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This is a course in the major works of High British Modernism. The poetry and prose of this period were characterized by tremendous ambition, radical experimentation, the questioning of conventions and the creation of new ones. In the first half we concentrate on a single author, James Joyce, reading his major fiction (excluding Finnegan's Wake). In the second half we will assess the challenge Joyce -- specifically his masterpiece Ulysses -- presented to his contemporaries: poets influenced by his use of myth (Eliot, Pound, H.D.); Irish writers confronted with a self-proclaimed national epic (Yeats, Beckett); other aspirants to the High Modern novel (Huxley, Woolf). Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Though a superstar during his early career, Herman Melville watched his reputation decline as his literary ambitions escalated. One review of his seventh novel bore the headline, "Herman Melville Crazy." Not until the 20th century did even his best-known work, Moby Dick, attract considerable attention, but it now stands at the center of the American literary pantheon. Melville's work merits intensive, semester-long study not only because he is a canonical author of diverse narratives-from maritime adventures to tortured romances to philosophical allegories-but also because his career and legacy themselves constitute a narrative of central concern to literary studies and American culture. Through reading and discussion of several of his major works, we will explore Melville's imagination, discover his work's historical context, and think critically about literary form. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will trace the rich and diverse tradition of women's writing in 19th-century America. Reading novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as cultural artifacts such as newspapers and photographs, we will consider the contexts that influenced women's writing and evaluate women authors' contributions to literary, political, and social movements during the 1800s. We will pay particular attention to representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in women's writing. African American, Euro-American, Hispanic, Native American, middle- and working-class women authors will be studied, and may include Maria Stewart, Maria Cummins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Zitkala- a, Louisa May Alcott, Caroline Kirkland, Frances E.W. Harper, Emily Dickinson, and Nancy Prince. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or of a course emphasizing literature written after 180 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The study of the major tradition of poetry and prose running from Poe in the United States through Baudelaire and the French symbolists Verlaine and Mallarme, to British aesthetes and decadents-Rossetti, Swinburne, Hopkins, Wilde, Conrad, and Symons-and to modern poets such as Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Lowell. This course will explore the history, poetics, and aesthetics of this international literary movement. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This is a course in British fiction between 1890 and 1945. The prose (novels and stories) of this period is characterized by tremendous ambition, radical experimentation, the questioning of old conventions and the creation of new ones. Authors will include Wilde, Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Concurrent with the growth of Modernist studies in the last 15 years or so has been decreasing agreement about the nature of Modernism itself. In this course, we will consider the various competing accounts of Modernism (the artistic movement) and Modernity (the period) current in cultural theorists' attempts to reshape the Modern canon; we will also examine influential interpretations of modernist politics, aesthetics, technologies, and media. Readings will be divided equally between literature (familiar and less-familiar authors) and theory/philosophy (Nietzsche, Bergson, Adorno, Bourdieu, Jameson and others). Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course examines seemingly disparate literatures of travel from Early Modern England, including travel writing anthologies, news, trading company or embassy reports, illustrated accounts of adventure, trade and encounter, travel logs, translations, and promotional literature about New World colonial living. Highlighting a crucial but understudied moment in the development of travel writing as a genre -- the period is often labeled with the blanket description "age of discovery" -- this course is bookended by a brief look back at medieval precursors and forward to the 18th century era of the Grand Tour and empire. Authors include John Mandeville, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Smith, Aphra Behn, and Mary Montagu. For English majors, this course satifies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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We will take as our object of study middle- and late-Victorian novels that are notable for their popularity, their controversial nature, or their status as representative Victorian novels. Some themes of particular note in our readings will be utopian visions, possessive individualism, gothic approaches, and novels about the ghostly (the ectoplasmic). We will view these novels through various lenses, including cultural studies, commodity culture, and queer theory. We will practice various collaborative ways of thinking, writing, and speaking theoretically about Victorian novels as opposed to learning about how to apply theory to fiction. Readings will include works by Charlotte Bront , Sheridan LeFanu, George Eliot, George Meredith, Henry James, Charles Darwin, and John Stuart Mill. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The study of the revolutionary impulse in poetry, criticism, and essays between the years 1788 and 1832 in England. Readings will include women writers as well as traditional male authors. Emphasis will be on Wollstonecraft, Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This is a literature and psychology course examining the relationship between memory disturbances, trauma and literary form in works by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Helene Cixous, Bernhard Schlink, Sylvia Path, Juliet Mitchell, and Kenneth Branagh. 1.00 units, Lecture
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