English Literature (ENG) |
118 Prince Lucien Campbell, 541-346-3911
English
College of Arts & Sciences
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M - Major, minor, pre-major, or concentration restrictions. If restricted by date, click on CRN to see effective dates; courses with no date are restricted through the registration deadline. Contact the academic department for additional information.
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Course Data
| ENG 630 Top Spenser+Embodiment |
5.00 cr. |
| Recent offerings include Hamlet, Jacobean Potboilers, Renaissance Irrationalities. Repeatable. |
| Grading Options: |
Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
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| Instructor: |
Dawson B |
Office:
473 PLC
Phone:
(541) 346-3962
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Only Open to Majors/Minors:
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English
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36544 |
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mtwrfsu |
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Dawson B |
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Academic Deadlines
| Deadline |
Last day to: |
| March 29: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| April 4: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 4: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 5: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| April 5: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| April 6: |
Add this course |
| April 8: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| April 12: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 12: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 19: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 19: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 26: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| April 26: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| May 17: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| June 3: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| This course reads Spenser as a theorist of embodiment. The Faerie Queene is a text that shapes bodies, training the reader in corporeal discipline through the allegorical adventures of its heroes. In doing so, it can be (and has been) seen as indicative of a modernity in which the subject is increasingly distant from the body. However, Spenser’s poem is also one in which the lines between bodies and selves are confounded: people transform into speaking trees, flesh withers until it is an allegorical sign, and symbols are conjured out of still-animate blood. The Faerie Queene, then, offers an opportunity to think through the question of embodiment crucial to many forms of literary and cultural theory of the last generation or two. We will interrogate particular categories of embodiment important to the poem—including sexuality, race, and species—but we will also ask questions of a preliminary order: e.g., what is a body? what does it mean to say one “has” one or is “in” one? To that end, we will read some ancient texts on embodiment influential to Spenser (St. Paul, Aristotle, and Lucretius), and recent theoretical work taking up some of those texts. At the end of the term, we will look at some later texts that draw on Spenser to formulate their own sense of embodiment, including Victorian Arts and Crafts books and contemporary fantasy. |
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