Fall 2011
ENGL 505 Contemporary Literary Theory and Methods – Ellen Friedman - Wednesday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
An introduction to the scholarly methods necessary for graduate work in literature and to the study of theoretical frameworks important to contemporary literary criticism, including formalism, structuralism, Marxism, deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial studies, cultural studies, new historicism, and psychoanalysis. The course exposes students to the primary texts from which those theoretical frameworks are derived and requires students to critique and construct applications of those theories to specific literary texts.
ENGL 626 18TH Century British Literature - Harriet Hustis - Tuesday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
This course will explore the many ways in which the newly emerging genre of the novel represents the various forms of reaction, revolution and social “levelling” that occurred in the course of the eighteenth century in Great Britain. The fundamental purpose of this course is to foster an understanding of the texts, contexts and concerns which shaped the various aesthetic, social, political and ideological functions of the novel in eighteenth-century Great Britain.
ENGL 642 Seminar in Victorian Literature - Larry McCauley - Monday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Green 19th Century: This special version of the Victorian Seminar will be a survey of 19th-century British Literature through an ecocritical lens. That is, we will focus on representations of the natural world and consider how writers and readers of the era understood their relationship and place in that world. In so doing, we will scrutinize changing constructions of “nature” and “natural” with the further goal of better understanding how these definitions had broad social implications with respect to scientific inquiry, industrialization, imperialism and gender politics. Our study will begin in the Romantic Era and include Shelley’s Frankenstein and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and then move on to Victorian texts including Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Hardy’s The Woodlanders’ Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines and Stoker’s Dracula. Readings will also include poetry by Keats, Tennyson, Hopkins, and Christina Rossetti and non-fiction prose by Rosseau, Darwin, and Freud.
ENGL 670 Special Topics: "Image & Text: Concrete, Visual, and Digital Poetries" - Juda Bennett - Thursday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
From Metaphysical Pattern Poem to Digital Poems that Dissolve, this class will survey the history of visual poetry and theories of visual poetic form. William Blake illuminated his poems, the Dadaist took scissors to text, and the Web now features poems that shape-shift and explode. We will read canonical writers like George Herbert and William Carlos Williams, visit old friends like Lewis Carroll and e. e. cummings, discover the poetry of artists (Andy Warhol) and musicians (John Cage), and uncover a world of innovations that push poetic boundaries.
ENGL 697 Teaching Practicum at Bucks County Community College (BCCC)
Interested students can also apply to teach a writing class at BCCC. If accepted by the Chair at BCCC, you would then enroll in this TCNJ Practicum for graduate credit. Please read the webpage about this Practicum (here on MA website) and contact Dr. Tarter if you have any further questions.