ENGH 202: Texts and Contexts

ENGH 202-DL2: Haunted America
(Spring 2021)

Online

Section Information for Spring 2021

In “Haunted America” you will listen to the rage-filled screams of ghosts, those once-men-and-women who were ostracized, imprisoned, murdered, entombed, their pain echoing across time. You will breathe in the toxic environs of Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher, dwell in madding rooms, and try to find your way through a maze-like mansion. 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 the Gothic literary tradition, you will learn about the major movements of US literary history, expand your analytical and writing skills, and theorize the possible connections between our present and our literary past. 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.

ENGH 202 DL2 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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