This requires that you not only be present but that you be an active presence. In this class, education will not be a passive experience: I expect discussion, debate, and exchanges of ideas. for English majors.Īs a 700-level class, the primary audience is graduate students.

This course fulfills three credits of the American Literature overlay req. The course will be organized around key themes, such as nonsense, aesthetics, autobiography, childhood, adaptation, and a series of political questions (especially concerning race and gender). Seuss: American Icon, and important criticism (Cohen, Spiegelman, Menand, Shortsleeve, op de Beeck, & others). Geisel (the definitive biography), Richard Minear's Dr. We will also read Judith and Neil Morgan's Dr. Studying the most popular children’s author in America, we will read Seuss’s influences, contemporaries, and of course a generous selection of Seuss’s own work ( some of his 65 books, the Private SNAFU animated cartoons, political cartoons, magazine cartoons, and advertising work). That profit is precisely $1 per book, but I don't believe in profiting off of my students.

Seuss: American Icon, please let me know so that I can donate the profit to charity. 2012).Ī note on the required texts: If you bought a new copy of Dr. Course Pack #2 for English 710 (available in EH 011, 21 Feb.Course Pack #1 for English 710 (available in EH 011, 19 Jan.Fensch, ed., Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr.

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