Announcement of Classes: Spring 2010
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.
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R1A/3 The Power of I: Literary Constructions of the Self MWF 2-3 |
What are the different ways that we come to understand first person narration? How are different selves created and chosen through texts and textual choices? How do issues of memory and claims to authenticity affect the way that we read different ki...(read more) |
Bednarska, D. |
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R1A/9 MWF 3-4 |
In this class, we will study the American elegy, following its development from the 17th-century to the present. Reading poems in conjunction with essays in literary criticism and cultural history, we will ask the following question: How did elegiac...(read more) |
Auclair, Tracy |
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R1B/4 MWF 11-12 |
In this class, you will become ecologically literate, and learn to write clear argumentative prose. You will learn to identify birds and trees, and keep a journal to practice writing about the environment. As exemplars, we will look at how other write...(read more) |
Legere, Charles
Legere, Charles |
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R1B/6 MWF 12-1 |
Holidays find much common ground with literature. In their ways, both exist outside of time and place by means of their inherent, if relative, universality. Thanksgiving is not celebrated around the globe, just as Donne is not read the world over, b...(read more) |
Drosdick, Alan |
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R1B/8 T.B.A. |
Instructor, time, and location to be announced.No one will be able to enroll in this section until it has been finalized, which might not be until November or so. ...(read more) |
T.B.A. |
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R1B/10 MWF 3-4 |
This class will try to stimulate reflection on what learning is, and what its relation is to different kinds of constraint. The pressure of this question (learning) and this theme (constraint) will be everywhere brought to bear on the task of this cou...(read more) |
Weiner, Joshua J
Weiner, Joshua |
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R1B/16 MWF 12-1 |
In his essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Richard Hofstadter identifies the distinguishing feature of a conspiracy theory not in “the absence of verifiable facts,” but rather in the “curious leap in imagination…from the undeniable to the...(read more) |
Seidel, Matthew |
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R1B/17 TTh 2-3:30 |
The plot of many works of fiction is often that of a secret being gradually revealed to the reader. This course will examine texts in which characters conceal things from each other, from the most mundane motives to the darkest Gothic sins of the past...(read more) |
Knox, Marisa Palacios
Knox, Marisa |
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R1B/18 TTh 3:30-5:00 |
By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me...(read more) |
Pugh, Megan
Pugh, Megan |
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24/1 Freshman Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully Thurs. 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 he...(read more) |
Breitwieser, Mitchell
Breitwieser, Mitchell |
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43B/1 Introduction to the Writing of Verse MW 3-4:30 |
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write verse or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.To be considered for admission to this class, please submit 5 photocopied pages of your poems, along with an a...(read more) |
Chen, Christopher
Chen, Christopher |
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45A/1 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 1-2 + Discussion F 1-2 |
We will study the changing nature of creative writing "through" Milton, Spenser and Chaucer, but the point is to introduce many voices rather than studying just three authors. 45 is a lower-division course, the pre-required gateway to the English maj...(read more) |
Turner, James Grantham
Turner, James |
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45A/2 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 |
This course will focus on the central works of the early English literary tradition, beginning with Beowulf and ending with Paradise Lost. We will examine the texts in light of the cultures in which they were produced, asking ourselves why these work...(read more) |
Nolan, Maura
Nolan, Maura |
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45B/1 Literature in English: MW 12-1 + Discussion F 12-1 |
This is a course in a few major works of English and American literature from the end of the 17th-century through the first half of the 19th-century. We will work our way from Puritanism through the Enlightenment and into Romanticism. There are major...(read more) |
Hutson, Richard
Hutson, Richard |
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45B/2 Literature in English: Late 17th - Through Mid -19th Centuries MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 |
Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose narrative and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotland and then Ireland...(read more) |
Duncan, Ian
Duncan, Ian |
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45C/1 Literature in English: Mid 19th -Through the 20th Century MW 10-11 + Discussion F 10-11 |
A broad survey of the period that witnessed the arrival of English as a fully global literary language, with Anglophone empires (both political and cultural) centered on both sides of the Atlantic and spread around the world. We will concentrate on t...(read more) |
Blanton, C. D.
Blanton, Dan |
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45C/2 Literature in English: Mid 19th -Through the 20th Century MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3 |
This course will survey British, Irish, and American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. We will try to evoke some of the key aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political trends that characterized the movements of modern...(read more) |
Falci, Eric
Falci, Eric |
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R50/1 Freshman and Sophomore Studies: TTh 11-12:30 |
Western literary history, especially since the eighteenth century, is full of impostors and forgeries. Since Chatterton purported to “discover†a fifteenth-century poet and his contemporary Macpherson faked an ancient Celtic epic, there ha...(read more) |
Naumovska, Slavica
Naumovska, Slavica |
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R50/2 Freshman and Sophomore Studies: TTh 2-3:30 |
This course will explore the formal interests and strategies of minority authors. “Minority†here is taken not in the U.S. ethnic sense of the word but broadly, and the authors we will examine represent diverse arenas of world literature....(read more) |
Townsend, Sarah
Townsend, Sarah |
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84/1 Sophomore Seminar: M 2-5 |
We will discuss some short stories, view some films on food and its relation to family, ethnicity and sexuality, as well as attend some Cal Performances events.This 2-unit course may not be counted as one of the twelve courses required to complete the...(read more) |
Bader, Julia
Bader, Julia |
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111/1 MWF 2-3 |
Please contact Jennifer Miller at j_miller@berkeley.edu for more information about this course.This course satisfies the pre-1800 requirement for the English major....(read more) |
Miller, Jennifer
Miller, Jennifer |
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117B/1 TTh 2-3:30 |
This course treats the second half of Shakespeare's career, focusing on some of the major tragedies, the so-called "problem plays," and the later comedies/romances. Our general approach will be to read each text closely and with attention to the soci...(read more) |
Nishimura, Kimiko
Nishimura, Kimiko |
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117S/1 MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12 |
This class is a single-semester introduction to the scope of Shakespeare’s dramatic career. Our readings will range across different genres, from early plays to late, and from some of the greatest hits to some more unfamiliarâ€â€even disqui...(read more) |
Landreth, David
Landreth, David |
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118/1 TTh 9:30-11 |
Arguably the most influential and famous (sometimes infamous) literary figure of the 17th Century, John Milton has too often been represented to our own present as the mainstay of an entrenched canon, a “required†author. However, as we fo...(read more) |
Goodman, Kevis
Goodman, Kevis |
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119/1 The Augustan Age: TTh 3:30-5 |
We will explore the relationship between literature and everyday life in the first half of the eighteenth century. Areas of emphasis include popular periodical literature, the early novel, and the writings of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. In addi...(read more) |
Picciotto, Joanna M
Picciotto, Joanna |
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121/1 TTh 9:30-11 |
Romanticism is a term as difficult to define as it is persistent. We will read British Romanticism as a set of diverse, sometimes contradictory responses to an overarching question: what is the role of literature in a rapidly modernizing world? Britis...(read more) |
Goldsmith, Steven
Goldsmith, Steven |
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125A/1 The English Novel (Defoe through Austen) MWF 2-3 |
A survey of early fiction, much of which pretended to be anything but. Most of it, published anonymously, purported to be a true "History," "Expedition," or the like, about "Things as They Are." We will consider at the outset why these works so strenu...(read more) |
Starr, George A.
Starr, George |
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125D/1 TTh 12:30-2 |
By reading one of the most significant 20th century novels in detail, the course will attempt to answer questions about the thematic concerns and formal techniques of modernism. The relationships between changing conceptions of language and desire, of...(read more) |
Bernstein, Michael A.
Bernstein, Michael |
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125E/1 The (Really) Contemporary Novel MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 |
We who study literature are perhaps inexorably belated. But this course aims to redefine at least one temporally muddled literary term: the “contemporary,†a period that sometimes stretches as far back as 1950 in academic parlance. I prote...(read more) |
Serpell, C. Namwali
Serpell, Namwali |
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127/1 TTh 2-3:30 |
This course will be devoted to studying the work of a series of major figures in modern poetry and poetics. Each of these poetsâ€â€Pound, Eliot, Stein, Stevens, Loy, Moore, H.D., Williams, Hughes, Brown, Zukofsky, Niedecker, Oppenâ€â€undertak...(read more) |
Ronda, Margaret
Ronda, Margaret |
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130A/1 American Literature: Before 1800 MWF 3-4 |
I will lecture on the struggle to alter traditional modes of cultural understanding to account for the extraordinary circumstances of New World life as it is reflected and expressed in these books, together with the gradual emergence of novel social a...(read more) |
Breitwieser, Mitchell
Breitwieser, Mitchell |
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130C/1 American Literature: 1865-1900 MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3 |
A survey of U.S. literature from 1865 to the beginning of the twentieth century. We’ll begin with the texts listed above; then together we’ll choose the reading and design the syllabus for the last weeks of the course. A midterm, frequen...(read more) |
Schweik, Susan
Schweik, Susan |
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130D/1 American Literature: 1900-1945 TTh 12:30-2 |
A survey of American literature tracing the literary response to the emerging shape of modern life in the first decades of the twentieth century. We will read across a range of genres and styles to assess the particular influence of modernism and oth...(read more) |
Goble, Mark
Goble, Mark |
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132/1 MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12 |
A survey of major novels written in the United States between the end of slavery and the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Two essays, midterm, and final exam....(read more) |
Wagner, Bryan
Wagner, Bryan |
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133A/1 African American Literature and Culture Before 1917 TTh 2-3:30 |
African American expressive culture has been driven by an affinity for the oral; yet the claim for black humanity has often rested upon an assumed connection between literature and literacy. In this survey we will attempt to bridge these oral and lit...(read more) |
Best, Stephen M.
Best, Stephen |
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133T/1 Topics in African American Literature and Culture: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course will survey prose of the African diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will consider the substance and contingencies of expressions of black global commonality and think about the relationship between politics and aesthe...(read more) |
Ellis, Nadia
Ellis, Nadia |
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133T/2 Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Introduction to African American Poetry MW 4-5:30 |
An introduction to African American poetry and poetics, moving from the eighteenth century to the present....(read more) |
Wagner, Bryan
Wagner, Bryan |
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135AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: TTh 12:30-2 |
"Race is not only real, but also illusory. Not only is it common sense; it is also common nonsense. Not only does it establish our identity; it also denies us our identity."  Howard Winant"Each society demands of its members a certain amount ...(read more) |
Saul, Scott
Saul, Scott |
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137T/1 Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: MW 12:30-2 |
The emergence of Chicano/a literary studies as an academic discipline, along with the production of the first Chicano/a films, coincided historically with the Chicano Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. There is no disputing that the politica...(read more) |
Gonzalez, Marcial
Gonzalez, Marcial |
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138/1 Studies in World Literature in English: TTh 9:30-11 |
Pascal Casanova has influentially defined Paris as the “capital of the literary world,†as the center of what she calls the “world republic of letters.†Accordingly, contemporary discussions of world literature typically focus...(read more) |
Lee, Steven S.
Lee, Steven |
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139/1 The Cultures of English: TTh 11-12:30 |
This course concentrates on Irish Drama from the late 19th century to the present. Among the questions the course will raise: What is specific to the Irish dramatic tradition? Why were certain of the plays on the syllabus the subject of intense contr...(read more) |
Banfield, Ann
Banfield, Ann |
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141/1 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) TTh 11-12:30 |
This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing – fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will learn to talk critically about these genres and begin to feel comfortable and confident with their own writing of them. Students ...(read more) |
Abrams, Melanie
Abrams, Melanie (a.k.a., Chandra, M.J.) |
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141/2 TTh 12:30-2 |
This course is an inquiry into the ways that race is constructed in literary texts and a look-by-doing at our own practices as people engaged in creative writing. The purpose of writing in this course is, broadly stated, to engage public language on o...(read more) |
Giscombe, Cecil S.
Giscombe, Cecil |
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143A/1 MW 1:30-3 |
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 in the anthology. Students will complete 3 short writing assignments approx...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
Kleege, Georgina |
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143B/1 TTh 11-12:30 |
In this course you will conduct a progressive series of experiments in which you will explore some of the fundamental options for writing poetry todayâ€â€aperture, partition, closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence & line; stanza; short &...(read more) |
Shoptaw, John
Shoptaw, John |
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143B/2 Verse: Thurs. 3:30-6:30 |
In this advanced poetry workshop, we will not only deepen our own writing practices, but also become increasingly familiar with the wide range of poetry-making materials and strategies. To this end, we will treat this course both as a workshop, where ...(read more) |
Fisher, Jessica
Fisher, Jessica |
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143N/1 Prose Nonfiction: Tues. 3:30-6:30 |
This workshop course concentrates on the form, theory and practice of creative nonfiction, particularly on the personal essay. Workshop participants are required to write a minimum of 45 pages of original non-fictional narrative during the semester.T...(read more) |
Mukherjee, Bharati
Mukherjee, Bharati\n(a.k.a. Blaise, B.) |
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152/1 MWF 11-12 |
Please contact Jennifer Miller at j_miller@berkeley.edu for more information about this course.This course satisfies the pre-1800 requirement for the English major....(read more) |
Miller, Jennifer
Miller, Jennifer |
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165/1 Special Topics: MWF 1-2 |
The Reading and writing assignments--linked with the lectures and class discussions--are intended to develop students’ ability to analyze, understand, and interpret four great masters of the short story: Joyce, Hemingway, Kafka, and Borges. (Th...(read more) |
Campion, John
Campion, John |
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165/2 Special Topics: MW 4-5:30 |
Critical reading usually involves reading “between the lines†of a literary text, picking up on the implications of its manifest content. In this course, however, we will focus on reading what is altogether missing: for example, the lack ...(read more) |
Clowes, Erika
Clowes, Erika |
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165AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: MW 4-5:30 |
This course examines U.S. fiction in the last century for which mixing works both as cultural themeâ€â€ethnic, racial, and class mixturesâ€â€and as literary formâ€â€genre, style, and narrative mixtures. The course will triangulate African-...(read more) |
Serpell, C. Namwali
Serpell, Namwali |
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166/1 Special Topics: MWF 10-11 |
What does literature have to teach us about contemporary debates on genetic engineering, food politics, toxic pollution, global warming, e-waste, species extinction and the “death of the planet� How can literary study help us understand t...(read more) |
François, Anne-Lise
Francois, Anne-Lise |
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166/2 Special Topics: MWF 1-2 |
What makes a work of literature characteristically “American� This question is complicated by the variety of distinct geographical and cultural landscapes that make up the country. In some ways, the representation of place in American r...(read more) |
Clowes, Erika
Clowes, Erika |
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166/3 Special Topics: TTh 11-12:30 |
This course will focus on reading  and writing about  essays on the craft of writing by a medley of historical and contemporary figures in American literature. The essays we will read provide a view of writing literature from the insid...(read more) |
McQuade, Donald
McQuade, Don |
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166/4 Special Topics: TTh 2-3:30 |
This course examines representations of the city in twentieth-century literature and film, asking how urban experience shapes modernist and postmodernist aesthetics. The course will examine the material conditions and demands of the city, but it will...(read more) |
Edwards, Erin E
Edwards, Erin |
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173/1 The Language and Literature of Films: TTh 5:30-7 Films: Thurs. 7-10 pm |
We will examine film noir’s relationship to “classical†Hollywood cinema, as well as its history, theory and generic markers, while analyzing in detail the major films in this area. The course will also be concerned with the social...(read more) |
Bader, Julia
Bader, Julia |
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179/1 MW 4-5:30 |
The medium of literature is language. This course will explore this relationship through a survey of literary forms defined by linguistic forms, and consideration of how these literary forms are both like and unlike forms of non-literary language. T...(read more) |
Hanson, Kristin
Hanson, Kristin |
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180H/1 MW 4-5:30 |
“The lyf so short, the crafte so longe to lerne…†-- ChaucerThis course will investigate how authors craft stories, so that both non-writers and writers may gain a new perspective on rea...(read more) |
Chandra, Vikram
Chandra, Vikram |
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180Z/1 Science Fiction: MWF 11-12 |
This course will examine in depth the history of speculative fiction and its engagement with the thematics and topoi of the new life sciencesâ€â€representation of cloning, ecological dystopias, hybrid life-forms, genetic engineering dystopias. Whi...(read more) |
Jones, Donna V.
Jones, Donna |
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190/1 Research Seminar: MW 9-10:30 |
This seminar will investigate the relationship between culture and economics. To what extent is cultural production determined by market forces, and to what extent is it separate from these forces? Particularly during moments of crisis, how might cu...(read more) |
Lee, Steven S.
Lee, Steven |
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190/2 MW 10:30-12 |
In this course we will study modern versions of the so-called “old†or romantic comedy -- comedies of courtship, marriage, and remarriage, which explore the relations between sexuality, politics, and social order. We will look at (and list...(read more) |
Duncan, Ian
Duncan, Ian |
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190/3 Research Seminar: MW 12-1:30 |
A close and careful reading of these two friends and writers, with an emphasis on the connection they draw between ecological experience and spiritual self-discovery. Two ten page essays will be required, as will regular attendance and participation.E...(read more) |
Breitwieser, Mitchell
Breitwieser, Mitchell |
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190/5 Research Seminar: MW 4-5:30 |
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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190/6 Research Seminar: TTh 9:30-11 |
Black rhetoric has proven by turns incendiary and inspiring of late. This course will explore the oral and rhetorical traditions of African Americans that have played a significant role in the shaping of national culture and history, i.e., work songs...(read more) |
Best, Stephen M.
Best, Stephen |
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190/7 Research Seminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
Harold Segel characterizes modernism as “the transition from an intellectual and verbal culture to one distinguished by antirationalism, anti-intellectualism, the primacy of spontaneity and intuition, the repudiation of the epistemological value...(read more) |
Edwards, Erin E
Edwards, Erin |
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190/8 Research Seminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
This course will be an inquiry into a literature often marginalized in academic discourse. We'll explore children's literature's relation to United State's culture; we'll read classic and new texts and critical writings, study award giving, and debat...(read more) |
Wright, Katharine E.
Wright, Katharine |
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190/9 Research Seminar: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course aims to follow the strange history of “enthusiasm†by tracing its manifestations in a variety of literary and historical contexts. Today, “enthusiasm†carries the generally positive meaning of “rapturous inter...(read more) |
Goldsmith, Steven
Goldsmith, Steven |
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190/10 Research Seminar: TTh 12:30-2 |
This is an intensive seminar in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. We will learn how to read (to describe and interpret) Dickinson’s poems, with pleasure and confidence, deeply and also broadly throughout her career. Topics will include early poe...(read more) |
Shoptaw, John
Shoptaw, John |
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190/11 TTh 2-3:30 |
The seminar will read a generous selection of Mark Twain’s most important published writings. We will work our way chronologically through his life and career, beginning with his earliest extant writings and ending with Mysterious Stranger (whi...(read more) |
Hirst, Robert H.
Hirst, Robert |
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190/12 TTh 2-3:30 |
In the “Worship†section of The Conduct of Life (1860), Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that “Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. . . .†In the August 1849 issue of The Lit...(read more) |
McQuade, Donald
McQuade, Don |
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190/13 Research Seminar: TTh 3:30-5 |
This course will cover both Beckett's prose and his theater. We will address Beckett both as an Irish writer and as a figure of international writing--he is, after all, a major French writer. Special attention will be paid to Beckett's experiments w...(read more) |
Banfield, Ann
Banfield, Ann |
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190/15 Research Seminar: TTh 3:30-5 |
A passing narrative is an accountâ€â€fiction or nonfictionâ€â€of a person or group claiming a racial or ethnic identity that she or they do not “possess.†Such narratives speakâ€â€directly, indirectly, and very uneasilyâ€â€...(read more) |
Giscombe, Cecil S.
Giscombe, Cecil |
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190/17 Research Seminar: MW 5:30-7 Films: Mon. 7-10 pm |
This will be a seminar on the Hitchcock canon from the British through the American period, with emphasis on cinematic representation of gender, guilt and victimhood. Our discussions and critical readings will consider humor, censorship, socio-cultura...(read more) |
Bader, Julia
Bader, Julia |
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H195B/1 TTh 9:30-11 |
This is a continuation of section 1 of H195A, taught by Gautam Premnath in Fall 2009. No new students will be admitted. No new application form needs to be filled out. Professor Premnath will give out CECs (class entry codes) in class in November. ...(read more) |
Premnath, Gautam
Premnath, Gautam |
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H195B/2 MWF 11-12 |
This is a continuation of section 2 of H195A, taught by Professor Gonzalez in Fall 2009. No new students will be admitted. No new application form needs to be filled out. Professor Gonzalez will give out CECs (class entry codes) in class in Novembe...(read more) |
Gonzalez, Marcial
Gonzalez, Marcial |
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H195B/3 MW 10:30-12 |
This is a continuation of section 3 of H195A, taught by Professor Rubenstein in Fall 2009. No new students will be admitted. No new application form needs to be filled out. Professor Rubenstein will give out CECs (class entry codes) in class in Nov...(read more) |
Rubenstein, Michael
Rubenstein, Michael |
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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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203/1 Research Seminars: W 3-6 |
Probing what has been called the “visual turn†in literary studies, this course will scrutinize the interplay between verbal and visual modes of representation in a range of philosophical, literary, and visual texts. We will ask how and wh...(read more) |
Abel, Elizabeth
Abel, Elizabeth |
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203/2 Graduate Readings: MW 1:30-3 |
This course will provide a basic introduction to the major meters of the modern English poetic tradition from the perspective of a theory of meter rooted in generative linguistics. Taking the strict iambic pentameter of Shakespeare's Sonnets, the loo...(read more) |
Hanson, Kristin
Hanson, Kristin |
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203/3 Graduate Readings: TTh 2-3:30 |
This course will be structured as a scholarly detective story, driven by a question that has never been satisfactorily answered: how did “that rare Italian master, Julio Romanoâ€Ââ€â€prized pupil of Raphael; designer of sexually explicit...(read more) |
Altman, Joel B.
Altman, Joel |
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203/4 Graduate Readings: Thurs. 3:30-6:30 |
This seminar is dedicated to the intersection between queer theory and “minority†literatures and cultures. We will take as our starting point the critique of queer theory’s ethnocentrism most potently embodied in Cathy Cohenâ€â„...(read more) |
Ellis, Nadia
Ellis, Nadia |
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243B/1 W 3-6 |
Topics in poetics raised by theorists (Barthes, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Glissant, Riffaterre) and practitioners (Alcalay, Joron, Mackey, Palmer, Spahr et al.) will focus our discussion of each other’s poetry. To be considered for admission in this c...(read more) |
O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
O'Brien, Geoffrey |
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243N/1 Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Thurs. 3:30-6:30 |
Rooms and lives: a creative or literary nonfiction graduate workshop open to students from any department. Drawing on narrative strategies found in memoir, the diary, travel writing, and fiction, students will have workshopped in class three 10-20 pag...(read more) |
Farber, Thomas
Farber, Thomas |
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246I/1 TTh 11-12:30 |
A survey of U.S. literature in the decades before the Civil War with special attention to narratives of race and nation, the development of American romanticism, and cultures of poetry in the U.S....(read more) |
Beam, Dorri
Beam, Dorri |
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246K/1 Literature in English, 1900-1945 TTh 9:30-11 |
This course surveys a range of Anglo-American texts from the first half of the twentieth-century—with a strong emphasis on US figures—that explore different versions of a modernist fascination with media aesthetics. Working with an expanded sense of ...(read more) |
Goble, Mark
Goble, Mark |
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250/1 Research Seminars: M 3-6 |
We will examine the theory and practice of mass entertainment during two comparable moments of major innovation in mass entertainment: the construction of permanent theaters in sixteenth-century London, and the invention of talking pictures in twentie...(read more) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
Knapp, Jeffrey |
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250/2 Research Seminars: T 3:30 - 6:30 |
The intensification of globalization in the past decade has led to a renewed interest in reinventing Goethe’s project of world literature. Recent discussions of the topic, however, have taken the normative significance of ‘the worldâ€...(read more) |
Cheah, Pheng |
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250/3 Research Seminars: Tues. 3:30-6:30 |
This course will investigate questions of agency and identity (particularly religious identity) in the textual world of Anglo-Saxon England. As part of our investigations, we will begin with some early medieval engagements of predestination and free w...(read more) |
O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine
O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine |
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250/5 F 10:30-1:30 |
This course will offer an intensive reading of the major poetry and prose written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose remarkable literary collaboration, friendship, and conflict (should) dispel old truisms about the solitary Roman...(read more) |
Goodman, Kevis
Goodman, Kevis |
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310/1 Field Studies in Tutoring Writing 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 p...(read more) |
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