2002-2003 - The University of Scranton

ENLT 221 Dr. Whittaker
(W)Woody Allen 3 credits
Formerly ENGL 231
This course examines the films, the published
screenplays, the volumes of short
prose, and assorted interviews and articles.
We will examine some of Woody Allen’s
sources, such as Plato, Shakespeare,
Joyce, and Bergman. Our approach will
be historical and analytical.
ENLT 222 Dr. Engel
(CL, D,W)Graham Greene’s 3 credits
Travellers Formerly ENGL 284
A study of selected writings by Greene,
focusing on the journeys made by protagonists
who venture beyond the relative
comfort of their life at home to the disorienting
challenges of life in the developing
and post-colonial worlds. An exploration
of Greene’s use of historical, religious,
and political unrest in Africa, Latin
America, Haiti, and French Indo-China to
move his protagonists from a position of
aloofness from the world to one of commitment
to its needs.
ENLT 225 Dr. Whittaker
(CL, D,W) Writing Women 3 credits
(Theory Intensive) Formerly ENGL 225
In this course we will survey the issues
raised in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of
One’s Own and Carolyn G. Heilbrun’s
Writing a Woman’s Life. We will discuss
theoretical and practical essays incorporating
British Marxist Feminism, French
Psychoanalytic Feminism, and American
Traditional Feminism. By the light of
these approaches we will read short selections
of fiction and poetry from Sappho to
Willa Cather and Adrienne Rich.
ENLT 226 Dr. Casey
(CL, D)Novels by Women 3 credits
Formerly ENGL 235
A study of novels by and about women,
including such authors as Austen, Bronte,
Eliot, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Byatt, and
Morrison. The aim is to expand students’
knowledge of the novel’s history and
development and their understanding of
women’s experiences as expressed by
women writers.
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ENLT 227 Dr. DeRitter
(CL, D,W)Frankenstein’s 3 credits
Forebears Formerly ENGL 227
An interdisciplinary exploration of the
lives and works of one of England’s most
fascinating literary families. William
Godwin was an anarchist philosopher and
novelist; Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminist,
memoirist, and novelist; their daughter,
Mary Shelley, is best known as the
author of Frankenstein, while her husband,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, was a well-known
poet and political radical in his own right.
ENLT 228 Dr. DeRitter
(CL, D,W)Race in 3 credits
Anglo-American Culture, 1600-1860
(Theory Intensive) Formerly ENGL 317
This course will examine Anglo-American
portrayals of African- and Native-
American peoples in the early modern era.
We will study works from both high culture
(poems, plays, and novels) and low
culture (Indian captivity narratives, frontier
biographies, slave autobiographies).
The reading list will include writers such
as Hakluyt, Rowlandson, Dryden, Behn,
Cooper, Melville, Longfellow, Sedgwick,
Douglass, and Stowe.
ENLT 229 Prof. Schaffer
(CL, D) The Cross-Cultural 3 credits
Novella Formerly ENGL 351
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.
ENLT 230 Dr. Gougeon
(CL)American Romanticism 3 credits
(Area D) Formerly ENGL 324
This course will deal with representative
short works of America’s six major
Romantic authors: Emerson, Thoreau,
Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe.