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  • ENGL 022: Romance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course will focus on what is arguably the most extravagant, adventuresome, and fantastical of the literary genres: the Romance. We will read a number of medieval and renaissance romance narratives, in verse and prose, beginning with the Arthurian romances (Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR, SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT) and continuing with as many (and as much) of the great renaissance romances as time will allow: Sir Philip Sidney's ARCADIA, Edmund Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN, and Lady Mary Wroth's URANIA. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 023: History and Theory of Genre

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course will offer students the opportunity to understand what makes one genre or kind of literature different from another. Where do their definitions originate How does genre affect how a literary work is written, how it is reproduced, and how it is interpreted To what degree have the various genres mutated through time Under what circumstances do new genres emerge The syllabus will consist of representative works of a number of literary generes (drama, romance, lyric, satire, epic) as well as some readings, both ancient and modern, in the theory of genre. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 025: The Age of Chaucer

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. In this class we come to speak as people spoke in England some six centuries ago: in medieval or 'Middle' English. We do this by reading the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, a great poet who has influenced everyone from William Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath. Since Middle English takes some getting used to, class assignments are not heavy: usually about 800 lines per class. A typical class might begin by looking at a few of the easier passages in the Canterbury Tales, proceed to reading the greatest poem of love in the English language (Chaucer's TROILUS AND CRISEYDE), before moving on to other contemporary writers in medieval culture. We will likely compare representations of medieval Christianty, Judaism, and Islam, as well as aspects of film adaptation by Italian filmmaker Pasolini (and perhaps by Chaucer scholar Terry Jones). We will consider what it might have been like to live secure in an age of faith; yet to live insecure, as a dizzying new profusion of trades and occupations sprang up in unprecedented "divisions of labor." We will imagine being a medieval woman, and may visit and handle medieval manuscripts. Above all, we will enjoy the poetry. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 026: Drama to 1660

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Early drama in English had its roots as much in Christianity as in Classical antiquity. What grew into the theater of Shakespeare began as networks of strolling players and church atuhorities in market towns sponsoring cycles of "miracle" and "mystery" plays. This course will introduce students to major dramatic works of the medieval and early modern periods, including plays written for the public stage, closet dramas, masques, mayoral pageants and other kinds of performances. The course will also pay attention to the development of different dramatic genres during these periods, as well as the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced. Students thus will explore the history of drama in English through the renaissance to the closing of the theaters in 1641 and their eventual reopening in 1660. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 029: Classical Antiquity and English Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 096]. This course will examine the relationship between early English literature and that of ancient Greece and Rome. At times will will discuss how classical theories of genre and aesthetics were appropriate and reinvented in medieval, raniassance, and seventeenth-century texts. What does it mean to call HAMLET and OEDIPUS THE KING tragedies, or THE FROGS and THE WAY OF THE WORLD comedies Should we consider the development of English drama and poetry as an extension of an imposing classcial traditon or as a sustained and resistant response to it See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 031: Introduction to Renaissance Literature and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 030]. This course will survey the cultural history of sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Interdisciplinary in nature and drawing on the latest methodologies and insights of English studies, we will explore how aesthetics, politics, social traditions, impacted literature at this vital and turbulent time of English history. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 032: Renaissance Poetics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. An introduction to the theory and practice of verse in England from approximately 1500 to 1700. Primary concerned with poems by Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Gascoigne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Marvel, and Milton, this course places special emphasis on the influence of classical and continental poetry in Renaissance England, reading English texts comparatively with texts by Horace, Ovid, Virgil, Petrarch, and du Bellay. The course also examines contemporary critical writing about poetics; debates about the fitness of English to sustain a literture; early efforts to invent a canon of English poets; the issue of translation; and the organization and status of pre modern genres, like pastoral, epigram and elegy. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 033: The Bible As Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 073]. Successive generations have found the Bible to be a text which requires - even demands - extensive interpretation. This course explores the Bible as literature, considering such matters as the artistic arrangement and stylistic qualities of individual episodes as well as the larger thematic patterns of both the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. A good part of the course is spent looking at the place of the Bible in cultural and literary history andthe influence of such biblical figures as Adam and Eve, David, and Susanna on writers of poetry, drama, and fiction in the English and American literary traditions. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 034: Cultures of The Book

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. [Formerly ENGL 071]. The impact of various technologies (from writing to various forms of manuscript to print to electronics) on the way the written word gives shape to a culture. Emphasis on western cultures from Plato to the present, but participation by students with interest or expertise in non-western cultures will be of great value to the group as a whole. The course offers an ideal perspective from which students can consider meta-issues surrounding their own special interests in a wide variety of fields, as well as learn to think about the way in which traditional fields of study are linked by common inherited cultural practices and constructions. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 038: The Age of Milton

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. The seventeenth century was a time of revolution and upheaval, of excesses both puritanical and cavalier. It saw the execution of one kind and the restoration of another,a nd surved the English Civil War and the great Fire and Great Plague of London. This course explores the literature of this century through the works of John Milton Milton's major works (selected sonnets, COMUS, AREOPAGITICA, PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED, and SAMSON AGONISTES), and his contemporaries. We will concentrate on a number of issues that governed writing in the period, particularly the tension between individual interiority and historial, social and political activity. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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