Topic: Dicks, Dandies, and Delinquents
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1:00pm-2:15pm | TuTh | Callaway Center N204 | Giannini, Nicholas. | FWRT. | 4 | 4215 | TBA. |
Content: This course explores literary, cultural, and cinematic depictions of masculinity throughout the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and twentieth-first centuries. In particular, we will focus on four main tropes of masculinity-the detective, soldier, queer and criminal-in relation to shifting gender politics and disaster. In addition to primary course material, students can expect to read critical work from Susan Bordo, Steven Cohen, Michael Kimmel, Susan Jeffords, Steven Neale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Yvonne Tasker, Robert Warshow, and Laura Mulvey, among others.
Texts: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest; Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho; Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Particulars: Mandatory attendance and participation; short response essays (1-2 pages); and a final term paper (7-10 pages).
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