Maymester 2009 Courses Maymester courses will begin May 11 and run for 3 weeks. They will be 3 hours long with time for 2 breaks of 10 minutes. Classes will not meet Memorial Day.
401/601 Austen and Film 7:30-10:30 L. Alexander We will look at four Austen novels: Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, watching and analyzing film adaptations while reading the novels. The long class times will allow us to view films as a class and to look at clips from a variety of films (for example, the three versions of Emma that came out within 18 months in the late 1990s) rather than a single version. Besides the novels we will also read a few short articles about film theory and about Austen and film. We will be asking questions about the move from novel to film, about character adaptation, and about relevance to twenty-first century audiences.
425/625 Advanced Grammar 10:45- 1:45* J. Wright Explore the social and economic implications of grammar, the significance of dialects and regionalisms, grammar demons, grammar software, and the effects of technology on language.
Learn the basics of grammar, use of standard English, the ways people learn language through both structured and inherent processes, and the relationship of grammar to the process of writing.
Discover how grammar relates to your professional field and your career aspirations while analyzing the system implicit in the English language—basic sentence patterns, inflections, determiners, parts of speech, expansions, complementation, and usage.
English 425 will offer all of the above opportunities during Maymester 09.
*By combining the two scheduled breaks into one, there will be a short lunch break mid-class.
496/696 Development of the Short Story: Artistry and Form 2:00-5:00 C. Bradshaw This course asks at its most elemental level, what is “the short story”? While older arguments exist that categorize it as a “surprise-ending story,” other delineations have been made in length, form, technique, and characterization. Given the varied definitions, we will attempt to describe the short story in historical, cultural, and artistic contexts as we see it evolve in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. It should come as no surprise that this course will also incorporate a broad range of genres (realism, sensation, the gothic, detective fiction, etc.) and lead us to other critical inquiries central to the relationship between form and content in literature. Some of the authors we'll cover include Hawthorne, Poe, Maupassant, Chekhov, Tolstoy, O. Henry, Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Kafka, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce, Rushdie, Achebe, Cather.
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