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  • ENGL 231C: P1 Detective and Mystery Narratives

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Detective and mystery narratives raise fascinating questions about the process of reading and interpretation; the detective, like the reader/critic, reads "signs" in order to transform chaos into order. Beginning with the OldTestament and ending with The Silence of the Lambs ( both novel and film), this course considers detective and mystery narratives by such writers as Poe, Conan Doyle, Collins, Sayers, Christie, Du Maurier, Hillerman, and others. By giving highbrow and lowbrow mysteries equal footing, the course challenges traditional notions of canonicity, including the distinction between literature and film. Students are responsible for applying major theoretical arguments to texts that focus on "reading," while they study the changing culturalimplications of "mystery."
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  • ENGL 236D: CC The American Dream

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    What is the American Dream What is "American" This course explores theAmerican Dream-the dream of financial success, independence, tolerance, religious freedom-through the eyes of disparate groups. We emphasize the problem of cultural integration/assimilation alongside attempts to define a diverse culture as "one nation, indivisible."
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  • ENGL 238D: CC Postcolonial Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    A study of the writing from former colonies, mainly British, during the 20th century. The course explores the perspectives on their own and on Western culture of African, Caribbean, and Indian writers such as Achebe, Kincaid, Naipaul, Gordimer, Coetzee, Narayan, Walcott, and Rushdie.
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  • ENGL 239D: The Development of the Modern Gothic

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    A study of the major themes and development of the British and American Gothic, including genre archetypes, connections to the sentimental/domestic genres, its focus on storytelling and narrative making, and its position in the canon. We trace the development of the Gothic from British Romanticism to current popular culture, paying particular attention to the ways in which the genre revises itself. Readings include works by Coleridge, Shelley, Stoker, Louis Stevenson, Poe, Hawthorne, James, Freud, Lovecraft, and Stephen King.
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  • ENGL 241D: CC Asian American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course will serve as an introduction to Asian-American literature, offering both American perspectives on Asia and Asian perspectives on America. These perspectives will include both naturalized and native-born Asian-Americans as well as Asian "aliens." Important themes in the courseare the American myths which drew Asians in large numbers as well as their actual experiences on arriving; the American "melting pot" and the relatedissues of assimilation and acculturation; cultural transmission to the second and ensuing generations, the Asian diaspora, and the "model minority."Course readings will examine the interactions between the peoples of China, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and India with Americans, and vice versa. Main texts include Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club, John Okada' s No-NoBoy, F. Sionil Jose's Viajero, and Anh Junghyo' s Silver Stallion.
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  • ENGL 247C: P1 War in Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course examines literary and filmic depictions of U.S. wars (though not always from an American perspective), focusing mainly on the colonial era's "Indian Wars" to the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and finally theVietnam War. This class takes an inclusive, multifaceted look at our nation at war--at war with racial "Others," at war with itself, at war abroad-ahow war has affected not only the men who fight but also women, children and non-combatants. Because this class focuses on war in literature (whether printed or filmic), we also focus on how form affects content-i.e., how the text's literary form (poem, short story, novel, film, nonfictional prose, or government document) affects the material it relates. Texts include U.S. government-produced guidelines on films produced for the war effort, novels, poems, High Modernism, and "lowbrow" popular war films.
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  • ENGL 248: P5 World Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course introduces students to a wide variety of literature from around the world, in translation, with attention to how such literature communicates the values and traditions of the cultures in which the writers live. The course helps students learn to analyze literature through written and oral assignments.
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  • ENGL 253: Introductory Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    In this seminar-workshop, students write and respond to both fiction and poetry. The course involves extensive writing and detailed evaluation of individual students' creative work.
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  • ENGL 255: Introduction to Professional Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course introduces the student to the basics of workplace writing, which include defining and establishing the context for the writing task, performing an audience analysis, using and developing effective modes and communication styles, and assessing the effectiveness of the communication. The course explores both traditional written communication as well as digital modes of communication and emphasizes editing, grammar, structure, tone, and the conventions of some specific types of workplace writing. It also begins the process of honing the student's professional writing style.
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  • ENGL 257: Memoir in the 21st Century

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Since the commercial success of Angela's Ashes, memoir writing has become a compelling genre. While containing many elements of prose fiction, it focuses primarily on meaningful events in a person's past, asking the writer to reflect on and evaluate the significance of those moments with the wisdom of the present. Besides memoirs, this course will study such additional introspective forms as autobiographies, confessions, diaries, logs, and letters. Activities will include reading and discussing several current memoirs, but the primary objective will be writing personal pieces which may serve as the foundation of a book-length work.
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