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ENG 516 The Big Picture: Language, Laws, and Conflict in the Middle Ages
Laity
T 6:00-8:40
We will examine medieval texts in terms of their language and culture, exploring
conflict and its resolution within three very different cultures: the Anglo-Saxon
warrior world of Beowulf, the ambience of courtly commerce in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, and the complex world of vengeance and law in Conversion-era Iceland. Texts:
Beowulf (Chickering dual text edition) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical
Edition) Njal's Saga (Penguin Translation) Other critical texts will be available
on Blackboard Assignments: Beowulf: Film review incorporating linguistic analysis
Test on Middle English Recitation from memory of 10 lines from Chaucer Critical
anaylsis of one Canterbury Tale Njal: an analysis of one of the legal controversies
Recitation from memory of 10 lines from Chaucer Critical analysis of one Canterbury
Tale
ENG 565 Composition Theory and Practice
Fulwiler
W 6:00-8:40
Composition Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theories underlying scholarly
and pedagogical practices in the contemporary field of rhetoric and composition.
We will examine the major theories and seminal works that have defined, shaped,
and challenged the study and teaching of writing in America. Central to the course
will be an examination of the connections between power and pedagogy, the multiple
purposes and sites of written communication (including the personal, academic, and
civic), and the changing nature of literacy needs and practices in the 21st century.
Designed for writers and teachers.
ENG 564 Fiction Writing: Theory and Practice
Seamon
M 6:00-8:40
A workshop in the writing and critique of short fiction, with some attention to
theoretical constructs concerning the short story form. Some texts for the course:
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway, The Story Behind
the Story edited by Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi, Burning Down the House:
Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter, Flash Fiction Forward edited by
Robert Shapard and James Thomas.
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English 588 Studies in Rhetoric: Rhetorics of Autobiography
Fulwiler
M 6:00-8:40
Aristotle defined rhetoric as the "discovery of the available means of persuasion."
Assumed in his definition, however, is that one has the right to speak in the first
place. And, even prior to that, that one has the right to personhood and self-representation.
In this class we will examine writers who have discovered different "available
means" than Aristotle might have imagined in the genre of personal testimony.
How do the historically silenced claim a right to speak? How do they represent a
self? What do these texts do to traditional concepts of evidence, reason, memory,
and persuasion? As part of this project, we will study writers who expand the traditional
"topoi"-places from which one speaks-in order to assert new locations
such as the body, the family, home, education, and personhood. Writings will include
both critical responses to and practice in autobiographical writing. Active participation,
peer response, and oral presentations will also be required. Readings may include:
Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Jacobs, Zitkala-Sa, Michael Ondaatje, Dorothy
Allison, Lauren Slater, Terry Tempest Williams, Gloria Anzaldua, and selections
from The Rhetorical Tradition.
ENG 553 Early 19th Century British Literature
Cavanaugh
R 6:00-8:40
We will focus on the change in poetry and poetic theory, commonly called the Romantic
Revolution, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
and William Blake. We will explore the growing body of autobiographical writing
through a sampling of journals, memoirs, slave narratives, and autobiographical
fiction, such as those by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Mary Wollstonecraft, and
Mary Shelley. We will explore the issues of influence, inclusion, exclusion, and
audience in anthologies created in the period and those currently being published
in relation to this period.
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