Mini Session
May 23 to June 10, 2016
LIT 317/WGS 317: The Witch in Literature (GE)
Instructor: Michele Tarter
Class Meetings: M,T,W,R 10:00am-1:15pm
Travel to Salem, MA June 1-4
The witch has been a figure in literary history since the beginning of time. Who is she, and what does she embody? Who creates her, and to what end? This course will explore the socio-historical constructions of this figure and trace her through a wide spectrum of literary texts, including legal and historical treatises, fairy tales, short stories, drama, film, children’s literature, poetry, and even cartoons. Because this course is being offered during Maymester, we will have the enhanced learning opportunity of traveling to Salem, Massachusetts for 4 days, where we will conduct archival research of the 1692 witch hunt, in addition to visiting many museums and living history programs. Ultimately, through our in-depth and on-site study of witch hunts and literary recreations of this figure, we will analyze the cultures which have persisted in creating, recreating, and reviving this timeless, powerful, and equally feared character throughout the ages.
This course fulfills the following requirements: Liberal Learning GENDER requirement; Religious Studies Minor elective; Women’s and Gender Studies elective; and English elective.
This course is available for Graduate Credit, by permission of the professor and the Graduate Coordinator for ENGL 670.
Session A
June 13-July 14, 2016
LIT 316/WGS 376: Global Women Writers (GE,GL)
Instructor: Jo Carney
Class Meetings: M, T, R 2:00-4:50pm
This course will explore fiction and poetry by women writing from a variety of cultural and geographical perspectives. The course challenges conventional notions that male authors write about the “large and public” while women authors write about the “small, personal, and domestic”: in the works we will read, the personal and the political often intersect. The readings will also complicate preconceived views of various cultural experiences. We will read works by several significant contemporary authors, including Chimamanda Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, and Ludmilla Petrushevskya. **Fulfills liberal learning requirements for Gender and Global.
LIT 375: U.S. Literature 1800 – 1900 (LH)
Instructor: Bernard Bearer
Class Meetings M,W,R 11:00am-1:50pm
An examination of American literary culture beginning with the early national and antebellum periods and ending with the Civil War and the age of realism. Readings in the classic authors that created an American literature, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Crane, Whitman, and Twain. **Fulfills Literary History requirement
ENGL 622: Seminar in Early Modern Literature
Instructor: Jean Graham
Class Meetings: M,W,R 5:00pm-7:30pm
An exploration of a variety of texts from 16th and early 17th century England, a period that has been traditionally referred to as “the Renaissance” and more recently, the “Early Modern period.” We will consider the implications of both of these terms (as well as the terms “English” and “British”) in our examination of drama, prose, and poetry from this exciting, tumultuous, chaotic, and productive age.
LIT 370: Literary Landscapes -Harlaxton/England and Denmark, Germany, and Amsterdam
Instructor: Michele Tarter
Study Abroad Dates: June 17 – July 10, 2016
Come with us and bring literature to life! Come and live in a castle! Our home away from home will be a magnificent castle set in the English countryside in the Midlands. There, we will do many exciting things, such as attend a High Tea in the Conservatory and a formal feast in the ballroom. We will also venture to such well-renowned British sites as the Cotswolds and Stratford-upon-Avon, where we will see two performances and visit the bard’s home. The next leg of our adventure will take us to Denmark, home of Hamlet’s castle; Germany, as we wend our way along the Grimms’ Fairy Tales tour; and Amsterdam, where we will visit Anne Frank’s house. Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime literary adventure
For more information, go to: http://cge.tcnj.edu/programs/faculty-led-programs/tcnj-england-summer-2013/
This course may also be taken for graduate credit as a LIT 670. For more information, click here.
LIT 499: Narrative Theory
Instructor: Felicia Steele
Class Meetings: MTR- 11-12:20
Session 1-2- May 23 to July 14 (Please Note this section spans across 2 summer sessions)
This section will examine novels and post-novels that exemplify, complicate, or challenge two of Mikhail Bakhtin’s central contributions to narrative theory: heteroglossia and the chronotope. In addition to seminal texts in narrative theory, we will read novels (and texts that resist that label) that often manipulate dialects, narrative voices, perspectives, genres, or media. Our readings will include: Henry Roth, Diving Rock on the Hudson; Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace; David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas; Alan Moore, Watchmen; and Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Session B
July 18- August 18, 2016
LIT 200: Introduction to Poetry
Instructor: Jean Graham
Class Meetings: MWR- 2-4pm Session 3 July 18 to August 24 (Please note this course has an extra session week)
First foundation course required by the English major: This course is designed to provide students with an overview and basic comprehension of the diverse forms and devices of poetry; in particular students will develop a fundamental understanding of poetry’s rhetorical
LIT 230: Classical Tradition
Instructor: Diane Steinberg
Class Meetings: M, W, R 11:00am-1:50pm
Classical Traditions introduces students to a literary tradition that originates in the classical period, and explores that literary tradition in light of a more recent literary period. The course will explore literary and historical relations—the textual “ancestors” and “progeny” that make up the particular classical tradition under consideration. The summer 2016 Classical Traditions course will focus on drama, and will compare classical dramas — both Greek and Roman, and both tragic and comic — with early modern (Renaissance) Shakespearean dramas. The class will explore the competing value systems in Classical Antiquity and Early Modern Britain (Christian vs. non-Christian values; and religious, courtly, mercantile, urban, and rural values, to name a few), the role of the outsider (women, serfs, foreigners, Jews, Muslims), the increasing importance of the individual in Early Modern culture, and emerging social class structures.
Classical Traditions meets the pre-Restoration literary history requirement in the ENGT and ENGA majors. It also may be taken as an elective in the English major or minor and in the Classical Studies minor. It may be counted as part of several interdisciplinary concentrations, and meets a liberal learning requirement as a “Literary, Visual, or Performing Arts” course. Permission will be sought from the School of Education to count this as a “Visual or Performing Arts” requirement for School of Education majors.
We will read plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca, Plautus, Terence and William Shakespeare.
ENGL 670: Studies in Literature: Gender at the Round Table: Men and Women in English Arthurian Poetry
Instructor: Glenn Steinberg
Class Meetings: M, W, R 5:00pm-7:30pm
The brotherhood of the Round Table. Virgins. Knights in shining armor. Adultery. The Holy Grail. This course explores gender as a central concern in medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian poetry about King Arthur. Among texts and authors included in the course are /The Stanzaic Morte Arthur/, /The Alliterative Morte Arthur/, /Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/, /The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle/, Sir Thomas Malory,//Edmund Spenser,//Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, and Matthew Arnold.
LIT 317/WGS 317: The Magic of Archival Research in Cornwall, England
Instructor: Michele Tarter
Study Aboard Dates: July 9 – 29, 2016
Would you like to travel back in time to the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table? Or have class in Merlin’s Cave? Walk in medieval Druid forests and visit stone circles and holy wells? And, most importantly, conduct archival research in the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, learning about the earliest healers, spells, and magic? Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime class in Cornwall, England this summer 2016. We will live in a Bed & Breakfast, eat delicious full Cornish breakfasts each morning, and visit some of the most beautiful sites in all the world! This special topics course will conduct groundbreaking archival research at the world-renowned Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cornwall, England. Working with primary manuscripts that have never been studied before, students (graduate and undergraduate) will consider the many ways that these materials can be archived, analyzed, and understood in the broader cultural context of witchcraft today. While living in Tintagel, set on the rocky cliffs by the Cornish sea and right atop Merlin’s cave, students will read and explore the history and narratives of witchcraft across the ages, with particular focus on Arthurian legends which attempted to bring together the pagan and Christian worlds.
For more information, go to: http://cge.tcnj.edu/programs/faculty-led-programs/tcnj-cornwall-summer-2013/
This course may also be taken for graduate credit as a LIT 670. For more information, click here.