Samuel Beckett
ENGL 322
Fall 2024
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This seminar will be an adventure through immersion in the prose of an uncompromising modernist whose work would have revolutionized the possibilities for literature--and didn't.
We will focus intensively on Beckett's major novels (anti-novels) and short prose, with some attention to the poems and letters. Our reading will concern matters of style and form, and we will attempt to situate the texts within the political and social force fields they so often seem to defy. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Samuel Beckett, WATT (Grove Press). ISBN 0-8021-5140-X
Samuel Beckett, THREE NOVELS: MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE (Grove Press). ISBN 978-0-8021-4447-8
Samuel Beckett, HOW IT IS (Grove Press). ISBN 978-0-8021-5066-0
Samuel Beckett, NOHOW ON: COMPANY, ILL SEEN ILL SAID, WORSTWARD HO (Grove Press). ISBN 978-0-8021-4446-1
Additional texts including poems, letters, and short prose by Beckett as well as critical and theoretical works.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Four short reading exercises. Two medium-length essays.
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the following English major requirements:
TH;LH3;WL
Students wishing to fulfill the research-paper requirement for writing an honors thesis will write a 20-25pp. research essay instead of the two essays. |
| Instructor(s): Garrett,Matthew Carl Times: .M.W... 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 1 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 0 |
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