Literature Course Offerings
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ENGL 5300A.THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ENGLISH STUDIES- (3-0). Current issues in criticism, rhetoric, and literary studies, with emphasis on library and bibliographical resources as they are brought to bear on these issues.
[Previously.listed as ENGL 5335. Credit may not be given for both ENGL 5300 and 5335. Enrollment requires the approval of the Graduate Advisor in English. [Note: 5300A is presently listed in the official UTA Graduate Catalog as 5300. The "A" would have to be added to distinguish the course from the 53XXB]
ENGL 5301. MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE (3-0). English literature of the period before 1500. May include Old English poetry, Anglo-Latin prose, William Langland, the alliterative revival, romances, Malory, and Chaucer. (Reddick) ENGL 5302. THE PROFESSION OF ENGLISH STUDIES (3-0). Consideration of the structure of English studies, of the changes and conflicts within and among its constituent areas, and of the current situation of careers in the field. Recommended for students seeking a Ph.D. or entering careers in teaching and scholarship. (L.Porter, Morris)
ENGL 5303. 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (3-0). Poetry and prose of the 17th Century. May include a study of Milton and/or a study of writers and motifs of the period. (Turbeville, Wood) ENGL 5304. 18TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (3-0). May include an intensive study of the entire period or highly concentrated work in a particular genre or in one or more major authors. (Sudan, Smith, Turbeville) ENGL 5305. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (3-0). Works of one or more of the major romantic poets supplemented by readings in the general literature and criticism of the period. (Sudan, Smith) ENGL 5306. VICTORIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE (3-0). Concepts and problems in texts by Victorian novelists, poets, and essayists (writers will vary). Attention to historical and cultural as well as literary issues. (Danahay, Smith, Barros) ENGL 5307. 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY (3-0). Major poetry of this century. May vary from a concentration on specific writers to significant movements or themes. ENGL 5308. SHAKESPEARE (3-0). Representative works of Shakespeare. May vary from comprehensive readings in the dramatic literature to intensive examination of certain plays, or to other related topics. (T. Porter, Turbeville) ENGL 5309. ENGLISH DRAMA (3-0). English drama, excluding Shakespeare, constituting both major playwrights and principal types of drama, in one of these periods: (1) Medieval and Tudor drama, from the beginnings to about 1590; (2) Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, 1590-1642; (3) Restoration and 18th Century drama, 1660-1800; (4) modern drama. (T.Porter, Smith) ENGL 5310. ENGLISH FICTION (3-0). British fiction which may vary according to (1) historical periods, (2) a major figure or figures, (3) development of themes or types. (Smith, Turbeville) ENGL 5313. 20TH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0). A study of English and Irish writing in the 20th Century; may focus on major authors, themes, or topics. (Faris, Sudan)
ENGL 5320. SELECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1800 (3-0). Designed to establish the diversityof our early literature. Includes Indian oral literature, travel accounts, Puritan writing, diaries, autobiography, poetry, drama and fiction. Cultural context stressed. (Roemer, Estes)
ENGL 5321. AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1800 TO THE CIVIL WAR (3-0). Literature of the young republic and the American -- Renaissance. (Morris, Roemer, Estes, Wood) ENGL 5322. AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO1910 (3-0). Literature which expresses in theme and form the evolving cultural consciousness of America. (L. Porter, Roemer, Wood)
ENGL 5323. AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1910 (3-0). Includes representative works of multiple authors selected for the study of modern and contemporary themes and methods. (Cohen, Alaimo)
ENGL 5325.AMERICAN DRAMA (3-0). Representative American drama with an emphasis on the interaction of culture and dramatic structure. (L. Porter, T. Porter)
ENGL 5326.TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1900 (3 - 0). May focus on one to three major writers or the process of canon formation or a significant theme or movement. May be repeated when content changes. (Roemer, L. Porter, Morris)
ENGL 5327 TOPICS IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0). May focus on one to three major writers or on the process of canon formation or a sign)significant theme or movement. May be repeated when content changes. (Cohen, Morris, Roemer, Alaimo, L. Porter)
ENGL 5330.TOPICS IN CRITICISM (3-0). Studies in critical topics such as textual criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, philosophy and criticism, Renaissance poetics and literature, critical movements, or focus on a major theorist in criticism. May be repeated when content changes. (Frank, Kellner, Vitanza, Kolko)
ENGL 5340. CRITICAL THEORY: THE MAJOR TRADITIONAL TEXTS (3-0). A study of literary and cultural theory and practice from the Greco-Roman period to the early 20th Century. May include such theorists as Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Dante, Sidney, B. Jonson, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold, Richards, Eliot, and others. (Frank, Kellner, T.Porter) ENGL 5342. TOPICS IN THE CLASSICAL INFLUENCE (3-0). Hellenic, Alexandrian, and Latin masterpieces that have influenced Western literature; may concentrate on the epic, on tragedy and comedy, on lyric poetry, on the romance, and on other literary genres such as satire; may also include literature's relationship to the other arts or to historical, philosophical, or sociological structures; emphasis on Greek and Roman mythology and the various theories of myth. May be repeated when content changes. (Turbeville) ENGL 5345. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE OF THE 18TH CENTURY (3-0). The development of European literature during the century of literary ferment that sees the Age of Reason give way to the Age of Romanticism; early Romantics are contrasted to Enlightenment and Neoclassical writers; emphasizes, though not exclusively, the literatures of France, England, and Germany. (Turbeville) ENGL 5346. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY (3-0). Poetry and prose of this rich, contradictory era; may focus on major authors, genres, themes, topics, or literary movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Decadence; may treat the relationships between literature, philosophy, science, politics, economics, technology, and the fine arts. (Danahay, Turbeville) ENGL 5347. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY (3-0). Literature in a radical pluralist environment; may focus on literary movements, major genres, and the rupture of genres, critical, philosophical, and psychological schools, and the influence on literature of art, politics, science, technology and economics. (Faris, Turbeville)
ENGL 5354. ENGLISH LINGUISTICS (3-0). Introduction to the analysis of grammatical structures in English, concentrating on the goals and methods of contemporary analysts operating according to a variety of current theories, including structuralism, tagmemics, transformationalism, and discourse grammar. (Reddick) ENGL 5355. STUDIES IN ENGLISH DISCOURSE (3-0). Analysis of English grammatical structures above the level of the clause, including the sentence, the paragraph, and the whole text; examination of the work of major discourse theorists-Dik, Harris, Halliday, Longacre, Pike and van Dijk. (Reddick, Frank) ENGL 5360. TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY (3-0) Study of contemporary theories of interpretation, concentrating on one or more schools of critical and cultural theory; may include, e.g., New Criticism, the Neo-Aristotelians, Marxist Critical Theory, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, Russian Formalism, semiotics, speech-act theory, phenomenology, structuralism, and post -structuralism. May be repeated when content changes. (Frank, Kellner, Vitanza) ENGL 5380. TEXTUAL THEORIES OF CULTURE (3-0). Study of the interpretations of culture yielded by the traditions of semiotics and hermeneuties; may include works by the following: Lyotard, Foucault, Habermas, N.O. Brown, Derrida, Peirce, Barthes, Deleuze, Gadamer, Levi-Strauss. (Frank, Kellner, Smith, Vitanza, Kolko) ENGL 5391. GRADUATE READINGS IN LITERATURE [or Rhetoric] (3-0). Supervised individual study. May be repeated for credit when content changes. Prerequisite: permission of instructor and Graduate Advisor. ENGL 6324. AMERICAN POETRY (3-0). Concentrates each semester on two or three major poets such as Taylor, Longfellow, Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Pound, and Plath. Subject and poets to be announced prior to registration. (Morris, Cohen) ENGL 6329. TOPICS IN MAJOR THEMES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3-0). Themes such as "Literature and Revolution," Psychoanalysis and Literature," "The Quest," "Alienation," or "The Initiation Experience," traced through the literatures of Western Europe, in order to illuminate cultural differences and similarities, to demonstrate intellectual, aesthetic, and social trends, and to provide a cohesive element in the formal examination of several genres; may be repeated when content changes. (Faris) ENGL 6331. TOPICS IN MAJOR FIGURES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3-0). Writers whose work has strongly influenced individual writers and movements and had a sign)significant and lasting effect on Western culture; may be repeated When content changes. (Turbeville) ENGL 6333. TOPICS IN GENRE STUDY IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3-0). Theory of literary forms or types and the conventions they embody or expectations they generate; may focus on epic, autobiography, satire, the lyric, the short story, the novel, etc.; may be repeated when content changes. (Faris, Barros)
ENGL 6334. TOPICS IN STYLISTICS (3-0). A study of the stylistic features of discourse. Attention may be given to the development of English prose style, to metrical and prosodic theory, to linguistic rhetorical- computational-affective approaches as well as newer methods such as narratology and phenomenological analysis. Assignments include the extensive analysis of texts. May be repeated when content changes. (Kellner, Reddick, Vitanza) [Note:This course is presently numbered in the Graduate Catalog as ENGL 5334.] ENGL 6335. TOPICS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (3-0). Studies of topics such as revolution, history, or nature as developed by selected writers from one or several chronological periods of English literature. May be repeated when content changes. ENGL 6339.TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0). Themes or issues not bound by particular historical periods, for example, women writers, canon formation, American Indian literature, utopian literature. May be repeated when content changes. (Roemer, Alaimo, Morris, L.Porter,)
ENGL 6340.METACRITICAL THEORY (3-0). A study of theories of literature from the point of view of their systems-theoretical character. Focuses on the writing of selected metatheorists such as Barbour, Braithwaite, Bruss, Harr, Lakotos, Popper, Rescher, and others, on questions of the genesis, nature, function,validity, and potential of literature theory. (Frank, Kellner) ENGL 6360.TOPICS IN FEMINIST CRITICISM (3-0). Studies of critical approaches, patterns of thought, and discourse practiced predominantly by women from the Graeco-Roman period through the 20th Century. Examination of relationships among gender, language, and discourse from theorists such as Helene Cixous, Michel Foucault, Jane Gallop, Carol Gilligan, Julia Kristeva, Robin Lakoff, Walter Ong, and Virginia Woolf. May be repeated when content changes.
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