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0.00 Credits
This seminar will examine both fiction written by "ethnic" American writers and other texts that discuss issues of ethnicity, race, borders, bi-lingualism, bi-culturalism, immigration, and the like. Writers whose work might be studied include Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Lan Cao, Leslie Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Rebecca Goldstein, Grace Paley, Rolando Hinojosa, and Gloria Anzaldúa. (Note: English 459 and English 859 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track. It satisfies a literary history requirement for the old requirements, predating fall 2004 Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
In this course, we will study selected films based on Shakespeare plays. Though we will read the Shakespeare plays as prelude to film analysis, the films will be studied as independent texts. The film script (adapted from or based on a Shakespeare play) will be treated as one aspect of the text. Students will concentrate on analyzing camera angles, mise-en-scene, lighting, sound, editing, and script as aspects of a composite text. We will also discuss film genres and look at the signature work of specific directors, such as Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. Plays may be selected from Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and King Lear. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written before 1800. Not open to first-year students. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will look at the ways in which Old Media are in decline. Alas, chances are good that we will be able to study the shuttering of a major newspaper in real time. We will examine the new tricks some older outlets are using to revive themselves. Of course, we will look at the structure, nature and implication of Web 2.0 models and whatever sits beyond that. We will use the work of McLuhan to give us a tree of theory on which to hang our new ornaments. Participants should be willing to blog and participate on sites such as Facebook. (Note: English 464 and English 864 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or as an elective; for writing, rhetoric, and media arts minors, this course counts as a core course. For the English graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track and as an elective for the literary studies track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.50 Credits
Students may assist professors as teaching assistants, performing a variety of duties usually involving assisting students in conceiving or revising papers; reading and helping to evaluate papers, quizzes, and exams; and other duties as determined by the student and instructor. See instructor of specific course for more information. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment. 0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
Their lives stretched from a pre-industrial time of horses and carriages to a modern era of automobiles and skyscrapers. As members of social and cultural elites, they were front-line observers of the original Gilded Age (to which many have likened our own historical moment). With Victorian mores on the wane, they and their characters contended with complicated and shifting ideas about gender and marriage. In this course, we will study the work of two American writers who represented these profound social changes in intricate psychological dramas written in some of the most stylistically accomplished prose in the English language. By reading and discussing short stories, novels, and essays by Edith Wharton and Henry James, we will consider their influence on each other and on the literary categories of realism and modernism; their works' implications about gender, identity, and power; and the historical and economic context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Note: English 468-05 and English 868-17 are the same course.) 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. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces the most important theoretical models which have been used to explain how films function as art, ideology, language, history, politics and philosophy. Some theorists are mainly concerned with the aesthetic potentials of the cinema: How do categories such as realism, authorship and genre explain and enhance our experience of films Other theorists are focused on the relations between films and the societies that produce them, or on general processes of spectatorship: How do Hollywood films address their audiences How do narrative structures shape our responses to fictional characters As the variety of these questions suggests, film theory opens onto a wide set of practices and possibilities; though it always begins with what we experience at the movies, it is ultimately concerned with the wider world that we experience through the movies. Theorists to be examined include Munsterberg, Eisenstein, Burch, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin, Altman, Gunning, Mulvey, Metz, Wollen, Havel, Benjamin, Pasolini, Deleuze and Jameson. (Note: English 470 and English 870 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 the English graduate program, this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Near contemporaries, George Orwell and W.H. Auden were, respectively, the most important social critic and leading British poet of their generation. Although they were close on many views, each regarded the other with wariness or outright hostility. This course follows their careers from the 1930s to the 1950s, tracing their agreements and disagreements on important issues of the day: the proper role of the British Left; the position of the artist in society; the best way to resist Fascism before and during World War II; the new world that emerged after war's end. We will read widely in the critical and literary work of both authors. (Note: English 475 and English 875 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 British literature course or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track or an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. It satisfies the requirement of author-centered study for older requirements, predating the fall of 2004. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
More than eight million Americans have created and maintained "blogs" which Merriam-Webster defines as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks." But what is a blog What kind of writing goes on there, and how does it differ, rhetorically, from other kinds How does information pass from blog to blog and what is the impact of this new activity on mainstream culture Participants in this seminar will read and analyze blogs. Most students will, in lieu of a final paper, produce and maintain a blog (although those who wish to do a more traditional analytical paper will be accommodated). Other readings in the course will include The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore as we work on a theoretical framework for understanding the way information spreads. (Note: English 476 and English 866 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or as an elective. For writing and rhetoric minors, this course counts as a core course. For the English graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track, and as an elective for the literary studies track. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
Why is it that certain writers, very well-known in their own times, later disappear from view or are trivialized as, for example, "The Sweet Singer of Hartford" or "stuff for boys who don't read" In this course we will examine a number of case studies of such writers: Lydia Sigourney, Alice Cary, Jack London, Amy Lowell, and, happening right now, Tillie Olsen. We will also consider the extent to which such writers have come back into view. And we will look at one or two contrary cases: writers who were not seen as terribly important in their own times but who later became central to American literary study, like Herman Melville. In other words, we will study the question of "canon formation" in d 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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