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Course Criteria
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8.00 Credits
(Same as Film Studies 380f-03) A study of Austen's six novels through the lenses of Regency culture and of twentieth-century filmmakers. How do these modest volumes reflect and speak to England at the end of world war, on the troubled verge of Pax Britannica What do the recent films say to and about Anglo-American culture at the millennium What visions of women's lives, romance, and English society are constructed through the prose and the cinema Meets Humanities I-A requirement J. Lemly Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in English/Film studies beyond 101; prior work in eighteenth- to nineteenth- century literature, history, or film recommended; students should have read at least two Austen novels; meets English department 1700-1900 requirement; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Same as Gender Studies 333s-08) This course will investigate how representations of gender and class serve as a structuring principle in the development of the genre of the Victorian novel in Britain.We will devote significant attention to the construction of Victorian femininity and masculinity in relation to class identity, marriage as a sexual contract, and the gendering of labor. The texts chosen for this course also reveal how gender and class are constructed in relation to other axes of identity in the period, such as race, sexuality, and national character. Novelists will include Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, C. Bronte, and Hardy. Supplementary readings in literary critisicm and theory. Meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Martin Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department including English 220, 230, or permission of instructor; meets English department pre-1700 requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
Readings of some majors writers from the second part of the nineteenth century. The poetry of Tennyson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Arnold; the Pre-Raphaelites and their heirs (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne);Wilde and the Aesthetes; Hopkins; Hardy. Central critical prose by Ruskin, Arnold, Pater,Wilde, andWilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray. Meets Humanities I-A requirement V. Ellis Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 200, including at least one of 210, 230, 313, or permission of instructor; meets English department pre-1700 requirement; 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine literary texts that represent new forms of visuality in nineteenth- century Britain as well as examples of visual culture that provide a framework for reading Victorian culture in innovative ways. We will study nineteenth-century photography-- portraiture, prison photography, imperial photographs, and private and popular erotic images--as well as novels and autobiographical writing that engage with new photographic technology and its transformation of the ways in which Victorians understood identity, politics, aesthetics, and representation. The course will take a similar approach to painting, literary illustration, political cartoons and caricature, and advertising. Meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Martin Prereq. English 220 or English 323 and at least 4 credits in art history or film studies, or permission of instructor; meets English department 1700-1900 requirement; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
A survey of British literature since 1945 that will include plays, novels, and poems as well as crucial essays of social and cultural thought. Authors will include Spark, Rhys, Churchill, Larkin, Ishiguro, and Barker. Meets Humanities I-A requirement N. Alderman Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Same as Theatre Arts 332f) A study of the history of drama in Europe, America, and Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Readings include plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Casey, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht,Williams, Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Hansberry, Soyinka, Aidoo, Shepard, Fugard, Norman,Wilson, and Parks. Meets Humanities I-A requirement J. Lemly Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in English or theatre arts, or permission of instructor; satisfies theatre arts department seminar requirement ( Theatre Arts 350); 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Same as American Studies 301s & Film Studies 370s-02 & Gender Studies 333s-15) This course examines alternative kinship formations in Asian North American cultural production. It will focus on the gender and sexual management of racial bodies since the nineteenth century--from the u.S. Page Law of 1875 that restricted Chinese women on the basis of their presumed sexual immorality to various forms of "racial castration" that mediateAsian masculinities.We will consider how alternative kinship arrangements and queer cultural projects expose and/or upset the narrative assumptions embedded in heteronormative scripts of nationalism. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Day Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
(Writing-intensive course; Same as Medieval Studies 300s-02) Medieval curiosity, both a spiritual danger and a vehicle of knowledge, expresses a conflict that helps us mark change in the period's intellectual traditions. We'll consider curiosity's enabling of developmentsin historiography, cosmology, cartography, optics, and architecture to help us explore various literary genres. Through allegory, travel and religious narrative, romance, fabliau, and dream vision, we'll inquire into the intellectual functions that literature performs, asking how literary curiosity may have been both an approach toward and opponent of scientific truth. Middle English works will be read in Middle English; however, no prior knowledge of Middle English is necessary. Meets Humanities I-A requirement W. Yu Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
This seminar examines the variety of literary and cultural expression in South Africa since the 1970s, focusing on the relations between art and political struggle. Among the topics to be discussed are the imagination of history in South African literature; the emergence of the Black Consciousness movement (and its legacies); the role of theater and poetry in the anti-apartheid movements; and the responses of the Truth of Reconciliation Commission. Among the authors to be studied are Gordimer, Coeztee, Fugard, Ndebele, Wicomb, Tlali, and Mda, along with a number of contemporary poets, playwrights, and filmmakers. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement D.Weber Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits at the 300 level in English, history, politics, or related fields; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on how to read lyric poetry and to think about reading lyric poetry. We will be particularly interested in considering Adorno's post-1945 argument that this seemingly most individual and unsocial literary practice is in fact the most collective and social of forms. The three poets we will use as case studies are Geoffrey Hill, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney. Meets Humanities I-A requirement N. Alderman Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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