http://ocw.nd.edu Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free online educational resources for courses in the Department of English. Classes at Notre Dame focus on reading, analyzing, and discussing fascinating literature. Students read canonical and lesser-known literary works, study issues of literacy and rhetoric, investigate the symbolic systems that shape cultural meaning, and craft original poetry and prose. All courses taught in the English department, not just those designated as writing courses, contain significant writing components. 2011-11-14T04:32:42-07:00 en Copyright 2012, by the Contributing Authors daily 1 2011-10-24T05:04:26Z http://ocw.nd.edu/english/reinventing-the-fairy-tale Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free online educational resources for the course "Reinventing the Fairy Tale" in the Department of English. This course is structured around four main fairy tales: "Cinderella," the frame narrative for The Arabian Nights, "Beauty and the Beast," and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," and we be looking at a number of different reinventions of those tales in the form of short stories, novels, poems, picture books, songs, and films. The focus will be on the stylistic, rhetorical, and ideological changes that are grafted into different versions. Jacquilyn Weeks Copyright 2012, by the Contributing Authors en Beauty and the Beast Arabian Nights courseware Cinderella Pied Piper fairy tale English open Notre Dame OCW 2011-11-14T19:54:02Z Course text/html ENGL 20118 Spring 2008 75 minute classes - two times per week Undergraduate http://ocw.nd.edu/english/forms-of-democracy-in-nineteenth-century-u.s.-literature Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free online educational resources for the course "Forms of Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature" in the Department of English. This graduate seminar will explore two central concerns in American literary studies: what is "democratic" about literature written in the United States? And how does the problem of representative politics influence literary and textual representation? Among the literary works will be Moby-Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, House of the Seven Gables, selections from Emily Dickinson's manuscript fascicles, Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip, selected speeches by Daniel Webster, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown's Clotel, and John Rollin Ridge's Joaquin Murieta. Sandra M. Gustafson dbking Copyright 2012, by the Contributing Authors en The Octoroon Woman in the Nineteenth Century literature OCW democracy Uncle Tom's Cabin courseware House of the Seven Gables United States Nineteenth-Century political philosophy Moby Dick American studies English media studies open Notre Dame 19th century 2011-11-14T19:55:43Z Course text/html ENGL 90606 Spring 2008 Two-hour seminar meetings, once a week Graduate http://ocw.nd.edu/english/madonna-des-kanonikus-georg-van-der-paele-1 "Madonna des Kanonikus Georg van der Paele", Jan Van Eyck, 1439. The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. (The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.)Accessed from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Eyck_059.jpg on 7/02/09. Jan van Eyck Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH The Yorck Project In the public domain, by the Contributing Authors 2011-10-24T05:49:16Z Image image/jpeg