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ENGL
352
Digging in the Crates: Making and Unmaking Literary Tradition
Spring 2021
Division I
Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed
ENGL 352
/ AFR 353
Class Details
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on matters of style in literature, art, and music in order to explore and subsequently reimagine how relationships between texts form literary traditions. Instead of assuming what a literary tradition is, and without prioritizing a teleological chronology of literary influence as literary traditions tend to do, we will study work ranging from antiquity to the present, anachronistically and in tandem, in order to better understand how the past speaks to the present and how the present speaks to the past. As a general, if imperfect, rule of thumb we will be working regularly with pairs of texts, one from prior to 1800 and another from after 1800: for example, a Toni Morrison novel with a Homeric epic, the work of Jamaica Kincaid with John Milton’s Paradise Lost, or the poetry of John Donne with the lyrics of the Wu Tang Clan.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 5206
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 5206
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Students will be expected to write a number of one-pages response papers during the semester, two papers in the range of 5-8 pages each, and a final paper of 8-10 pages.
Prerequisites:
None.
Enrollment Preferences:
In the case of overenrollment, preference will be given to English majors and Africana Studies concentrators.
Distributions:
Division I
Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 352 Division I AFR 353 Division II
ENGL 352 Division I AFR 353 Division II
DPE Notes:
This course will focus on the educational system as a means of reproducing hierarchies and inequality.
Attributes:
ENGL Literary Histories A
ENGL Literary Histories C
ENGL Literary Histories C
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ENGL 352 - R1 (S)
SEM Making/Unmaking Lit Tradition
ENGL 352 - R1 (S) SEM Making/Unmaking Lit TraditionDivision I Difference, Power, and EquityMW 10:00 am - 11:15 am
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