GRADUATE CLASSES:
12590 AML6455 3 20th Century Amer. Literature 01-08 04-24 1 R 1800 2045 0002 2059 Betsy Nies
This course will provide a survey of twentieth-century American literature, beginning with a brief look at naturalism and realism, followed by a more in-depth examination of modernism and postmodernism in literature and the arts. Both modernism and postmodernism are slippery terms yet locatable within certain historic time frames. We will explore literary debates, sharpen our close reading skills, and refine our ability to write. The course will include a survey of some of the major figures and voices across ethnic traditions.
12598 ENC6700 3 Theory of Composition 01-07 04-24 1 W 1800 2045 0012 2117
James Beasley
This course introduces students to the scope and circumference of the field of rhetoric and composition. The purpose of this course will be to broaden students' understanding of the presence of rhetoric in intellectual and institutional history and as a shaping force in contemporary intellectual, political, and academic domains, particularly as it pertains to the teaching of composition.
10314 ENG6966 1 M.A. Exam 01-05 04-24 1
12599 ENL6455 3 Renaissance Poetry/Poetics 01-06 04-24 1 T 1800 2045 0002 2059 Brian Striar:
We will undertake an intensive study of Renaissance poetry and poetical theory (which includes rhetoric and rhetorical theory) and their classical (Greek and Roman) and medieval antecedents. We will come to see that the richness and apparent self-contradiction of this golden literary age arise from the "schizoid" tendency to "emulate" the classics of antiquity while simultaneously advancing the native language and literature for various "nationalistic" purposes. We will learn about such recent focuses in Renaissance studies as imitation, narrative subjectivity, New Historicism, etc.
11442 LIT5934 3 Zora Neale Hurston 01-05 04-24 1 M 1800 2045 0008 2117
Nancy Levine
Zora Neale Hurston grew up in the first all-black town in America, Eatonville, Florida. In a real sense, she never left Eatonville, though she never lived there for more than a few weeks or months when she was an adult. Eatonville and Polk County were to Hurston what Jefferson County and the township of Oxford were to Faulkner—the seedbeds of their imagination, the source of their literary power. Hurston, however, was a trained anthropologist, unlike Faulkner who never finished high school or college. It has been said that her fiction pushes boundaries. I’m interested in the hybrid nature of Hurston’s body of work, her anthropological texts, on the one hand, and her novels, short stories and plays, on the other. For lack of better terms, let’s call the two modes she worked in “ethnographical fiction” vs. “fiction-saturated anthropology.” It has been suggested, for example, that when Hurston recorded folklore for her Barnard teacher Franz Boaz and later for the Library of Congress and her patron, Mrs. Osgood Mason, the notes she turned into text sounded, disturbingly to some, like fiction. It has often been noted that her autobiography, Dust Tracks in the Road is full of gaps and evasions. Is it real or is it Memorex? With your help, I want to find out how her hybrid mode of writing got that way. Is it true that when she wrote fiction she approached the work the way an ethnographer would? In this course we’ll look at how Hurston used her fieldwork in Florida, New Orleans and the Bahamas as source material for her fiction and how, by using herself as a participant, her fieldwork, she broke the barriers between the scientific objectivity of the ethnographic monograph and the imaginative subjectivity necessary to create literature of a very high order. Grades will be based on quizzes and an oral history project. Texts will include: Hurston: Novels and Stories and Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings, both ed. by Cheryl A. Wald, with special emphasis on Their Eyes Were Watching God.
11890 LIT5934 3 Comparative Literature 01-08 04-24 1 R 1800 2045 0008 2117
Clark Lunberry:
“Absolutely Modern”: Modern French Poetry in Translation from Baudelaire to Valéry” Description: A careful study of the vital poetry of early French modernism, from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, including such poets as Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire and many others. We will also be looking at parallel developments in the visual arts, as they were to emerge in such movements as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Cubism.
12592 LIT5934 3 Classical Backgrounds Western Lit 01-06 04-24 1 T R 1630 1745 0002 2060 Arthur Kimball
To begin to understand how ancient and classical Greek culture has influenced the development of the Western world, we will analyze a number of Greek texts in translation. We will begin with four plays—Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, Euripides’ The Bacchae, and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound—which we will read in relation to the Eucharist and the Crucifixion in order to grasp how Jesus offers a critique of the Greek conception of the sacred. Having established this comparison, we will then investigate how Greek polytheism, in the figures of the Olympian gods, functions in Homer’sOdyssey, Hesiod’s Theogony, Aeschylus’Oresteia, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Euripides’ Medea. To this end we will read these works in relation to René Girard’s Violence and the Sacred; Girard’s work helps to show how sacrifice is central to the symbolic order and the formation, ideological conditioning, and social control of consciousness that the symbolic order enforces. In entering into the conceptual and affective context of Greek consciousness, we will read selections from Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy, which addresses the radical differences in consciousness between an oral society and a social universe based on writing. To see how Greek literature deconstructs the resulting logocentric economy of the Greek mind, we will work through Penelope Deutscher’s How to Read Derrida. Finally, in order to show the continuing legacy of the Greek imagination, we will read a work of experimental fiction based on Greek myth, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s The Erasers. For more detailed information, please contact Dr. Kimball at skimball@unf.edu.
12618 LIT5934 3 Black Atlantic Modernity 01-06 04-24 1 T R 1340 1455 0002 2060 Keith Cartwright:
This course will find grounding in a popularly enshrined site of black modernism: the Harlem Renaissance. But we also will be looking to other times and places: to the Negritude movement that linked African and Caribbean activists in Paris, to the circulation and popularity of Afro-Hispanic writers and artists, and to the long emergence (through slavery and colonialism to various abolition and freedom movements) of a black Atlantic world that Paul Gilroy has called “a counterculture of modernity.” We will read authors such as James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aime Cesaire, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka and also discuss the circulation of recordings by black musicians and the work of writer-activists like Toussaint L’Ouverture, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Cheick Anta Diop, Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon, and Nelson Mandela. We will examine routes by which artists and performers of this counterculture of modernity have sought to open the eyes of audiences to call forth modes of hippikat (Wolof “open-eyed”) response.
12620 LIT5934 3 Disability: Representation 01-05 04-24 1 M W F 1200 1250 0002 2083 Dwight Gabbard:
This course aims to (1) help students understand the perspectives of people with disabilities, (2) become committed advocates in the fields of law, health, education, and public administration, (3) appreciate how cultural mythologies contribute to shaping popular attitudes toward and public policies impinging on this population, and (4) comprehend the complex relationship between cultural representation and social practice. In addition to sections from Simi Linton's Claiming Disability, Ato Quayson’s Aesthetic Nervousness, Rosemarie Garland Thompson’s Extraordinary Bodies, and Mitchell and Snyder’s Narrative Prosthesis, the course's literary, visual, and audio materials will include the following: MEMOIRS: William Hay's Deformity (1750); Christie Brown's My Left Foot; Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly; Laura Rothenburg’s Breathing for a Living; ESSAYS: Randolph Bourne's "The Handicapped, by one of them" (1911) and "A Philosophy of Handicap" (1913); Nancy Mairs' "On Being a Cripple"; NOVELS: Mark Hadden's Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; SHORT STORIES: Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," packer's "Brownies"; FILMS: Tony Harrison’s "Black Daisies for the Bride"; Murderball; Autism: The Musical; RADIO DIARY : Laura Rothenberg's "My So-Called Lungs"; GRAPHIC NOVEL: G. B. Trudeau's Long Road Home; MUSIC: Joy Division's CD, Closer, etc.
12827 LIT6934 3 Autobiography and Confession 01-05 04-24 1 M 1800 2045 0003 1351 Nicholas de Villiers:
"Sex, Confession, and Autobiography" - This course examines Michel Foucault’s hypothesis in The History of Sexuality Volume I: “From the Christian penance to the present day, sex was a privileged theme of confession. A thing that was hidden, we are told. But what if, one the contrary, it was what, in a quite particular way, one confessed? … What if sex in our society, on a scale of several centuries, was something that was placed within an unrelenting system of confession?” We will test this hypothesis through close readings of confessional literature from Saint Augustine, Rousseau, Ogai, Genet, Tanizaki, Guibert, Delany, Harris, Sedgwick and others. We will consider whether confession constitutes a genre, whether “sexual minorities” are particularly subject to confessional discourse, and whether confession is a particularly Western preoccupation, as Foucault argued.
INDEPENDENT STUDY CLASSES (DEPARTMENT PERMISSION REQUIRED):
12066 LIT6905 3 Directed Independent Study 01-05 04-24 1
12441 LIT6905 1 Directed Independent Study 01-05 04-24 1
12442 LIT6905 2 Directed Independent Study 01-05 04-24 1
12206 LIT6941 3 Practicum: Teaching Literature 01-05 04-24 1