Edgar Allan Poe and Literary Culture
ENGL 212
Fall 2018
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 212 |
Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his grotesque characters and macabre plot-twists. But though Poe seems capable of offering readers only a very specific form of literary experience - dark, brooding, atmospheric - what's striking about his work when taken as a whole is its variety. Poe was a writer of short stories, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, and an editor. He invented the detective story, wrote science fiction, and published tales of romance, family discord, and horror. This course sets out to appreciate Poe's eclectic literary output in the context of the emergent nineteenth-century publishing industry, seeing Poe - whether playing the role of novelist, poet, or critic - most of all as a writer struggling to earn a living in the 1830's and 1840's. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings:
Selected poems, including:
¿To Helen¿
¿The City in the Sea¿
¿The Raven¿
¿The Sleeper¿
¿Sonnet--Silence¿
¿Annabel Lee¿
Selected essays, including:
¿The Philosophy of Composition¿
¿How To Write a Blackwood¿s Article¿
¿A Few Words on Secret Writing¿
¿Maelzel¿s Chess Player¿
Selected short stories, including:
¿The Black Cat¿
¿The Tell-Tale Heart¿
¿The Cask of Amontillado¿
¿The Fall of the House of Usher¿
¿The Pit and the Pendulum¿
¿The Gold Bug¿
¿Murders in the Rue Morgue¿
¿The Purloined Letter¿
Selected Hoaxes, including:
¿The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall¿
¿The Balloon-Hoax¿
A novel:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym\n
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Examinations and Assignments:
Exams/Assignments: Three 6-8 page papers. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Literary History II requirement and contributes to the American Literature and Theory & Literary Forms concentrations of the English major. |
| Instructor(s): Day Frank,Morgan Times: .M.W... 08:20AM-09:40AM; Location: BOGH114; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 4 | FR: 0 |
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