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• ENG 127: CUR THM ENG: GHOST STORIES

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the ghost story as a literary genre from its earliest appearances in myth and legend through contemporary times, including local ghost lore of the Kutztown area. This haunting genre includes oral histories, horror films, short stories, and contemporary novels.
  ShareENG 127 - CUR THM ENG: GHOST STORIES

• ENG 129: CUR THM LIT: JAZZ CULTURE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores the special relationship shared by Jazz and Literature. The course will put the literature about jazz culture into conversation with jazz music, jazz film, jazz dance, jazz theater, and other jazz arts.
  ShareENG 129 - CUR THM LIT: JAZZ CULTURE

• ENG 132: CONTEMP GAY&LESBIAN LIT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will focus on contemporary gay and lesbian literature with an emphasis on fiction written after the 1969 Stonewall riots. As a relatively new field of literary studies, gay and lesbian literature represents a wide, creative and challenging oeuvre. Novels, poetry, and drama written by and/or about gay men and women will be examined in connection with identity and gender politics, social movements, camp, feminist and queer theory, and the influence of the AIDS epidemic.
  ShareENG 132 - CONTEMP GAY&LESBIAN LIT

• ENG 135: CONTEMP AFRICAN NOVEL

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Contemporary African Novel will introduce students to a broad sampling of novels written originally in English or translated into English, from Amos Tutuola's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954) to the present.
  ShareENG 135 - CONTEMP AFRICAN NOVEL

• ENG 136: CONTEMP AFR POETRY/DRAMA

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Contemporary African Poetry and Drama will introduce students to a broad sampling of poetry and drama from Africa, written in English or in English translation.
  ShareENG 136 - CONTEMP AFR POETRY/DRAMA

• ENG 137: AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students of this course will be challenged as they intensively survey the oral and literary tradition of literature and music written and performed by African Americans from the eighteenth century to the present. Students will read works in different literary and musical genres as they survey African-American literature from its beginnings through the 21st century poetry, prose, slave narratives, and fiction including the corresponding history that encourage the literary production and movements in and by Black Americans.
  ShareENG 137 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT

• ENG 141: LITERATURE AND FILM

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to consider the similarities and distinctions in form and style between literary texts and films by examining adaptations of literary works and their source material. Students will consider the artistic choices made in the work of adaptation and their resulting discourses about the cultures in which they are produced. Critical approaches relevant to literature and film provide the student with additional areas of study.
  ShareENG 141 - LITERATURE AND FILM

• ENG 142: GOTHIC LITERATURE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the history of Gothic literature from the late-eighteenth cen tury Gothic romance to southern American Gothic fiction and the recent Gothic revival. Representative works, their distinguishing features, their recurrent themes and motifs, their social, psychological, and rhetorical implications are also examined.
  ShareENG 142 - GOTHIC LITERATURE

• ENG 144: COMICS STUDIES

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This class is an exploration of the medium of comics in its various forms, from the comic strip to the comic book to the graphic novel to the web comic. Students will investigate historical and contemporary, independent and mainstream, and American and international comics; develop a vocabulary for examining the specific features of the medium; and examine how authors and artists have deployed those features in a range of different contexts.
  ShareENG 144 - COMICS STUDIES

• ENG 145: THE FAIRY TALE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Why do we still care about fairy tales? What makes them so popular and so relatable to our modern lives? To answer these questions, this course examines classic fairy tales, from their earliest oral and written roots to current representations and transformations. It explores the origins of fairy tales and traces their continual evolution in response to their cultural settings. We will study a number of individual tales in depth, read fairy tales and poetry by contemporary authors, and view films that both depict traditional tales and re-interpret them.
  ShareENG 145 - THE FAIRY TALE