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  • ENG 434: Literature of Fact

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    A study of selected nonfiction (e.g., essays, histories, biographies) designed to examine treatments of "fact" and to highlight differences in style among periods and writers. Selections compare 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century works to contemporary pieces.
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  • ENG 438: Principles of Literary Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    A course focusing on the historical development of the principles of literacy criticism from classical origins to modern practice. Texts analyzed include passages and works by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Sidney, Pope, Johnson, Hazlitt, Brooks, Frye, and others.
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  • ENG 441: Writing Personal Legend

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This writing class will use as inspiration self-representation by contemporary women authors who have written on the scrim of legend, myth, and folklore. The telling of tales is central to community interaction; story has always been used as a way, direct and indirect, of making culturally specific meaning out of experience. Students will read archival and contemporary material and then select traditional and modern stories resonant of their private experience to generate original work.
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  • ENG 442: American Multicultural Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    Students explore the issues, debates, and politics of American literary multiculturalism; consider texts from non-European imaginative traditions (Native American, African-American, and Chicano/a) that challenge not only the canon of American literature but also notions of the American and the literary; and devise strategies for incorporating such texts in courses on American multicultural literature.
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  • ENG 443: Nature and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course explores the issues of ecology and identity as part of the development of American literary culture. The development of an ecological imperative and the patterns of "nature" consciousness will be explored as they rise, grow and change. Questions of the relationship between nature and culture will be the main focus of the course, including the developing ideology of ecology as a response to the growth of mechanical culture and the rapid loss of wilderness. Cross-listed as ENV 445.
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  • ENG 446: Wilderness and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    Through close reading of poetry and prose, students will explore the relationship between wilderness and literature - both representations of the natural world and what Stanley Kunitz calls "your wilderness . . . the untamed self that you pretend doesn't exist, all that chaos locked behind the closet door, those memories yammering in the the dark." Writers examined include: Anne Carson, Mark Doty, Kathleen Hill, and Virginia Woolf.
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  • ENG 447: Contemporary Environmental Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    A study of environmental fiction ranging from Jack London's The Call of the Wild to Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, this course attends in specific to the representation of nature and environment in 20th-Century novels and other cultural texts (e.g., Bambi or The Emerald Forest). Students will consider how such representations interrogate, critique, or reinforce contemporary constructions of the environment. Special attention will be given to questions of history, gender, and "what counts" (e.g., urban versus wilderness) as the environment. Prerequisite(s): 200-level English course or permission of department chairperson. Prerequisite:    ENG200 OR ENG204 OR ENG207 OR ENG208 OR ENG209 OR ENG216 OR ENG217W OR ENG218 OR ENG220 OR ENG222 OR ENG230 OR ENG241 OR ENG243 OR ENG244 OR ENG245 OR ENG249 OR ENG262 OR ENG281 OR ENG282 OR ENG283 OR ENG286 OR ENG287 OR ENG380
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  • ENG 449: Exiles

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course will examine the 20th-century condition of exile in relation to its different configurations, from European émigrés to postcolonial subjects to experiences of exile in the United States, to the relation of exile to Diaspora (African, Indian, and Jewish). Students will see how different patterns of movement define subjects variously as exiles, migrants, nomads, and tourists. They also will approach the concept of exile from psychological, geographical, and cultural angles to understand the different uses of the term, its scope, and its limitations.
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  • ENG 452: Ecofeminist Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course brings together theoretical, nonfictional, and fictional approaches to the study of women and the environment. Students will examine how diverse ecofeminist writers problematize, resituate, and reclaim the woman/nature paradigm--a construct historically based in patriarchal culture. This course focuses particularly on how representations of women and environment (ranging from the traditional to the radical) can help students rethink and reimagine their relationship to the ecological world.
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  • ENG 452W: Ecofeminist Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course brings together theoretical, nonfictional, and fictional approaches to the study of women and the environment. Students will examine how diverse ecofeminist writers problematize, resituate, and reclaim the woman/nature paradigm--a construct historically based in patriarchal culture. This course focuses particularly on how representations of women and environment (ranging from the traditional to the radical) can help students rethink and reimagine their relationship to the ecological world.
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