Dr. Casey A. Cothran

Spring 2011
 

237 Bancroft Hall
Office phone: 323-4632
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The Masque of the Four Seasons


The Masque of the Four Seasons
by Walter Crane


“You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days,
then several months, then… you are not a writer anymore,
just someone who dreams about being a writer.”
Dorothy C. Fontana

 CRTW 201

Garden of Delight

Garden of Delight
by William Morris

 CRTW 201 (Cont.)

Syllabus (9:30)

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Group Project Guidelines

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Syllabus (2:00)

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Revised Homework
Schedule (Snow)

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Paper 1

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Paper 2

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Research Paper

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“But it is very difficult to be learned;
it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts,
and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”
George Eliot

 

 English 200

Sherlock Holmes
by Sydney Paget (1904)

Sherlock Holmes
Warners Bros. (2009)

English 203 

Syllabus

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Syllabus

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Reading
Response 1

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Group Presentations

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Reading
Response 2

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Paper 1

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Reading
Response 3

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Paper 2

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Research Paper

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Archived Courses

Spring 2008

Spring 2009

Fall 2009

Spring 2010

Fall 2010


 

Pandora
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Additional Links:

Writing 101

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

MLA Formatting and Style Guide

 

CRTW 201

"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace  http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/CRTW201/readings/ThisIsWater.pdf

"Prisoners of the Wired World" by Alan Lightman  http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/CRTW201/readings/Prisoners.pdf

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

"Is Stupid Making Us Google?" by James Bowman  http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google

"Did You Know? 4.0" by XPLANE  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

 

English 200

"Detective Novels: An Overview" by Dr. William Marling http://detnovel.com/

"The Perfect Detective Novel" by Suzanne S. Barnhill http://home.earthlink.net/~wordsintotype/DetectiveNovel.pdf

A Pathfinder on the Evolution of the English Detective Novel http://www.unc.edu/~rdtowery/detective_novel.htm

 

Winthrop

Winthrop's Department Of English Webpage http://www.winthrop.edu/english/