Courses
English
0505-Literary Forms and Critical Practices 3 s.h.
Surveys the major literary forms and traditions and the critical practices that have characterized academic literary study from its origin to the present. Required of doctoral students. Courses at or above the 500 level are open to students in the M.A. in Creative Writing or Ph.D. program in English and, with the instructor's permission, to students matriculated in any graduate program at Temple.
0507-Introduction to Teaching 3 s.h.
Courses at or above the 500 level are open to students in the M.A. in Creative Writing or Ph.D. program in English and, with the instructor's permission, to students matriculated in any graduate program at Temple.
0508-Composition Theory and Practice 3 s.h.
This course is designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of writing instruction. The course requires a modest amount of reading accompanied by brief assignments. Courses at or above the 500 level are open to students in the M.A. in Creative Writing or Ph.D. program in English and, with the instructor's permission, to students matriculated in any graduate program at Temple.
0509-Surv. Of Res. And Rhet 3 s.h.
0510-Movies/Film/Cinema: Histories and Practices 3 s.h.
An introduction to film studies that considers the historical, institutional, and technological contexts of film production and reception, with attention to different film traditions and genres. Courses at or above the 500 level are open to students in the M.A. in Creative Writing or Ph.D. program in English and, with the instructor's permission, to students matriculated in any graduate program at Temple.
0630-English Literature of the Renaissance 3 s.h.
This course examines the relationships among imitation, innovation, literary production, and circulation in sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.
0645-Milton
This course will introduce students to Milton's life and his writings. Class sessions will consider the canonical position that Milton occupies for both our profession and for the tradition of writers who follow Milton.
0650-Dryden to Burns 3 s.h.
This course surveys major literary figures and representative literary forms of the 18th Century. We will consider literature's relation to political, social, and cultural developments.
0673-Victorian Novel 3 s.h.
Major novelists of the Victorian period, from the Brontes to Hardy. Social and cultural backgrounds of the Victorian Age.
0679-British Literature in Transition 3 s.h.
Content varies, e.g., the esthetic movement, naturalism, colonialism and postcolonialism, gay/lesbian issues.
0684-American Writing: 1800-1865 3 s.h.
This course juxtaposes works that have achieved the status of "classics" with rediscovered works by women and African Americans. The class explores the relationship between aesthetic judgments and political or ideological values; the consequences of reading canonical works in new literary and historical contexts.
0685-American Writing: 1865-1910 3 s.h.
This course is intended as a survey of the period 1865-1910, concentrating on the major figures, together with a representative sampling of the full range of literary discourse.
0687-AM Writing 1940 to Present 3 s.h.
0707-Theory and Methodology of American Literary Studies 3 s.h.
An examination of the major approaches to the study of American literature over the past fifty years, emphasizing methodologies and underlying theoretical assumptions and demonstrating the ongoing debate over the nature of American literary study.
0710-Modern Literature: Background and Movements 3 s.h.
Introduction to the intellectual traditions and principal movements of twentieth century world literature, including representative major writers.
0712-Twentieth Century American Poetry 3 s.h.
We will study early modernist poetries up to about 1930 treating a variety of figures. Emphasis will be placed (1) On poetics, (2) on the poets' many interactions and affiliations, (3) on the ways ideologies and debates emerge in poetic texts, and (4) on contemporary critical interventions studying modernism.
0713-Twentieth Century American Fiction 3 s.h.
The craft of fiction: a study of contemporary American fiction through analysis of the fictional strategies selected by the author. We will focus on writers whose work reflects America of the millennium, from the invaders of cyberspace to those crossing sexual frontiers.
0716-British Literature: The 1920s 3 s.h.
Early Modernism as illustrated by the leading writers and movements of the decade.
0724-African American Literature of the Twentieth Century 3 s.h.
Considers the emergence of African American Studies as a field with literature as a sub-field. Rhetoric that were paramount at the outset of the century will be examined, with particular emphasis on how at the end of the century critical approaches to African American literature are in transition.
0735-Twentieth Century World Fiction, 1900-1945 3 s.h.
Rilke, Biely, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Svevo, and Sartre.
0740-Epochs of Literary Criticism 3 s.h.
A comprehensive survey of major critical schools and approaches from classical beginnings to early modern developments. Emphasis is on the changing relations between critical theory and literary practice within the culture in each period.
0743-Philosophy of Literary Criticism 3 s.h.
A study of problems that arise from reflection on the critic's tasks of describing, interpreting, and judging literary works. Among the topics to be considered are the language of poetry, metaphor, style, form in literature, symbolism, truth, criteria of evaluation, obscenity.
0750-World Drama 3 s.h.
Survey of world drama including plays representing: the Classical Age; the Middle Ages; the Renaissance in Italy, Spain, and England; the French, neo-Classical period; the Romantic epoch in Germany and France; the Modern Age.
0760-Advanced Textual Analysis 3 s.h.
A study of complex texts, analyzing the discourses of disciplines, professions, and public institutions.
0765-Ideas and Forms in Lit. 3 s.h.
0766-Approaches to Literature 3 s.h.
0770-Practical Criticism 3 s.h.
0790-Poetry Workshop 3 s.h.
For English: Creative Writing majors. Intensive discussion of student poetry and the work of established poets whose concerns are related to those of the students. Frequent individual conferences.
0791-Fiction Workshop 3 s.h.
For English: Creative Writing majors. Intensive discussion of student fiction and the work of established fiction writers whose concerns are related to those of the students. Frequent individual conferences.
0799-Preliminary Examination Preparation 1 s.h.
Advanced Seminars
0815-Sixteenth Century Studies 3 s.h.
Various literary, intellectual, and critical traditions, including Spenser and other major authors, movements, forms, themes, or critical procedures.
0816-Seventeenth Century Studies 3 s.h.
Seminar with varying content, from Donne, Jonson, and Bacon to the Restoration.
0825-Studies in Victorian Prose and Poetry 3 s.h.
Students will examine women's writing on women, learn the bibliographical and research techniques needed to tap the primary sources available in Philadelphia libraries, and place the materials in historical context.
0827-Studies in Victorian Novelists 3 s.h.
Principal works of Dickens, Thackeray, or George Eliot.
0835-Studies in Major 20th Century Poets 3 s.h.
Mainly post-World War II United States long poems, late modernist and contemporary - with the goals of offering introductory reading of complex works acknowledging some underread works and considering the poetics of the long poem, its textuality, and its cultural meanings.
0838-Studies in Modern British Fiction 3 s.h.
Variable content: individual authors (Woolf, Joyce, etc.) or special topics.
0840-Studies in American Literature Since 1900 3 s.h.
Studies in fiction, drama, and poetry, with an emphasis on those writers who were breaking with earlier traditions: Frost, Pound and the Imagists, Eliot, Hemingway, Dos Passos, O'Neill, Cummings, Stevens, Wilder.
0850-Studies in Literary Criticism 3 s.h.
An intensive analysis of current trends in critical theory and method, in the context of their philosophical, literary and historical backgrounds. Special emphasis is given to the various purposes of contemporary critical activity.
0851-St. Lit. of Restn + 18th C
0899-Pre-Dissertation Research 1-6 s.h.
Advanced seminar
0901-St in Vic. Novelist 3 s.h.
0902-Independent Study 3 s.h.
0904-Master's Manuscript Tutorial 3 s.h.
For English: Creative Writing majors. A tutorial in which the creative manuscript required for graduation is developed. Related readings. Weekly conferences. Two semesters are required.
0940-Intensive Study of Single Authors 3 s.h.
Advanced scholarly exploration of the problems of interpreting the work, the life and the past and present critical and cultural contexts of single authorial figures.
0950-St in Am. Lit since 1800 3 s.h.
0970-Ideas and Forms in Lit. 3 s.h.
0971-Recent Literary Crit. 3 s.h.
0974-Literature and Society 3 s.h.
Advanced investigation of social, sociological and historical frameworks for studying literary production and for debating the nature of "literature."
0975-Media Studies 3 s.h.
A variable-content seminar devoted to an exploration of a topic in media studies, such as a film or television genre, a national cinema, the work of a particular director or a critical and theoretical issue of current debate.
0990-Master's Essay 1 s.h.
For doctoral candidates who select the M.A. option.
0999-Dissertation Research 1-6 s.h.
Dissertation seminar for doctoral candidates.