Instructions "p.1-3"

Concentration Areas

Schedule of Courses

RIA/1B Descriptions

GRADUATE COURSES

Graduate students from other departments and exceptionally well-prepared undergraduates are welcome in English graduate courses (except for English 200) insofar as limitations of class size allow. Courses numbered 203 are usually limited to 20 students; courses numbered 250 are usually limited to 15. From time to time, instructors of other graduate courses may find it necessary to limit enrollment.

When demand for a graduate course exceeds the maximum enrollment limit, the instructor will determine priorities for enrollment and inform students of his/her decisions at the second class meeting. Tele-BEARS enrollment does not guarantee a place in a graduate course that turns out to be oversubscribed on the first day of class; in fact, a few students could be required to drop the course, starting with people who are not English Department graduate students-though, fortunately, this situation does not arise very often.

202
History of Literary Criticism: Novel Theory, Narrative Theory, and the Sociology of the Novel
K. Puckett
TTh 12:30-2
223 Wheeler

Book List: Readings will include works by James, H., Lukács, G., Bakhtin, M., Shklovsky, V., Lubbock, P., Watt, I., Goldmann, L., Genette, G., Girard, R., Barthes, R., Brooks, P., Bersani, L., Armstrong, N., McKeon, M., Bourdieu, P., and others. We will also read a novel or two along the way.

Course Description: A survey of major theories of the novel, beginning with some early statements and then moving on to different genealogical approaches, ideological analyses of narrative form, narratology, psychoanalysis, identity studies, etc. On the one hand, we will look at the ways in which different aspects of the novel-voice, character, realism, its seemingly exemplary position in relation to modernity, and so on-have tended to appear and reappear across these very different discussions. On the other hand, we will consider what too strict a division of disciplinary labor, a division that would keep separate the three terms of this course's title, might prevent us from seeing in or asking about the novel form.

203/1 This section has been cancelled.

203/2
Graduate Readings: Realism-The Idea of The Particular
S. Best
Note new time: Thurs. 3:30-6:30
Note new location: 305 Wheeler

Book List: T. Hobbes: Leviathan; H. James: The American; F. Norris: The Octopus; M. Poovey: A History of the Modern Fact; J. Chandler, et al., eds.: Questions of Evidence; M. Twain: Pudd’nhead Wilson; C. Whitehead: The Intuitionist

Course Description: This is a course on arguments with the real - with facticity, materiality, evidence, objectivity. We will concern ourselves, primarily, with various disciplinary struggles with what Foucault termed "exteriority" and what Adorno styled "apriority:" law, evidence, and causality; political economy, homo economicus, and realpolitik; history, event, and narrative; and literary theory, the text, and the archive. Over the course of the semester we will track "the real" from its earliest English usage as a term of law and property signifying things (chattels real, real estate) through to its transfigured re-emergence within recent antifoundational critiques (e.g., literary and philosophical pragmatism’s affinity for the genre of realism). That historical sweep aside, our reading will focus on a number of knotted disciplinary and methodological concerns: (a) the subordination of the statistical, the numerical, and the particular to abstractions such as "class," "society," "the economy," and "the state;" (b) the idea of "nothing" (phenomenology) versus the idea of "negation" (dialectics) as necessary conduits of the real; (c) theories of self-generation (autopoesis) and the idea of cause (whether an individual, a substance, or an idea) as itself an effect of a "system." We will read some of the usual suspects: Adorno, Bergson, Foucault, the Jameses, Marx, Norris, Smith, and Twain. For our critical readings we will draw from the work of the following: Appadurai, Barthes, Benn Michaels, Braudel, Burke, Butler, Deleuze, Guillory, Keenan, Levinson, Maturana, Mohanty, Nora, Pitkin, Pocock, Poovey, Ricoeur, Rorty, Schmitt, Seltzer, Varela, and Zizek. I see this course as an occasion for graduate students interested in interdisciplinary work to engage in sustained thinking on the protean status of one’s objects of inquiry in humanist scholarship that crosses disciplinary divides.

203/3
Graduate Readings: Literature and Film
K. Elliott

Seminars MW 10-12 (though often class may end by 11:30) in 125 Dwinelle, plus film screenings W 6-9 P.M. in 121 Wheeler (note room change for the latter)

Book List: Brontë, E.:Wuthering Heights; Carroll, L.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; Cunningham, M.: The Hours; Kaufman, C. and D.: Adaptation: The Shooting Script; Orlean, S.: The Orchid Thief; Shulman, I.: West Side Story: A Novelization; Shakespeare, W.: Romeo and Juliet; Woolf, V.: Mrs. Dalloway; Woolrich, C.: "Rear Window." There will also be a course reader of critical literature as well as critical research assignments.

Films (some excerpted, some shown in their entirety): Adaptation (2002); films of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass (Disney 1951, Playboy 1976, Svankmajer 1988, NBC 1999); Mrs. Dalloway (1998); The Hours (2002); Rear Window (Hitchcock 1954 and Reeve 1999); Romeo and Juliet (West Side Story 1961; Zeffirelli 1967; Luhrmann 1996); Tromeo and Juliet (1996); Wuthering Heights (Wyler 1939, Westinghouse 1950, Buñuel 1953, Fuest 1970, Kosminsky 1992, LWT 1998, Wuthering Heights, CA 2003).

Course Description: This course examines debates over literature and film, from their recent origins in eighteenth-century poetry/painting debates to the present day. It engages formal, generic, cultural, ideological, contextual, cognitive, and psychological aspects of interdisciplinary engagements from theoretical debates to acts of adaptation. It scrutinizes the literature of film (screenplays, novelizations, etc.) and films of literature (adaptations, shots of literary texts in films, etc.). It unpacks and conceptualizes terms like prose painting and film language, cinematic literature and literary cinema. Requirements: participation in discussion, one class presentation, two ten-page essays, various critical research assignments.

211
Chaucer
A. Middleton
TTh 9:30-11
108 Wheeler

Book List:

The Riverside Chaucer, ed L. Benson. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987. ISBN 0-395-29031-7. New ~$73; used $30. Also available (in UK only) in paperback (see description below)

The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed John M. Bowers. Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, 1992. ISBN 1-879288-23-0. Paperback; $9.

Course Description: We will read all of the Canterbury Tales, and consider the precedents, models and posterity of both its large-scale structure as a project (unfinished), and of its parts, the individual tales and their grouping into the surviving "fragments" - an exercise that will include some attention to textual and codicological matters. We will also consider, as time and individual interest allow, Chaucer's canonicity, his own modelling of literary imitation, and how and why other poets aligned themselves with his work. Among writers who might figure here are Gower, Hoccleve, Usk, Henryson, and the multi-authored Mirror for Magistrates.

There will probably be a library reserve list and possibly a photocopied reader, in addition to texts ordered for the class. (Note that the Riverside Chaucer, a large, heavy hardcover text, is readily available in used copies. It is also available in a more portable paperback, in the UK only, from amazon.co.uk, for about £18.). Written work will include an annotated bibliography, and a short analytic paper (about 8-10 pages), as well as occasional brief class presentations.

243A
Fiction Writing Workshop
R. Loewinsohn
TTh 11-12:30
301 Wheeler

Book List: TBA

Course Description: Students in this limited-enrollment workshop will concentrate on the form, theory, and practice of fiction. Workshop participants are required to write approximately 45 pages of original fiction and to participate in discussions of peers' manuscripts.

Students interested in being considered for admission to this course must submit a photocopy of approximately 15 pages of their fiction (short story or chapter of a novel) to Professor Loewinsohn’s mailbox in 322 Wheeler Hall by 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, AT THE LATEST.

Be sure to read the paragraph concerning creative writing courses on page 2 of this Announcement of Classes for further information on enrollment in such courses!

243B This course has been cancelled. (Prof. Hass will be on leave in the spring.)

246C
Graduate Pro-Seminar: English Renaissance Literature Survey
L. Hutson
Tues. 2-5
222 Wheeler

Book List: Erasmus, On Copia of Words and Ideas tr. Donald B. King and H. David Rix; Thomas More, Utopia tr. Paul Turner; Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia; The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse; English Renaissance Drama eds. David Bevington, Lars Engle, Katherine Maus, Eric Rasmussen; Castiglione, B.: The Courtier; other material in course reader

Course Description: This course is intended as a fairly wide-ranging survey of English literature of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century (including Donne, Jonson and Massinger but excluding Milton). We’ll pay attention to drama, poetry and prose, and consider formal developments in each genre as well as questions arising from cultural and political contexts of production and publication or staging.

246E
Graduate Pro-Seminar: Restoration and Early 18th Century
J. Turner
MW 1:30-3
305 Wheeler

Book List: Hammond, P. (ed.): Restoration Literature: An Anthology; Rochester, J.: Complete Poems; Bunyan, J.: Grace Abounding; Behn, A.: Oroonoko and Other Writings; Lawrence, R. (ed.): Restoration Plays; Swift, J.: Writings; Pope, A.: Selected Poetry; Defoe, D.: Robinson Crusoe

250/1
Research Seminar: Pound and Stevens
M. Bernstein
Mon. 2-5
108 Wheeler

Book List: Pound, Ezra: The Cantos; Stevens, Wallace: The Collected Poems, The Palm at the End of the Mind

Recommended Text: Terrell, Caroll F: A Companion To The Cantos Of Ezra Pound

Course Description: Although one might be tempted to call this course, "The Pound Era versus The Age of Stevens?" my interest is not so much a reading of either poet, as it is a scrutiny of the thematic and rhetorical strategies criticism has developed to account for both oeuvres, and, more particularly, why the championing of one writer regularly seems to have necessitated the derogation of the other. A corollary topic is the entire notion of "canon formation," and we will be studying the ways in which poets and critics have sought to establish the authority of a distinct grouping of authors and literary practices as the central models of modern writing. Although Pound and Stevens are the most prominent of the poets we will be reading, the response of their contemporaries and successors (i.e., T.S. Eliot, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Duncan, Derek Walcott, John Ashbery, etc.) is an important part of our exploration, and it will be up to the class to determine the degree of attention we will give to any specific figure.

Considering the demands of such a course, it is probably best if participants are relatively familiar with at least one of the two main authors whose works provide our starting-point. It is even more important, though, that everyone come prepared to contribute actively to what undoubtedly will be a very exploratory and unprogrammatic joint venture.

250/2
Research Seminar: History, Alternate History, Historical Fiction
C. Gallagher
W 10-12
305 Wheeler

Book List: Abbot, E: Flatland; Butler, O: Kindred; Dick, P: The Man in the High Castle; Scott, W: Waverly; Vonnegut, K: Slaughterhouse Five

Course Description: This course will be combined with History 280U, Section 2, and History 283, Section 2, taught by Professor Thomas Laqueur. It will allow graduate students in history and literature to explore theoretical and methodological problems encountered in creating and analyzing historical narratives. It will focus on recent narrative experiments by historians and the rise of alternate-history fiction, but it will also consider the development of the concept of time in historical thought more generally, the history of historical "counterfactuals," current fascination with backward time travel, and the peculiar historicity of historical novels. In addition to the novels listed above, we will read some new narrative histories and many critical and theoretical works, which will be collected for you in a course reader. You will be required to write a paper of approximately twenty pages.

250/3
Research Seminar: Reading and Translating Beowulf
N. Howe
Thurs. 3:30-6:30
205 Wheeler

Book List: Klaeber, F., ed.: Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (3rd ed. only) Donaldson, E.T., trans.; Howe, N., ed.: Beowulf: A Prose Translation

Course Description: In this course, we will read through all 3182 lines of Beowulf by translating them carefully and discussing their philological features, literary interpretation and historical context. Considerable attention will also be paid to the history of editing, translating and interpreting the poem since the early 1800s. This course is open to students with a working knowledge of Old English, as evidenced by completing English 205A or its equivalent. Students who have questions about this course should email the instructor at nhowe@socrates.berkeley.edu.

250/4
Research Seminar: The 18th Century and the Supernatural
G. Starr
Note new time: M 3-6
Note new location: 202 Wheeler

Book List: The only text to be purchased is Bunyan, John, Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies. Other assignments will be of material available in photocopy, on reserve in Graduate Services or the Department Library, etc.

Course Description: An exploration of some of the movements (freethinking, deism, atheism, &c.) associated with enlightenment, vis-à-vis the beliefs and institutions (witchcraft, angels, the devil, ghosts or apparitions, hell, soul or spirit, churches, &c.) they sought to demolish. The emphasis of the course will be on the latter, and on their shifting fortunes imaginative works, but because the vicissitudes of "the supernatural" were owing largely to effective opponents, Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Toland, Trenchard, Hume and Paine will also be taken into account.

250/5
Research Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Paleography and Textual Criticism
A. Nelson
MW 3-4:30
256E Bancroft Library (Strouse Room)

Book List: Preston, J.F.: English Handwriting, 1400-1650; Gaskell, P.: A New Introduction to Bibliography

Course Description: A course in the use, analysis, and transcription of manuscripts and early printed books for students of literature, history, and library science. Approximately eight weeks will be devoted to the study of manuscripts. Students will acquire proficiency in the reading and editing of manuscript texts and will consider theoretical problems and practices of editing. The balance of the semester will be devoted to the early printed book, with emphasis on original production techniques and modern editorial practices.

Students will be given supervised access to manuscripts and rare books in the Bancroft Library and to hand presses and other printing materials. A prior acquaintance with Middle English (through 45A or a course on Chaucer) will be useful but is not required. Students with a knowledge of Latin or medieval French will have additional opportunities for reading and research.

On the first day of class (Jan. 21), students should gather at the entrance to the Bancroft Library.

310/1
Field Studies in Tutoring Writing
Staff
Times and rooms TBA

Book List: Meyer, E. and Smith, L.: The Practical Tutor

Recommended Text: Leki, I.: Understanding ESL Writers

Course Description: Through seminars, discussions, and reading assignments, students are introduced to the language/writing/literacy needs of diverse college-age writers such as the developing, bi-dialectal, and non-native English-speaking (NNS) writer. The course will provide a theoretical and practical framework for tutoring and composition instruction.

The seminar will focus on various tutoring methodologies and the theories which underlie them. Students will become familiar with relevant terminology, approaches, and strategies in the fields of composition teaching and learning. New tutors will learn how to respond constructively to student writing, as well as develop and hone effective tutoring skills. By guiding others towards clarity and precision in prose, tutors will sharpen their own writing abilities.

New tutors will tutor fellow Cal students in writing and/or literature courses. Tutoring occurs in the Cesar E. Chavez Student Center under the supervision of experienced writing program staff. In order to enroll for the seminar, students must have at least sophomore standing and have completed their Reading and Composition R1A and R1B requirements.

Some requirements include: participating in a weekly training seminar and occasional workshops; reading assigned articles, videotaping a tutoring session, and becoming familiar with the resources available at the Student Learning Center; tutoring 4-6 hours per week; keeping a tutoring journal and writing a final paper; meeting periodically with both the tutor supervisor(s) and tutees' instructors.

This course meets the field study requirements for the Education minor, but it cannot be used toward fulfillment of the requirements for the English major. It must be taken P/NP.

Pick up an application for a pre–enrollment interview (for this section of English 310) at the Student Learning Center, Atrium, Cesar Chavez Student Center (Lower Sproul Plaza), beginning October 13. No one will be admitted after Wednesday of the first week of spring classes.

Please read the paragraph on page 3 of this Announcement of Classes regarding enrollment in English 310!

310/2
Field Studies in Tutoring Writing
Staff
Times and rooms TBA

Book List: Meyer, E. and Smith, L.: The Practical Tutor

Recommended Text: Leki, I.:

Course Description: English 310, section 2, is designed to provide an overview of the language, writing, and literacy needs of university writers and to train students as peer writing tutors for the Re-Entry Program. The course focuses on various tutoring methodologies and the theories which underlie them. Students learn terminology, approaches, and strategies in the field of composition teaching and learning. Moreover, they gain a theoretical and practical framework for tutoring. In addition to participating in the training seminar, students are required to tutor in the Re-Entry Writing Program, keep a journal of their tutoring experience, videotape a tutoring session, and write a final (4-5 pp) paper for the course.

This course cannot be used toward fulfillment of the requirements for the English major.

Pick up an application for a pre-enrollment interview (for this section of English 310) at the Re-Entry Program office in the Cesar Chavez Student Center, room 104, beginning October 13. No one will be admitted after Wednesday of the first week of spring classes.

Please read the paragraph on page 3 of this Announcement of Classes regarding enrollment in English 310! [an error occurred while processing this directive]