Announcement of Classes: Fall 2008
The Announcement of Classes is available one week before Tele-Bears begins every semester. Creative Writing and (for fall) Honors Course applications are available at the same time in the racks outside of 322 Wheeler Hall.
Graduate students from other departments and exceptionally well-prepared undergraduates are welcome in English graduate courses (except for English 200 and 375) when space permits. Please contact the instructor if you have questions.
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250/1 Research Seminar: M 3-6 |
"This research seminar addresses two areas of literary and critical theory concerned with animal/human divides and the relationship between place, language and politics. ""Biopolitics"" commonly refers to the politicization of those areas of life that...(read more) |
Francois, Anne-Lise
Francois, Anne-Lise |
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200/1 Graduate Course: MW 10:30-12 |
Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice....(read more) |
Best, Stephen M.
Best, Stephen |
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200/2 Graduate Course: MW 10:30-12 |
Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice....(read more) |
Rubenstein, Michael
Rubenstein, Michael |
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203/2 Graduate Readings: MW 1:30-3 |
This seminar will undertake a critical reading of, and participation in, some possibilities (or impossibilities) of 20th/21st century �realism�; it will query, from an array of perspectives, problems of representation, referentiality, literary histori...(read more) |
Hejinian, Lyn
Hejinian, Lyn |
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203/3 Graduate Readings: T 3:30-6:30 |
This course will locate colonial and early national texts from North America in the broad circuit of the Atlantic world, examining that Atlantic context both as a cultural arena and as a critical construction. Through close literary readings, we will ...(read more) |
Donegan, Kathleen
Donegan, Kathleen |
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203/4 Graduate Readings: T 3:30-6:30 |
This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, and from prospectus conference to the first dissertation chapter. The workshop will provide a collaborative c...(read more) |
Abel, Elizabeth
Abel, Elizabeth |
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203/5 Graduate Readings: W 3-6 |
This course traces the development of novel theory in the twentieth century. Designed as an introduction to major arguments that have been--and still are--influential to literary studies generally, the course asks why so many different theoretical sch...(read more) |
Hale, Dorothy J.
Hale, Dorothy |
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205A/1 Graduate Readings: MW 9-10:30 |
This class is intended to equip students with the linguistic and cultural knowledge necessary to read and analyze Old English texts in prose and verse. Much of the work for the earlier part of the course will consist of in-class translation and commen...(read more) |
Thornbury, Emily V.
Thornbury, Emily |
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212/1 Graduate Course: TTh 12:30-2 |
Please email j_miller@berkeley.edu for information regarding this course....(read more) |
Miller, Jennifer
Miller, Jennifer |
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217/1 TTh 5-6:30 |
"I expect this course to do all the basic work of a Shakespeare survey and also to have seminar-like intellectual crossfire. We will take up all the topics that concern Shakespeare scholars, but rather than approaching them systematically, we will wai...(read more) |
Booth, Stephen
Booth, Stephen |
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243B/1 Graduate Course: M 3-6 |
"The point will be to write poetry in public spaces, to write with an eye toward performance/ publication. My assumption is that people entering the class will enter with projects underway and/ or with a strong interest in the problems and issues of p...(read more) |
Giscombe, Cecil S.
Giscombe, Cecil |
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246E/1 Graduate Proseminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
An exploration of the satire, devotional autobiography, prose fiction, letter-writing, diaries, heroic verse, drama, pornography and feminist polemic produced in England between the Restoration of Charles II (1660) and circa 1735; these will include B...(read more) |
Turner, James Grantham
Turner, James |
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246J/1 Graduate Proseminar: TTh. 2-3:30 |
"We will read widely in prose from the mid-nineteenth through the early-twentieth century, with particular attention to the ways in which pragmatism functioned as a seam for American literature and popular culture. We will begin - and - end the course...(read more) |
McQuade, Donald
McQuade, Donald |
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250/3 Research Seminar: W 3-6 |
What does Blake mean by ?the Poets Work,? and how can that work be achieved ?Within a Moment? that has the length of a historical ?Period? but is also as brief as ?a Pulsation of the Artery?? We will read enough of Blake?s poetry to let us grapple wit...(read more) |
Goldsmith, Steven
Goldsmith, Steven |
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250/6 Research Seminar: W 3-6 |
"It is an odd fact of modernist literary history that a large number of the period?s major figures produced as much critical prose--by turns polemical, self-authorizing, speculative, outlandish, and extreme--as poetry or fiction. Scaling from aestheti...(read more) |
Blanton, Dan |
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302/1 Graduate Course: Th 3:30-5:30 |
Please email dbeam@berkeley.edu for information regarding this course....(read more) |
Beam, Dorri
Beam, Dorri |
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310/1 Graduate Course: T.B.A. |
"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 ...(read more) |
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R1A/1 Reading & Composition: MWF 9-10 |
"Students are often enjoined to read �the great authors� in order to absorb �good English.� But English has so many variations across time and space that it�s hard to imagine what that could possibly mean. In this course, we�ll read a lot of poetry in...(read more) |
Natalia Cecire |
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R1A/2 Reading & Composition: MWF 10-11 |
"Everyone experiences childhood, but representing that experience from the perspective of adulthood is often an act as much of imagination as of memory. This course will engage with texts that undertake that imaginative act. We will discuss how these ...(read more) |
Arcadia Falcone |
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R1A/3 Reading & Composition: MWF 11-12 |
"Within the traditions of contemporary African American and Asian American poetry, a category of self-identified ?experimental? writing has emerged recently. What is minority ?experimental? poetry? One of the primary aims of this course is to familiar...(read more) |
Chris Chen |
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R1A/6 Reading & Composition: MWF 2-3 |
"The problem of labor preoccupied writers of prose, fiction, and poetry during the reign of Queen Victorian, a period of industrial and urban expansion in England. The discourse around labor overlapped with aesthetic discourse, as both addressed the a...(read more) |
Jhoanna Infante |
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R1A/8 Reading & Composition: MW 4-5:30 |
"This course focuses on the period of American fiction and cinema often referred to as �Noir,� a cycle of crime and detective stories dating roughly from 1939 to 1958. We will begin the semester by trying to get at what exactly makes noir fiction and ...(read more) |
Chris Eagle |
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R1A/9 Reading & Composition: TTh 8-9:30 |
"For this course, we will look at a handful of texts that equate �reading� and �writing� with �playing.� In these texts, stories become games, books become toys, and passive reading becomes active participation. We will consider a handful of theoretic...(read more) |
Jesse Costantino |
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R1A/10 Reading & Composition: TTh 9:30-11 |
"Africa's literatures are old, rich, and vast, from epic poems and religious verse to an extensive dramatic and storytelling folk culture that can be found in almost every corner of the continent. This class, however, will focus on *modern * African w...(read more) |
Aaron Bady |
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R1A/13 2-3:30 |
No additional information about this class is available at this time. ...(read more) |
Carlo Arreglo |
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R1A/14 Reading & Composition: TTh 3:30-5 |
"Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing gave signs of woe, that all was lost. -- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)We will read and write about environmentally engaged poetry of seventeenth-century England as we develop practical fluenc...(read more) |
Brendan M. Prawdzik |
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R1A/15 TTh 5-6:30 |
No additional information about this class is available at this time....(read more) |
Karen Leibowitz |
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R1B/1 Reading & Composition: MWF 9-10 |
"Visual art may include: Rubens, Goya, Corot, Warhol, Koons. This course will consider the relationship between concepts of fraud and authenticity in literature, using this basic opposition to explore questions about originality, representation, and i...(read more) |
Ben Cannon |
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R1B/3 Reading & Composition: MWF 11-12 |
"In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded some 27,000 square miles of American heartland, displacing hundreds of thousands of Southerners. Two years later, the stock market bottomed out and triggered the Great Depression. These national catastrophes pro...(read more) |
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R1B/6 Reading & Composition: MWF 2-3 |
"In this class we will consider style as a literary and a cultural problematic. We will endeavor to find precise ways of talking about the distinctive style of a text, and we will think about style in a broader sense, as a currency that promises creat...(read more) |
Stephen Katz |
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R1B/7 MWF 3-4 |
"The texts we will read in this course will challenge us to think about how a story is constructed. Our imagination and critical thinking skills will be stretched to their limits by novels which disrupt assumptions we may have about how a story develo...(read more) |
David Menilla |
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R1B/9 Reading & Composition: TTh 8-9:30 |
"When did it become potentially criminal to be poor? Why is vagrancy a source of such contention and anxiety for so many? What are some of the popular myths and fantasies about vagrancy and homelessness, and where did they come from? What are the stor...(read more) |
Ruth Baldwin |
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R1B/10 Reading & Composition: TTh 9:30-11 |
"This course will consider the ways in which literature has responded to the city and its accompanying modes of life: alienating, unhealthful and frightening; thrilling, liberatory and glamorous; the site of torments and marvels; of endless workdays a...(read more) |
Jasper Bernes |
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R1B/11 Reading & Composition: TTh 11-12:30 |
"As you will learn in this course, the key to good writing is impeccable logic, but as you will also learn, good writing is often terribly illogical. Although that statement may make little sense, it should give you a good idea of the kinds of logic y...(read more) |
Monica Miller |
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R1B/12 Reading & Composition: TTh 12:30-2 |
"This course will examine the many ways in which the figure of Queen Elizabeth I fired the imagination of her contemporaries and of recent writers and directors. We will use Elizabeth as a touchstone; a central topic around which we will build skills ...(read more) |
Fiona Smythe |
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R1B/13 Reading & Composition: TTh 2-3:30 |
Wars punctuate and define our history. Governments declare armistices, but do we ever really move past the moment of battle? In the wake of death, what new forms of living emerge? In this course, we?ll focus on texts which play out the days, months an...(read more) |
Gina Patnaik |
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R1B/14 Reading & Composition: TTh 3:30-5 |
"The critical reader may easily fall into the habit of regarding even the most innocent tale as a case awaiting solution, such that every bright country cottage or society salon becomes a crime scene to be scrutinized by the inch. Leaving aside the qu...(read more) |
Dan Clinton |
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R1B/15 Reading & Composition: TTh 5-6:30 |
"The document is a fragment that takes on a life of its own. An idea, a perception, an image gets uprooted and reframed, sculpted or distorted, and formed into something new. The result has an aura of 'the real'. Think of documents like your passport,...(read more) |
Josh Weiner |
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24/1 Freshman Seminar: M 12-1 |
"This seminar will investigate the nature of Shakespearean comedy in Twelfth Night, which involves disguise, cross-dressing, gender-bending, mistaken identities, and misdirected affections. The seminar will read the entire play through in the first we...(read more) |
A. Nelson |
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24/2 |
Class description to come. |
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24/3 Freshman Seminar: W 2-3 |
The past two decades have seen a dramatic reassessment of Ernest Hemingway. Departing from earlier critical traditions that first celebrated him as a macho sportsman, then vilified him as a misogynist, a homophobe, and a racist, the current critical r...(read more) |
Snyder, Katie |
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24/4 Freshman Seminar: M 3-5 (September 15 through November 3 only) |
"Dickens's last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is the most successful mystery story ever written. Dickens died before finishing it, or solving the mystery. Unlike other mystery stories, it fails to reassure us that justice is done, and forces us t...(read more) |
Tracy, Robert
Tracy, Robert |
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24/5 Freshman Seminar: W 4-5 |
We will read Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, together with some film versions of these two archetypal horror tales, appreciating them as mirror opposites of each other, and investigating what they have to tell us about human age...(read more) |
Loewinsohn, Ron
Loewinsohn, Ron |
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24/6 Freshman Seminar: W 2-3 |
"We will read Thoreau's Walden in small chunks, probably about thirty pages per week. This will allow us time to dwell upon the complexities of a book that is much more mysterious than those who have read the book casually, or those who have only hear...(read more) |
Breitwieser, Mitchell
Breitwieser, Mitchell |
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45A/1 Literature in English: MW 10-11 in 50 Birge (Starting 9/17), plus one hour of discussion section F 10-11 |
This course will concentrate on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spenser's Faery Queene (Book I); and Milton's Paradise Lost; additional works in the Norton Anthology will be read for the sake of historical context. If this course has a thesis, it is that ...(read more) |
Nelson, Alan H.
Nelson, Alan H. |
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45A/2 Literature in English: MWF3-4 |
An introduction to English literary history from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost will dominate the semester, as objects of study in themselves, of course, but also as occasions f...(read more) |
Justice, Steven
Justice, Steven |
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45B/1 Literature in English: MWF 9-10 |
As we read works produced in a period of often tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly become commonplace i...(read more) |
Sorensen, Janet
Sorensen, Janet |
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45B/2 Literature in English: MW 2-3, F 2-3 |
This course will be a survey of some major texts in British and American literature written between 1670 and 1850. There will probably be two papers and mid-term and a final. Texts are three Norton anthologies, which come cheaper ordered together, the...(read more) |
Altieri, Charles F.
Altieri, Charles |
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45C/1 Literature in English: MW 11-12, F 11-12 |
English 45C will offer a survey of major texts in British and American literature from about 1880 until 1950. Thanks to Lyn Hejinian, this class will provide a distinctive opportunity. Students admitted to her 143B/1 course will also enroll in this se...(read more) |
Altieri, Charles F.
Altieri, Charles |
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45C/2 Literature in English: MW 3-4, F 3-4 |
"A survey of English and American literature from the late nineteenththrough the mid-twentieth century, with attention given both to conceptions of literature intrinsically claimed by the texts assigned and to the historical and cultural grounds out o...(read more) |
John Bishop |
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C77/1 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Lectures TTh 12:30-2, plus one and a half hours of discussion section per week |
This is an innovative team-taught course that surveys global environmental issues at the beginning of the twenty-first century and that introduces students to the basic intellectual tools of environmental science and to the history of environmental th...(read more) |
Hass, Robert L.
Hass, Robert and Sposito, Garrison |
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84/1 Sophomore Seminar: T 4-6, Sept 2 to Oct 21 only |
Contemporary Native American stories are survival stories, reckonings with the brutal history of colonization and its ongoing consequences: they calculate indigenous positions, settle overdue accounts, note old debts, and demand an accounting. These a...(read more) |
Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Wong, Hertha Sweet |
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84/2 Sophomore Seminar: W 3-5 |
"Socrates has often been compared to Jesus, an enigmatic yet somehow unmistakable figure who left nothing in writing yet decisively influenced the mind of his own and later ages. We will read Aristophanes' comic send-up of Socrates in Clouds and the P...(read more) |
Coolidge, John S.
Coolidge, John |
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84/3 Sophomore Seminar: W 5:30-8:30 P.M. |
This course will examine the formal techniques, expectations, experiences, and thematic concerns of some of Ang Lee's films, in the context of Hollywood and foreign films. We will also take advantage of the resources of Cal Performances and the Pacifi...(read more) |
Bader, Julia
Bader, Julia |
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100/1 Junior Seminar: MW 1:30-3 |
The theme of this course is the discourse of travel in later eighteenth-century British literature. In this, the period of the �grand tour,� developing ideas of cultural identity and national identity inflect travelers� perceptions of both the foreign...(read more) |
Murphy, Fiona
Murphy, Fiona |
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100/2 MW 12-1:30 |
This course is premised on the notion that the threat of death (e.g. the threat of lynching) is the most fundamental mode of coercion and that oppressive social structures like slavery and Jim Crow society are grounded on the deployment of that threat...(read more) |
JanMohamed, Abdul R.
JanMohamed, Abdul |
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100/3 MW 4-5:30 |
An examination of the development of various themes in Toni Morrison's fiction and the aesthetic rendition of these themes....(read more) |
JanMohamed, Abdul R.
JanMohamed, Abdul |
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100/4 Junior Seminar: MW 4-5:30 |
Please email kwright@berkeley.edu for information regarding this course....(read more) |
Wright, Katharine E.
Wright, Katharine |
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100/7 Junior Seminar: TTh 9:30-11 |
This course will explore the interconnections between American literature and the news throughout the 20 th-21 st centuries. We will read theoretical and primary texts to scrutinize how American writers, graphic novelists, and photojournalists affirm,...(read more) |
Nguyen, Marguerite
Nguyen, Marguerite |
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100/8 Junior Seminar: M 3-6 |
In 1955 the leading Caribbean intellectual and political leader Eric Williams characterized the new writing coming out of the region as ?a literature of poverty, oppression, ignorance, violence, sex, and racial friction.? From such inauspicious beginn...(read more) |
Premnath, Gautam
Premnath, Gautam |
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100/9 Junior Seminar: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course examines the relationship between imperialism and migration through literary texts. We will look at notions of space, the homeland, and belonging. We will also pay attention to the way in which authors engage with U.S. imperial history....(read more) |
Fajardo, Margaret A.
Fajardo, Margaret |
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100/10 Junior Seminar: TTh 2-3:30 |
Besides reading and discussing fiction and poetry with Western settings, and essays attempting to identify or explain distinctive regional characteristics, this course will include consideration of some movies shaped by and shaping conceptions of Cali...(read more) |
Starr, George A.
Starr, George |
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100/11 Junior Seminar: TTh 2-3:30 |
This course considers major texts by Henry James and Edith Wharton in light of their shared fascination with marriage, manners, and extravagant wealth. Our readings will survey the shape of each author?s career, beginning with some of James?s earlier ...(read more) |
Goble, Mark
Goble, Mark |
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100/12 Junior Seminar: TTh 2-3:30 |
Jacques Lacan has said that ?the first object of desire is to be recognized by the other.? The subject does not desire autonomously; who he is and what he wants are the by-products of a social relation. In this course, we will focus on perverse manife...(read more) |
Clowes, Erika
Clowes, Erika |
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105/1 Upper Division Coursework: MW 10:30-12 |
"Who were the Angelcynn? What were the English like before they were �English�?The name �Anglo-Saxon England� is a relatively modern term to designate peoples and kingdoms that, across several centuries before the Norman Conquest, knew themselves by v...(read more) |
O�Brien O�Keeffe, Katherine |
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110/1 Upper Division Coursework: TTh 9:30-11 |
Please email j_miller@berkeley.edu for information regarding this course....(read more) |
Miller, Jennifer
Miller, Jennifer |
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111/1 Upper Division Coursework: MW 5-6:30 |
This course will concentrate on Chaucer?s two greatest works, the Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales, glancing more quickly at other bits of his oeuvre and at pieces of the literary tradition he assembled from Latin, French, and Italian sou...(read more) |
Justice, Steven
Justice, Steven |
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114B/1 Upper Division Coursework: TTh 3:30-5 |
The English theater was the first mass medium, an avowedly commercial, hyper-competitive, fad-driven industry of sound and spectacle, which both catered to and ruthlessly parodied the sophisticated, novelty-craving consumerism of the seventeeth centur...(read more) |
Landreth, David
Landreth, David |
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115A/1 Upper Division Coursework: TTh 2-3:30 |
"This will be a survey course, but a highly selective one. Although I plan to look at the best and/or most interesting work of several lesser sixteenth-century writers--for instance, some lyrics by Wyatt and some by Sidney, and Surrey's blank verse--I...(read more) |
Booth, Stephen
Booth, Stephen |
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117A/1 Upper Division Coursework: TTh 2-3:30 |
In this course, we�re going to trace the development of Shakespeare�s dramatic work over the first half of his career, as he became the premier playwright of London�s leading stage company. We�ll also read many of his sonnets, which are related themat...(read more) |
Altman, Joel B.
Altman, Joel |
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117S/1 Upper Division Coursework: TTh 3:30-5 |
This course is designed to give you a sense of the range of Shakespeare�s career. Lectures will focus on two related topics: first, how Shakespeare uses plot and character to think about literary, social, sexual, religious, political, and philosophica...(read more) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
Knapp, Jeffrey |
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119/1 Upper Division Coursework: TTh 2-3:30 |
"The period from the ""Restoration"" of Charles II (1660) to the death of Alexander Pope (1744) produced the last poems of Milton, the first English pornography and feminist polemic, the most devastating satires ever written, some of the most influent...(read more) |
Turner, James Grantham
Turner, James |
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127/1 Upper Division Coursework: MW 1-2, sections F 1-2 |
A survey of the modernist turn in poetry. This course will explore some of the more remarkable (and occasionally notorious) formal experiments of the twentieth century�s turbulent first half. We will contend with work from Britain, Ireland, and the Un...(read more) |
Blanton, Dan |
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130B/1 American Literature: TTh 11-12:30 |
This class moves from the early national period to the Civil War and surveys the oral and written histories, autobiographies, novels, stories, private letters, public appeals, speeches, and poems of this age of reform, romance, and rebellion. We will ...(read more) |
Beam, Dorri
Beam, Dorri |
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130C/1 American Literature: MWF 10-11 |
A survey in United States literature from the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century. Course requirements include weekly reading responses, two essays, one midterm, and one final exam. ...(read more) |
Wagner, Bryan
Wagner, Bryan |
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130D/1 American Literature: MWF 2-3 |
This course will survey a range of significant works of American literature from the first half of the twentieth century, paying particular attention to literary form and technique ?- to formal innovation and style -- as responses to the experience of...(read more) |
Best, Stephen M.
Best, Stephen |
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133A/1 A.A. Literature: MWF 2-3 |
A survey of major African American writers in the context of slavery and its immediate aftermath. There will be weekly writing, a midterm, two essays, and a final exam....(read more) |
Wagner, Bryan
Wagner, Bryan |
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C136/1 Topics In American Studies: Lectures TTh 12:30-2 in 390 Hearst Mining, plus one hour of discussion section per week |
Co-taught by a literary scholar and a historian, this course offers an interdisciplinary examination of how the American metropolis has been portrayed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in novels, short stories, poetry, journalism, essays, phot...(read more) |
Otter, Sam and Henkin, David |
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143A/1 TTh 11-12:30 |
This is a course on the form, theory and practice of short fiction. Students are required to fulfill assignments on specific aspects of craft, analyze aesthetic strategies in selected stories by published authors, and to write approximately 45 pages o...(read more) |
Mukherjee, Bharati
Mukherjee, Bharati |
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143A/2 TTh 12:30-2 |
A short fiction workshop, with accompanying readings from a contemporary anthology. Typically, workshops are free-wheeling explorations of form, style and content and this one will be no different. Course demands: depending upon the final size of the...(read more) |
Blaise, Clark
Blaise, Clark |
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143A/3 TTh 2-3:30 |
This class will be conducted as a writing workshop where students will submit and discuss their own short fiction. We will also closely examine the work of published writers. Students will complete 3 short writing assignments approximately 40 pages of...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
Kleege, Georgina |
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143B/1 MW 4-5:30 |
"This version of English 143B will be tied in with Prof. Charles Altieri?s English 45C/1 class; for entrance into this 143B class, students must be enrolled in (or, under special circumstances, auditing) that 45C class. This 143b/45c connection is int...(read more) |
Hejinian, Lyn
Hejinian, Lyn |
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143B/2 TTh 11-12:30 |
Please email jshoptaw@berkeley.edu for more information regarding this course. ...(read more) |
Shoptaw, John
Shoptaw, John |
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143N/1 Prose Nonfiction: TTh 2-3:30 |
This course concentrates on the practice of creative non-fiction, particularly on the writing of the personal essay. Students are expected to fulfill specific assignments and to write approximately 45 pages of original non-fictional narrative. ...(read more) |
Mukherjee, Bharati
Mukherjee, Bharati |
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143T/1 Poetry Translation: TTh 9:30-11 |
The purpose of the class is to give students a chance to work on verse translation, to share translations and give and receive feedback on their work, to read about the theory and practice of translation, and perhaps to try out different practices and...(read more) |
Hass, Robert L.
Hass, Robert |
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150/1 Senior Seminar: MWF 11-12 |
"A polytropically intensive examination of Joyce's fiction. We'll begin the semester with a rapid study of Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, focus lengthily on Ulysses over the major part of the term, and conclude with a brief gaz...(read more) |
Bishop, John
Bishop, John |
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150/2 |
Class description to come. |
No instructor assigned yet. |
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150/4 Senior Seminar: MW 4-5:30 |
"This course surveys some of the most popular Irish literature in the last one hundred years. Irish Writing in the early part of the 20th century was part of a cultural revolution that culminated in a political revolution, a war of independence and th...(read more) |
Rubenstein, Michael
Rubenstein, Michael |
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150/5 Senior Seminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
By focusing on the starkly different fictional worlds created by two (late) nineteenth-century writers, Lewis Carroll and Thomas Hardy, this course is designed to raise questions about the phenomenology of representation. How do these writers produce ...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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150/6 Senior Seminar: TTh 12:30-2 |
Reading relies on the neural and cognitive mechanisms of actual perception, but what this reliance tells us about the actual experience of readers is far from clear; there is no consensus regarding the proper definition or even the very existence of t...(read more) |
Picciotto, Joanna M
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150/7 TTh 12:30-2 |
Within the past decade, the phenomenon of J-horror (originally Japanese, but now associated with other Asian countries) has gone from minor cult status to accepted Hollywood convention, due to the success of American adaptations like The Ring. But as ...(read more) |
Oyama, Misa
Oyama, Misa |
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150/9 Senior Seminar: TTh 2-3:30 |
"Met these four boys Frank O?Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Jimmy Schuyler?at the Cedar Bar in ?52 or ?53. Met them through Bill (de Kooning) who was a friend of theirs and they admired Kline and all those people. Painters who went to the Cedar...(read more) |
O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
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150/11 Senior Seminar: TTh 3:30-5 |
We will immerse ourselves in the careers of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, taking up issues of literary influence, biography, psychology, authorship, sexuality, aesthetics, and politics. Readings will include a variety of works by the two wr...(read more) |
Otter, Samuel
Otter, Samuel |
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150/12 Senior Seminar: TTh 3:30-5 |
"Most Utopian authors are more concerned with selling readers on the social or political merits of their schemes than with the ""merely"" literary qualities of their writing. Although some Utopian writing has succeeded in the sense of making converts,...(read more) |
Starr, George A.
Starr, George |
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160/1 Special Topics: TTh 9:30-11 |
What gives literature its special status, both as an art form and as a culturally important discourse? Does the value of literature reside in its power to improve society? In the quality of the emotion it produces? In the type of knowledge it makes po...(read more) |
Hale, Dorothy J.
Hale, Dorothy |
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165/1 Special Topics: TTh 9:30-11 |
"The lectures, class discussions, readings, and writing assignments are intended to develop students ability to analyze, understand, and evaluate a number of important ancient texts. The class will examine the deep implications of these early sources ...(read more) |
Campion, John
Campion, John |
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166/1 Special Topics: MWF 10-11 |
Visual art may include: Rubens, Goya, Corot, Warhol, Koons. This course will consider the relationship between concepts of fraud and authenticity in literature, using this basic opposition to explore questions about originality, representation, and id...(read more) |
Naiman, Eric |
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166/2 MWF 11-12 |
This course is an intensive and rigorous course in the literature of the Americas and in trans-American literary and cultural criticism. We will be reading intensively and extensively, and the format of our course requires constant attendance. Our cou...(read more) |
Saldivar, Jose David
Saldivar, Jose |
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166/3 Special Topics: TTh 9:30-11 |
This course examines the intersections between literature and visual media in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on film and its cultural effects. We will read novels, short stories, poetry, and essays that not only track the social and hi...(read more) |
Goble, Mark
Goble, Mark |
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166AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: MWF 11-12 |
"This course is two courses wrapped up in one. First, it offers a selected history of major innovations in American popular culture of the last hundred years ? from the origins of the American culture industries in blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, and j...(read more) |
Saul, Scott
Saul, Scott |
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170/1 Literature: MWF 11-12 |
"Literature, especially poetry, has in common with one other art, music, that a key element of its aesthetic structure is rhythm. This course will explore rhythm, considering how even its most basic forms are similar yet also different in each of thes...(read more) |
Hanson, Kristin
Hanson, Kristin |
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179/1 Literature: MWF 2-3 |
It is a commonplace that the medium of literature is language. This course will develop a substantive understanding of this relationship through a survey of literary forms defined by special linguistic structures, and an exploration of how these struc...(read more) |
Hanson, Kristin
Hanson, Kristin |
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180A/1 Literature: TTh 11-12:30 |
"Autobiographies written by people with disabilities offer readers a glimpse into lives at the margins of mainstream culture, and thus can make disability seem less alien and frightening. Disability rights activists, however, often criticize these tex...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
Kleege, Georgina |
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180L/1 TTh 11-12:30 |
We will spend much of the semester sorting out what the title of this course means. We?ll start by thinking about the so-called ?roots of lyric,? not only Sappho and Greek lyric, but other forms and shapes that are deeply buried within the matrices of...(read more) |
Falci, Eric
Falci, Eric |
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180N/1 Literature: MWF 1-2 |
A survey of the American novel, its forms, patterns, techniques, ideas, cultural context, and intertextua- lity. Special attention will be paid to questions of aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics�what is beautiful? how do we know? what ought we do?�i...(read more) |
Serpell, C. Namwali
Serpell, Namwali |
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195A/1 MW 12-1:30 |
We will spend most of the first semester sampling readings in literary theory, introducing such topics as poststructuralism (Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard); sex, gender, and performativity (Irigaray, Butler, Sedgwick, Miller); and various modes of cultura...(read more) |
Goldsmith, Steven
Goldsmith, Steven |
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195A/2 MW 4-5:30 |
The purpose of this section of H195 is to provide an exposure to literary theory that should be of equal value to honors projects belonging to earlier and later periods. The approach taken to the reading, however, will likely be most useful to student...(read more) |
Lye, Colleen
Lye, Colleen |
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195A/3 TTh 3:30-5 |
The fall component of this year-long course-- in which students develop a topic, conduct research, and write a thesis of 40+ pages--will provide an intensive introduction to key issues in literary theory and familiarize you with the tools and conventi...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
Langan, Celeste |
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