. Regular class attendance and participation is required in this class in which students are active participants and learners.

Fall07 ENC1102 All
First-Year Writing, Reading, and Research
Staff

This course is designed to focus on helping students grow as writers and thinkers by learning to critically read and analyze the texts of their lives that bombard them each day: billboards, websites, paintings, photos, essays, poems, memoirs, movies, tv shows, advertisements, etc. Students typically write three papers taken through a series of drafts for a total of 22-25 polished pages of writing and often complete a multi-media project which might include an electronic portfolio of their writing. The course includes a research component that offers instruction in how to conduct research and write an essay in which the student correctly refers to outside sources, includes parenthetical documentation, and constructs a works cited page. Students receive frequent written and oral feedback to their writing from both their teacher and peers and spend class time discussing readings from the common text, Robert Atwans' Convergences, working on invention exercises, workshopping each others' writing, and working on in-class writing exercises. Teachers meet with students twice each semester in individual conferences. Regular class attendance and participation is required in this class in which students are active participants and learners.

Fall07 ENC3310 All
Article and Essay Workshop
Staff

Writing of nonfiction prose. Papers totaling 8,000 words. Five private conferences. For students above the freshman level. May be repeated to a maximum of six (6) semester hours.

Fall07 ENC4311 03
Advanced Article and Essay Workshop
David Vann 645 7629, WMS 442, david@davidvann.com

Memoir, personal essay, travel writing, adventure writing, and nature writing. One could include other genres, but these are the five we?ll address in this course. We?ll consider memoir in relation to fiction and confession, with a brief look back to Augustine. For personal essay, we?ll start with Aristotle and the critical essay, then discuss Seneca, Montaigne, Addison, and Swift before jumping into our own time. We?ll consider travel and adventure writing in relation to each other and to memoir, and nature writing in relation to the British Romantics and American Transcendentalists. We?ll look at possibilities and limitations in each genre, and I hope these discussions will carry over into the workshop as we consider your own works in progress. We?ll discuss language and craft in detail, including structure and strategies for revision. We?re attempting a useful workshop, in other words, against the backdrop of a brief but broad survey of the field.

Fall07 ENC4311 05
Advanced Article and Essay Workshop
Ned Stuckey-French 644-2638, WMS 419, nstuckey-french@english.fsu.edu

Our emphasis in this course will be on the essay (as opposed to the article). Creative nonfiction is a large, shaggy, often undefined beast that ranges along a spectrum that stretches from articles based on research all the way to lyrical essays that approach prose poems. The personal essay sits at the center of that spectrum and often incorporates research, dramatized scenes and personal reflection.

The personal essay is a genre in which we might search for who we are and what we think, but it transcends a journal or diary entry in that it is meant to communicate with a reader about a subject larger than one's self. Essayists investigate all sorts of subjects (e.g., natural history, personal history, politics, philosophy, etc.) and employ various techniques (e.g., exposition, narration, dialogue, etc.). Our goals will be to begin to learn to read and write as essayists. We will read published essays as models, employ exercises to get started, try our hand a several subgenres of the form, and revise at least one piece with an eye to publication.

Fall07 ENC4500 01
Theories of Composition
Kristie Fleckenstein 644 3530, WMS 447, kfleckenstein@english.fsu.edu

This course will examine writing in a digital age, specifically looking at the implications of 1) popular culture and 2) digital media, including Facebook and MySpace for composing and teaching composition. We will explore the idea of ?situated? or ?local? literacies, determining the range of language behaviors that students bring into the classroom with them. We will also explore how we might create activities to build on those literacies. Projects will include one multimedia composition, one print composition, and an innovative activity involving ?literacy play.?

Fall07 ENG3014 01
Critical Issues in Literary Theory
Barry Faulk 644-6530, WMS 219, bfaulk@english.fsu.edu

The class surveys key texts in modern and contemporary literary theory. There's a wide range of reading: from poetics, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and philosophy (Kant, Baudelaire, Marx, Freud, Saussure) to contemporary feminism, gender theory, deconstruction, and neo-Marxism (Laura Mulvey, Judith Butler, Derrida, Baudrillard, Adorno, and Walter Benjamin). Literary Theory is a relatively modern phenomenon, and knowing more about its historical context helps us better grasp its aims. We?ll discuss how literary theory developed in response to new concepts of ?literature,? the rise of mass literacy, and academic literary study. We'll read modern and postmodern theory along with modern and postmodernist narratives: which means we'll consider both how Russian Formalism helps us read Virginia Woolf, and how Woolf?s fiction contextualizes Formalist theory. Required texts include The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory, Virginia Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway, William Gibson?s Neuromancer.

Fall07 ENG3014 04
Critical Issues in Literary Theory
Robin Goodman 644-9234, WMS 324, rgoodman@english.fsu.edu

This course introduces students to some of the key components in contemporary critical theory. It gives students a chance to consider some of the difficult vocabulary, the conceptual issues, concerns, debates, and the framing of arguments, positions, and traditions that compose literary and cultural scholarship today.

Fall07 ENG3014 05
Critical Issues in Literary Studies
Caroline (Kay) Picart 644 0734, WMS 453, kpicart@english.fsu.edu

This introductory course enables students to wrestle with several fundamental problems that lie between critical theory, literature and philosophy. Questions of interest include: the nature of mimesis or representation; the reader's relation to the text; whether ethics matter in relation to the creation and reception of literature; what is the nature of aesthetic pleasure; what roles expression and emotion play in the generation and interpretation of texts; and whether literary texts, as art objects, are independent of external relations and depend upon a unique system of internal relations, among other questions.

Fall07 ENG3310 01
Film Genres
Caroline (Kay) Picart 644 0734, WMS 453, kpicart@english.fsu.edu

Film as a means of exploring the problems of genre studies: relationship to literary genres, historical continuity, transformation of genre in the film medium.

Fall07 ENG3600 01
Hollywood Cinema
Staff

This course surveys central problems in the study of mainstream U.S. cinema. Topics include major historical developments, arguments over social and aesthetic value, and close examination of critically important films.

Fall07 ENG4932 02
Topics in English: Imagining the Text
Elaine Treharne 644 5191, WMS 422, etreharne@mac.com

This module aims to introduce students to manuscript studies across traditional literary periods, from the earliest English texts to works of contemporary writing. We shall investigate how texts are created, adapted, and presented, focusing particularly on what we might mean by a "TEXT", when so many literary works are the result of multiple interventions. During this course, students will acquire a number of valuable transferable skills that result from the meticulous reading and informed textual criticism of literary texts in original, manuscript form. The weekly transcription of prose and poetry will introduce students to the skills of codicology (the study of the physical make-up of manuscripts), palaeography (the describing of ancient scripts), transcription (the reading of texts from manuscript) and editing (the conversion of original manuscript texts into modern readable forms). Once these skills have been acquired, students will also develop and practice subsequent tools useful to numerous careers: copy-editing, proof-reading, bibliographical compilation, and blurb writing.

Fall07 ENG4932 03
Hemingway at the Millenium
John Fenstermaker 644 1352, WMS 223B, jfenstermaker@english.fsu.edu

Why read Ernest Hemingway in the twenty-first century? Many reasons, for instance--Critical Importance: the over-400 books and articles published on Hemingway in the '60s grew in number by more than 40% in the '70s, and the numbers continue to explode; in 1995, the MLA Bibliography recorded more published scholarship devoted to Hemingway than to any other American writer of the 20th century and more to him than to any American writer in any period, except for Melville and James. Centrality in cultural debates over gender: "Ernest Hemingway was born at a time (1899) when the position of women--at least within the white, middle-class world he inhabited--was undergoing major change. It is not an overstatement to say that this dislocation of sexual traditions and assumptions about gender roles, this reconstruction of gender, was in some sense a trauma for Hemingway and for others in his generation. When he arrived at young manhood, there was a struggle--fierce but only partly recognized--between men and women over personal and sexual freedom, economic independence, and political power. That war between the sexes had a decisive effect on his thinking and writing about women, and anyone who wants to understand the confused history of gender relations in twentieth-century America would do well to read him closely" (Rena Sanderson, The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway, 1996). Texts will include The Complete Short Stories, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, The Old Man and the Sea.

Fall07 ENG4932 04

David Gants 644-2629, WMS316, dgants@fsu.edu

Over the past fifteen years, the rapid adoption of networked computer resources has caused unparalleled changes in the way humans interact with one another. This class is an introduction to this evolving digital culture, with twin emphases on the techniques, tools, and theoretical underpinnings of digital technologies as well as the social institutions they have spawned. While the syllabus includes a substantial amount of reading, the primary pedagogical focus of the course will be an exploration of the various modes of computer-mediated negotiations in which we engage every day. Students will work both in and out of class on a series of exercises designed to familiarize them with on-line materials. Work over the semester will lead to a final collaborative project where students will have the opportunity to concentrate on an area of special interest. This course does not presume any prior experience with technology, although students should have ready access to a networked computer for course work.

Fall07 ENG4934 01
Senior Seminar: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Early Modern Literature
Bruce Boehrer 644-3029, WMS 112A, bboehrer@english.fsu.edu

This seminar will introduce students to the major theorists of ecocriticism and animal studies (e.g., Singer, Merchant, Bookchin, Agamben, Latour) and will apply their theories to a reading of early modern English texts by such authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Jonson.

Fall07 ENG4934 02
Senior Seminar: Studies in Popular Culture
Leigh Edwards 644 8918, WMS 323, ledwards@english.fsu.edu

This course examines theories of popular culture and the emergence of mass culture. We will take seriously George Lipsitz's claim that "perhaps the most important facts about people have always been encoded within the ordinary and the commonplace." Paying particular attention to the relationship between literature and popular culture, we will analyze strategies of reading and reception as well as constructions of ideology in this material, including categories such as gender, race, class, and nation. The course interrogates designations such as "high," "pop," "mass," and "folk" as well as concepts of subculture, counterculture, and youth culture. We will focus particular attention on television and popular music, although we will also consider popular fiction, advertising, and consumer culture. We will explore key theories and methodologies, including cultural studies, Marxism, political economy, populism, audience studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, and postmodernism. Our focus will be on U.S. culture, but we will consider questions of globalization and make use of transnational critical frameworks.

Fall07 ENG4934 04
Senior Seminar: Black and White and Read All Over: Stories of the Color Line
Dennis Moore 644-1177, WMS 416, dmoore@english.fsu.edu

W. E. B. Du Bois knew, more than a century ago, that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line" (Souls of Black Folk). The problems hardly began with the 1900s, nor have they ended here in this new century. We'll immerse ourselves in a series of fictional texts that we'll frame with two autobiographical writings, one antebellum and one from the late 1990s. The thread tying all these readings together is the strategy that the Oxford Companion to African American Literature describes as "the act of crossing the socially constructed 'color line' that separates white and black Americans," i.e., passing. We'll read, talk about, and write about Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; plenty of materials from the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Ed., and from the Oxford Companion I mention above; Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; and Gregory Williams' Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black. Emphasis will be on discussion, so we can learn from the texts and from each other; meanwhile, I welcome questions and suggestions at dmoore@english.fsu.edu.

Fall07 ENG4934 05
Senior Seminar: Geographies of Early American Literary History
Cristobal Silva

This course will draw from a broad cultural, literary, and historical cross-section to investigate colonial encounters with American geographies. Our aim will be to think through the theological, literary, and aesthetic formulae that shaped conceptions of space on the American continent, and to think about how the spatial experiences of colonial wilderness impacted upon American identities. At each moment of our investigation, we will test the limits of terms such as America, space, geography, nature, and exploration so that we may arrive at a better understanding of the cultural imaginings of landscape and identity; we will, for example, seek to understand how conceptions of space are unexpectedly framed by race and gender, as well as by politics and aesthetics. Writers may included Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca's, Harriot, Bradford, Rowlandson, Kemble Knight, Brockden Brown, and Cooper, among others.

Fall07 ENG4934 06
Senior Seminar: Topics in Renaissance Literature
Elizabeth Spiller 645-1543, WMS 427, espiller@fsu.edu

This course offers an introduction to the works and ideas that defined Renaissance literature and does so from the perspective of the scientific inventions and discoveries of the early modern age. The Renaissance is a remarkable age--beginning in Columbus and Vespucci's voyages to the New World, Copernicus's startling claims about universe, and Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Reading works by Amerigo Vespucci, Galileo, Robert Hooke, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and John Milton, we will see how the inventions of science and the discovery of facts also led unexpectedly to the creation of fiction. Emphasis on major writers and thinkers of the period, with a secondary critical focus on thinking about how we organize knowledge into categories and disciplines.

Fall07 ENG4938
Honors Seminar: What Was Cyberpunk?
Amit Rai 645-1459, WMS 226, arai@english.fsu.edu

(Open only to students enrolled in the Honors in the Major program) This course explores the cultural, philosophical, technological, and bodily implications of the cyberpunk movement. According to one commentator, ?Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, a ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.? Beginning with early cybernetic theory (Norbert Weiner, Claude Shannon, Margaret Mead), we explore the connection between what Katherine Hayles has termed ?embodiment? and cybernetic theory after the Second World War. We take up the question of information and the body in the fictional works of Bernard Wolfe (Limbo), Phillip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), and William Burroughs (The Ticket that Exploded). We then pursue the implications of this body of work in the theoretical work of second and third wave cybernetics?Humberto Maturana, Fancisco Varela, Donna Harraway, Mark Hansen, and Manuel Delanda?and literary works by Paul Di Filippo (Ciphers: A Post-Shannon Rock 'N' Roll Mystery), William Gibson (Neuromancer), and Octavia Butler (Parable of the Sower). Through these works we will pay special attention to the question of how the body changes in and beyond representation through dynamic connections with technologies, social institutions, other bodies, and desires. We will also screen films influenced by the cyberpunk movement, such as: Screamers (1996), Minority Report (2002), Paycheck (2003), Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly (2006), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Brazil (1985), Gattaca (1997), The Matrix series.

Fall07 ENL2012
British Authors: Beginnings to 1800
Staff

Survey of important English literary works intended for students in Liberal Studies and those exploring a literature major. Among the authors typically considered are Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton.

Fall07 ENL2022
British Authors: 1800-Present
Staff

Survey of important English literary works intended for students in liberal studies and those exploring a literature major. Among the authors typically considered are Wordsworth, Dickens, and Conrad.

Fall07 ENL3334
Introduction to Shakespeare
Bruce Boehrer 644-3029, WMS 112A, bboehrer@english.fsu.edu

This course will offer an introductory survey of Shakespeare's dramatic work, with reading drawn from all the major dramatic genres. The scholarly approach will be broadly historicist, aimed at situating Shakespeare's works within their contemporary intellectual, social, and political context.

Fall07 ENL4112
Eighteenth Century British Novel
Candace Ward 644-1833, WMS 113, cward@english.fsu.edu

This course is intended to introduce you to a variety of eighteenth-century novels and the material and cultural circumstances in which these novels were produced. In order to successfully fulfill the course requirements, students must exhibit not only demonstrate their knowledge of the novels, but also communicate ideas using the critical and analytical techniques that characterize literary and cultural studies. The texts covered include a number of canonical and non-canonical works, including Aphra Behn?s Oroonoko, Samuel Richardson?s Pamela, Henry Fielding?s Joseph Andrews, Sarah Fielding?s David Simple, and Mary Wollstonecraft?s Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman.

Fall07 ENL4132
Modern British Novel
S. E. Gontarski 644-6038, WMS 430, sgontarski@english.fsu.edu

Typically includes Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Greene, Spark, and Lessing.

Fall07 ENL4220
Renaissance Poetry and Prose
A. E. B. Coldiron 645 7630, WMS 431, acoldiron@english.fsu.edu

This course surveys sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry and prose, with an eye to interrogating the idea of "Renaissance" and the idea of an "English" literature. The period and national boundaries, under scrutiny, prove to be instructively fluid. First, English literature was richly informed by Latin, French, and Italian texts and contacts. Second, in addition to the "rebirth" of classical literature that has traditionally defined the period, these writers drew on many texts and habits of mind we now call "medieval." Readings will likely include selections by (e.g.) Caxton, Skelton, Barclay, Wyatt, Spenser, Isabella Whitney, Ralegh, Sidney, Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, Montaigne/Florio, Castiglione[in translation], Hakluyt, Hariot, Puttenham, Rachel Speght, Bacon, Lyly, Donne, and Herbert. Requirements are likely to include class participation, presentation, papers, midterm, final.

Fall07 ENL4230
Studies in Restoration & 18th c. British Literature
Candace Ward 644-1833, WMS 113, cward@english.fsu.edu

This course serves as an introduction to the literary period from 1660 to 1800. Alongside poetry, prose, and drama, we will examine non-literary texts as well. In addition to examining historical, political, economic, and gender-related issues of the period, we will explore some of the critical approaches to eighteenth-century studies, and discuss how the study of eighteenth-century texts is relevant to other areas of literary studies and to our lives outside the classroom. In order to explore the major cultural phenomena of the period?e.g., the culture of sensibility, the rise of British imperialism, discourses of slavery and abolition, the evolution of institutionalized philanthropy, the rhetoric of revolution?we will examine authors like Dryden, Behn, Defoe, Equiano, Spence, and Wollstonecraft.

Fall07 ENL4240 02
Studies in British Romantic Literature
James O’Rourke 644-5202, WMS 441, jorourke@english.fsu.edu

In the chronology established by the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 1798 ? the date of the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge?s Lyrical Ballads ? marks both the beginning of the Romantic period and the central turning point of English literary history. This class will focus on a selection of some of the most influential poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats) and novelists (Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte) of early nineteenth-century British literature. We will look at how these authors addressed the literary and cultural norms of their historical epoch, and at how some of their central concerns ? such as Blake?s critiques of slavery and child labor, Wordsworth?s belief that poetry could be written in ordinary language, Austen?s analysis of the precise grades of privilege and dispossession afforded by gender and class position, and Bronte?s exploration of the relation between sexual desire and personal identity ? continue to inform our own cultural moment.

Fall07 ENL4240
British Romantic Literature
Eric Walker 644 4869, WMS 438, ewalker@english.fsu.edu

2007 is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 by the British Parliament; this anniversary has been marked most prominently by the release of the film "Amazing Grace," although there are many other commemorative events occuring especially in the United Kingdom. We will begin this survey course of the literature of this period in Great Britain by working with the section on "The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade" in the class text, The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2A: The Romantics and their Contemporaries, ed. Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. We will then move outward from this historical topic to work intensively with the poetry of the period, concentrating on works inflected by revolutionary and counter-revolutionary events by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. We will then turn in the second half of the course to the post-revolutionary, post-Waterloo poetic careers of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Felicia Hemans. Primary texts in the course are largely poems.

Fall07 ENL4251 01
Victorian British Literature
Meegan Kennedy 644 7771, WMS 413, mkennedy@english.fsu.edu

This course explores the literature of Queen Victoria's reign, an era very close to our own in its interests and anxieties, and a period against which much of twentieth-century art and literature reacted. Students will read poetry, essays, fiction, and drama in this survey of some of the major figures of the time. The course also examines the explosion of print culture; the vexed divide between high and low culture; the literary negotiation of issues like voting rights, women's role in society, and the growing British empire; and how Victorians became increasingly interested in the relationship between word and image. Authors include Browning (both), Tennyson, Gaskell, Dickens, George Eliot, Kipling, Rossetti, Arnold, Wilde.

Fall07 ENL4273 01
Modern British Literature
S. E. Gontarski 644-6038, WMS 430, sgontarski@english.fsu.edu

British poetry, fiction, and essays since 1900. Typically includes Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence, Woolf, Auden, and Lessing.

Fall07 ENL4333
Advanced Shakespeare
James O’Rourke 644-5202, WMS 441, jorourke@english.fsu.edu

The class will concentrate on the range and versatility of Shakespeare?s language, with a particular focus on how performance brings out its multiple dimensions. Shakespeare uses every level and every resource of the English language. He writes the most elevated discourses of public honor and private passion, while at the same time he produces scathing and inventively vulgar critiques of our most cherished ideals. We will look at how his plays reflect the issues of their time, and at how they comment on ours. The plays we will read are The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Othello and King Lear.

Fall07 HUM3930
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in Humanities
Barry Faulk 644-6530, WMS 219, bfaulk@english.fsu.edu

Fall07 LIT2010
Introduction to Fiction
Staff

This course introduces students to such narrative elements as point of view, characterization, setting, theme, and symbolism in the works of longer prose fiction. It also provides an introduction to the basic interpretive skills necessary to conduct literary analysis.

Fall07 LIT2020
Introduction to the Short Story
Staff

This course is an introduction to the art of the short story that focuses on such issues as tone, narration, form, and theme in representative short stories.

Fall07 LIT2020 09
Introduction to the Short Story
Gregory Beaumont 644-2451, UCA 3404, gbeaumont@admin.fsu.edu

The intent of this course is to add to the student's knowledge of the genre of the short story, and to this end the class will read, discuss and write about short fiction with emphasis on such elements as tone, theme, narrative schema, character development, plot, etc. The readings include a variety of authors from various ethnic backgrounds, but principally American and British in nationality.

Fall07 LIT2030
Introduction to Poetry
Staff

This course engages students in the art of understanding and analyzing poetry as a genre. It looks closely and critically at the forms, themes, techniques, and devices in selected poems from a variety of historical periods.

Fall07 LIT2081 All
Contemporary Literature
Staff

Poetry, fiction, drama from WWII to the present. For beginning students.

Fall07 LIT2230
Introduction to Global Literature
Staff

Introduction to English-language literature from countries that were former British colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Fall07 LIT3383 All
Women in Literature
Staff

An examination of the representation of women in literature.

Fall07 LIT4033
Modern Poetry
Andrew Epstein 644-8110, WMS 405A, aepstein@english.fsu.edu

This course will provide students with a firm grounding in modernism and modern American poetry. We will engage in a comprehensive investigation of the major figures, movements, and innovative styles in modern American poetry, as we move from its roots in the 19th century (Whitman and Dickinson) to the mid-twentieth century. The course will pay special attention to ongoing debates about the definition and nature of "modernism"; situating the poetry within its cultural and historical context; issues of gender, race, and the dialogue between politics and poetry; and modern poetry's relationship with other developments in the arts, such as modern painting. Our in-depth study of the central American modernist poets will stress the persistent emphasis on experimentation and avant-garde poetics within the American tradition. Poets will likely include Whitman, Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Hart Crane, H. D., and Mina Loy.

Fall07 LIT4034 01
Postmodern/Contemporary Poetry
Joann Gardner 644 1881, WMS 426, jgardner@english.fsu.edu

Fall07 LIT4322
Folklore
Ormond Loomis 644-2618, WMS 222F oloomis@english.fsu.edu

Introduction to myth, legend, tale, song, ballad, beliefs, and customs.

Fall07 LIT4329
African American Folklore
Jerrilyn McGregory 644 3161, WMS 458, jmcgregory@english.fsu.edu

This course provides an overview of the major forms of cultural expression developed by African Americans. The focus will be on African American folklore as a living tradition to be understood and interpreted.

Fall07 LIT4554
Contemporary Feminist Theory
Robin Goodman 644-9234, WMS 324, rgoodman@english.fsu.edu

This course introduces students to some of the key concepts in contemporary feminist theory. It gives students a chance to consider some of the main issues focused in feminist debates today, and also to think about some applications of feminist theory in other fields of literary study and in the humanities more generally, including film, media, philosophy, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, and performance. Readings may include: Freud, Butler, Cixous, hooks, De Beauvoir, and others. Prior experience with ENG 3014 or the equivalent is encouraged, though not required.

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Fall 2007