Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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4 | Fall 2018 | Serpell, C. Namwali
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TTh 2-3:30 | 180 Barrows |
Baum, L. Frank: The Wizard of Oz; Cain, James: The Postman Always Rings Twice; Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park; Highsmith, Patrica: The Talented Mr Ripley; King, Stephen: Carrie; L'Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time; Lovecraft, H.P.: The Complete Fiction; Ludlum, Robert: The Bourne Identity; Machado, Carmen Maria: Her Body & Other Parties; Portis, Charles: True Grit; Slim, Iceberg: Pimp: The Story of My Life; Steel, Danielle: The Gift; Tan, Amy: Joy Luck Club; Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
We’ll discuss canonical works of American genre fiction, except for the one genre we usually read: “literary fiction.” Our genres include: children’s lit, YA, spy thriller, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, noir, crime fiction, neo-slave narrative, weird, western, and horror. While we’ll dip into scholarship along the way, our primary aim will be to use the novels to generate our own theories. Two essays. One novel or two novellas a week, but they're all page turners!
NB: I won't be ordering books at the Cal bookstore but for the first two: Baum's The Wizard of Oz and Lovecraft's Complete Fiction.
This course satisfies the Group 5 (Twentieth Century) requirement.
spring, 2021 |
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Graduate Readings: "A dream of passion": Affects in the Renaissance Theater |
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Graduate Readings: Philosophical Contexts for Modernist Poetry |
fall, 2020 |
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spring, 2020 |
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Graduate Readings: The Lyric Eye: A Material History of Poetic Form |
fall, 2019 |
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spring, 2019 |
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Graduate Readings: William Faulkner and the Historical Novel |
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203/3 |
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203/5 |
Graduate Readings: Nineteenth-Century U. S. Historical Poetics |