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  • ENG 269: Asian-American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. We will be reading novels and short stories by Asian-American writers, including Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, Ha Jin, Susan Choi, Wang Ping, Fae Ng, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Looking at works from the 1930s to the present moment, we will focus on themes of travel, mobility, arrivals and departures. What defines homelessness What constitutes a home When and where does a feeling of ordinariness or the everyday arise And how do the experiences of male and female immigrants compare with each oth-er These are only some of the questions that we will consider as we explore this rich and exciting body of literature. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 270: Experiencing London Then and Now

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This Wintersession course examines how people self-consciously experienced the city of London in the eigh-teenth century, and how we experience it today. Walking, watching, getting lost in crowds and experimenting with identity were crucial then, as we see in writers ranging from James Boswell to Frances Burney, and remain important today, despite obvious changes in Lon-don's scale and organization. We will read works by Addison, Boswell, Gay, Burney, and others, and then spend around 12 days in Lon-don, visiting some of the same sites (theaters, parks, churches) and following some of the same itineraries. What continuities and disconti-nuities are there between eighteenth-century and postmodern urban experiences Not offered every year. Subject to Dean's Office ap-proval . Prerequisite: None. Application required. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 0.5
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  • ENG 271: The Rise of the Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Lee A study of how the genre of the novel begins in forgeries, poses as real documents and letters, and eventually reveals itself as a kind of literature uniquely suited to modern society. There will be a particular emphasis on the novel's enduring fascination with women and crimi-nals, the choices they make and the rewards and punishments they receive. Authors include Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Edge-worth, and Austen. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 272: The Victorian Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Meyer An exploration of the changing relationships of persons to social worlds in some of the great novels of the Victorian period. The impact on the novel of industrialization, the debate about women's roles, the enfranchisement of the middle and the working classes, the effect on ordinary persons of life in the great cities, the commodification of culture-these and other themes will be traced in the works of some of the following: Charlotte Bront , Emily Bront , Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 277: Modern Indian Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Sabin Focus on novels, memoirs, and nonfiction writing-mostly contemporary, with some earlier examples of what now begins to make up a tradition of modern Indian literature in English. Controversial questions to be addressed include: what is ?authentically? Indian What is the writer's responsibility to solve social and political problems What roles do women play in this literature Introduction to important religious and political contexts will be provided, but primary attention will go to the literature itself, with some attention to films. Authors will likely include Gandhi, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhwa, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, plus films directed by Satyajit Ray and Deepa Meh ta. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.
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  • ENG 281: American Drama and Musical Theater

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rosenwald Study of some distinguished twentieth-century American plays, theater pieces, and musicals. Possible musicals: The Cradle Will Rock, Showboat, West Side Story, Chorus Line, Into the Woods, Chicago. Possible playwrights and ensembles: Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, the Bread and Puppet Theater, the Teatro Campesino, María Irene Fornés, August Wilson, Da-vid Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Anna Deveare Smith. Focus on close reading, on historical and social context, on realism and the alter-natives to realism, on the relations between text and performance. Opportunities both for performance and for critical writin g. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theater, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 282: Topics in Literary Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    An introduction to critical theory through the reading of selected literary texts and the application of pertinent theoretical models. Topic for 2009-10: Realism Lee How has the notion of realism been understood in relation to literature Does it refer to an underlying attitude toward what is represented Does it consist in a way of describing the surface details of the world around you Or, rather, should realism be understood as a way of thinking about the larger movements of history and what drives it forward Examining these questions will lead us to think about the social, cultural, and political functions of literature. We will read both fiction and theory; theorists will include Erich Auerbach, Roland Barthes, and Georg Lukács. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 283: Southern Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    A study of the literature of the American South, with special focus on the region's unique cultural traditions, the development of a distinctive body of stylistic and thematic characteristics, and the complex intersections of region, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in Southern literary expression. Topic for 2009-10: Gospel, Body, and Soul: Lyric Traditions in Black and White Tyler A study of black and white artists whose careers are defined by agonies of conversion. One white artist will be John Donne, a legendary ?convert? from profane to sacred art; another will be John Newton, whose own conversion (from slave trader to abolitionist) led him to write ?Amazing Grace,? a favorite hymn of both black and white congregations. Later in America, the true African-American equivalents of Donne differed from him by rejecting any ?progressive? evolution of words away from music-they were singers and songwriters, not poets. Accordingly, the course will introduce African-American (1) gospel songs of the 1930s-'60s; (2) sermons with their own refusals to exile words from melody; (3) and finally, the secular soul music which emerged from, or against, sacred music: here the artists will include Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green-artists who, like Donne, struggled to ?convert? to proper uses their God-gi ven talents. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall
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  • ENG 285: Irish Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of two great periods of Irish literary creativity in this past century: first, a brief but intense immersion in the great early ?modern? Irish masters: Yeats, Synge, and Joyce. Then a leap to some of the post-1970 works of poetry, drama, fiction, and film that show the legacy of and the breakings away from these powerful predecessors. Recent and contemporary writers to be assigned will likely include: Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh, and selected women au-thors of short stories from the antholog y Territories of the Voice . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 286: New Literatures

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Fisher (American Studies) Topic for 2009-10: Lesbian and Gay Writing from Sappho to Stonewall. This course will explore significant lesbian and gay literature from classical times to the present, including contemporary transformations of society, politics, and consciousness. The course will intro-duce elements of ?queer theory? and gender theory; it will address issues of sexual orientation and sexual identification in works of poetry, autobiography, and fiction. Readings will include such writers as Sappho, Plato, William Shakespeare, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, David Leavitt, Leslie Feinberg, Shyam Selvadurai, and Jeanette Winterson . Students may register for either ENG 286 or AMST 286 and credit will be granted accordingly . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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