2003-2004 - The University of Scranton

136 Arts and Sciences/English
ENLT 360 3 cr.
(D) Jewish Literature
The course provides a broad literary overview of
Jewish life from medieval times to the present,
examining the poetry, fiction, memoirs, and
drama of Jewish writers from a variety of cultures.
ENLT 361 3 cr.
Modern Irish Novel
(Area E) A selective introductory course to Ireland’s
renowned modern novelists: Francis Smart,
John McGahern, William Trevor, Neil Jordan, Brian
Moore, Bernard MacLaverty, John Banville and
others. These literary artists capture the verve,
flavor, and illumination that distinguish today’s
Irish novels.
ENLT 362 3 cr.
Literature and Philosophy
(Theory Intensive) This course explores the Platonic
insight that on the highest level literature
and philosophy converge. We begin with a few of
Plato’s dialogues which develop this idea. Then
we examine several “literary” works in English
which embody it. Our approach is analytical,
inductive and historical.
ENLT 363 3 cr.
Magazine Editing
The process of editing is surveyed. Macro-editing
(publishing for a defined audience and delighting,
surprising, informing, and challenging it) is
emphasized over micro-editing (grammar, punctuation,
and so forth). Both are fitted into the
larger picture of promotion, fulfillment, circulation,
advertising, production, and distribution.
ENLT 364 3 cr.
Modern Novel
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.
ENLT 365 3 cr.
Comparative Romanticism
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.
ENLT 366 3 cr.
Dante’s Divine Comedy
A canto-by-canto study, in translation, of
Dante’s dream vision of hell, purgatory, and
heaven. Consideration will be given to the cultural
milieu and to medieval art and thought as
these affect the allegorical meaning and structure
of the poem.
ENLT 367 3 cr.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
Study of the life and works of Gerard Manley
Hopkins, S.J., the only priest-poet ever to be
honored with a place in Westminster Abbey’s
Poet’s Corner.
ENLT 368 3 cr.
Conrad’s Fiction
A reading of major works by Conrad and survey
of critical response to this quintessential modern
Western writer.
ENLT 382-383 Variable credit
Guided Independent Study
A tutorial program open to third-year students.
Content determined by mentor.
ENLT 395 3 cr.
Travel Seminar: Ireland
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)
All 400-level ENLT courses have a prerequisite
of ENLT 140 or equivalent; a 300-level ENLT
course is strongly recommended.
ENLT 443 3 cr.
Chaucer
(Theory Intensive) A study of Chaucer’s poetry
in the context of medieval culture. Readings and
assignments will concentrate on The Canterbury
Tales, but will also cover the other major poems,
such as the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament
of Birds.
ENLT 447 3 cr.
Keats: Death and Love
This course will focus almost exclusively on one
writer, John Keats, and explore the dynamic relationship
in his poetry between death and love.
ENLT 455 3 cr.
American Realists
(Area F) 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.