English

Department of English
Hill Hall, Room 503
Phone:  973/353-5279, x503
Fax:      973/353-1450
http://english-newark.rutgers.edu

INDEPENDENT STUDY (BA cr.)
26:350:522:T1:81761
5/27-8/13
MEETING TIME BY ARRANGEMENT

By permission only.

Individual study directed by a faculty member arranged for qualified students.

FICTION FOR FICTION WRITERS (3 cr.)
26:350:525:B6:82066
EVE: 5/27-7/3
MW 6:00-9:30
HALL             CONKLIN 445

The nuts and bolts of constructing both longer and shorter narratives, with emphasis on critical analysis and writing techniques. This course counts toward both the writing and literature tracks.

READINGS IN LITERATURE: EDWARDIAN PERIOD: BLOOMSBURY & BEYOND (3 cr.)
26:350:698:B6:83883
EVE: 5/27-7/3
TTh 6:00-9:30
KAHN            HILL 215

This course will begin by exploring the Edwardian period's reaction to social, cultural, sexual, and class issues in the wake of the Victorian period, paying particular attention to the ongoing dialogue in artistic communities with the radical work of Sigmund Freud and other Continental thinkers.  We will then trace the Bloomsbury group's marked impact on literary modernism in Britain, up to WWII, to further examine these sociocultural issues using literary and cultural works of the period that consistently (even stylistically) interrogated them.  Authors may include: Joseph Conrad, Henry James, E. M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf , James Joyce, Ronald Firbank, and Elizabeth Bowen.  Students should read Henry James's 1903 tale "The Beast in the Jungle"—easy to find online—for the first class meeting.

STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: MELVILLE & QUESTIONS OF INFLUENCE (3 cr.)
26:352:509:B6:84380
EVE: 5/27-7/3
TTh 6:00-9:30
HALL             CONKLIN 302

Study of influences on Melville, a self-educated magpie who drew from sources both "high" (Shakespeare, Spenser) and "low" (whaling diaries, Revolutionary War memoirs), and who critiqued the Romantics' heroic fiction of the self;  and of his literary influence. Besides looking at the 20th-century "Melville revival," we'll explore imaginative encounters between major 20th-century writers and Melville and consider the ways his works continue to inspire critical readings from narratology, deconstruction, feminist, postcolonial, and new historical perspectives. Texts: Typee, Omoo, Redburn, Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence Man, classic short fiction, and poetry.