The plays they wrote by themselves, collaboratively with each other and collaboratively with other playwrights permanently changed the genres and forms of English drama. These explorations will range from asking and answering such questions as what makes certain characters in Shakespeare's plays so darn "mean and nasty" (and why we love them), to addressing the ever-popular question, "why does Shakespeare talk like that? Donates some copies of king lear to the renaissance festival international. Guiding question(s): How do we assess the intersections of artistic ambition and popular success? By the end of the class, you will have developed tools and techniques for your craft, be fluent in the landscape of contemporary poetry and have participated in the workshopping of poems by yourself and your classmates. Instructor: Chris Highley.
We will read in a wide variety of genres (confession narratives, novels, exposes, genre fiction) and in a wide variety of media (books, comics, television, film) as we traverse the long history of this literary and cultural form. What (if anything) does poetry have to do with politics? Learn how to: - Analyze the ways writing discourse shapes workplaces. Section 30 instructor: Christiane Buuck. English 4550: Special Topics in Colonial and Early National Literature of the U. Keeping up with The Jones by Oklahoma Gazette. S. The popularity of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton has turned the "ten dollar founding father" into something of a household name. This seminar explores queer and transgender cultural strategies for movement building from their moments of emergence in the 1960s through their continual re-imagining in response to changing conditions and state and social efforts to target, police and assimilate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people by the twenty-first century. Additionally, our course will focus on providing a foundation for theoretical approaches in disability studies and futurity studies. We'll study the rhetorical and discursive work that circulates around contemporary social-action movements such as The Ice Bucket Challenge, Breaking Out, Disability Justice, and The Icarus Project. Who gets to be considered alive, and under what conditions? In what ways do these representations shape our understanding of the world around us?
Then we'll move to the U. and read Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Textbooks: a paperback edition of the poems of Sarah Piatt; primary texts available through Ohio State library databases. We might think of theses science fiction authors and filmmakers as Shelley's spiritual children, and their works as Frankenstein's own "hideous progeny". There will be a series of very short papers in the first month of the course, but the central writing assignment will be a research paper that students will develop over the course of the final two months of the semester. In this class, we will dive into the Gothic at its moment of emergence, reading some of the novels, poems and plays that reviewers in the 1790s described as predicated upon "the art of frightening young people, and reviving the age of ghosts, hobgoblins, and spirits. " Because drama involves both elements of social ritual as well as public entertainment, this art form serves to build communities by uniting, inciting, and/or inspiring audiences in interpretive critical activity. We will also see how American writers used photographic portraits to help advertise and promote their writing, as well as how their writing helped establish key words for representing photography as a visual medium that is both hyper-realistic and uncanny. Collectively, we will develop an understanding of why humans repeatedly feel compelled to contain epidemics through narrative, and speculate how we might begin to narrate COVID-19. From the theoretical side, we will explore why social media are of interest for linguistic and other social science researchers, focusing on previous research findings about communicative behavior in social media. Donates some copies of king lear to the renaissance festival.com. In this course we'll try to find out, by reading five or six of the plays -- some more and some less well-known, along with a few of his sonnets. How do these representations affect interpretations of belonging of marginalized groups in the United States?
Instead, this course is designed to hone the considerable writing ability you already possess, and develop it into a set of skills that will prove indispensable throughout your college career and beyond. As a field, comics studies in the U. has devoted much of its energy to studying a relatively small body of work, most of it produced in the last 30 years with relatively little devoted to the long history of comics and cartooning before the rise of the comic book form in the late 1930s. Their artistic contributions continue to shape many people's understanding of the workings of capitalism, racism, sexism and heteronormativity. Requirements will include attendance, active participation, informal writing exercises, short essays, and a longer final essay. Donates some copies of king lear to the renaissance festival mn. This class pursues these two questions by investigating three distinct subcultures: punk, riot grrrl and black metal. Charles Darwin took the poem with him on The Beagle.
How do I analyze texts and conduct nuanced research? Session Five: Resumes and Cover Letters. The course will be conducted in English and readings will be in English and Spanglish. Potential Assignments: A paper, a group presentation, a critical article review, several short, informal writing assignments. Literary works will include excerpts from the Bible and Gilgamesh, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others, David Lowery's A Ghost Story, stories by M. James and Raymond Carver and poems by John Donne, Thomas Gray, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Tony Harrison. 01: History of Critical Theory I: Plato to Aestheticism. Each student will also provide verbal and written commentary for their peers' stories. In addition to poems, essays and short stories, we will be reading several craft pieces, or instructional texts on the art of writing. Among other things, we'll consider cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene, sound, genre, distribution, exhibition venues, and the star system. This class is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the English language: its systems of sounds, words and sentences, and how these systems differ across dialects, contexts and periods in history. Instructor: Evonne Halasek. Requirements: I have designed this class to address student concerns about GE classes more generally.
Grading and Evaluation: Punctual and regular attendance; 2 oral presentations; 3 analytical papers. All haunting aside, we'll interrogate the cultural desires and anxieties that lurk beneath the surface of Gothic texts, as well as the historical and philosophical contexts that made this mode of writing both popular and culturally incisive. Folklore is the culture that people make for themselves. In this specific section of 2269, through digital media production, it's part creative writing, part audio producer. Instructor: Samuel Head.
We will read some of the great metaphysical poems of John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne, radical pamphlets by Gerard Winstanley, John Reeve, and Abiezer Coppe, the religious autobiography of the physician Thomas Browne, and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, written while he was in the Bedford Jail for illegal preaching, and one of the most popular books in English literary history. English 2277 is meant to help you become more critically informed about disability as a matter of history, biology, politics, art, power, identity and more. How does the history of photographic portraiture inform our use of selfies and social media today? This course will highlight British fiction and non-fiction about women and slavery, including slave narratives and journals of historical people living in slave-based colonies. What can we learn from these contrarian takes? All of this Octavia Butler envisioned in her startlingly prescient Parable novels from the 1990s, which have only grown in stature since her death in 2004. But nationalism, even anticolonial nationalism, can be limiting, too. We'll read elegies, pastorals, hymns, satires, epistles and odes. English 4553: Twentieth-Century U. Fiction — The Great 20th Century American Novel. This course is built on the principle that narrative competence improves outcomes for both caregivers and patients. From John Rechy's hustler travelogue City of Night to Audre Lorde's biomythography Zami to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel Fun Home, this seminar will explore how queerness has been portrayed, explored, challenged and broadened over the past sixty or so years. Guiding Questions: What do want to do when you graduate? Lab (approximately three hours per week) in the Folklore Archives with appropriate social distancing in place.
Prompts and writing exercises will be provided. What constitutes a non-native? In this class, we will learn the ways these ideas have evolved over time and across cultures. Is it an ethical obligation? Indeed, classes like this would be under threat if Ohio HB 322 & 327 passed. Instructor: Evan Van Tassell. A city of labyrinthine canals and alleys, known for its vast wealth and its mix of Eastern and Western art and architecture, but also for its courtesans, con men, casinos and Carnival, Venice has for centuries inspired tales of cultural conflict, sexual intrigue, magic and mystery, decay and death. At least one copy will be on reserve at Thompson Library.
Renaissance writers, artists and musicians didn't need cameras, video, recording and the web to produce exciting works of art that delighted both the eye and the ear, that blended words and music, poetry and images, print and pictures, and performances that added to all this dance, costume, spectacle, stage machinery, and even the court or cityscape itself. Possible readings include literary texts by Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Jhumpa Lahiri, William Gibson, Anne Boyer and Ocean Vuong. Focused study of a major theme and/or critical problem arising from literature Restoration and/or eighteenth-century Britain: race and enlightenment, crime and criminals, sex and the city, the culture of sensibility and transatlantic literary culture. We will sample texts about mythology and religion, heroic legend, chivalric romance, satire, allegory, and autobiography. With Linda Hogan's novel Mean Spirit and materials from online FBI case files, we will trace the history of oil and water back to the 1920s Oklahoma oil boom that made the Osage Tribe the "wealthiest nation on earth" and resulted in the "Reign of Terror, " in which more than 60 Osage were murdered, most of which remain unsolved.
Evaluation will include short writing assignments and a final take-home exam. Foundational concepts and issues in disability studies; introduction to the sociopolitical models of disability. "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. " Specifically, we will consider how sci-fi addresses topics like (anti-)authoritarianism, (anti-)fascism and (anti-)capitalism. Make your mark documenting the expressive culture you know most intimately and that you value most and expand the consultable record of human experience. Potential assignments: Students will write three short papers. Course requirements include a weekly viewing journal, a few short written exercises, an ethnographic field trip to a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, active participation in our discussions and a final project whose form can be negotiated.