1997-1998 - The University of Scranton

ENGL. 334 Fr. J.J. Quinn
Irish Short Story (E) 3 credits
Introduces American students to the variety and
richness of the short story from the pens of such
masters as Yeats, Joyce, Frank O’Connor, Lavin,
Kiely, F. O’Brien, McGovern, Jordan, Trevor,
Beckett and others. Serious craftsmen aware of the
verbal tradition, shapers of the Literary Revival,
these masters of language forge a literature that
affirms spiritual values in the midst of material
misery.
ENGL. 335 Dr. Friedman
Shakespeare: Special Topics (A) 3 credits
A detailed study of Shakespeare’s treatment of
either a particular genre (comedy, tragedy, history,
romance) or a particular subject that occurs across
genres. Special attention will be paid to the meaning
of plays in performance. This course may be
counted toward the Theatre Track or minor.
ENGL. 336 Fr. J.J. Quinn
Modern Irish Novel (E) 3 credits
A selective introductory course to Ireland’s
renowned modern novelists: Francis Smart, John
McGahern, William Trevor, Nell Jordan, Brian
Moore, Bernard MacLaverty, John Banville and
others. These literary artists capture the verve, flavor,
and life illumination that distinguish today’s
Irish novels.
ENGL. 344 Fr. Joseph Quinn, Dr. Gougeon
American Literature to 1865 (D) 3 credits
An in-depth study of a select group of major
American authors from the Colonial Period to the
Civil War. Included are Bradford, Franklin, Irving,
and Poe. Consideration given to the historical and
cultural milieu and development of major
American themes and attitudes.
ENGL. 351 Prof. Schaffer
The Cross-Cultural Novella 3 credits
This course aims both to foster an understanding
and appreciation of the novella as a distinct literary
form combining the short story’s unique focus on
character and closed plot structure with the novel's
broader treatment of time and place and to introduce
the student to the literature of a variety of
continents and cultures. The course will deal with
writers such as Tolstoy, Flaubert, Kafka,
Kawabata, Mann, and Gaines.
ENGL. 364 Staff
Modern British Literature (E) 3 credits
Selected modern and postmodern English poets,
playwrights, and fiction writers: Hopkins, Eliot,
Hughes, Auden, Larkin, Spender, Osborne,
Stoppard, Pinter, Greene, Waugh, Read, Lodge,
Amis, Spark, McEwan, and Chatwin.
ENGL. 371 Dr. Casey
Victorian Voices (C) 3 credits
The course will focus on three major Victorian
authors: one non-fiction prose writer, one novelist,
and one poet. Possible authors include Carlyle,
Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Bronte, Tennyson,
Browning, Rossetti.
ENGL. 372 Dr. Fraustino
The English Romantic Poets (C) 3 credits
This course surveys the major British Romantic
poets within their historical and intellectual contexts.
It proceeds chronologically, beginning with
William Blake and concluding with John Keats.
Through close textual analysis and in-class discussion
of major poems, students should develop an
appreciation and understanding of the literature of
the period.
ENGL. 382-383, 482-483 Staff
Guided Independent Study variable credit
A tutorial program open to Junior and Senior students.
Content determined by mentor.
ENGL. 395 Staff
Travel Seminar: Ireland 3 credits
This is an artistic, cultural, literary tour. Students
will study the people and places that contribute to
Ireland’s distinct place in the World of Literary
Art. (Intersession or Spring Break)
ENGL. 419 Dr. Engel
Modern Novel 3 credits
The evolution of the novel from modern to postmodern
times. Major American and English writers
are studied, moving from traditional narrative
to self-conscious stylistic devices.
ENGL. 420 Dr. Fraustino
Comparative Romanticism 3 credits
Major British and American Romantic writers will
be studied in an effort to distinguish the forms
Romanticism takes in the two countries and to
determine possible relationships. Authors to be
examined include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Shelley, Keats, Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson and
Whitman.
ENGL. 421 Dr. Fraustino
Literature of the Absurd 3 credits
Focusing on literature from 1850 to the present,
this course will examine works of fiction, drama,
and to some extent poetry that reflect a general
19th and 20th century western sense of disintegrating
values and lost religious beliefs. Readings will
include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron,
Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph
Conrad, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway,
and Samuel Beckett.
ENGL. 422 Dr. McInerney
Modern Drama 3 credits
(Prerequisite: Student should have some previous
study of drama.) A detailed introduction to the
major trends and authors in 20th century British
and American drama, with some Irish and
Continental works included. Readings and assignments
will focus on major figures such as Shaw,
O’Neill, Miller, Williams. This course may be
counted toward the Theatre Track or minor.
ENGL. 424 Fr. Joseph Quinn
American Realists (F) 3 credits
Study of representative figures in the post Civil
War period, the period of the rise of American
realism. Authors treated will be Mark Twain,
Henry James, Stephen Crane and selected modern
authors.
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