• ENGL 4550: American Lit: Contemporary

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course focuses on American literature from 2001 to the present. Like its predecessor, English 4545, it ranges across genres and media to survey traditions and tendencies in contemporary US letters that continue to emerge and evolve. The literature produced during this open-ended period is often less burdened by the legacies of Euro-American literature or the politics of the late 20th century, and hence still fluid in terms of defining period markers. Often written within the wider context of 9/11, U.S. foreign policy, and the changing world order, such work often complicates the aesthetic sensibilities of high postmodernism while providing American literature with a more global set of historical and geographic referents. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4560: Contemp Lit for Creative Wrtrs

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course introduces students to the work of contemporary writers. Looking at variety of projects, including collections and individual pieces, we will examine their stylistic choices and the effects of those choices. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4610: British Lit: Medieval

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This historical survey runs from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century -- roughly from the reign of Alfred the Great to Henry VII. Some of the more recognizable works include Beowulf, The Wanderer, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, early histories of King Arthur, Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Julian of Norwich's Showings, Everyman, and Gawain and the Green Knight. Works written in Anglo-Saxon English and northern medieval dialects will be read in modern translations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4620: British Lit: Renaissance

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This historical survey runs from just before the middle of the sixteenth century to just after the middle of the seventeenth -- roughly from the reign of Henry VIII, through the reign of Elizabeth Tudor, to the restoration of Charles II. Some of the more recognizable figures of this study are Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Anne Askew, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, and Robert Herrick. (Note: this survey does not typically try to do justice to its largest figure, Shakespeare -- for whom the department has established English 4730: Shakespeare's Tragedies, Comedies & Histories). Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4630: British Lit: Neoclassic/Romant

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This historical survey links two periods: the first has frequently been referred to as the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century and includes such figures as Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, Mary Montagu, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson. The second period covers the relatively short but intense age of English Romanticism -- popular because of such writers as William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey, and John Keats. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4640: British Lit: Victorian

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This historical survey follows the long span of Queen Victoria's life: from about 1837 when she came to the throne to 1901 when her funeral widely symbolized the passing of the age. Not merely a placid time of Victorian propriety, this era was marked by such philosophical upheavals as that which followed Darwin's Origin of Species. Some of the notable writers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, and Thomas Carlyle. This era is marked by the Industrial Revolution, Utilitarianism (Mill), the rise of science and evolution theory (Darwin), socialism (Marx and Engels); Psychology (Freud), resurgence of art (the Pre-Raphaelites), and imperialism (Kipling). Notable writers include: Carlyle, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Wilde, Dickens, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4650: British Lit: Modern

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This historical survey focuses on the first half of the twentieth century, a time of great social change for Great Britain and Ireland that led to a rich outpouring of traditional and experimental writing. A variety of writers will be studied in this course in connection with such key developments as the critique of Empire (Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster); the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Renaissance (Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats); World War I (Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain); High Modernism (T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield); divergent poetic world-views (W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas); and World War II, the collapse of Empire, and dystopian visions (Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell). Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4655: Brit Lit WWII-2001

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course examines British and Anglo-Irish literature from World War II to 2001 as Britain metamorphoses from world power to an integral member of the European Community. The course asks what it means to be a "British" writer in an era increasingly multicultural in outlook and studies a variety of British and Anglo-Irish writers in connection with such key developments as post-war disillusion. Absurdism and Postmodernism, neo-Romanticism, magical realism, innovative historical fiction, and legacies of Empire in a postcolonial world. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4660: British Lit:Contemporary

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course focuses on British literature from 2001 to the present. Like its predecessor, English 4655, it ranges across genres and media to survey traditions and tendencies in contemporary British and Anglo-Irish letters that continue to emerge and evolve as the UK attempts to define itself and Britishness in the wake of 9/11, a changing UK foreign and domestic policy, and Brexit. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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• ENGL 4710: Eminent Authors

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study authors such as Sir Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, or Toni Morrison, in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. It may be taken more than once with different designations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 3080
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