ENGLISH 2A:
FRESHMAN ENGLISH
| Units: 3
ENGLISH 4B:
Medieval Women: Faith, Love, and Learning (ENGLISH 104B)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 104B.) Writings of and about medieval women in connection with courtly love and Arthurian literature, religious and mystical writing, visual culture, and early debates about the roles of women. How women forged literary identities in the face of opposition. Readings from the courtly poets, Marie de France, Chrétien's Lancelot, Heloise and Abelard, male and female mystics, and Christine de Pisan. Readings in English.
Last offered: Winter 2007
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 7SI:
Disney: A Literary Perspective
Examination of Disney films from a literary perspective. Significance of their cultural, historical, and literary motifs and symbolism in relation to morality and philosophy. Discussion of the mechanisms underlying Disney's creative process. Films will include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, and will be supplemented by related readings.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
ENGLISH 9:
Masterpieces of English Literature I: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and their Contemporaries (ENGLISH 109)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 109.) Introduction to English literary history from the late 14th through the mid 17th centuries. Emphasis is on interpretation of major works by Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Milton.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 14Q:
Tis All in Pieces: John Donne and the Early Modern World
Preference to sophomores. Situating Donne's work within his historical and cultural milieu; how his writing reflects changes on the threshold of the modern era. The historical, scientific, and cultural milieu of the early modern world. Related developments in mathematical perspective and early modern art. The influence of his dramatic realism on modern poets such as Browning, Eliot, and Rich, and composers such as Benjamin Britten and Bob Dylan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 18SI:
John Steinbeck's Life and Literature
Focus on developing a better understanding and appreciation of the works of John Steinbeck and their social, cultural, and historical context and impact. Readings include fiction and nonfiction works by Steinbeck and engage the works by analysis, critique, and discussion. Examination of original Steinbeck manuscripts in the Stanford Libraries and field trip to Steinbeck¿s house and museum in Salinas.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
ENGLISH 20:
Masterpieces of English Literature II: From the Enlightenment to the Modern Period (ENGLISH 120)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120.) From the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, lyric and dramatic poetry, Romanticism, realism, Modernism, characterization, narrative voice, and the influence of history on literature.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 21:
Masterpieces of American Literature (ENGLISH 121)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 121.) How race and ethnicity have been pivotal in the construction, proliferation, and development of American Literature. Authors: Mary Rowlandson, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, Fae Myenne Ng, Helena Maria Viramontes, N. Scott Momaday, and John Okada.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 22:
Jane Austen into Film (ENGLISH 122)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 122.) Jane Austen's six novels and their transformation into films from the 40s to the present. Historical motives and psychological imperatives for recreating Austen's work in cinematic form, emphasizing narrative techniques distinctive to prose and camera. Fundamentals of narrative theory and cinematic analysis.
Last offered: Winter 2005
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 42B:
The Films of Woody Allen (ENGLISH 142B)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for English 142B.) Allen as one of the most influential, prolific, and controversial filmmakers. His comic vision, attitudes towards sex and gender relations, and cultural importance. The development of his career and work.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 42E:
The Films of the Coen Brothers (ENGLISH 142E)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 142E). Visual or filmic aspects of narration and the place of major Coen films in the company of precedent films such as Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. Films include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men. Readings include The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 43A:
American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (ENGLISH 143A)
Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, Black Elk Speaks.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 47:
Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature (ENGLISH 147)
How contemporary writers are influenced by their forebears, even as they reinvent or rewrite the inherited tradition, by interrogating the meanings of the concept of the contemporary by grouping old and new texts. Groupings include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre(1847) and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, and Ian McEwan's Saturday. Sources include film adaptations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 51N:
Drama Queens: Powerful Women on Stage
Preference to freshmen. Eight strong women at the center of works of Greek, Shakespearean, and modern theater in the context of social misogyny. How they enact the social and spiritual visions of their creators. Sources include film performances. Students perform simple scene work. No acting experience required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 52N:
Ten Top Books
Preference to freshmen. The books most frequently taught in U.S. English departments including classics by Nathaniel Hawthorne and F. Scott Fitzgerald and recent works by minority writers such as Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Cultural and historical contexts, and the aesthetic and social factors that canonize these literary supertexts.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 60:
Poetry and Poetics (ENGLISH 160)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 160.) Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 65N:
Contemporary Women Fiction Writers
Preference to freshmen. Novels and story collections by women writers whose work explores: domestic and global politics; love, sexuality, and orientation; and spirituality and its meanings. Readings includes Dandicant, Eisenberg, Munro, Morrison, O'Brien, and Erdrich.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 70N:
Shakespeare on Film
Preference to freshmen. Premises of film criticism. Films include A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Max Reinhardt and Peter Hall; Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zefirelli and Baz Luhrman; Henry V by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh; and Hamlet by Sven Gade, Olivier, Grigori Kozintsev, Zefirelli, Branagh, and Michael Almereyda.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 81:
Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, FRENGEN 181, GERGEN 181, HUMNTIES 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)
Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 82Q:
Shakespeare's Plays
Preference to sophomores. Eight representative plays; sonnets. Student papers provide topics for discussion. Students direct and perform scenes from the plays studied.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 85Q:
The Brontes: A Victorian Family
Preference to sophomores. The Brontë children's stories of personal power and political intrigue, based on the the news of the period. Readings include Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey focusing on the tedium, aspirations, and frustrations of these gifted women. Historical, cultural, and autobiographical questions in these novels, the juvenilia, and a representative later work. Prerequisite: PWR 1.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, Writing 2
ENGLISH 87N:
The Graphic Novel: Word, Image, Sound, Silence
Preference to sophomores. The evolution of funnies to comics and graphic novels. How definitions and representations of this genre have changed over the last century. The controversy over the status of the graphic novel.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
ENGLISH 90:
Fiction Writing
The elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Students write complete stories and participate in story workshops. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: PWR 1.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 91:
Creative Nonfiction
(Formerly 94A.) Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Students use creative means to express factual content.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 92:
Reading and Writing Poetry
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Issues of poetic craft. How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 94:
Introduction to Creative Writing: Form and Structure
For minors in creative writing. The forms and conventions of the contemporary short story and poem. How form, technique, and content combine to make stories and poems organic. Prerequisite: 90, 91, or 92.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 99T:
Technology for Artists and Writers
Practicum. How creative writing and other artistic pursuits have moved from the actual world of print, art galleries, and concert halls to the virtual world. How artists and writers are using online facilities such as Second Life, YouTube, and blogs as platforms to create storytelling and art. Students create a web portfolio, using Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, that showcases their talents and interests using photography, film, music, creative writing, dance, visual arts, and theater.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
ENGLISH 102:
Chaucer
Chaucer's verbal art in the context of medieval literary traditions, focusing on The Canterbury Tales.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 104B:
Medieval Women: Faith, Love, and Learning (ENGLISH 4B)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 104B.) Writings of and about medieval women in connection with courtly love and Arthurian literature, religious and mystical writing, visual culture, and early debates about the roles of women. How women forged literary identities in the face of opposition. Readings from the courtly poets, Marie de France, Chrétien's Lancelot, Heloise and Abelard, male and female mystics, and Christine de Pisan. Readings in English.
Last offered: Winter 2007
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 105:
The Renaissance
English literature from Sir Thomas More's Utopia to Milton's Paradise Lost.. The good state, the good man, and the good poem. Major literary genres of the period: lyric, romance, comedy, tragedy, and epic.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 109:
Masterpieces of English Literature I: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and their Contemporaries (ENGLISH 9)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 109.) Introduction to English literary history from the late 14th through the mid 17th centuries. Emphasis is on interpretation of major works by Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Milton.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 111:
Age of Chaucer
Survey of late-medieval English literature. Major authors include Chaucer, Langland, Margery Kempe, and the Pearl-poet. Genres include dream vision, romance, and lyric. Issues include the politics of writing in Middle English, the Christianization of Arthurian romance, and the construction of social class.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 113:
Sex and Violence in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Nine tragedies by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Middleton, John Webster and John Ford; their literary and cultural settings. Why Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights depicted extreme forms of sociopathic behavior such as murder, rape, infanticide, incest, and necrophilia. The connections between sex and violence in these plays. Why are they still read and performed? What can be learned from them?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 115A:
Shakespeare and Modern Critical Developments
Approaches include gender studies and feminism, race studies, Shakespeare's geographies in relation to the field of cultural geography, and the importance of religion in the period.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 120:
Masterpieces of English Literature II: From the Enlightenment to the Modern Period (ENGLISH 20)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120.) From the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, lyric and dramatic poetry, Romanticism, realism, Modernism, characterization, narrative voice, and the influence of history on literature.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 121:
Masterpieces of American Literature (ENGLISH 21)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 121.) How race and ethnicity have been pivotal in the construction, proliferation, and development of American Literature. Authors: Mary Rowlandson, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, Fae Myenne Ng, Helena Maria Viramontes, N. Scott Momaday, and John Okada.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 122:
Jane Austen into Film (ENGLISH 22)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 122.) Jane Austen's six novels and their transformation into films from the 40s to the present. Historical motives and psychological imperatives for recreating Austen's work in cinematic form, emphasizing narrative techniques distinctive to prose and camera. Fundamentals of narrative theory and cinematic analysis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 123:
American Literature and Culture to 1855 (AMSTUD 150)
Sources include histories, poetry, autobiography, captivity and slave narratives, drama, and fiction. Authors include Mather, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Franklin, Brockden Brown, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, and Melville.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 125A:
The Gothic Novel (COMPLIT 125A)
The Gothic novel and its relatives from its invention by Walpole in The Castle of Otranto of 1764. Readings include: Northanger Abbey, The Italian, The Monk, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and Dracula. What defines the Gothic as it evolves from one specific novel to a mode that makes its way into a range of fictional types?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 135:
Victorian Poetry
The thematic, formal, and aesthetic innovations of Victorian poetry which is often imagined as a dead space between the romantic and modernist movements. Readings include R. Browning's dramatic monologues, Tennyson's Idylls, Swinburne's English Sapphics, and Michael Field's collectively written lyrics. Narrative Victorian poetry, including Meredith's Modern Loveand Barrett Browning''s Aurora Leigh, and its relation to the 19th century's ascendant form, the novel.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 135H:
Thomas Hardy
The autobiography, novels, and poems of Thomas Hardy. Emphasis is on his combination of a self-consciously modern cast of thought with an apparently paradoxical preoccupation with the personal, local, and national past, as described by Michael Millgate in his seminal biography of the author.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 136:
Romantic Poetry and Poetics
Major Romantic writers including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Focus on form in the lyrical ballad, ode, epic romance, and closet drama.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 136A:
The Lyric in 19th-Century Britain
Development of the lyric through the 19th century. Social, political, and economic pressures on lyric. How poetry expresses relations in society. Poems by Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, D.G. Rossetti, C. Rossetti, Arnold, and Hopkins.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 137A:
Oscar Wilde
Major works of this Magdalen College alumnus. Genres include: poems, plays, social criticism, art theory, novels, short stories. Wilde's intellectual significance in his time and for the modern age that he helped to usher into existence. The struggle for art's significance in an increasingly cutthroat world; the changing face of Oxford in an era of democratization; the costs of being different in a straitlaced Victorian society.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 138T:
Mark Twain and The Assault of Laughter
How a phunny phellow, notorious liar, and irreverent blasphemer became a moral barometer of American literature; how his fictions, satires, and burlesques provided a comic barrage against the pretensions of his day. Major works such as Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson, and less known works such as No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. Twain's literary and comic techniques, and how his complex and mythic fictions erupt along America's fault lines of race, gender, and class.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 139A:
Henry James
Readings include The Portrait of a Lady and shorter fiction such as Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 140A:
Creative Resistance and the Holocaust
Literature, music, art, and photography that emerged from the European Jewish catastrophe. Sources include Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Charlotte Salomon, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Cynthia Ozick. Guest lecture by Holocaust survivor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 142B:
The Films of Woody Allen (ENGLISH 42B)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for English 142B.) Allen as one of the most influential, prolific, and controversial filmmakers. His comic vision, attitudes towards sex and gender relations, and cultural importance. The development of his career and work.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 142E:
The Films of the Coen Brothers (ENGLISH 42E)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 142E). Visual or filmic aspects of narration and the place of major Coen films in the company of precedent films such as Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. Films include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men. Readings include The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 142G:
20th-Century American Fiction
Major works of fiction by American writers, starting in the 20s with Hemingway and Fitzgerald and continuing with Faulkner, Welty, Ellison, and writers on the contemporary scene such as Morrison and DeLillo. Fiction as a genre, and its evolution in response to forces in modern American life and art.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 143A:
American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (ENGLISH 43A)
Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, Black Elk Speaks.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 143B:
Introduction to Chicana/o Literature and Culture
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143B.) Introduction to the literature and culture of this nation¿s second largest ethnic minority. Works by Paredes, Gonzales, Alurista, Cervantes, Rivera, Cisneros, Viramontes, Moraga, Anzaldua, Burciaga, Rodríguez, Gómez, Valdez, Serros.
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
ENGLISH 143E:
Introduction to African and African American Studies (AFRICAAM 105, HISTORY 255B)
Interdisciplinary. Central themes in African American culture and history related to race as a definitive American phenomenon. African survivals and interpretations of slavery in the New World, contrasting interpretations of the Black family, African American literature, and art. Possible readings: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, and bell hooks. Focus may vary each year.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 146:
Development of the Short Story: Continuity and Innovation
The dual concepts of continuity and innovation. The illumination of love, death, desire, violence, and empathy. Texts include Maupassant, Babel, Chopin, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, and Flannery O'Connor. Required for Creative Writing emphasis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 147:
Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature (ENGLISH 47)
How contemporary writers are influenced by their forebears, even as they reinvent or rewrite the inherited tradition, by interrogating the meanings of the concept of the contemporary by grouping old and new texts. Groupings include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre(1847) and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, and Ian McEwan's Saturday. Sources include film adaptations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 150D:
Women Poets
The development of women's poetry from the 17th to the 20th century. How these poets challenge and enhance the canon, amending and expanding ideas of tone, voice and craft, while revising societal expectations of the poet's identity. Poets include Katharine Philips, Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 152D:
W.E.B. DuBois as Writer and Philosopher (AFRICAAM 152, PHIL 194L)
Capstone seminar for Philosophy and Literature programs. Preference to majors in English, Philosophy, African and African American Studies, or the Philosophy and Literature programs. Life, career, thought, and writings of DuBois. Focus on the first half of his career, interactions among his early philosophical perfectionism, his work in social theory/social science, and his literary ambitions as an essayist and novelist. Sources include Souls of Black Folk, as well as his books on history and sociology, scholarly essays, and novels.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
ENGLISH 153C:
British Literature of the 1910s
The 1910s opened with the birth of modernism in Britain, but ended elegiacally, as the country mourned almost a million dead. The diverse literary output of a decade interrupted by war, including novels by E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence, short stories by Katherine Mansfield and James Joyce, the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, and the avant garde poetic experiments of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 153H:
Digital Humanities: Beyond the Book (HUMNTIES 198J)
How electronic texts, literary databases, computers, and digital corpora offer unique ways of reading, analyzing, and understanding literature. Intellectual and philosophical problems associated with an objective methodology within a traditionally subjective discipline.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 153J:
Virginia Woolf and the Social System
Woolf's major prose narratives in light of the social and historical circumstances which brought them into being and to which they respond. Topics include The Voyage Out as the portrait of the artist as a young woman; Mrs. Dalloway and the English class system; the domestic politics of To the Lighthouse; feminism in historical perspective in A Room of One's Own; pacifism and the coming of war in Between the Acts; and lesbian consciousness in Orlando.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 160:
Poetry and Poetics (ENGLISH 60)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 160.) Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 163:
Shakespeare
Major plays emphasizing theatrical representation of extreme characters.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 171A:
English in the World
World literatures in English outside the traditional British and American canons. The emergence of varieties of English worldwide and consequent literary production as a consequence of British colonialism. Major sites of such Anglophone literatures include the former British colonies of sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and S. Asia; the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada; and Ireland and S. Africa.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 172E:
The Literature of the Americas (COMPLIT 142)
The intellectual and aesthetic problems of inter-American literature conceived as an entirety. Emphasis is on continuities and crises relevant to N., Central, and S. American literatures. Issues such as the encounters between world views, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, 20th-century avant gardes, and distinctive modern episodes such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magical realism, and Noigandres in comparative perspective.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 175:
Poetry and Environmental Awareness
The environmental imprint and impetus in poetry: Native American poetry, the Bible, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Keats, Clare, Whitman, Dickinson, Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, Williams, D. H. Lawrence, Jeffers, Roethke, Lowell, Millay, Swenson, Bishop, Levertov, and later poets through Hughes, Walcott, Snyder.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 176:
Science Fiction: Techno Dreams and Nightmares
Reinventions of human minds and bodies through technology in science fiction texts and films from around the world (U.S., Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Argentina), focusing on mechanically produced creatures (robots, computers, cyborgs, Ais) and biologically engineered beings (evolved animals, androids, clones, aliens). Novels, short stories and films by Shelley, Wells, Huxley, Bioy Casares, Schmidt, Dick, Gibson, Atwood, and Oshii; theoretical texts on the reshaping of human identity in the age of technology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 180:
The Bible as Literature
English literature abounds with references to the Bible that register its cultural and religious significance and its power and beauty as literature. Focus is on its literary qualities, with attention to form, style, structure, themes, and the historical circumstances of the text's composition. No prior knowledge of the Bible required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 181:
The Great Age of the English Essay
Ramblers and idlers, tatlers and hypoochondriacs, spectators and loungers, connoisseurs and talking parrots: the English essay includes many voices and perspectives, addressing major issues including beauty, war, marriage, adultery, friendship, animal cruelty, and the vulnerability of old books. Focus is on questions of character, genre, and literary style. Authors in the periodical essay tradition including Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Thomas De Quincey.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 181C:
Shakespeare and Dickens
The problems and stakes of reading two central but historically-separated authors through one another. How theatrical are Dickens's novels and how can the theatrical in Dickens be understood as a working-through of Shakespeare? How do the elements of performance manifest themselves in both? What substitutes for the role of narrator in Shakespearean drama? How can these authors be understood as paradigms of national writing which defines normative British culture and as fundamentally eccentric?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 182S:
Looking North: Canadian Literature
Novels, short stories, and drama by some of Canada's leading contemporary writers including Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Michel Tremblay. Issues of gender, race, culture, nationalism, bilingualism, and geography. How these writers map the Canadian experience and address issues relating to the postmodern and the postcolonial.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 183F:
Contemporary Critical Theory
The study and use of critical theory in the humanities from the 20th century onwards; antecedents in the 18th and 19th centuries. The relationship between disciplinary developments in the production of knowledge and the enactment of power in the domains of gender, class, and race.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 183H:
Critical Methods from New Criticism to New Historicism
The theory behind and examples of the major modes of critical interpretation practiced in the 20th century: close reading, reader response criticism, speech act theory, genre criticism, intertextual reading, and historicist interpretation. Plays by Shakespeare and lyric poems by Donne, Keats, Coleridge, and Shelley.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 183R:
Roland Barthes
The author of the thesis about the death of the author, treated as an author. Readings span Barthes' career from early pieces on cultural signs and mythologies to later, more personal works on photography and love. Themes include the value of theory, the significance of literature, and the relationship of criticism to life.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 184:
The Novel, The World (COMPLIT 123)
Combining perspectives of the novels of the world as anthropological force with the sense of reality, and as protean form that has reshaped the literary universe. Readings from: ancient Greece; medieval Japan and Britain; and early modern Spain, China, and Britain; romantic theories of the novel; 19th-century realism and popular fiction; modernist experiments; and postmodern pastiches.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 184C:
Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern (HUMNTIES 162)
Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how historical pressures challenged conceptions of artistic form, self, divine, and the physical universe. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, On the Soul; Attar,The Conference of the Birds; Dante, nferno; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies; Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther, The Bondage of the Will; Montaigne, Essays; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; poems by John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth; Shakespeare, Othello; and works of art.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 184D:
Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Modern (HUMNTIES 163)
Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and English majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and imaginative literature in the modern period. Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Beckett.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 186A:
American Hauntings
Cultural, psychological, social, and political dynamics of haunting in American literature, from the early national period to the late 20th century. Sources include ghost stories and other instances of supernatural, emotional, or mental intervention. Authors include Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, and Stephen King.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 190:
Intermediate Fiction Writing
May be taken twice for credit. Lottery. Priority to last quarter/year in school, majors in English with Creative Writing emphasis, and Creative Writing minors. Prerequisite: 90 or 91.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 190F:
Fiction Writing for Film
Workshop. For screenwriting students. Story craft, structure, and dialogue. Assignments include short scene creation, character development, and a long story. How fictional works are adapted to screenplays, and how each form uses elements of conflict, time, summary, and scene. Priority to seniors and Film Studies majors. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 190G:
The Graphic Novel
Interdisciplinary. Evolution, subject matter, form, conventions, possibilities, and future of the graphic novel genre. Guest lectures. Collaborative creation of a graphic novel by a team of writers, illustrators, and designers. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 190R:
Form and Theory of the Novel
Seminar for creative writers. How writers connect detail, description, action, dialog, and thought to create scenes; how the balance of these elements creates an author's voice. The novel in terms of tradition, convention, design, and narrative strategy. Guest instructors from Stanford's Jones Lecturers. Prerequisites: manuscript and consent of instructors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 190V:
Reading for Writers
Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 191T:
Special Topics in Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Workshop. Continuation of 91. Focus is on forms of the essay. Works from across time and nationality for their craft and technique; experimentation with writing exercises. Students read and respond to each other's longer nonfiction projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
ENGLISH 192:
Intermediate Poetry Writing
May be taken twice. Lottery. Priority to last quarter/year in school, majors in English with Creative Writing emphasis, and Creative Writing minors. Prerequisite: 92.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 192T:
Special Topics in Intermediate Poetry Writing
Generation and discussion of student poems. How to recognize a poem¿s internal structure; how to seek models for work. Students submit portfolio for group critique. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 92.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
ENGLISH 192V:
The Occasions of Poetry
Taught by the Mohr Visiting Poet. Prerequisite: 92.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 194:
Individual Research
See section above on Undergraduate Programs, Opportunities for Advanced Work, Individual Research.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 196A:
Honors Seminar: Critical Approaches to Literature
Required of students in the English honors program. Reading and writing advanced literary criticism. Critical writings and approaches. Goal is to support the development of students' honors theses.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 196B:
Honors Essay Workshop
Required of English honors students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
ENGLISH 197:
Seniors Honors Essay
In two quarters.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 198:
Individual Work
Undergraduates who wish to study a subject or area not covered by regular courses may, with consent, enroll for individual work under the supervision of a member of the department. 198 may not be used to fulfill departmental area or elective requirements without consent. Group seminars are not appropriate for 198.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Elam, M. (PI);
Gordon, M. (PI);
Jarvis, C. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Kealey, T. (PI);
Lunsford, A. (PI);
Moya, P. (PI);
Orgel, S. (PI);
Paulson, L. (PI);
Rampersad, A. (PI);
Tallent, E. (PI);
Jacobs, R. (GP)
ENGLISH 198L:
Individual Work: Levinthal Tutorial
Undergraduate writers work individually with visiting Stegner Fellows in poetry, fiction, and if available, nonfiction. Students design their own curriculum; Stegner Fellows act as writing mentors and advisers. Prerequisites: 90, 91, or 92; submitted manuscript.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 209:
Paleography
The study and reading of post-classical, medieval, and early modern manuscripts in Latin, early English, and possibly other vernacular languages, and of the materials and composition of the medieval book.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 223E:
Whitman and Dickinson
Their poetry and other readings which may include Thoreau's Walden, the philosopher Stanley Cavell's book on Walden, and writers in the Whitman-Dickinson traditions such as Hart Crane and Ronald Johnson.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 233:
Baroque and Neobaroque (COMPLIT 233, SPANLIT 293E)
The literary, cultural, and political implications of the 17th-century phenomenon formed in response to the conditions of the 16th century including humanism, absolutism, and early capitalism, and dispersed through Europe, the Americas, and Asia. If the Baroque is a universal code of this period, how do its vehicles, such as tragic drama, Ciceronian prose, and metaphysical poetry, converse with one another? The neobaroque as a complex reaction to the remains of the baroque in Latin American cultures, with attention to the mode in recent Brazilian literary theory and Mexican poetry.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 240:
Jacobean Tragedy
Revenge tragedies such as Hamlet, domestic tragedies such as Othello, and tragedies of suffering such as King Lear. Comparison of Shakespeare's plays to those of his greatest contemporaries, collaborators, and successors: Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton, and Ford. Opportunities for performance.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 260B:
The Politics of Language (FEMST 260B)
While the U.S. was founded on principles of linguistic plurality, the English language has always been dominant in the U.S., with standard English holding most power. The struggle to share linguistic power; how questions of gender, race, and class have shaped and responded to language wars. Varieties of English in contemporary fiction, music, and film.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 261C:
Decolonizing the Novel
The globalization of the novel in English in the second half of the 20th century; the relationship of the Anglophone novel from the global south with metropolitan aesthetic practices such as those of modernism and postmodernism, and with Western and indigenous narrative theories; the politics of colonialism, anti-colonial resistance, and globalization as refracted in the novel as a genre. Texts by Rhys, Naipaul, Tutuola, Achebe, Rushdie, Okrie, Carey, Coetzee, Gordimer, and Ihimaera.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 262:
African American Autobiography
The foundational genre in African American writing. Slave narratives and conventional autobiographies, including Douglass' Narrative and Obama's Dreams from my Father. Other authors include Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Maya Angelou. Autobiography as a Western form, with reference to authors from classical antiquity to the modern age, including St. Augustine, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, and Roland Barthes.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 287:
T S Eliot
His poetry, drama, and prose. The formal properties of Eliot's verse, including its wit, metrical and musical structures, use of allusion and pastiche, and its thematic focus on history, city life, fertility, and death. This chameleon-like poet in other guises, such as editor, businessman, literary theorist, and cultural critic.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 290:
Advanced Fiction Writing
Workshop critique of original short stories or novel. Prerequisites: manuscript, consent of instructor, and 190-level fiction workshop.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 292:
Advanced Poetry Writing
Focus is on generation and discussion of student poems, and seeking published models for the work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 293:
Literary Translation
Seminar and workshop. For undergraduates and graduate students. The art and practice of literary translation; its tradition, principles, and questions. Final project is a translation and commentary on work of the student's choosing. Recommended: knowledge of a foreign language and experience in imaginative writing.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 301A:
Medieval Affect
The affective investments of medieval texts. The status and function of emotion and its common companion, imagination, in medieval religious literature (The Book of Margery Kempe, Julian's Revelations, Pearl), non-religious literature (Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, Clerk's Tale), and philosophy (Aristotle, Aquinas). Approaches to affect in contemporary literary studies. Readings in Middle and modern English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 303D:
Thinking in Fiction (COMPLIT 303D)
Narrative and cognition in 18th-century fictional, philosophical, scientific, and cultural texts. Probable readings: Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Swift, Defoe, Hume, Lennox, Sterne, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, and Bentham.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 308B:
Gilded Age American Literature
American literature between the Civil War and WWI in relation to major cultural and literary developments such as regionalism, realism, and naturalism, and major political and social questions such as industrialism and economic inequality, race and black civil rights, the increased agitation for women's suffrage, and mass migration from southern and eastern Europe.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 314:
Epic and Empire (COMPLIT 320A)
Focus is on Virgil's Aeneid and its influence, tracing the European epic tradition (Ariosto, Tasso, Camoes, Spenser, and Milton) to New World discovery and mercantile expansion in the early modern period.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 344A:
Drama and Poetry: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson
Major playwrights who were also major poets; the relations between text and performance, script and publication, and the drama and the non-dramatic poetry. Stage history and textual matters. Plays include Doctor Faustus, the three texts of Hamlet and the two of Troilus and Cressida, Volpone, and The Alchemist. Poetry includes Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, the Shakespeare sonnets, Jonson's poems from The Forest and Underwoods, and Hero and Leander.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 357F:
Poetry and Culture in America: Postwar to Cold War
What happened to poetry in English in the wake of high modernism and in the aftermath of global war. Works and controversies from 1945-50 established the form and purview of Anglo-American poetry for the next 25 years. Writers include Eliot, Pound, Auden, Stevens, and Bishop.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 361:
Memoria: The Arts and Practices of Memory
Goal is to reclaim the canon of memoria by reading primary texts in the history of memory and exploring the role memory plays in writing, particularly in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Students choose focus on how memoria functions in a particular literary period, on a particular theory of memory, or on the functions of memory in a literary text or set of texts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 363J:
British Aestheticism and Society
How art-for-art's-sake involves or repudiates the political. Major figures of late-Victorian British aestheticism (Pater, Morris, Wilde, and Swinburne); cultural criticism that precedes and flows from it (including Arnold to Adorno). Recurring themes of aesthetic professionalism, art institutions, commodity culture, sexuality, public intellectuals, autonomy, and alienation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 363P:
Twentieth Century Authorship
The theory and practice of authorship in the 20th century beginning with the new critical attack on intentionalism. Mid-century claims about the death of the author. Genetic criticism and a cautious move towards authorial resurrection. Theoretical readings paired with literary texts that address or exemplify the problem of literary authority, including works by Henry James, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, and Philip Roth.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 367:
British Literature of the 1930s
Goal is to construct a thick description of 30s British literature and culture emphasizing the intersections and conflicts between the public and the private, modernism and mass culture, experimental writing and documentary, word and image, national and international, poetry and prose, collective and individual imagination, utopias and nightmares. The methods, frameworks and sources that are most generative for thinking about the 30s across these divides.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 369D:
Lost Bestsellers of Victorian Britain
The interplay of the market and form. Theoretical readings and case studies: why were Pelham, The Mysteries of London, or The Woman Who Did so successful? Why was the success so short-lived? Is there a logic to literary history?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 372:
Milton, Revolution, and Restoration
Close reading of Milton's major prose and poetry in the context of the English Civil Wars, the Restoration of the monarchy, and the writings of his contemporaries, from pamphleteers like the Levellers to poets such as Marvell, Dryden, and Lucy Hutchinson.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 373D:
Shakespeare, Islam, and Others (COMPLIT 311)
Shakespeare and other early modern writers in relation to new work on Islam and the Ottoman Turk in early modern studies. Othello, Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, and other Shakespeare plays. Kyd's Solyman and Perseda, Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk, Massinger's The Renegado, Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, and literary and historical materials.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 380:
Narratives of Enslavement and Theories of Redress
Literary representations and theories of enslavement, recompense, redemption, and reparation. Goal is to locate what Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman conceptualize as a redress discourse or an attempt to interrogate the kinds of political claims that can be mobilized on behalf of the slave, the stateless, the socially dead, and the disposable in the political present. Sources include antebellum African American slave narratives and Korean comfort women testimonials.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 384B:
Eliot and Bronte
The implications and significance of the fiction of two of the most widely read and canonical Victorian novelists, George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte. Close reading technique. How to identify and undertake research and scholarship in class topics. Works are Eliot's Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, and Bronte's Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 389B:
Beckett (DRAMA 152, DRAMA 358C)
Beckett's plays and late writing, which have been described as proto-performance art. Recent Beckett scholarship, including new work about his analysis with Bion.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 390:
Graduate Fiction Workshop
For Stegner fellows in the writing program. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 392:
Graduate Poetry Workshop
For Stegner fellows in the writing program. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 394:
Independent Study
Preparation for first-year Ph.D. qualifying examination.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 396:
Introduction to Graduate Study for Ph.D. Students
For incoming Ph.D. students. The major historical, professional, and methodological approaches to the study of literature in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 396L:
Pedagogy Seminar I (COMPLIT 396L)
Required for first-year Ph.D students in English, Modern Thought and Literature, and Comparative Literature (except for Comparative Literature students teaching in a foreign language). Preparation for surviving as teaching assistants in undergraduate literature courses. Focus is on leading discussions and grading papers.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
ENGLISH 397A:
Pedagogy Seminar II
Apprenticeship for second-year graduate students in English, Modern Thought and Literature, and Comparative Literature who teach in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Each student is assigned as an apprentice to an experienced teacher and sits in on classes, conferences, and tutorials, with eventual responsibility for conducting a class, grading papers, and holding conferences. Meetings explore rhetoric, theories and philosophies of composition, and the teaching of writing. Each student designs a syllabus in preparation for teaching PWR 1.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
ENGLISH 398:
Research Course
A special subject of investigation under supervision of a member of the department. Thesis work is not registered under this number.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-18
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bender, J. (PI);
Castle, T. (PI);
Elam, M. (PI);
Fishkin, S. (PI);
Gigante, D. (PI);
Greene, R. (PI);
Heise, U. (PI);
Jenkins, N. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Karnes, M. (PI);
Lerer, S. (PI);
Lunsford, A. (PI);
Moretti, F. (PI);
Moya, P. (PI);
Orgel, S. (PI);
Polhemus, R. (PI);
Rampersad, A. (PI);
Riggs, D. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Summit, J. (PI);
Vermeule, B. (PI);
Woloch, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 398R:
Revision and Development of a Paper
Students revise and develop a paper under the supervision of a faculty member with a view to possible publication.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bender, J. (PI);
Castle, T. (PI);
Elam, M. (PI);
Fishkin, S. (PI);
Gigante, D. (PI);
Greene, R. (PI);
Heise, U. (PI);
Jenkins, N. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Lerer, S. (PI);
Lunsford, A. (PI);
Moretti, F. (PI);
Moya, P. (PI);
Orgel, S. (PI);
Polhemus, R. (PI);
Rampersad, A. (PI);
Riggs, D. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Summit, J. (PI);
Vermeule, B. (PI);
Woloch, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 398W:
Orals and Dissertation Workshop
For third- and fourth-year graduate students in English. Strategies for studying for and passing the oral examination, and for writing and researching dissertations and dissertation proposals. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 399:
Thesis
For M.A. students only. Regular meetings with thesis advisers required.
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 53N:
Aesthetic Taste and Gastronomy
Preference to freshmen. A sampling of aesthetics and gastronomy as defined by 18th-century British essayists and their heirs from England and France. Focus is on the development of middle class taste, figurative as well as food-oriented, and manners, snobbery, and sensibility.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 69Q:
Sources of Global Challenges Today, Possibilities for Global Solutions: A Literary Exploration
Preference to sophomores. Concerns central to literary study, comparative study in race and ethnicity, and African and African American Studies as expressed in fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, the U.S., and Hawai'i. Issues include: relations between the West and the Muslim world; class and race in the U.S.; the shift of world populations from rural society to the metropolis; international immigration and refugee situations; and how women's lives are impacted by society, and how they shape and change it. Opportunities for dialogue with members of local ethnic and religious communities.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 77N:
Living in the Past: Italy in the Anglo-American Imagination
Preference to freshmen. Italy as metaphor, in depictions by British and American writers from Shakespeare and Byron to D.H.Lawrence and Robert Hellenga.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bender, J. (PI);
Castle, T. (PI);
Elam, M. (PI);
Fishkin, S. (PI);
Gigante, D. (PI);
Greene, R. (PI);
Heise, U. (PI);
Jenkins, N. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Lerer, S. (PI);
Lunsford, A. (PI);
Moretti, F. (PI);
Moya, P. (PI);
Orgel, S. (PI);
Polhemus, R. (PI);
Rampersad, A. (PI);
Riggs, D. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Summit, J. (PI);
Vermeule, B. (PI);
Woloch, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 103:
Crusades: Interdisciplinary Approaches (HISTORY 215, MEDVLST 165, RELIGST 140)
Causes, meanings, meaningfulness, and commemoration of the Christian expeditions against Muslims, pagans, and heretics. Primary and secondary sources.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 112A:
Wicked Witches of the West: Dangerous Women in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy
Workshop. Women who fascinate, control, and frighten men in classical and Elizabethan drama. The presentation of women in three pairs of Greek and Elizabethan plays and in two 20th-century works. Theatrical styles of each period through doing scenes, watching films, and the history of theater. No background in performing required.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 182R:
Oxford Aestheticism
Works by Victorians who were influenced by or resident in Oxford during the peak years of the industrial age. Focus is on those who were integral in the development of British aestheticism. Oxford writers include Walter Pater, William Morris, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. How these authors' ideas developed in an environment shaped by religious controversy, educational democratization, modernization, and Oxford's own tense position between the bucolic and the urban.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 184L:
Confessions: Writing and Reading the Self
Autobiography and memoir. Sources include personal writers (St. Augustine, J. J. Rousseau, Casanova, Frederick Douglass) and philosophical speculations on the nature of selfhood (René Descartes, Daniel Dennett). Fulfills capstone seminar requirement for the Philosophy and Literature tracks.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 185:
Opera as Cultural History
The history of opera as mirror to the development of modernity in Western culture. Its interdisciplinary and crosscultural nature. Its relationship to issues central to cultural studies such as gender, race, class, and nation. Questions of authorship, the meaning and reliability of musical and literary texts, and performance and production practices. Sources include filmed operas from different periods and language traditions. No knowledge of music or foreign languages required.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 230A:
The Novel in Europe: The Age of Compromise, 1800-1848
The novel after the French revolution and the industrial take-off. Novelistic form and historical structures, emphasizing the compromise between old and new ruling class; how maps and statistics can change people's sense of cultural history.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 261B:
Bright Lights, Global Cities: Reading Transnational Asia/Pacific Spatial Geographies
How transnationalism, globalization, and urbanism figure into the work of Asian American and Asian Anglophone writers. Recent debates that pit ethnic studies against area studies. Writers: Jessica Hagedorn, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alvin Lu, Amitav Ghosh, Lawrence Chua, Lan Cao, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Monique Truong.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 296:
Introduction to Critical Theory: Literary Theory and Criticism Since Plato
Required colloquium for incoming M.A. students. A study of the Anglo-American critical tradition from classical times to the present. Key issues include canonicity, gender, imitation, interpretation, and evaluation.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 334B:
The Modern Traditions II: The Study of Culture in the Age of Globalization (MTL 334B)
20th-century theory with focus on the concept of culture and methods of studying it from diverse disciplines including sociology, anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies. Modernization, postmodernization, and globalization in their relations to culture broadly understood, cultures in their regional, national, and diasporic manifestations, and cultures as internally differentiated such as high and low culture, subcultures, and media cultures. Readings include Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Williams, Hall, Gilroy, Hebdige, Jameson, García Canclini, Foucault, Bourdieu, Geertz, Clifford, Saïd, Appadurai, and Appiah.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 362S:
Phantoms That Follow: Trauma and Disillusionment in Asian American Literature
How Asian American literature emerges through its relationship to oppression, trauma, and disillusionment. Approaches include critical and theoretical archives including psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and cultural studies. Writers may include Alexander Chee, Fae Myenne Ng, Peter Bacho, Suki Kim, Mohsin Hamid, and le thi diem thuy.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 395:
Ad Hoc Graduate Seminar
Three or more graduate students who wish in the following quarter to study a subject or an area not covered by regular courses and seminars may plan an informal seminar and approach a member of the department to supervise it.
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
