English 45C

Other Readings and Media

Stoker, B.: Dracula; Dreiser, T.: Sister Carrie; Woolf, V.: Mrs. Dalloway; Morrison, T.: Song of Solomon; Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace; a course reader including poetry, drama, and short fiction by O. Wilde, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, S. Beckett, V.S. Naipaul, W.C. Williams, E. Bishop, T.C. Bambara, T. Olsen, J. Diaz, and others

Description

We will survey a broad range of literature in English, paying careful attention to situate our texts in their world-historical and literary-historical contexts. A major preoccupation of the class will be to distinguish between different technologies and techniques of narrative, that is, how stories get told, and how story-telling changes, across an enormously broad swath of time and space. Course requirements include two short papers, a mid-term, and a final exam.