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English Literature (ENG)
118 Prince Lucien Campbell, 541-346-3911
English
College of Arts & Sciences
Course Data
  ENG 399   Sp St Lit & Mod State 4.00 cr.
Repeatable.
Grading Options: Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
Instructor: Whalan ME-mailHomepage Office:   207 PLC
Phone:   (541) 346-3926
Not Open to: Freshman
See CRN for CommentsPrereqs/Comments: Prereq: sophomore standing.
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes
  12186 22 40 1000-1120 tr 185 LIL Whalan M !

Final Exam:

0800-1000 m 12/03 185 LIL
Academic Deadlines
Deadline     Last day to:
September 23:   Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded)
September 29:   Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
September 29:   Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
September 30:   Add this course
September 30:   Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded)
September 30:   Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded)
October 3:   Last day to change to or from audit
October 7:   Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded)
October 7:   Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
October 14:   Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded)
October 14:   Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
October 21:   Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded)
October 21:   Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
November 11:   Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
November 11:   Change grading option for this course
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Expanded Course Description
This course will examine a variety of texts that engage the modern state–its functions and possibilities; its ability to repress and coerce; its ability to forge new and enduring kinds of social connection; and what place, if any, it allows for literary culture. It will examine some of the ways in which literature and the state engage with one another—the tradition of utopian and dystopian literature; how the state surveilled and monitored radical writing in the twentieth century; and how writers wrote about war. A particular focus will be on how the state has helped produce or re-inforce forms of racial identity and racial/colonial oppression, and how writers have sought to resist those processes and imagine radical alternatives. Authors studied will include Kazuo Ishiguro, Claude McKay, J.M. Coetzee, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and D'Arcy McNickle.
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