Dr. Casey A. Cothran

Spring 2013
 

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
Syllabus (9:00) Extra Credit

Syllabus (11:00)

Paper 1
Paper 2
  Research Paper


“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

File:Franz Jüttner Schneewittchen 5.jpg

Sneewittchen
by Franz Jüttne  (1905)

Snow White and the Huntsman

Snow White and the Huntsman
Universal Pictures (2012)

 

Syllabus

 
   
   
   


 


 

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: Fairy Tales

Endicott Studio: Journal of Mythic Arts http://www.endicott-studio.com/PastIssues3.html

Ashliman's Fairytale Variants http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html

SurLaLune Fairytales http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/

Neil Gaiman, "Snow, Glass, Apples"  http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples

“Selkies and Fin Folk of the Orkney Islands”  http://www.orkneyjar.com/index.html

Fairytale Artwork http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/28/brothers-grimm-fairy-tales-taschen/

 

English 200: Mystery and Detective Fiction

"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/

 



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