200 Level Spring 2012
ENGLISH 239: FUNDAMENTALS OF LITERARY STUDIES - SPECIAL TOPICS
ENGL 239 - Lecture 20 " Then and There, Here and Now: the reimaginations of postcoloniality by Canadian Women Writes of Colour"
Instructor: Chris Olbey
Schedule: Tues/Thurs 12:00
Description:
This course will provide instruction in critical reading and writing. We will be reading and exploring novels that engage specific aspects of the historical developments of colonialism and post-colonialism in general before moving on to discuss writers who deal with some of the implications of these historical and literary developments in a Canadian context.
ENGL 239 - Lecture 21 " Literature, Illness and the Ill "
Instructor: Kathy Zelinsky
Schedule: Mon/Wed 9:00
Description:
This course will explore literary expressions and representations of illness in a variety of genres and from various narrative perspectives. We will examine the metaphorical and, more broadly, figurative language with which individual writers confront, convey and transform illness. We will also examine the texts as cultural narratives that situate the ill subject’s experiences within familiar modes of storytelling. Theorists and thinkers such as Susan Sontag and Arthur Frank will provide some illness paradigms with which to contextualize the literary selections. Students will be expected to discuss the texts in class and to write about the texts and contexts for the course assignments. Some instruction in essay writing will be provided.
