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English 108 (new number=2180):
Introduction to Women's Literature
Women, Dieting and Fat
Is it unhealthy to be overweight? What causes some people to be overweight and others not? Is it healthy to lose weight? Why do so many people who try to lose weight fail, or even if they succeed, fail to “keep it off” in the long term? This course will examine our cultural preoccupation with thinness from a number of perspectives: social medical, and literary. We will go behind the scenes in the field of obesity research, where surprising and little-known controversies rage. We will discuss the symbolic meanings of fat and thin bodies in literary works and the mass media. We will investigate the impact of “lipophobia”—the fear and hatred of fat—on the lives of average, overweight, and eating-disordered people.
ENG 2300: Topics in American Literature
ENG 3100: Introduction to Literary Study
ENG 3180: Historical Survey of Women Writers
ENG 4510: Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction
ENG 8510: Graduate Seminar in Fiction Writing
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English 402 (new number=8510):
Advanced Writing of Fiction
Modern Again
If consciousness last changed around 1910, what are the chances for another paradigm shift on the horizon? Or are we already here? This semester we will revisit Modernism and try once again to make it new. Texts under consideration: Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter, Three Lives by Gertrude Stein, Cane by Jean Toomer, Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf. (Feel free to let me know if you have other suggestions). Come in, study for your (M.A. and Ph.D.) exams, smash your icons, write your manifestos, change your minds. Two traditional story workshops per student, an essay, and experiment, and weekly in-class writing.
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