Summer C 2007

SummerC07 AML2600 02
Introduction to African-American Literature  
Staff  

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

SummerC07 AML2600 03
Introduction to African-American Literature  
Staff  

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

SummerC07 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.

SummerC07 AML3311 02
Major Figures in American Literature  
Peter Reed 645-6863, WMS 445, 

This course will cover major currents in American literature in a survey format, from discovery and colonization documents of John Smith and William Bradford to the twentieth-century fiction of Hemingway and Faulkner. We'll examine relationships between, for example, Puritan poetry and African American fiction, between feminism and modernism, between the American Renaissance and expatriate writers.

SummerC07 AML4121 02
20th Century American Novel  
Diane Roberts 644 1749, WMS 434, droberts@english.fsu.edu

What counts as the "classic American novel?" This course looks at iconic texts such as Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James' Golden Bowl, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Faulkner's Light in August as well as some challenges to the canon (Ellison's Invisible Man, for example) to explore what American culture values and does not in its literature.

SummerC07 CRW3110 
Fiction Technique  
Staff  

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

SummerC07 CRW3311 
Poetic Technique  
Staff  

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

SummerC07 CRW4120 01
Advanced Fiction Workshop  
Elizabeth Stuckey-French 645 3323, WMS 325, estuckey-french@english.fsu.edu

SummerC07 CRW4120 02
Advanced 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.

SummerC07 CRW4320 01
Advanced Poetry Workshop  
Erin Belieu 644-1544, WMS 228, ebelieu@english.fsu.edu

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.

SummerC07 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.

SummerC07 ENC4311 03
Advanced Article and Essay Workshop  
Staff  

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Writer-editor relationship between student and instructor. For writers who aspire toward publication.

SummerC07 ENC4311 04
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.

SummerC07 ENG3014 02
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.

SummerC07 ENG4934 02
Senior Seminar: Ethnic Humor  
Chris Shinn 644-7430, WMS 432, cshinn@english.fsu.edu

This course examines how ethnic humor challenges the limits imposed on the categories of ethnicity and race through comedic performance. Using a comparative approach to cultural studies, we will read selected short works by Gita Mehta, Don Lee, Gish Jen, John Yau, Philip Kan Gotanda, Ishmael Reed, Sherman Alexie, Luis Valdez and Philip Roth. We will address questions such as: what kind of humor offends, or is all ethnic humor necessarily a form of social protest? Can ?inside humor? be expressed cross-culturally, and when does humor cross the line? What line? Who decides? Although our primary focus will be on contemporary expressions of humor in plays, novels, short stories, poems and films, we will also examine African American folklore, Mexican tent vaudeville shows, blackface and yellowface minstrel traditions. We will also observe the standup comedy of such performers as Margaret Cho, Sherman Alexie, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Sarah Silverman, El Vez and Culture Clash. Our discussions will engage with controversial debates surrounding the culturally specific forms of the carnivalesque, gallows humor, camp, satire, farce, irony, deep play, gaming rituals, masquerade, parody, innocuous vs. tendentious jokes, and signifying. Assignments: two short papers, a class presentation and a final exam.

SummerC07 ENL3334 
Introduction to Shakespeare  
Staff  

An introduction to the study of Shakespeare at the college level. Consideration of representative works of comedy, history, tragedy, tragi-comedy drawn from throughout the playwright's career.

SummerC07 LIT2020 All
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.

SummerC07 LIT2081 All
Contemporary Literature  
Staff  

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

SummerC07 LIT2230 
Introduction to Global Literature  
Staff  

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

SummerC07 LIT3383 
Women in Literature  
Staff  

An examination of the representation of women in literature.