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Home > Curriculum > Course Descriptions > Summer 2005 Course Descriptions
Summer 2005 Course Descriptions
Prereq: HC 221, 222, 223 or HC 231, 232, 233 Any summer session student may enroll in HC 424 if they have sophomore standing or above. Non-honors college students should come to the CHC Office in Chapman 320 for a prerequisite override before registering. Professor Henry Alley HC IDENTITIES COLLOQUIUM (IP) The texts are Marlowe's King Edward II (play), Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (short novel), Stokes' Oscar Wilde (play), Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel), Kushner's Angels in America: Part One (play), Kramer's Women in Love (screenplay), Dixon's Vanishing Rooms (novel), Bram's Father of Frankenstein, and selections from The Penguin Anthology of Homosexual Verse. The course will provide an overview of gay men's literature, as it has evolved from the Renaissance to the pre-sent day. We will discuss how social acceptance has both grown and created more backlashes, as dramatized in the literature. We will look at five tragic perspectives in Marlowe, Wilde, Kramer, Puig, and Bram, two epic outlooks in Kushner and Dixon. These works will trace out the birth of the gay man's Arcadia, where two lovers may retreat from adversity, to the development of the gay marriage and family in the twentieth century. We will have a special look at the war against homophobia, particularly as expressed in the life and work of Oscar Wilde. There will be two short papers and one long one. A reading journal will be optional. There will be a strong em-phasis on discussion, and videos of several of the works will be available - Women in Love, Gods and Mon-sters (Father of Frankenstein), and Kiss of the Spider Woman. |
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