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  • ENGL 074: Contemporary American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 085]. The readings for this course expose the student to a wide range of American fiction and poetry since World War II, giving considerable attention to recent work. Works may include ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren, HERZOG by Saul Bellow, ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac, V by Thomas Pynchon, OF LOVE AND DUST by Ernest J.Gaines, A FLAG FOR SUNRISE by Robert Stone, THE KILLING GROUD by Mary Lee Settle, and selected poems by Ginsberg, Plath, and Walcott. Readings vary from term to term. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 075: Science and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. The separation of scientific and humanistic inquiry from one another is a fairly modern occurrence, not more than 100 or 200 years old. In the early 19th century, for example, a student studying "natural philosophy" at a university would have studied what we now would recognize as biology, chemistry, ethics, mathematics, philosophy, and physics, and would also have been expected to be an accomplished classicist and well-versed in modern literature. The tradition of the poet-scientist established with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and John Keats finds its modern heir in writersas diverse as Tom Lehrer and William Carlos Williams. This course will survey both representations of science and the scientist in literature and the intersections between scientific and literary writing and inquiry. Sometimes the course will have a broad thematic and historical focus; recent offerings of this kind include "Anatomies of Literature" and "Darwin's Legacy." See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 077: Literature and Empire

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Since the sixteenth century English has been, among other things, an imperial language, and ideas about empire and imperialism have shaped not only many of English literature's central texts but also the development of English literary study as a discipline. This course is an introduction to the way imperial contact and changing ideas about empire and decolonization have shaped literature in English from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. We will consider historical and cultural materials to offer contexts for literary production of texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The course also will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the way literary and cultural representations of Europe have been influenced by changing ideas about empire and imperialism. Different versions of the course will vary in the historical and cultural material they cover as they offer a context for literary production. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 079: Jewish-American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. From vaudeville comedy to modernist poetry, from Tin Pan Alley to the postwar novel, from Yiddish theater to midrashic approaches to literary interpretation, Jewish American literature and thought have been central to, and on the cutting edge of, the fabric of American culture -- high, low, and, especially, in between. This course will examine the many facets of Jewish American literature, both secular and observant, assimilationist and particularist -- from films such as The Jazz Singer (1927) to the fiction of Roth and Bellow to the poetry of Bob Dylan and Adrienne Rich. While we will focus on significant works of fiction and poetry, we also will read within the wider world of philosophy, criticism, radio, film, theater, and television that surround them. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 080: Literatures of Jazz

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. That modernism is steeped as much in the rituals of race as of innovation is most evident in the emergence of the music we have come to know as jazz, which results from collaborations and confrontations taking place both across and within the color line. In this course we will look at jazz and the literaryrepresentations it engendered in order to understand modern American culture. We will explore a dizzying variety of forms, including autobiography and album liner notes, biography, poetry, fiction, and cinema. We'll examine how race, gender, and class influenced the development of jazz music, and then will use jazz music to develop critical approaches to literary form. Students are not required to have a critical understanding of music. Class will involve visits from musicians and critics, as well as field trips to some of Philadelphias most vibrant jazz venues. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 081: African-American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. An introduction to African-American literature, typically ranging across a wide specturm of moments, methodologies, and ideological postures, from Reconstruction and the Harlem Reanaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. Most versions of this course will begin in the 19th century; some versions of the course will concentrate only on the modern period. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 082: Native-American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. From oral traditions to modern forms, this course surveys the diverse body of Native American literature through its many transformations and contexts, from examples of oral literature to film, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama. Possible authors include Leslie Marmon Silko, Sarah Winnemucca, Sherman Alexie, James Welch, N. Scott Momaday, and Louise Erdrich. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 083: 20th-Century Literatures In Dialogue

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. What dialogues have defined and constituted American and other literatures This course examines critical intersections between different literatures, addressing questions of race, ethnicity, and culture. Previous versions of this course have included such titles as "African-American and Jewish-American Literature." Our readings will consider a range of literary interactions, and will take a self-consciously comparative and intertextual approach. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 084: Theories of Race and Ethnicity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. The idea of 'race' broadly defined as the signification of biological and sociocultural differences as an index of human superiority or inferiority has played a crucial role in the literary imagination and is fundamental to studying most literatures in English This course will examine representations of race in literary practices and in particular the centrality of such representations to the historical unfolding of communities and nations. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 086: American Drama

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 076]. Selected writings for the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present, in relation to American history, culture, other forms of literary expression, and major movements in theatre aesthetics. Major playwrights include O'Neill, Odets, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Albee, Shepherd, Mamet, Baraka, Wilson, Kushner, and Parks. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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