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  • ENGL 295: English Literature from the Victorians to the Present:Through a Looking Glass

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course traces the evolution of English literature from roughly the 1840s to the present day, a period of extraordinary intellectual and social upheaval. Emphasis falls on novels and poetry. The readings investigate imaginative responses to such issues as the challenges of science to traditional, religiously based conceptions of reality; the reorganization of communal and even private life by the industrial revolution; the rise and then the disintegration of the British Empire; and the impact of two world wars. In this literature of our own time, we see ourselves reflected in ways both revealing and disturbing. Readings include the work of such writers as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, and others.
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  • ENGL 297: The Emergence of American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Beginning with the Puritan arrival in the "New World," this course tracesthe development of an American national literature through the national upheaval of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The course considers topics including the Puritan vision of the new world, conflicts between white colonists and native peoples, tension between the ideal of republicanism and the presence of slavery, and the search for a national culture. Students read the works of a variety of Puritan figures, political writings of such important early Americans as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the philosophical writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, the poetry of Walt Whitman, and fiction by such writers as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Louisa May Alcott.
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  • ENGL 298: American Literature from 1880 to the Present:Realism to Postmodern Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course surveys American literature representing a period that ranges from the consolidation of a national culture following the Civil War to the current paradoxical condition of a sole global super-power whose national culture has seldom seemed more fragmented. Topics to be explored include intellectual and imaginative responses to industrialization and urbanization, to the culmination of westward expansion and the loss of the frontier, to the integration of free African Americans and millions of immigrants into the culture and the economy, and to the challenges and responsibilities of world power. Readings include the work of such writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallace Stevens, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and others.
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  • ENGL 302: Writers as Close Readers

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Avid writers are likely also to be avid readers, studying the writer's craft. This course emphasizes critical analysis centered on the writers' use of point of view, a variety of narrative styles and inventions, and other writers' tools to produce deliberate effects: the evolution of the storyteller's art. Readings will include short fiction and novels-some older for historical perspective, most relatively recent. Prerequisite: ENGL 200C.
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  • ENGL 305: Structure of Language

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course allows students to study the English language by looking at its component parts-syntax, morphology, semantics-and how thoseelements help explain the power of language in the contemporary world. Possible topics include gender differences in language use, worldwide English as a colonial phenomenon, and the "science" of grammar.
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  • ENGL 312C: P1 Advanced Shakespeare Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course explores the way Shakespeare's plays have been and are interpreted by critics, theatrical and film productions, and audiences. Students investigate what literary interpretation is and how it is affected by historical and cultural contexts. In doing so, students read the assigned texts both as works of literature and as scripts for a stage performance. In addition, students study current critical approaches to these plays to develop a sense of their own cultural lens for interpreting Shakespeare. May not be repeated for credit.
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  • ENGL 318: English Literary Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, writers saw themselves as participating in a time of artistic rebirth. This course offers an in-depth study of literature from this vibrant literary era. Reading literature of the time within a social and historical context, students focus on issues such as the emerging ideas of authorship, nation, and gender in the English Renaissance.
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  • ENGL 319: Satire

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Most often political, seen as destructive but claiming to be medicinal, satire is an old and respected literary form that goes far beyond the parody and sarcasm with which it is now most frequently associated. This course focuses on works from one of the great ages of satire, works that fall under many different generic categories-epic poetry, the epistolary poem, newspaper prose, short fiction, comedies, and tragedies.
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  • ENGL 325: The Romantic Tradition

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Romanticism is a comprehensive label given to movements in politics, philosophy, and art rooted in the mid to late eighteenth century. While the range of its ideas and expressions is vast, the Romantic outlook can be broadly characterized by three principles: the central importance of the individual (and the individual's perceptions, emotions, and attitudes) in life and art; the value of imagination as a source of experience and even understanding, a faculty to be stimulated and nurtured, and a measure of genius; and a reverence for nature as a revelation of truth, a source of both wisdom and ideas of form, whether social or aesthetic. This course examines the expression and evolution of these principles in selections of texts representing the Romantic tradition in England and America, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its echoes in the twentieth.
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  • ENGL 327: Studies in Victorian Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Queen Victoria's sixty-four-year reign (1837-1901) witnessed sweeping social changes-the growth of industrialization, imperialism, nationalism, and the struggle for women's rights. At the same time, the writings of Marx and Engels, Darwin, Freud and others challenged long-held ways of understanding the world. These profound social and intellectual changes paralleled the rise of narrative fiction and poetry, which achieved unequaled popularity with both writers and readers during this period. Because it is impossible in one semester comprehensively to "cover" Victorian literature,and because literature is inextricably linked to culture, we study several writers' imaginative responses to the sense of dividedness and loss that characterized Victorian culture.
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