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  • ENGL 087: Theatre,History and Cultural I,Classical Athens to Elizabethan London

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Fulfills Arts & Letters Distribution Requirement. This course will explore the forms of public performance, most specifically theatre, as they emerge from and give dramatic shape to the dynamic life of communal, civic and social bodies, from their antropological origins in ritual and religious ceremonies, to the rise of great urban centers, to the closing of the theaters in London in 1642. This course will focus on development of theatre practice in both Western and non-Western cultures intersects with the history of cities, the rise of market economies, and the emerging forces of national identity. In addition to examining the history of performance practices, theatre architecture, scenic conventions and acting methods, this course will investigate, where appropriate, social and political history, the arts, civic ceremonies and the dramaturgic structures of urban living. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 088: American Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Some versions of this course survey American poetry from the colonial period to the present, while others begin with Whitman and Dickinson and move directly into the 20th century and beyond. Typically studetns read and discuss the poetry of Williams, Stein, Niedecker, H.D., Pound, Stevens, Fearing, Rakoksi, McKay, Cullen, Wilbur, Plath, Rich, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Waldman, Creeley, Ashberry, O'Hara, Corman, Bernstein, Howe, Perelman, Silliman, and Retallack. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 089: American Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Some versions of this course survey the American novel from its beginnings to the present, focusing on the development of the form, while others concentrate on the development of American fiction in one or two periods. Readings may include novels by writers such as Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Wharton, Morrison, Twain, James, Adams, Chopin, Howells, Norris, Whitman, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Ellison, and Nabokov. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 090: Gender,Sexuality,and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course will focus on questions of gender difference and of sexual desire in a range of literary works, paying special attention to works by women and treatments of same-sex desire. More fundamentally, the course will introduce students to questions about the relation between identity and representation. We will attend in particular to intersections between gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation, and will choose from a rich vein of authors: Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, the Brontes, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Radclyffe Hall, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Rhys, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Bessie Head, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Cherr_e Moraga, Toni Morrison, Michael Cunningham, Dorothy Allison, Jeanette Winterson, and Leslie Feinberg. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 093: Introduction to Postcolonial Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. English is a global language with a distinctly imperial history, and this coursserves as an essential introduction to literary works produced in or about the former European colonies. The focus will be poetry, film, fiction and non fiction and at least two geographic areas spanning the Americas, South Asia, the Caribbean and Africa as they reflect the impact of colonial rule on the cultural representations of identity, nationalism, race, class and gender. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 094: Introduction to Literary Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course introduces students to major issues in the history of literary theory, and provides an excellent foundation for the English major or minor. Treating the work of Plato and Aristotle as well as contemporary criticism, we will consider the fundamental issues that arise from representation, making meaning, appropriation and adaptation, categorization and genre, historicity and genealogy, and historicity and temporality. We will consider major movements in the history of theory including the "New" Criticism of the 1920s and 30s, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism and psychoanalysis, feminism, cultural studies, critical race theory, and queer theory. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 095: Introduction to Film Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    This course introduces students to literature's fundamental institutions and practices, and provides an excellent foundation for the English major or minor. This means that we will examine the historical and theoretical origins of both literature and literary studies, and survey some of the debates that have defined them. We will also examine the place of the literary within specific ideas of "culture" -- including the terms "high," "polite," "mass," and "popular" culture -- and with the critical methods useful to the study of mass media like television and film. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 096: Theories of Gender and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. What makes men and women different What is the nature of desire This course introduces students to a long history of speculation about the meaning and nature of gender and sexuality -- a history fundamental to literary representation and the business of making meaning. We will consider theories from Aristophanes speech in Platos Symposium to recent feminist and queer theory. Authors treated might include: Plato, Shakespeare, J. S. Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Catherine MacKinnon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Leo Bersani, Gloria Anzaldua, David Halperin, Cherr_e Moraga, Donna Haraway, Gayatri Spivak, Diana Fuss, Rosemary Hennesy, Chandra Tadpole Mohanty, and Susan Stryker. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 097: Theatre,History and Cultural II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    The idea of "race" -- broadly defined as the signification of biological_and socio-cultural 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. How_do ideas of race inform and engage with literary forms and genres in a given historical moment, and how does literature in turn address the histories and legacies of_racist practices We will also analyze the connections between_questions of race and questions of "ethnicity": what, for instance, is_the history of this concept, and what does it mean to designate a body_of imaginative writing as an "ethnic literature " See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 100: Introduction to Literary Study

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. This course is ideal for studetns consider the English major or minor, since it serves as an introduction to the study of literature. We will begin by raising fundamental and exciting questions central to literary study: What is literature What has been and is its function What is the nature of literary value We will read a variety of literary genres and critical texts and survey a range of interpretive approaches and methods. The course combines lecture and discusssion; students will write a series of short interpretive papers. Some versions of this course will also serve as an introduction to other members of the English faculty, who will visit the class as guest lecturers. This course is intended to serve as a foundation for students interested in going on to become English majors. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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