ENG 1131: Writing Through Media |
"Metamorphosis" University of Florida
Semester: Spring 2017
Section: 1786 Class Meetings: MWF Period 6 | Screenings: M Period E1-E3 From Ovidian nightmares to animal husband tales to Victorian Gothic to MTV’s Teen Wolf, cultures across the globe have demonstrated a millennia-old preoccupation with metamorphosis, shapeshifting, and hybridity. As beings who can move between worlds, identities, values, and physical bodies, the shapeshifter has been called a perfect metaphor for our times, transgressing and blurring the boundaries between good and evil, human and animal, male and female, concrete and abstract, and high and low culture.
In this course, students will engage with cultural studies, fandom studies, queer theory, and adaptation/remix theory through close readings of metamorphosis texts from a number of different genres, mediums, and historical periods. These texts will not only have metamorphosis at the center of their narratives, but will have themselves been transformative in some way, whether they changed literary forms, offer radical retellings, inspire transformative fan practice, or experiment with medium. Writing assignments in this course will be experimental and creative and will require students to engage with a number of digital platforms and methods of production. |
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Office Location: Turlington 4323 Office Hours: Wednesday Periods 6 & 7 or by appointment Email: [email protected] TEXTBOOKS:
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