The English Department’s summer offerings include a range of courses in literature, film, and writing. Courses in British and American Literature survey the full scope of national literature, while other courses introduce such fields as Film and Adolescent Literature. Technical Writing offers students an introduction to that field, while Creative Writing courses engage students’ creative abilities for story-making.

So whether you’re looking for introductory or graduate courses, literature or writing, canonical texts or popular culture, chances are the English Department has a course suited just for you.

Liberal Studies 2212-042 Gettin’ Graphic ~ The Graphic Novel, Text & Beyond
Summer Session I
Brown

We are not talking about comic books.

We certainly are not talking about “funny books.”

We are talking about the most graphic literature and writing class of the Summer! 

We’ll be using touchstones of the most misunderstood literature and arts genre of the modern age, the Graphic Novel. How can one text intelligently combine the best of visual arts and creative narrative? To answer this question, expect surprises, amazing stories, award-winning artworks, and startlingly real tales. Although we’ll concentrate on the graphic novel itself as textual model, also included will be film translations of some of Graphic-dom’s major creations. Analysis of written and visual rhetoric elements will lead us into critical insights of so-called “funny books,” and some of pop culture’s enduring archetypal symbols. Selected works to include...

*Watchmen
*Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
*V: FOR VENDETTA

 .... with contextual discussions of MAUS, From Hell, Our Year of Cancer, Hellboy, Cerebus, Fables, and more.
 

~ An R. Andrew Brown spectacular! ~
(images of Watchmen logo, Hellboy, and Cerebus from the Graphic Novel Hall of Fame Public Web Archive)
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