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3.00 Credits
Not offered in 2008-2009, may be offered in 2009-2010 Major British plays since the 1890s. The course begins with the comedy of manners as represented by Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward. It then considers innovations in and rebellions against standard theatrical fare: the socialist crusading of Bernard Shaw; the angry young men (John Osborne) and workingclass women (Shelagh Delaney) of the 1950s; the minimalists (Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter) and the university wits (Tom Stoppard); the dark comedians of the modern family (Alan Ayckbourn) and the politically inflected playwrights of the age of Prime Minister Thatcher (Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker, David Hare). The course deals both with the evolution of dramatic forms and the unusually close way in which modern British theatre has served a mirror for British life from the hey day of the Empire to the present. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags Genre-drama, National Traditions and Countertraditions.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in 2008-2009, may be offered in 2009-2010 A study of the multiple currents within British fiction in a period characterized by major literary, cultural, and social transitions in Britain, including the emergence of a "post"(-war, -empire, -modern) sensibility. Writers may include Amis, Sillitoe, Greene, Golding, Burgess, Lessing, Wilson, Carter, Swift, Atkinson, MacLaverty, Ishiguro, Barker, Barnes, McKewan, and Smith . Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags Genre-narrative, National Traditions and Countertraditions . Giri.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 1110W: Arrange An introduction to the themes and foundational texts of postcolonial literature in English. We will read and discuss novels by writers from former British colonies in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and the postcolonial diaspora, with attention to the particularities of their diverse cultures and colonial histories. Our study of the literary texts will incorporate critical and theoretical essays, oral presentations, and brief background lectures. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, V.S. Naipaul, Merle Hodge, Anita Desai, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Paule Marshall, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Salman Rushdie, Earl Lovelace, Arundhati Roy. Serves as prerequisite for FSP in Trinidad. Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: NW. Course Group III. CA tags Genre-narrative, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies. Giri.
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3.00 Credits
09S: 2A10S: Arrange Intended for students who have some familiarity with postcolonial literary texts, this course will combine the reading of postcolonial literature with the study and discussion of the major questions confronting the developing field of postcolonial studies. Issues may include: questions of language and definition; the culture and politics of nationalism and transnationalism, race and representation, ethnicity and identity; the local and the global; tradition and modernity; hybridity and authenticity; colonial history, decolonization and neocolonialism; the role and status of postcolonial studies in the academy. Authors may include: Achebe, Appiah, Bhabha, Chatterjee, Coetzee, Fanon, Gilroy, Gordimer, James, JanMohamed, Minh-ha, Mohanty, Ngugi, Radhakrishnan, Rushdie, Said, Spivak, Sunder Rajan. Prerequisite: English 58, Trinidad FSP, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: NW. Course Group IV. CA tags Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies, National Traditions and Countertraditions, Literary Theory and Criticism. Giri.
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3.00 Credits
08F: 2, 10A09W: 1009S: 2A In 08F at 2 (section 1), History of the Book. This course examines the book as a material and cultural object. We'll consider various practical and theoretical models for understanding the book form and investigating the materials, technologies, institutions, and practices of its production, dissemination, and reception. We'll focus primarily on the printed book in Western Europe and North America, but we'll also spend time talking about the emergence of the codex (book), medieval manuscript books, twentieth and twenty-first century artist's books and the challenges posed by digitality to the book form. The readings for the course will be balanced by frequent use of exemplars drawn from Rauner Library and practical experience in the Book Arts workshop setting ty pe. Dist: LIT, WCult: W. Course Group IV. CA tags Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies and Popular Cultu re. HalasIn 08F at 10A (section 4), Introduction to Asian American Literature. This course studies the literature of some of the diverse groups that make up Asian America, from early immigrant to contemporary times. Among the questions we will address are: What are the sites of identification and contestation What are the dominant tropes, styles, influences, and continuities How are we to read this literature Authors may include Frank Chin, Kip Fulbeck, David Henry Hwang, Garrett Hongo, Suji Kwok Kim, Maxine Hong Kingston, R. Zamora Linmark, Bharatee Mukherjee and Denise Uehara. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Chin. In 09W at 10 (section 2), Native American Oral Traditional Literature ( Identical to Native American Studies 34). Native American oral literatures constitute a little-known but rich and complex dimension of the American literary heritage. This course will examine the range of oral genres in several tribes. Since scholars from around the world are studying oral literatures as sources of information about the nature of human creativity, the course will involve examining major theoretical approaches to oral texts. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Course Group III. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies. Goeman, Palmer, Runnels. In 09S at 2A (section 3), Profiles of the Dead. How do we tell a vivid story about a stranger who has crumbled into dust During this seminar in literary nonfiction, each student will write a stylish, suspenseful narrative about a dead person. We will gear up to this final assignment with exercises, individual meetings and "boot camps" on historical research. Readings will include "The Lives They Lived" profiles f rom The New York Times Magazi ne, as well as excerpts from Gay Talese, Sarah Vowell and John Hope Frankl in. WCult: W. CA tags Creative Writing, Cultural Studies and Popular Cultu re. Kenned
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1.00 Credits
These courses are offered periodically with varying content: one or more individual writers, a genre, a period, or an approach to literature not otherwise provided in the English curriculum. Requirements will include papers and, at the discretion of the instructor, examinations. Enrollment is limited to 30. Courses numbered 65-67 require prior work in the period (normally a course in the corresponding course group) or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: Varies.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 2A, 10A In 09W at 2A (section 1), War and Gender ( Identical to Women's and Gender Studies 42). Throughout history, war has been constructed into a powerfully gendered binary. From The Iliad onward, battle is posed as a sacred domain for initiating young men into the masculine gender and the male bond, and the feminine as that which both instigates male-male conflict and that which wars are fought to protect. With a special concentration on U.S. culture of the past century, this course will examine the way our modern myths and narratives instantiate this cultural polarity through film, fiction, non-fiction and various media material. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags Genders and Sexualities, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Boose. In 09W at 10A (section 2), Middle Eastern Memoirs/Autobiographies and the Construction of Collective Memory: Arabs and Jews Narrate Life-Stories. ( Identical to Comparative Literature 54, and Jewish Studies 81. Described under Jewish Studies 81). Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: CI. Course Group III. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies. Bardenstein.
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3.00 Credits
08F: 10A09W: 209S: 11 In 08F at 10A (section 1), Digital Game Studies. This course explores digital gaming. Reading academic and popular texts, we will situate digital gaming in relation to new media, visual, and literary studies. Class discussion will focus on outstanding problems in digital game studies: Where do the histories of technology and gaming meet How do games change players and how do games shape culture What about designers and programmers In what ways are digital games playful and what aspects of them are expressive What is the future of gaming Of course this class will also study particular games, and, in addition to writing academic essays, students will invent individual and group projects in the game domain. Course Group IV. Evens. In 09W at 2 (section 3), Cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism has been described as a way of thinking and working outside the boundaries of the local and the national, a way of living ethically "in a world of strangers." In recent years, in the work of writers as diverse as Jacques Derrida and Anthony Appiah, "cosmopolitanism" has emerged as a way of pushing forward, or even transcending, some of the theoretical impasses of postmodernism and some of the political impasses of multiculturalism. This course will focus on the idea of cosmopolitanism as it has been used (and perhaps abused) in contemporary theory, philosophy, politics, and aestheti cs. Dist: LIT. Course Group IV, CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studi es. WilIn 09S at 11 (section 2), National Allegory: Readings in Postcolonial Literature and Culture ( Identical to Comparative Literature 49). This course explores current theories of nationalism and postnationalism and how these theories could be productively utilized in making sense of literary texts from the postcolonial world. Authors include Lu Xun from China; Raja Rao from India; Sembene Ousmane from Senegal; Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya; and Chinua Achebe from Nigeria. Cultural theorists whose work will be discussed include Ernest Renan, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Franz Fanon, and Frederic Jameson, among others. LIT: W; WCult: NW. Course Group IV, CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Genre-narrative, Multicultural and Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Giri.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 10 In 09W at 10 (section 1), Plays, Playing, Playhouses. Works to be read will be plays by Shakespeare and some of his contemporaries, possibly including Kyd, Marlowe, Anonymous, Marston, Jonson, Cary, Middleton, Webster, and Ford. For once, Shakespeare will not be singled out and treated separately, but read alongside some of his Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries. The course will investigate the conditions of performance in the public outdoor and indoor theaters, as well as in informal venues, for which these works were written. More broadly, the course will consider what has been called the theatrical culture of early modern England. Some attention will be given to the acting companies, to the printing and subsequent editing of play scripts, and to the dramatic models and conventions exploited by early modern playwrights. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course group I, CA tags Genre-drama, National Traditions and Countertraditions, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Crewe.
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3.00 Credits
08F: 12 In 08F at 12 (section 1), Black Atlantic ( Identical to African and African American Studies 63). "Black London" and "Black Atlantic" denote African and Slave presence in Europe and the Caribbean Islands. From Aphra Beh n's Oroo noko about a kidnapped African prince in the 17th century to John Stedman's account of a slave rebellion in Surinam in the late 18th century, literature is rich with accounts of the British African population and the Caribbean middle passage. This course offers a new intimate view of these events and areas of conflict. Among other rea dings The Two Princes of Ca labar is a history of two African princes who traveled through Europe in the 18th century, Equi ano's Interesting Nar rative tells the life of a slave who bought his freedom and became a sailor. The course will also use the films Burn, with Marlon Brando, about a slave rebellion in the Caribbea n, and Middle Pa ssage, an unusual French view of the slave trade. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group II. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial St udies. Cosg
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