Lincoln Z. Shlensky
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Current Courses
English 414A Fall 2020: American Film to 1945
Course outline:
syllabus
Understanding
film narrative
techniques
The Hollywood Classical Narrative:
Key features
Film
terminology for academic writing
Purdue OWL: getting started with the
Writing Process
Purdue OWL:
Developing a Thesis
(for fiction, film, and similar media)
Purdue OWL:
Building an Argument
Research proposal:
successful example
Research essay:
successful examples
An
example
of an MLA Works Cited section
General Interest
The Nightmare of Citation
Meditation for Students
A basic list of 31
literary devices
(or techniques)
A longer list of
87 literary devices
An even
longer list of literary devices
The
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
online (UVic library access)
A basic list of 9
literary elements
for students
Archive
Selected syllabi from Dr. Shlensky's previous courses
English 135 Summer 2020: Academic Reading and Writing
English 414B spring 2020: American Film from 1945
English 439A spring 2020: Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Studies
English 414a fall 2019: American Film to 1945
English 146 fall 2019:
Contemporary Literature (Academic Writing Requirement)
English 581 spring 2019 Graduate seminar on postcolonialism and intertextuality
English 203 fall 2017: Introduction to American Literature
English 581 summer 2016: Graduate seminar on terror, film, literature
English 438 fall 2014: Postcolonial literature and theory
CSPT 500 spring 2014: Postcolonial Cinema, Diasporic Hollywood
English 475 spring 2012: North American Modern Jewish Literature
English 201 fall 2011: Modernism
English 581 summer 2011: Postcolonial Caribbean literature
English 466 spring 2010: Cultural Studies
English 200C fall 2008: Victorian Literature