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LTCC CATALOG 2010-2011 149 ENGLISHENG 219D TOPICS IN LITERATURE: ERNESTHEMINGWAY, LIFE INTO ARTLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course is designed to give the student an introduction to thecomplexity of Ernest Hemingway's work. Students will consider howhe transformed his life experience into the art of fiction. Emphasiswill be placed on defining his pioneering minimalist style. This coursewill focus on such predominant themes as initiation and the ethics ofstruggle, and how engagement with such values produces a life criticshave termed the "code hero." This course will cover representativeworks of fiction as well as some memoir material.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219E TOPICS IN LITERATURE: LITERATUREOF CARNIVALLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will focus on carnivalesque themes in literature fromBrazil, Haiti, and Trinidad. Coursework will cover the cultural andhistorical roots of carnival in South America and the Caribbean, andexplore how the works of Edwidge Danticat, Jorge Amado, and EarlLovelace embody the freedom, abandon, joy, contradictions, and lossthat create the spirit of carnival.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219F TOPICS IN LITERATURE: VIRGINIAWOOLF AND DANGEROUS WORDSLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will examine the work of one of the greatest modernistwriters, Virginia Woolf. In order to introduce students to Woolf's lifeand work, the course will focus on the following: Woolf's experimentswith style, her influence on modern literature, her reflections onEngland before and between the world wars, her struggles with mentalillness, and her commentary on women's writing.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219G TOPICS IN LITERATURE: ENGLISHROMANTIC POETS: PASSION, NATURE, POETRY,AND THE SELFLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will introduce students to the major English poets fromthe Romantic Period, approximately 1780-1830. Coursework willfocus on the central Romantic poets--including Blake, Wordsworth,Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Keats--and their concerns with spiritualvisions, "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," the occultand supernatural, the sublime in Nature, memory, and the role of artand poetry in a world of revolutionary change. This course will alsoexamine the role that women--including Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe,and Dorothy Wordsworth, among others--had in Romantic poetry asdiarists, novelists, and poets.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219H TOPICS IN LITERATURE: PARIS INTHE EARLY 1900’S, WRITERS IN EXILELecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course explores the literary artistry of authors writing in exile(whether political, creative, cultural, and/or self-imposed) in Paris inthe early twentieth century. Readings will immerse students in theartistic community that emerged primarily between the world wars(including members of the "Lost Generation" of Americans, such asErnest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and those from the UnitedKingdom who sought to explore feelings of alienation, like James Joyceand Samuel Beckett). This course will concern itself with the idea ofexile and the ways the city of Paris helped some of these writers expressartistic isolation and belonging.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219J TOPICS IN LITERATURE: EDGARALLAN POELecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will take a journey into the dark and terrifying worldof the great American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, exploring theGothic themes of isolation and insanity, terror and suspense, betrayaland revenge in Poe's stories and poems.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or equivalent or appropriateskills demonstrated through the assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219K TOPICS IN LITERATURE: THELITERARY MEMOIRLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2In this course, students will read and discuss the literary memoir inorder to explore the boundaries between fact and fiction, truth andlies, life and art. Authors may include Malcolm X, Sylvia Plath,Zora Neale Hurston, Tim O'Brien, Lauren Slater, Mary Karr, LuisRodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Frank McCourt.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or equivalent or appropriateskills demonstrated through the assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219L TOPICS IN LITERATURE: TRAVELWRITINGLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course explores the world of travel writing. Students will read,discuss, and analyze travel literature in order to understand theconventions of travel writing and learn how to write our own travelbasedessays. Topics covered will include capturing sense of place,characters, and dialog; research and interviews; keeping a traveljournal; and writing and selling the story.Transfers to CSU, UNRADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.English