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EN 228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in translation) (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with SL 223 Conducted entirely in English. All readings are in English. See course description in the Slavic and Eastern Language Department. Cynthia Simmons EN 229 Literature of the Other Europe (in translation) (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with SL 232 All readings in English translation See course description in the Slavic and Eastern Languages Department. Mariela Dakova Cynthia Simmons EN 231 Literature of the Civil War (Spring: 3) Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. This course explores the ways the Civil War has been represented, asking why authors choose certain forms of representation, tracing the importance of issues like race and class to the waging of the war, and assessing the place the Civil War holds in American cultural history. Though the title of the course refers to literature, other forms of representation, such as film and music, will be considered. James Wallace EN 237 Studies in Childrens Literature: Disney and the Wondertale (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with ED 140 Disney and the Wondertale Disney films have remained outside the critical landscape because they have been considered either beneath artistic attention, or beyond reproach. The goal will be to explore the issues presented in such Disney films as The Lion King, Aladdin, Prince of Egypt, and Pocahontas. To do this, we will read source material (The Arabian Nights, Hamlet, tales about Pocahontas, Bible stories about Moses, Exodus, etc) and secondary studies. Bonnie Rudner EN 238 Medieval Women Writers (Fall: 3) Fulfills pre-1700 requirement. Fulfills Women Writers requirement for LSOE/EN majors This course examines a female-authored texts from the Middle Ages, ranging from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. This body of work is remarkable for its size and range, given the limitations on womens writing: we will read Anglo-Saxon nuns letters, Old English womens songs, biography, autobiography, saints lives, fables, love poetry, mystical and visionary literature, utopian literature, political theory, and the correspondence of aristocratic women. Can we find essential characteristics of female-authored texts, can we locate a female literary ethos in particular genres, or are we encountering a fortuitous selection of typical literature? All texts are in English translation. Robert Stanton EN 241 Playwriting (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with CT 384 See course description in Theater Department. Scott T. Cummings EN 246 Introduction to Asian American Literature (Fall: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement This course is a broad introduction to Asian American literature, criticism, and culture. This means that we will read at least one booklength work from each of the following ethnic groups: Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and South Asian. In addition, we will read a selection of short stories, essays, and historical documents, as well as screen a number of multimedia material. In our discussion of these works, we will foreground the most salient issues of race/ethnicity, sexuality/gender, class, and history as they affect the creative lives of Asian Americans. Min Song EN 250 Approaches to Russian Literature (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with SL 306 For undergraduates and non-Slavic graduate students. All readings are in English translation. See course description in the Slavic and Eastern Languages Department. Cynthia Simmons EN 254 Literature and Revolution (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with SL 288 All readings will be in English translation. See course description in the Slavic and Eastern Languages Department. Maxim Shrayer EN 255 Introduction to Post-Colonial Literature (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with BK 254 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement This is a course in the politics and literature of colonial domination. Questions we will pose this semester include: What is a people, what is a nation? What are the political and economic outcomes of colonial domination? How does the asymmetrical arrangement of political power, civil rights, and opportunities under colonialism affect colonizers and the colonized? How should we understand contemporary phenomena such as terrorism, the permanent war on terror, the urgency of human rights, and grassroots social movements organized by the urban and rural poor against big business and international capitalism in relation to colonial practices? Kalpana Rahita Seshadri EN 261 Writing The Self (Spring: 3) Fulfills the pre-1700 requirement. This course examines the emergence of a variety of modes of life writing in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries. How did early modern notions of self emerge alongside of (and sometimes as a consequence of) the genres which gave them form? Diaries, speeches and plays will be read alongside of portraits, films, and selections from modern criticism and biography. The lives studied may include Anne Askew, Thomas More, Elizabeth I, Anne Clifford, Margaret Cavendish, and Samuel Pepys. Amy Boesky EN 270 Reading and Teaching Young Adult and Adolescent Literature (Spring: 3) Fulfills the Adolescent/Young Adult Literature requirement for LSOE/EN majors. An introduction to the interpretation and teaching of fiction for young adults. After considering the emergence of the young adult market, we will explore four major categories of fiction written for young adults: realism, fantasy, historical fiction, and nature writing. 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