Queer Times: Poetics and Politics of Temporality
ENGL 378
Fall 2016
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 326 |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
What are some of the relationships among textuality, sexuality, and temporality? The course will explore this question by analyzing a range of literary, visual, and theoretical works from the early 20th century to the present day, including iconic modernist texts and contemporary queer literary, visual, and theoretical production, including works responding to the AIDS crisis. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CSCT)(ENGL)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Will include works by: Hilton Als, Gregg Bordowitz, Clifford Chase, Bob Gluck, Todd Haynes, Gertrude Stein, David Wojnarowitz, Virginia Woolf, and others
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three essays, intensive participation in discussion, possible meetings with visiting writers/artists |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Literatures of Difference and Theory requirements and contributes to the Theory & Literary Forms concentration of the English Major |
| Instructor(s): Cohen,Lisa Times: ..T.... 07:10PM-10:00PM; Location: CRT285; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 5 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 2 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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