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1.00 Credits
This course examines the works, lives, and cultural contexts of Mary and Percy Shelley, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Themes of discussion include literary collaboration and inspiration, the history and psychology of marriage, archival work on these three literary marriages, and how Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern gender roles inform literary texts and their reception. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course offers an advanced investigation into major writers and issues from the British Victorian period (1837-1901). We will concentrate on texts-fiction, non-fictional prose, poetry-in which notions of propriety and morality are in productive dialogue with crimes, threatening secrets, and subversive passions. In seminar sessions and in written work we will interrogate textual constructions of sexuality and gender, considering the potential for slippage between high-conservative ideals and actual lived experiences. Our readings will be informed by a range of modern critical, theoretical, and socio-historical examinations of Victorian literature and culture. (Note: English 424-02 and English 824-02 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 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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3.00 Credits
In this course we will read objects as well as literature. An imagist poet, William Carlos Williams, wrote, "(No ideas/but in things)," and this will be, in turn, a central premise of the course. Just as the 19th century is marked by a huge increase and proliferation of printed text, it is also marked by commodity culture and the domain of things. We will explore innovative reading practices in this course for getting a better handle on both texts and objects through units focused on museums; labor and commodities; houses; objects of desire; and electricity and ephemera (or immaterial culture). We will try to re-imagine Victorian literature by (re)touching our reading practices. As an ancillary benefit, the course will continually interrogate the nature of objects, ownership, subjectivity, and desire. Readings are likely to include works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Marie Corelli, and Oscar Wilde. (Note: English 426 and English 826 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 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
This course will consider American fiction and poetry that address the issues of social change and social protest. Among the works that may be discussed are Jack London's The Iron Heel, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, as well as poetry by Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Denise Levertov, and Robert Bly.(Note: English 428 and English 828 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. It satisfies a literary history requirement for the old requirements, predating fall 2004. Not open to first-year students. 1.00 units, Seminar
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The issue of personal and cultural identity and self-representation shall be discussed in relation to specific performative practices, both in the spheres of hegemonic power and subaltern resistance. We will consider the double-edged aspect of representation: on the one hand, as a colonial instrument designed to invent and classify "the other," and also as a vehicle of empowerment for subaltern groups and subjects. In the latter sense, self-representation is often conceived as a way of achieving political and cultural representation within a dominant society. But we might then interrogate to what extent, for example, indigenous people are able to appropriate technologies of representation, and how they can (if at all) control the reception others have of their work. Our discussion will consider how the struggle for indigenous self-representation may lead to social agency and empowerment and the implications it has within the framing of an "intangible heritage." This is a composite graduate and undergraduate course. This course satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on literary works written by Renaissance women, as well as key representations of gender found in selected plays and poems by male writers of the same period. (Note: English 431 and English 833 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800. 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 satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. It satisfies the literary history requirement for the old requirements, predating fall 2004. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will emphasize representations of the US South in literature and film throughout the twentieth century. The course will begin with V. S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South; it will include works by Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams. Films will include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Gone with the Wind, and Tomorrow (an adaptation of a Faulkner short story). 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
In this course, you will become acquainted with the castles, mansions, monasteries, lunatics, ghosts, and monsters that kept (and continue to keep) readers awake with a light on at night. Authors will include members of the Shelley circle in England (poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, fiction writers Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and John Polidori), Charlotte and Emily Bront , Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry James. The reading will be supplemented by historical and critical reading, which will help us to establish what was at stake in the genre in the past and why it still persists in the present. Topics will include how gothic represents threats to the social order, cloaks and exposes taboo sexuality; approaches or evokes the sublime; constructs the alienated self; anticipates Freudian concepts of the "unconscious" and "uncanny"; and demonizes peoples (ancestors, ethnicities, races, etc.). We will also consider how present day literary critics and theorists have constructed male versus female traditions of gothic and treated the genre as political allegory. Open to undergraduates with permission of the instructor. For graduate students, this course satisfies the requirement of author-centered study. For undergraduates: a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on 20th century U.S. Southern writers, within the context of the complex history of various regions of the South. Beginning with V.S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South, authors to be studied may include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy. We will view selected films of a few of the novels read. NOTE: Satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
What was Modernism 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 the 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). (Note: English 438 and English 838 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements 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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