Spring 2024 English GU4458 section 001

Young Romance

Call Number 14888
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
332 Uris Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Christopher C Baswell
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

The literary mode we call “romance” has been enormously popular and influential from its origins in Hellenistic antiquity to current science fiction, and at all levels of textual ambition from popular culture to canonical literature.  Within this mass of material, one constant element is romance’s encounter with boundaries.  This course will explore such boundary moments in texts from the 5th to the 20th centuries: boundaries and transgressions of desire (romances of marriage and adultery), of time (the reimagining of antiquity), of national foundation, of geography (settings in a fantasy east), of gender, and of class, indeed the boundary of the human and the monstrous. 

Web Site Vergil
Department English and Comparative Literature
Enrollment 22 students (54 max) as of 11:06AM Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Subject English
Number GU4458
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20241ENGL4458W001