Spring 2014 English Course Offerings

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Eng 100-01: Topics in Literature, Will Pritchard
MWF 9:10-10:10AM

Emphasis on a particular theme or subgenre in literature to be chosen by the professor. Recent topics have included Heroines in British Fiction, Literature and the Environment, Love and the Novel, History of the Lyric Poem, and Literature of Immigration. May be taken twice for credit with change of topic.
Prerequisite: None, 4 semester credits

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Eng 100-02: A Poet’s Life: William Stafford, Pauls Toutonghi
TTH 9:40-11:10AM

Teaching for many decades at Lewis and Clark, the poet William Stafford was one of the country’s best known poets - publishing in every major poetry periodical and serving, for one term, as the nation’s Poet Laureate. This class will use the William
Stafford Archives in Special Collections at Watzek Library to give students a sense of what literary research can be - and to paint a broader picture, through archival materials - of 20th century American literary life, especially in the Pacific Northwest.
Prerequisite: None, 4 semester credits

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Eng 100-03: HIstory of the Lyric Poem, Jerry Harp
MWF 12:40-1:40PM

One traditional definition of the lyric poem runs as follows: “A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating for the reader a single, unified impression” (C. Hugh Holman, A Handbook to Literature, fourth edition, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Publishing, 1980).  We shall read, discuss, and interpret various manifestations of this mode of poetry in the European and American traditions, beginning with ancient Greek poets and ending with a living contemporary American poet.  We do well to begin with Greek poets in part because the term ‘lyric’ has its roots in ancient Greek practices, which distinguished between lyric poetry (that uttered by a single performer, accompanied by a lyre) and choric poetry (that uttered by a group or chorus).  In discussing the development of the lyric poem from these Greek roots, we shall also explore various ways that the lyric mode has transformed over the centuries, especially through its Roman and English-language practitioners.  Further, we shall discuss ways that these practices challenge the traditional definition.  Thus, one of the purposes of the course is to develop an even more nuanced sense of what lyric poetry is and how it works than that articulated in the definition above.
Prerequisite: None, 4 semester credits

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Eng 105: Art of the Novel, Lyell Asher
MWF 9:10AM-10:10AM

A study of major works in English, American, and European fiction, from the 17th century to the present. Goals include increasing awareness of the particular kinds of knowledge and perception that the novel makes available; considering the variety of ways in which novels braid moral and aesthetic concerns; understanding how novels respond both to everyday human experience and to previous literary history; and heightening appreciation for the range of pleasures that the novel can afford. Writers may include Cervantes, Sterne, Austen, Flaubert, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Kundera, Pynchon.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 201: Introduction to Poetry and Poetry Writing, Mary Szybist
MW 3:00-4:30PM

Elements of poetry such as imagery, rhythm, tone.  Practice in the craft.  Frequent reference to earlier poets.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits

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Eng 206-01: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature,  Kurt Fosso
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Eng 206-02: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, 
Andrea Hibbard, MWF 11:30-12:30PM

Eng 206-03: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, Rishona Zimring
MWF 12:40-1:40PM

Introduction to ways of reading and writing about literature; historical development of English literature. Romantic period to middle of 20th century.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and completion of English 205 or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 208: Prose Writing - Creative Nonfiction, Pauls Toutonghi
MWF 8:00-9:00AM

Writing in the genre known variously as the personal essay or narrative, memoir, autobiography, to introduce students to traditional and contemporary voices in this genre. Daily writing and weekly reading of exemplars such as Seneca, Plutarch, Montaigne, Hazlitt, Woolf, Soyinka, Baldwin, Walker, Hampl, Dillard, Selzer, Lopez.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; 4 semester credits

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Eng 209: Intro to American Lit, Kristin Fujie
MWF 10:20-11:20 AM

Survey of major periods and issues in American literature, from the Puritan theocracy and early Republican period through American Romanticism and Modernism. Authors may include Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Cather, Williams, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits

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ENG 243: Women Writers, Rishona Zimring
M 3:00-4:30/TH 3:30-5:00 PM

Beginning with some key examples of 19^th- and early-20^th-century fiction by female authors such as Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, this course goes on to explore primarily 20^th-century women’s writing. Our focus will be on fiction and poetry, but we will also read essays, criticism, and journalism. Works may include novels by Jean Rhys, Marilynne Robinson, and Arundhati Roy; poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Eavan Boland, and Alice Oswald; short stories by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Angela Carter, Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri. Our explorations of 20^th-century women’s writing will include topics such as representations of the body; inheritance; domestic space; maternity; sexual identity; female transgression and desire; literary experimentation. 
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; 4 semester credits.               

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Eng 244: Practicum

Literary Review, Mary Szybist/Pauls Toutonghi
Content: Production of a first-rate literary review. In weekly workshops, students gain
some familiarity with all the processes involved (editorial, layout, printing, business,
distribution) and intimate experience with at least one.May be taken four times for credit. 1 semester credit. 

Peer Tutoring in Writing, John Holzwarth
Content: Designed for any student interested in learning theories and methods for teaching writing one-on-one; required of students interested in becoming tutors in the Writing Center. Social dimensions of a tutorial, including a Writing Center user’s perceptions of good writing and the writing process, his or her perception of the role of the tutor, how all of these elements affect a writing conference.  Rhetorical dimensions of writing, including strategies and techniques to help student writers solve their own problems.
Prerequisite:  Consent of Instructor

Broadside, Mary Szybist
1 semester credit

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Eng 279: Classical Backgrounds, Karen Gross
TTH 1:50-3:20PM

A study of epic, drama, and poetry from the Greek and Latin classics. Writers may include Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Virgil, Horace, Ovid. Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits

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ENG 298: Special Topics, Lyell Asher
MWF 10:20-11:20AM

Course title and description to be announced.

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Eng 301: Poetry Writing, Mary Szybist
TTH 11:30-1:00PM

Discussion of student work with occasional reference to work by ear- lier poets. Students develop skills as writers and readers of poetry.
Prerequisite: English 201 and junior standing, or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 310: The Middle English Period, Karen Gross
TTH 11:30-1:00PM

 Introduction to the major genres of English literature from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Political, social, historical, and religious contexts that affected the emergence of English as a literary language and that shaped the lyric, drama, narrative poetry, and prose writing of the period. Readings, all in Middle English, include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, William Langland’s Piers Plowman, Julian of Norwich’s Revelations, The Book of Margery Kemp, Sir Orfeo, St. Erkenwald, Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, and shorter poems, as well as selected plays, romances, lyrics, sermons, and tracts.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 312: The Early English Novel, Will Pritchard
MWF 11:30AM-12:30PM

The process by which, over the course of the 18th century, the novel became Britain’s preeminent genre. Topics include the relation of novel to romance, debates over the morality of fiction, claims of novels not to be novels, women as readers and writers, and the period’s various subgenres (e.g., epistolary novel, gothic novel, sentimental novel). Authors include Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Stern, Horace Walpole, Frances Burney, Jane Austen.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 316: 20th Century British Lit., Rishona Zimring
TTH 9:40-11:10AM

Major British and Irish writers of the first part of this century whose responses to such major events as World War I shape the conventions of 20th- century British literature, in particular modernism. Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Eliot, Auden, Rhys, Ford, Mansfield.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 331: Shakespeare: Early Works, Lyell Asher
MWF 1:50PM-2:50PM

Critical reading of plays representative of the development of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies. Usually covers six or seven plays and selected poetry, typically including The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 333: Major Figures, Kristin Fujie
MW 3:00-4:30PM

Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontës, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor; 4 semester credits. 

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Eng 340: Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism, Kurt Fosso
TTH 11:30-1:00PM

Emphasis on a particular topic in literary theory and criticism, to be chosen by the professor. Topics may include theories of meaning, literature and ethics, feminist literary theory, and theories of value.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 401-01: Advanced Poetry Writing, Mary Szybist
TTH 1:50-3:20PM

An opportunity for experienced student writers to develop their skills as poets and to work on a sustained project. A workshop in which at least half of class time will be spent discussing student writing, with an emphasis on revision. Work will include the examination of literary models
Prerequisite: English 301 and senior standing, or consent of instructor.

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Eng 402-01: Advanced Fiction Writing, Pauls Toutonghi
TTH 11:30AM-1:00PM

Students complete a long project (a collection of short stories, a novella or the beginning of a novel, or some combination thereof). Workshop format plus additional reading as needed.
Prerequisite: English 200, 300, and senior standing, or consent of instructor.