College Bulletin 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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English Literature - 20th and 21st Century |
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ENGL 049. Contemporary Irish Poetry Ireland’s complicated historical divisions have provided fertile ground for extraordinary poetry, both in the Republic and in the North. This course will consider poetry by Heaney, Boland, Carson, McGuckian, Muldoon, and ni Dhomnaill (among others) within the sociopolitical contexts of contemporary Ireland. 20th/21st c.
GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2023. Anderson. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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ENGL 050D. Literature and Art on the US-Mexico Border This course will examine the shifting expressions of the U.S.-Mexico Border in the US-American literary and cultural imagination from 1848 to the present. We will begin by considering Chicanx theorist Mary Pat Brady’s suggestion that “the border might be understood more fully as a state-sponsored aesthetic project” (Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies 52). If the border is to be understood as an aesthetic project, what are its formal elements, and how have they shifted over time? Which narratives of belonging has this national project made hyper-visible and which has it occluded? How have treaties, maps, novels, pamphlets, poems, and films figured into the production of the border as a dividing line and a contact zone, a site of violence and of solidarity, a material place and a metaphor?
In order to answer these questions and to generate more along the way, we will consider a range of legal, literary, and cultural texts. These may include The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854), George Washington Gomez (c. 1930s), science-fiction, migrant testimonies, contemporary films, as well as recent interventions by digital artists and activists in the border zone.
Limited to 30 students. For English Literature majors and minors, this course will count towards the historical distribution requirements as either an 18th/19th century course or as a 20th/21st century course, based upon the student’s final project and the recommendation of the professor. GATEWAY English Literature; no prerequisites, suitable for any student. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, ESCH Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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ENGL 052C. Contemporary US Fiction, 1990 to the Present This course will focus on contemporary U.S. fiction published since 1990 or so. The reading list will feature global perspectives on the U.S. as well as new understandings of the U.S.’s past and present by U.S.-born authors. We’ll explore the novels’ formal inventiveness as well as their engagement with history, race, gender, and a variety of other social issues, including multi-racial single and family identities (and, by implication, how this may help the U.S. national narrative evolve away from white suprematism). Three of the readings will use the genre of “historical fiction” to reinterpret U.S. history, but all the texts rewrite the possibilities of personal, family, and national/transnational narratives.
A special feature of the course will be the celebration of Swarthmore alum Patricia Park, who will visit Swarthmore to read from and discuss her first novel. Entitled Re Jane, its heroine Jane Re is a mixed-race orphan on a quest to learn more about her family history. The novel is set in Queens, Brooklyn, and Korea, and is both a fun romantic comedy and a clever reimagining of the Jane Eyre plot. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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ENGL 058. Climate Fiction (Cross-listed as ENVS 058 ) Climate fiction responds to the immensity of climate change through a variety of modes including journalism, dystopia, speculation, black comedy. We will hone skills of thinking, writing, and speaking critically about cultural forms and social structures entangled with our changing climate and environment. Authors include Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Jesmyn Ward, and Richard Powers.
20th/21st c. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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ENGL 071E. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis Cross-listed as ENVS 041 This course will survey nature poems as well as poems on other relevant topics written in English from the Romantics in the early 19th century up to the present, with particular emphasis on poems from the post-WWII era-that time when scientists began publishing evidence that human beings’ use of fossil fuels was altering the Earth’s climate in ways that might bring about the sixth Great Extinction in our planet’s history. Also emphasized: the primary role that women and/or writers of color have played in shaping ecopoetry, and in linking the climate crisis to historical trauma, social inequality, and why reparative justice is needed. The course will be taught in ways to make it welcoming to students who have not taken a literature course at Swarthmore, much less a course on poetry. Advanced students in cultural studies or poetry are also welcome. This course is cross-listed, which means that students should register for credit as either ENVS 041 or English 071E.
Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS. Spring 2024. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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English Literature - Creative Writing Workshops |
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English Literature - Independent Study, Method, and Culminating Exercises |
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English Literature - Honors Seminars |
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English Literature - Honors Thesis and Independent Study |
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