ENGH 202: Texts and Contexts

ENGH 202-C01: Haunted America
(Summer 2019)

Online

Section Information for Summer 2019

In “Haunted America” you will listen to the rage-filled screams of ghosts, men and women who have been ostracized, imprisoned, and murdered, their pain echoing across time. You will breathe in the toxic environs of Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher, dwell in stifling shacks, and try to find your way through mind-destroying, maze-like mansions. You will swim among water ghosts that wait, eyes wide and hair filled with weeds, to pull under the first living being they can reach and so be born anew. As we explore this multi-ethnic Gothic literary tradition, you will learn about the major movements of US literary history and theorize the possible connections between our present and our literary past. We will also build your reading and writing skills as we consider form, style, and contexts of literary production. Together we will map, analyze, discuss, question, create, and imitate, in order to, in Poe’s words, “grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowd” upon us.

Learning outcomes: students will

  • recall key information about US literary history from 1840 to the present
  • recognize the conventions of Gothic literature
  • analyze examples of literature
  • communicate literary analyses using written and oral forms
  • synthesize their learning by rewriting a Gothic work we have read in the style of another work from a different era

ENGH 202 C01 is a distance education section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Studies literary texts within the framework of culture. Examines texts within such categories as history, gender, sexuality, religion, race, class, and nation. Notes: Builds on reading and writing skills taught in ENGH 101. May be repeated within the term.
Mason Core: Literature
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: 3 credits of 100-level English.
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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