About the Website
This website was created as a final project for Dr. Crosby's English 210 Course on the topic of espionage. The course description reads as follows.
"In 2010, the presence of a clandestine network of Russian agents operating on US soil was reported to the world. While the discovery of these spies seemed a throwback to the Cold War era, the shadowy world of espionage, or what Rudyard Kipling referred to as ‘the Great Game,’ continues to captivate the popular imagination. TV shows like Alias, 24, and FX’s The Americans, and Hollywood movies such as the James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Mission Impossible series evince our cultural fascination with spies. In this course, we will focus on literary representations of spies and the ethical and psychological implications of spying. As literary scholars, we will become familiar with some of the terms and practices associated with spying and decipher and decode texts and collect information from indirect and typically unreliable sources. We will read texts that cover a broad range of literary styles, from non-fiction news reports and memoirs to fiction in novels and short stories. These texts will allow us to examine the formal and ethical strategies used by individual authors. Our goals include the development of techniques of literary analysis and the translation of these techniques into writing skills. You will write and revise three essays and several shorter assignments." |
This project culminates all of the semester's content, and seeks to analyze the impact of relationships on the protagonist of each novel or film studied within the class.