Announcement of Classes: Summer 2014

All-Courses Lists
Reading and Composition
Lower Division
Upper Division
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Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N1A/1 Reading and Composition: Awakening MW 2-4 Session:	This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. – Theodore Roethke, from “The Waking” Few people delight in awakening from sleep. E...(read more)	Blevins, Jeffrey	Reading and Composition
N1B/1 Reading and Composition: (Note new topic:) Pop Truth TTh 12-2 Session:	NOTE NEW COURSE DESCRIPTION (and the instructor and texts have also changed): In his “Proverbs of Hell,” from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake writes, “Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.” This perplexin...(read more)	Ahmed, Adam	Reading and Composition

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Instructor

Course Area

N1A/1

Reading and Composition:
Awakening

MW 2-4
Session:

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. – Theodore Roethke, from “The Waking” Few people delight in awakening from sleep. E...(read more)

Blevins, Jeffrey

Reading and Composition

N1B/1

Reading and Composition:
(Note new topic:) Pop Truth

TTh 12-2
Session:

NOTE NEW COURSE DESCRIPTION (and the instructor and texts have also changed): In his “Proverbs of Hell,” from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake writes, “Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.” This perplexin...(read more)

Ahmed, Adam

Reading and Composition

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N20/1 Modern British and American Literature MTuTh 10-12 Session:	Virginia Woolf famously wrote that “on or about December 1910, human character changed.” In her view, the exciting and experimental works of modernism—written by authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Woolf herself—came out of the search for new w...(read more)	Creasy, CFS	Introductory Surveys British 19th-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century Novel Poetry
N31AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: Democracy and Division MTuTh 2-4 Session:	The United States Constitution refers to “We, the People,” as if it’s obvious who’s included in – and excluded from – that “we.” In fact, though, the reality has always been much messier. Fights over who was part of that “we” nearly derailed the Unit...(read more)	Mansouri, Leila	American Cultures American Literature African American Literature Asian American Literature Chicanx and/or Latinx

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Instructor

Course Area

N20/1

Modern British and American Literature

MTuTh 10-12
Session:

Virginia Woolf famously wrote that “on or about December 1910, human character changed.” In her view, the exciting and experimental works of modernism—written by authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Woolf herself—came out of the search for new w...(read more)

Creasy, CFS

N31AC/1

Literature of American Cultures:
Democracy and Division

MTuTh 2-4
Session:

The United States Constitution refers to “We, the People,” as if it’s obvious who’s included in – and excluded from – that “we.” In fact, though, the reality has always been much messier. Fights over who was part of that “we” nearly derailed the Unit...(read more)

Mansouri, Leila

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N117S/2 Shakespeare MTuTh 12-2 Session:	Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, crazy beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchstone—indeed, so...(read more)	Arnold, Oliver	Shakespeare
N125B/1 The English Novel: Dickens through Conrad TTh 12-2 Session:	In this class we'll read novels by Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll and others. We'll think about these novels in two related ways. First, what was it about the novel—as opposed, for instance, to the poem or the essay—that m...(read more)	Puckett, Kent	British 19th-Century Novel
N125D/1 The 20th-Century Novel MTuTh 2-4 Session:	This course is a general survey of the 20th-century novel. The novel is the quintessential form of expression of modernity and modern subjectivity. In this survey of key works of the century, we will explore the novel form as it is framed by these th...(read more)	Jones, Donna V.	British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature
N132/1 The American Novel TTh 2-4 Session:	We will concentrate on the central issues deeded to the American novel by democratic ideology -- refusal and autonomy, loyalty, guilt, and atonement, futurity and the burden of the past -- and try to figure out how the formal innovations in the Ameri...(read more)	Breitwieser, Mitchell	American Literature
N173/1 The Language and Literature of Films: The Hollywood Western M 2-5 & W 2-4 Session:	Regular attendance is required. Two seven-page essays and a final quiz. Viewing notes taken during films viewed on Mondays will be handed in on Wednesdays. The class will be a mix of lecture and discussion. This course will be taught in Session C, wh...(read more)	Breitwieser, Mitchell	Film Special Topics
N180Z/1 Science Fiction: Speculative Fiction and Dystopias MTuTh 10-12 Session:	This course will examine in depth the history of speculative fiction and its engagement with the thematics and topoi of the new life sciences—representation of cloning, ecological dystopias, hybrid life-forms, genetic engineering dystopias. While sci...(read more)	Jones, Donna V.	Novel Special Topics

There are no special instructions for Summer 2014 English Department courses, other than to note in which session each course is offered.

The following courses are offered in Session A (May 27 - July 3): English N125D and N180Z.

The following courses are offered in Session C (June 23 - August 15): English N1A, N1B, N125B, N132, and N173.

The following courses are offered in Session D (July 7 - August 15): English N20, N31AC, and N117S.

The only graduate-level courses available in the summer are independent study (N299 and N602).