Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Summer 2021 - ENGL 852 G100

Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature (4)

Class Number: 4600

Delivery Method: Remote

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 12 – Aug 9, 2021: Wed, 4:30–8:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Investigates intersections among gender, sexuality, and literature in a variety of writings and cultural contexts. The course will vary according to theoretical and critical approach, selection of media, and geographical and historical focus.

COURSE DETAILS:

The late Victorian author and personality, Oscar Wilde, has been called a man out of time and place. Apostle of an English renaissance, a Celtic revival, a cultural Hellenism, and a queer modernity, he continues to fascinate today. This course allows for focused study of Wilde’s life, literary career, and celebrity as it was built across national cultures. There is the Irish Wilde, who used his difference as an Irish subject to reinvent the language and culture of Shakespeare. There is the American Wilde, who used his year-long tour across North America to discover himself abroad as a writer and celebrity. There is the English Wilde, who conquered London society and stage. Then there is the French Wilde, the Wilde who made France, and specifically Paris, the setting for both his exaltation and his exile, while taking a few side trips through Europe and North Africa along the way. This course will explore Wilde’s self-fashioning and literary rise across different national cultures during his lifetime as he posed fundamental questions about individualism, morality, aesthetics, and injustice. We will also consider his posthumous reception and legacy as he became a globally resonant symbol of genius, scandal, and martyrdom, persistent and still troubling to this day.

Grading

  • Weekly Participation & Discussion Questions 10%
  • Seminar Presentation 20%
  • Discussant Response 10%
  • Research Paper (~5000 words) 60%

NOTES:

Subject to change

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Harper Collins 1994)

https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780007386963/complete-works-of-oscar-wilde-collins-classics/


Moises Kaufman, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Vintage 1998).
(Note that SFU Library has an electronic edition of this text).


Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

TEACHING AT SFU IN SUMMER 2021

Teaching at SFU in summer 2021 will be conducted primarily through remote methods, but we will continue to have in-person experiential activities for a selection of courses.  Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112).