Jean de Léry,, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique...  (1594).  Engraving by Theodore DeBry.

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Dr. Patrick M. Erben

Department of English, University of West Georgia

perben@westga.edu

Office: TLC 2239

Tel. 678-839-6144

Office Hours (Spring 2010):

MW 10:00-12:00pm and 2:00-3:00pm;

and by appointment.

English 2110-01: World Literature

“The World Traveler’s Guide to World Literature”

 

Syllabus and Schedule--revised 1-06-10

 

Reading and Discussion Questions

 

Oral Presentation: Topics and Schedule (revised 10-11-10)

 

Oral Presentation: Assignment Description

 

Close Reading--Assignment Description

 

Sample Paper 1  /  Sample Paper 2

 

Slide Shows and Presentations

 

Henry David Thoreau

 Mahatma Ghandi

 Martin Luther King, Jr.

English 5/4140-01W: American Romanticism

"Radical Romanticisms"

Syllabus and Schedule (undergrad)

Syllabus and Schedule (grad)

Slide Shows, Assignments, Discussion Questions

Research Paper

ENGLISH 1102:

ENGLISH COMPOSITION II

Syllabus and Course Information

 

 

Engl 2130-summer 2009: American Literature

"What is an American"

Syllabus

Slide Shows and Presentations

Reading and Discussion Questions

Short Analytical Paper

 

Engl 4125: Colonial and Early American Literature

"Early America in Narrative, Art, and Film"

Syllabus (last update: 8-14-09)

Revised Reading Schedule (posted 9-22-09)

Image Gallery (also: Slide Shows and Presentations)

Reading, Discussion, and Writing Questions

Assignment Descriptions

page 11

The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen

 

Engl 4384: Senior Seminar

“Sacred Sex: Religion and Eroticism in Literature and Culture”

Syllabus (8-14-08)

Art Gallery

 

Engl 4188: Individual Authors

"The Many Faces of Benjamin Franklin"

Syllabus

Assignments

Course Reserves

Reading and Discussion Questions

 Anne Bradstreet, Stained glass window, St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England 

 Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype by Josiah Gilbert Holland, circa 1848.

 

ENGLISH 4125-SPRING 2008

COLONIAL AND EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE:

Early American Poetry and Poetics: From Bradstreet to Dickinson and Beyond

Syllabus

Additional Readings

Reading and Discussion Questions

Oral Presentation Topics

Lectures and Oral Presentations

 

ENGLISH 2300-SPRING 2008

PRACTICAL CRITICISM: RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY

Syllabus

Student Questionnaire

Assignments in Detail

MLA Practice Test

 

 

 

“O brave new world,

That has such people in it!”
William Shakespeare, The Tempest

 “Heathens! Savages! Ay, cannibals!”

--Herman Melville, Typee

 

Johann Valentin Haidt, Zinzendorf als Lehrer (ca. 1747)

English 6110 (Fall 07): Seminar in American Literature I

Pilgrims, Prophets, and Reformers: The Utopian Impulse

in Early American Literature and Culture

Syllabus (updated 10-22-07)

Slide Shows and Lectures

Reading and Discussion Questions

NEW: Research Guide and Database List

Final Projects

Scholarship and Research

Curriculum Vitae

Book Manuscript: A Harmony of the Spirits: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

A Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader (a selective edition)

 

 

Past Semesters

English 4140: American Romanticism

English 1102: Composition II

English/History 3300: American Culture

English 4385: Early American Novel

English 2130-H27: American Literature (Survey)

English 4125: Colonial and Early American Literature

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