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Home > Curriculum > Course Descriptions > Summer 2006 Course Descriptions
Summer 2006 Course Descriptions
Any summer session student may enroll in this course if the prerequisite is satisfied. Register with a non-CHC friend! Prerequisite: Sophomore standing onlySubstitution: This topic may be taken as a substitute for HC 421. Please ask your CHC Advisor to authorize this substitution in your student file. Professor Henry Alley HC IDENTITIES COLLOQUIUM The texts are Marlowe's King Edward II (play), Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (short novel), Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel), Kushner's Angels in America (play), Kramer's Women in Love (screenplay), Dixon's Vanishing Rooms (novel), Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy (play), Proulx's and McMurtry-Ossana's Brokeback Mountain (story and screenplay), 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 present 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 Proulx, two epic outlooks in Kushner and Dixon, and one comic point of view in Fierstein. 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 emphasis on discussion, and videos of several of the works will be available — Women in Love, Torch Song Trilogy, and Brokeback Mountain |
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