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3.00 Credits
In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, American cities enjoyed the benefits of explosive economic growth but suffered the consequences of widespread poverty and class polarization. As both literal places and imagined spaces, cities embodied the excitement and opportunity of the "American dream" even as they provoked profound social and cultural anxieties. With immigrants arriving by the million and poor industrial workers living in striking proximity to the capitalists whom industry enriched, American cities were powder kegs of ethnic, racial, and class animosity-and frequently they exploded. During the same period, the school of literature we now call realism flourished, and realist authors wrote novels preoccupied with urban life. In this course, we will consider why rapid urbanization may have provoked literary realism and how literary realism in turn shaped our understanding of the urban center. Reading texts by authors such as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, John Dos Passos, and Richard Wright, we will examine the ways realist novels represent the covert tensions and outright unrest of the turn-of-the-century American metropolis. We will grapple with questions including: What is the fate of individualism in a crowd How do developments such as factories, mass transit, department-store shopping, and the expansion of mass media change the ways people think about themselves and their membership in a social class or ethnic group How does city life shape people's cognition of the world around them and the ways art and culture represent that world (Note: English 408 and English 808 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track and an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
A study of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels including The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Go Down, Moses with emphasis on style, structure, and the writer's response to culture and history. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the passing of the First Reform Bill in 1832, Europe experienced unending social and political turbulence, and produced perhaps the first truly international artistic movement: Romanticism. In this course, we will examine the literary and theoretical production of this brief but eventful period, looking as much at the rivalries and disagreements between authors as at their points of overlap. Focus will rest on major British writers (Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and especially Wordsworth), but we will also consider marginal or forgotten figures, as well as important continental voices. (Note: English 410 and English 810 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a literary theory course. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural context in the literary studies track or an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes attempts to invent a machine that would enable anyone to write books using an enormous wooden frame filled with wires and random words on movable bits of paper. While our contemporary machines are made of plastic, not wood, and seem so much more sophisticated and powerful than Swift's imaginary device, the rhetorical and literary questions raised by his satire are more relevant than ever in the digital age. This seminar will explore what happens when writers and readers go online. How do the new media arts affect the way we read and understand literature What changes when literary protagonists become avatars of story What do we make of hypertext novels and poetry machines on the Web We will seek to establish whether there is a distinctively new phenomenon that can be called "digital literature." If so, how do we define and evaluate it, and how do we place it in relation to a history of literature and literary aesthetic We will ground our conversations in a small sampling of traditional works of fiction and poetry from print culture, comparing these texts with a range of rhetorical and literary experiments taking place online. NOTE: For the graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track; it counts as an elective for the Literary Studies track. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For undergraduate Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts minors, it counts as a core cours 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
An analysis of complex texts by a variety of writers and from many periods and genres. The texts will be chosen by the participants. (Note: English 413 and English 813 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For graduate English students, this course counts as an elective for either the literary studies track or the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
In this course we will study selected plays by Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, with a focus not only on the individual plays but on the broader dramatic and cultural contexts in which these two authors wrote and in which their plays were initially performed. We will consider some early sea plays of O'Neill's as well a selection of his mythic and autobiographical plays. Plays of Williams will include THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, among others. We may view films of major plays. This course is open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For graduate students, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the Literary Studies track of the English M.A. It serves as an elective for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track of the English M.A. For undergraduate students, this course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a cultural contexts course 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
Beginning with Margaret Mitchell's epic novel and film Gone with the Wind, this course will examine the ways in which southern women writers have depicted the culture of the south in the 20th century. We will focus on the shorter fiction of six writers, tentatively including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and one or two selected recent writers. 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.00 Credits
The poets of the early modern period made their contribution to an English literary tradition against a dynamic context of religious, political, and social change. Poets studied in this course will include Lanyer, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, Philips, Bradstreet, and Milton. (Note: English 418 and English 818 are the same course.) For graduate students in the literary studies track, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing English literature or a cultural context. It counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
The Romantic period witnessed numerous and persistent controversies in the fields of art and politics, from the heated responses to the revolution in France to the often bitter reviews that filled the pages of newspapers and magazines. This seminar examines the culture of "controversialism" in Romantic-era England by attending to particular debates, such as the "Pope controversy" and what Coleridge called "the whole long-continued controversy" over the Lyrical Ballads. In addition to literary texts, we will consider political speeches and critical reactions that reflect the historical context of a Great Britain increasingly divided along lines of cultural identity, ideology, and, importantly, "taste." Why, we will ask, is art such a charged category for Romantics How do authors reflect and re-imagine reader relations In what ways have we inherited and challenged Romantic visions of art and society (Note: Engish 419 and English 819 are the same course.) Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
In this course, we will focus on the ways in which Romantic writer re-configured many of the major tenets of European Enlightenment thought, focusing in particular on attitudes toward freedom an restraint, on the notion of the individual, on concepts of the will, and on the conception of individual identity in relationship to social process. We will read works by Voltaire, Goethe, Blake, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Thormas Mann, and Shaw. 1.00 units, Seminar
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