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ENGL 2760F: Metaphoric Expression: Emerson, James, Stein
1.00 Credits
Brown University
According to William Carlos Williams, metaphoric vision continually blinds Americans to the actual conditions of their world. In an attempt to answer this charge, we will read these three densely metaphorical writers against their varied historical backgrounds, hoping in the process to better understand the role played by figurative language in the shaping of American society, culture, and identity. Enrollment limited to 15.
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ENGL 2760G: Modernist Fiction and Theories of Modernism
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Examines a range of modernist fiction--including work by Conrad, Dos Passos, H.D., Joyce, Larsen, Rhys, Toomer, Woolf--alongside selected theories of modernism. Considers approaches ranging from theories of reification and the aesthetic to more recent considerations of modernism's relation to gender, nation, race, empire, and professionalism. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students.
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ENGL 2760H: Nationalizing Narratives: Studies in the Twentieth-Century U.S. Novel
1.00 Credits
Brown University
In this seminar, we will examine a number of important 20th-century U.S. novels for the ways in which they conjure the nation both as "imagined community" and "fictive ethnicity." Particular focus will be given to how the category of national identity becomes intertwined issues of race, gender, sexuality, and region as well as with ideologies of the aesthetic. Enrollment limited to 15.
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ENGL 2760I: Possession and Dispossession in the Modern Novel
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Examines modernist sentimentality as it is figured in notions of property. By exploring the legal and literary relationship between owning and being, we will consider how writers such as Forster, Woolf, Joyce, and Lawrence use property to conceive of human relationships-- and by extension, social justice-- in dramatically new ways. Enrollment limited to 15.
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ENGL 2760K: Postcolonial Theory and Africanist Discourse
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Explores central questions in current Anglo-American postcolonial theory, and examines how related questions emerge with specific inflections in writings by Africanist philosophers, historians, and creative writers. Issues include: varied connotations of the very idea of "Africa"; ideology and subjectivity; constructivism and essentialism; nationalism and globalization; aesthetics and politics. Texts by Amilcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon, Stuart Hall, Paulin Hountondji, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Gayatri Spivak, Yvonne Vera. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. Undergraduate seniors may be admitted with instructor's permission.
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ENGL 2760L: Literature and Photography
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Since the invention of photography in 1839, novelists have often claimed the camera as an important model for their work. We will endeavor to investigate this claim, asking in the process what the links between modernism and the visual arts have to tell us about the nature of fictional representation. Readings to include a number of theoretical discussions of photography. Enrollment limited to 15.
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ENGL 2760M: Postcoloniality in Theory and Literature
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Introduces students to the intellectual current that has come to be called "postcolonial theory" in contemporary criticism. We read influential theoretical writings alongside literary texts by postcolonial writers and critics. We thus combine theoretical with literary texts in order to explore intersections or disjunctions between idioms, genres, and philosophical investments on the subject of "postcoloniality." Issues include: subjectivity, nationalism, globalization, the idea of literature. Texts by: Coetzee, Fanon, Gordimer, Naipaul, Said, Spivak, and Walcott. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. Others require instructor¿s permission.
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ENGL 2760N: The Politics of Modernism
1.00 Credits
Brown University
An exploration of the controversies that have surrounded the political implications of modernist form. Topics will include the Brecht-Lukacs debate, surrealism and the politics of the avant-garde, the so-called "great divide" between innovative and popular art, and the relation of modernism to postmodernism. In addition to examining important theoretical statements, we will test their arguments against selected literary examples. Enrollment limited to 15.
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ENGL 2760O: Shame, Colonialism, Ethics
1.00 Credits
Brown University
This course constructs a dialogue between debates on post-Holocaust aesthetics ("Is poetry possible after Auschwitz?") and the central questions of postcolonial theory ("Can the Subaltern Speak?"), and considers the ethical and aesthetic salience of shame. It is organized around three writers whose work suggests that the novel form itself might require decolonization: Naipaul, Coetzee and Caryl Phillips. Enrollment limited to 15.
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ENGL 2760P: The Fifties in Color: Race, Empire, and U.S. Cold War Culture
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Examines U.S. cultural texts of the '50s in relation to both domestic race politics and foreign policy concerns. Explores issues of assimilation, conflict, containment, development, and integration in a transnational as well as a national framework. Writers we study may include Bellow, Ellison, Himes, Kerouac, Roth, and Okada. This course is limited to 15 graduate students.
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