ENGLISH 2A:
FRESHMAN ENGLISH
| Units: 3
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.) A survey of English literature from Beowulf through Paradise Lost. Readings from Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Margery Kempe, Langland, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, and Milton.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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.) British literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, Romanticism, realism, naturalism, genre, modernism and narration. Authors include Austen, M. Shelley, Dickens and Woolf.
Terms: Win
| 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.) An exploration of the diverse political, racial, cultural, and sexual questions that inform these outstanding works of American literature, ranging from the early Republic to the late-twentieth century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 43:
Introduction to African American Literature (ENGLISH 143)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143.) The slave narrative and representative genres (poetry, short stories, essays, novels). Works by Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Dunbar, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, and Morrison.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 43C:
Introduction to Asian American Literature (ENGLISH 143C)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143C.) Asian American literature as an interdisciplinary field, combining history, politics, and literature to articulate changing group and individual identity. Themes include aesthetics, colonialism, immigration, transnationalism, globalization, gender, and sexuality.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
ENGLISH 45:
Another Way to be: Writings by Women of Color (ENGLISH 145)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 145.) Themes include family relations, identity formation, racism and colorism, gender and sexuality, spirituality, and globalization. Rhetorical and aesthetic strategies and the associated development of a method of cultural analysis. Authors may include the following: Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Toni Cade Bambara, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Helena Maria Viramontes, Sandra Cisneros, among others.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 45F:
The Human Love of Mystery (ENGLISH 145F)
A journey through detective fiction, including Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, a Freudian case history, Sherlock Holmes and the U.S. private eye. Topics will include exploration of the reasons for the enduring hold the detective genre has on the imagination, including its fundamental concern with ideas of justice, the raising and laying of the emotion of fear, and its stimulation of the deep human fascination with the apparently inexplicable and the intellectual satisfaction of arriving at understanding.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 47:
Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature (ENGLISH 147)
Focus on novels spanning the 19th-21st centuries in order to interrogate the meaning of "contemporary." How do writers think about the literary past in their works? How and why do contemporary texts echo, rewrite, reinvent, or renounce their forebears? Readings include novels that speak to one another across time, place, and cultural difference by grouping "older" and "newer" works by Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan and Michael Cunningham. Relevant clips from film adaptations will contribute to analysis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| 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 61N:
British Romanticism and Poetic Form
The major romantics emphasizing their innovations in poetic forms including sonnet, elegy, ode, hymn, and dramatic lyric.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 62N:
Eros in Modern American Poetry
Preference to freshmen. Anne Carson, treating love from Sappho to Socrates, shows how the Greeks derived their philosophy from the erotic poetic tradition. Readings include: Carson's poetry which locates erotic desire in the larger context of the desire for knowledge; classic Japanese haiku masters such as Basho; and William Carlos Williams, Louise Bogan, and C.K. Williams.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 64N:
Growing Up in America
Preference to freshmen. How do race, class, gender, sexuality, and geography affect a person's experience of belonging to this country? The diversity of childhood and young adult experiences of people who have grown up in America. Fictional and autobiographical narratives and their rhetorical and aesthetic strategies.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
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 75N:
Poetry and Environmental Awareness
Can Poetry Save the Earth? It can help, because the nature of poetry interacts vitally with the poetry of nature. Poems display a human presence, and human presence, for better or worse, stands at the core of our environmental, ecologic predicament. Native American song-prayers, 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 on through Hughes, Walcott, Snyder, and others.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
ENGLISH 80Q:
All the World's a Stage: Dramatic Realism on the Threshold of the Modern World
The relationship between heightened dramatic realism and historical, scientific, and cultural changes occurring in the early modern world, a defining moment in explorations of uncharted realms of the self, the world, the universe, and artistic form. Readings include Shakespeare's Othello, John Donne's dramatic poetry, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. How these, and other texts, point their readers and viewers toward the modern world through experiments in the art of perspective.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
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: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 84Q:
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield: A Victorian Reading
Preference to sophomores. Dickens' favorite child, David Copperfield, has been a classic of the Victorian novel since its serial publication began in 1849. The comic masterpiece of the most popular novelist of his time, the sentimental favorite of Queen Victoria and of the author himself, this fictionalized autobiography tells the story of a difficult coming of age in the threatening world of early industrialized England. Work to be read in serial numbers, replicating as closely as possible the experience of Victorian readers. Primary publications and secondary sources on political, cultural, and historical surroundings.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
ENGLISH 86N:
American Hauntings
Exploration of the cultural, psychological, social, and political dynamics of haunting in American literature, ranging from the early national period to the late twentieth century, looking at ghost stories as well as other instances of supernatural, emotional, or mental intervention. Authors include Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Stephen King.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
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 (waived in summer quarter).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
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
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
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 102:
Chaucer
An introduction to Chaucer¿s writings, including The Canterbury Tales, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame. Readings in Middle English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 104C:
Arthurian Literature and Medieval Romance
An introduction to Arthurian literature and the larger genre of medieval romance. Readings include the Lais of Marie de France, the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Erec and Enide, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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 107:
High Life and Low Life: Polite and Popular Forms of Eighteenth-Century Literature
The relationship between elite and popular forms in the 18th-century literary imagination. How new popular or "low" genres--the criminal biography, travel literature, political tracts, newspapers, cartoons, broadsheets, conduct books and the like--shaped so-called mainstream Augustan literature. Ideological implications of the contemporary imaginative split between "high life" and "low life." Focus is on describing the significance of the high-low dialectic in classic 18th-century literary works, and the underlying system of social, philosophical and ideological relations that gave rise to it by examining literary representations of various subcultures, and exemplary types like the Criminal, the Hack, the Whore, and the Madman.
Terms: Win
| 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.) A survey of English literature from Beowulf through Paradise Lost. Readings from Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Margery Kempe, Langland, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, and Milton.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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 116A:
The Poetry of John Milton
A study of Milton's poems, from The Death of a Fair Infant and Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Focus not only on the texts but also on the various contexts that are relevant to Milton's writings : earlier examples of the genre, earlier treatments of the same theme, the political and religious situation at the time of the works' composition, and Milton's own career.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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.) British literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, Romanticism, realism, naturalism, genre, modernism and narration. Authors include Austen, M. Shelley, Dickens and Woolf.
Terms: Win
| 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.) An exploration of the diverse political, racial, cultural, and sexual questions that inform these outstanding works of American literature, ranging from the early Republic to the late-twentieth century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
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: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 123B:
The Literature of Abolition
Focus on writings for and against the abolition of American slavery in the colonial through antebellum periods. How race"was construed by white and African-diasporic writers across literary and non-literary genres, particularly in relation to the question of authentic selfhood, one's own and the racial other's. Comparative assessment of two major abolitionist writers, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Other writers include Woolman, Wheatley, Equiano, Jefferson, Craft, Hildreth, Child, Walker, Harper, Grimke, C. Beecher, Boucicault, Pike, Thoreau, Sojourner Truth, Byrd, Hentz.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 123G:
Mark Twain: A Fresh Look at an Icon and Iconoclast, 100 Years after His Death (AMSTUD 123G)
The vitality and versatility of a writer who has been called America's Rabelais, Cervantes, Homer, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare. Journalism, travel books, fiction, drama, and sketches by Mark Twain; how Twain engaged such issues as personal and national identity, satire and social justice, imperialism, race and racism, gender, performance, travel, and technology. What are Twain's legacies in 2010, the centennial of his death, the 175th anniversary of his birth, and the 125th anniversary of his most celebrated novel? Guests include actor Hal Holbrook.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
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: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 126D:
Victorian Sex
Was there a preoccupation with or repression of sexuality in Victorian England? Depictions of sex in Victorian literary and cultural texts, including poems, novels, essays and diaries. How did the Victorians imagine sex beyond marriage, homosexual sex, and fetishes? What is the relationship between the sexual sphere and the public sphere? Authors include Collins, Dickens, Cullwick, Munby, Besant, Walter, Swinburne, and Casement, augmented by theoretical and critical readings.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 134:
The Marriage Plot
The centrality of the marriage plot in the development of the British novel beginning in the 18th century with Samuel Richardson's Pamela and ending with Woolf's modernist novel Mrs. Dalloway. The relationship between novelistic plotting and the development of female characters into marriageable women. What is the relationship between the novel and feminine subjectivity? What aspects of marriage make it work as a plotting device? What kinds of marriages do marriage plots allow? Is the development of women's political agency related to their prominence in the novel form?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
ENGLISH 135C:
The Fiction of Dickens and Carroll
Close reading of works by Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll; their continuing significance, and responses to their work. Emphasis is on their black humor and comedy, social criticism, representation of children, and the visual imagery. Texts are The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit by Dickens, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 136C:
Wordsworth
Focus is on the poet's great decade of 1797-1807 and questions about lyric and society, poetic inspiration and historical upheaval, poetic manifestoes and revolutions, mass society, and the valorization of the contemplative.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 139:
Antebellum American Literature
An examination of the rich tradition of American writing in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Short stories, novels, poems, autobiographies, and philosophical essays in the context of major social and political crises during an era of intense debates over slavery, national identity, sexual equality, democracy, and industrial growth. Authors include: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Douglass, Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau, and Stowe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 139B:
American Women Writers, 1850-1920
How female writers negotiated a series of literary, social, and intellectual movements, from abolitionism and sentimentalism in the nineteenth century to Progressivism and avant-garde modernism in the twentieth. Authors include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Sui Sin Far, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 142G:
20th-Century American Fiction
Major works of fiction by American writers, focusing on race, place and identity, which may include Patricia Powell, Charles Johnson, Mary Yukari Waters, Linda Hogan, and Alejandro Morales. The exploration of the genre relation to discourses of mobility, place and racial identity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 143:
Introduction to African American Literature (ENGLISH 43)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143.) The slave narrative and representative genres (poetry, short stories, essays, novels). Works by Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Dunbar, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, and Morrison.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 143C:
Introduction to Asian American Literature (ENGLISH 43C)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143C.) Asian American literature as an interdisciplinary field, combining history, politics, and literature to articulate changing group and individual identity. Themes include aesthetics, colonialism, immigration, transnationalism, globalization, gender, and sexuality.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
ENGLISH 144:
British Modernism
The history and theory of modernism, with particular focus on literature written in Britain from 1890 to 1950. Major authors include James, Conrad, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Beckett. Why was it necessary to "make it new"? What were the ambitions, strategies, and limitations of modernism as a project?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 144B:
Contemporary British Fiction
How do British novelists chart the dramatic changes in culture, class, gender and race relations, economy, and nation that followed the end of the Second World War? Particular focus on writers who came of age during this period and the generation who succeeded them, including some of today¿s most internationally acclaimed authors. What political, cultural, and historical concerns shape the narrative poetics of works by Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, AS Byatt, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Ian McEwan.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 144E:
The Novels of Virginia Woolf
Focus on six Woolf major novels¿The Voyage Out, Jacob¿s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves. Topics include Woolf¿s family history, the evolution of her pioneering literary style, her views on sexuality, women, literature, and society, and her complex personal and intellectual relationships with other writers and artists.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 145:
Another Way to be: Writings by Women of Color (ENGLISH 45)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 145.) Themes include family relations, identity formation, racism and colorism, gender and sexuality, spirituality, and globalization. Rhetorical and aesthetic strategies and the associated development of a method of cultural analysis. Authors may include the following: Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Toni Cade Bambara, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Helena Maria Viramontes, Sandra Cisneros, among others.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 145F:
The Human Love of Mystery (ENGLISH 45F)
A journey through detective fiction, including Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, a Freudian case history, Sherlock Holmes and the U.S. private eye. Topics will include exploration of the reasons for the enduring hold the detective genre has on the imagination, including its fundamental concern with ideas of justice, the raising and laying of the emotion of fear, and its stimulation of the deep human fascination with the apparently inexplicable and the intellectual satisfaction of arriving at understanding.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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 146C:
Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald
While Hemingway and Fitzgerald were flirting with the expatriate avant-garde in Europe, Hurston and Faulkner were performing anthropological field-work in the local cultures of the American South. Focus on the tremendous diversity of concerns and styles of four writers who marked America's coming-of-age as a literary nation with their multifarious experiments in representing the regional and the global, the racial and the cosmopolitan, the macho and the feminist, the decadent and the impoverished.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ENGLISH 147:
Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature (ENGLISH 47)
Focus on novels spanning the 19th-21st centuries in order to interrogate the meaning of "contemporary." How do writers think about the literary past in their works? How and why do contemporary texts echo, rewrite, reinvent, or renounce their forebears? Readings include novels that speak to one another across time, place, and cultural difference by grouping "older" and "newer" works by Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan and Michael Cunningham. Relevant clips from film adaptations will contribute to analysis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 150:
Modern Poetry and the Visual Arts
The relationship between photography, painting, and sculpture, and poetry in the 20th century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 150F:
Yeats
A single author study, looking at the intersection between a national poet and the powerful currents of international modernism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 151:
American Imaginations
An in-depth study of modern American poets, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Robert Hayden, James Schuyler, and how their individual achievements contributed to the shaping and progress of "an American project," that is, the invention of a modern nationalistic poetic sensibilty.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 151A:
T. S. Eliot
An intensive introduction to the full range of Eliot's work in poetry, prose, and drama. The formal properties of Eliot's writing--his metrics, syntax, use of allusion, and wit--alongside its recurring preoccupation with history, landscape, death, and redemption. How and why did he become the most influential poet-critic of the twentieth century?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 152:
Introduction to Caribbean Literature
Survey of some of the major works of literature, including fiction and poetry, published by writers from the Caribbean over the last hundred years. Although emphasis is on writing in English, selected French and Spanish texts will be read in translation. Writers to be studied include Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Alejo Carpentier, Aime Cesaire, Ralph de Boissiere, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Erma Brodber, Wilson Harris, and Merle Hodge.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 152D:
DuBois and American Culture (AFRICAAM 152)
His life and career. Focus on first half of his life from his Harvard doctoral dissertation to the end of the Harlem Renaissance in which he played a crucial role. Sources include his books on history and sociology, scholarly essays, novels, and journals that he edited. AAAS WIM course.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
ENGLISH 153C:
British Literature of the 1910s
The diverse literature of a decade interrupted by war, including fiction by E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield, and poetry by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot. Major themes will include the threat of violence, both aesthetic and actual, imperialism, suffragism, experiments in autobiography, and the relationship between past and present time..
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 153D:
Prizewinners: Anglophone Novelists and the Nobel, 1991-2007
An experiment in examining the global phenomenon of the late 20th-century novel in English through the most naive possible lens: the Nobel Prize in Literature. Works by the five English-language novelists to win the Nobel since the Cold War: Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee, and Doris Lessing. Topics include world literature, postcolonial writing and race, realism and novelistic form, the relation to American and British canons, and the sociology and politics of the Nobel.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 153F:
The Moment in Modernism
Examines modernist obsession with time (looking at texts by Bergson, Benjamin, Ricoeur, Doane and Mulvey) and emergence of moments of epiphany and revelation as pressing category in modernist texts (by Joyce, Woolf, Proust , Rilke, Wittgenstein) and their precursors (Wordsworth, Kant) and attends to the relationship among cinematic, photographic and literary representations of the moment and its role in the ethical and aesthetic projects of modernism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 154:
Expats and Cosmopolitan Fiction, 1900-1940
If there is an international republic of letters, writers who leave their home countries are among the prime candidates for citizenship. What is the relationship between writers' cosmopolitan lifestyles and their writings? How does fiction address issues of political internationalism, rootlessness, nostalgia, touristic adventure? Study of the fiction of the golden era of expatriates and exiles, 1890-1940, with a special emphasis on historical contexts from the founding of Cosmopolitan magazine to the Great Depression. Readings include works by Henry James, James Joyce, Claude McKay, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Djuna Barnes, and Christopher Isherwood.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 154A:
The Modernist Novel
The innovations in artistic form and the representation of consciousness in the British modernist novel. Canonical modernists¿ concerns with identity, sexuality, cultural tradition, gender, race, imperialism, the country/city divide, time and memory as each writer strove to reinvent the realist novel to express the modern moment. Authors include Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, West and Woolf.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 154F:
Question and Quest, Riddle and Resolution in Modernism
Examines modernist difficulty in terms of secular modernist masterpiece¿s attraction to mysticism and quest narratives. Texts chosen from among works by such modernist authors as Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, Kafka, Beckett and Borges will be read alongside those of philosophers who engage riddle and enigma (Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Adorno) and examples of more traditional quest narratives (Arthurian Legend, Paul, Augustine, Tolstoy).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
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
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 170:
Literary Criticism and Literary Texts
Historical study of literary critical theorizing from classical times to the present. Issues such as subjectivity, originality, gender, evaluation, and canonicity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 172D:
Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 196C, PSYCH 155, SOC 146)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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 176:
Science Fiction: Techno Dreams and Nightmares
Science fiction from Frankenstein to graphic novels and Japanese anime. How have modern information and biotechnologies changed our notion of the human? In what ways are bodies and minds transformed? How do transformations change our ideas about what it means to be an individual, a citizen, a man or woman? In what ways are boundaries between humans, machines and animals redrawn through technology? How do cultures and societies change when boundaries shift? How do technology, art, writing relate to each other. Novels, films, comic books by Shelley, Wells, Bioy Casares, Dick, Scott, Gibson, Sterling, Atwood, Oshii, Morrison and Quitely.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 183F:
Introduction to Critical Theory
An introduction to critical theory, beginning with some of the defining moments of its history in the 20th century, to current developments in the field in the context of the contemporary global skepticism of humanistic critique, both in its institutional capacity and within the larger public sphere. Texts by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Helene Cixous, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Edward Said, David Lodge and others.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 184B:
Text and Context in Humanities: Oedipus and His Vicissitudes (HUMNTIES 100)
Tales of Modernity from Sophocles, Freud, Chekhov, Babel, and Woolf. Introduction to cross-disciplinary approach in humanities through foundational texts in the modern tradition. The main focus is on Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), alongside his ancillary writings. Contemporary social thought and historical scholarship provide the context (Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, Karl Schorske, John Murray Cuddihy) while works of imaginative literature (Sophocles, Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, and Virginia Woolf) illuminate the significance of the Oedipus myth for understanding the inter-generational conflict in antiquity and modernity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 184C:
Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern (HUMNTIES 162)
The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how such historical pressures along with developments in mathematical perspective and science challenged earlier conceptions of space, artistic form, the self, politics, the divine, and the physical universe on the threshold of the modern era. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, Dante, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther, Montaigne, Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Wroth, Galileo, Donne, Shakespeare, Othello; and works of art and music.
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: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 185:
Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy (HUMNTIES 185, MUSIC 190H)
The revival of ancient tragedy in the Baroque opera house. The central mysteries of tragedy: knowledge of suffering, necessity of sacrifice, pleasure of pathos. How tragic drama and opera used poetry, dance, and music to sway the passions and prompt reflection. Greek myths of Medea, Iphigenia, Alceste, Idomeneo. Plays by Euripides and Racine; operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Charpentier.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 187H:
Lady Sings the Blues: Blues, Literature, and Black Feminism
Examination of a long tradition of feminist articulations in black women's blues expressed in sound and literature over the course of the twentieth century. Familiarity with the recurrent tropes of black women's blues and how these coalesce in a feminism based on the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality by bringing together black women writers, thinkers, and songstresses such as Gayl Jones, Bessie Smith, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday. Supplemental readings from cultural theorists such as Angela Davis, Hazel Carby, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and others in order to build a critical framework for interpreting, historicizing, and theorizing black women's blues.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender
ENGLISH 187T:
Funny Negro: Literature and Culture of the Black Comic Absurd
What Colson Whitehead has referred to as "freaky postwar black literature" and culture, or a body of black cultural texts that confront racism through the black comic absurd. African American humor that directly confronts the absurdity of racism, and especially racial stereotypes forged at the very origins of American popular culture, the blackface minstrel show. Study of artists such as Ralph Ellison, William Melvin Kelley, Dick Gregory, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ishmael Reed, Wendell Harris, Jr., Paul Beatty, Spike Lee, and others who tap into the formal and aesthetic sensibilities of black comic traditions and simultaneously confront the vexed history of black people as sources of humor ,¿the funny negro¿, in literature, music, films, plays, autobiographies, and live performances.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
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, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 190V:
Reading for Writers
Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 191:
Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Continuation of 91. Workshop. The application of advanced storytelling techniques to fact-based personal narratives, emphasizing organic writing, discovering audience, and publication. Guest lecturers, collaborative writing, and publication of the final project in print, audio, or web formats. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 191T:
Special Topics in Intermediate Creative Nonfiction: Stories on the Air
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: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 192T:
Special Topics in Intermediate Poetry Writing: Poetry and Memoir
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: Spr
| 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
Instructors: ;
Castle, T. (PI);
Gigante, D. (PI);
Hoxby, B. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Polhemus, R. (PI);
Riggs, D. (PI);
Rovee, C. (PI);
Staveley, A. (PI);
Sullivan, H. (PI);
Woloch, A. (PI);
Dooling, K. (GP)
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: ;
Antopol, M. (PI);
Elam, M. (PI);
Fields, K. (PI);
Gordon, M. (PI);
Jarvis, C. (PI);
Johnson, A. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Kealey, T. (PI);
Lunsford, A. (PI);
MacDonald, D. (PI);
McGriff, M. (PI);
Michas-Martin, S. (PI);
Moya, P. (PI);
Orgel, S. (PI);
Paulson, L. (PI);
Rampersad, A. (PI);
Shloss, C. (PI);
Tallent, E. (PI);
Vermeule, B. (PI);
Wolff, T. (PI)
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, Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 223E:
Whitman and Dickinson and 20th Century Poets
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: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 228:
The Rise of the American Novel, 1790-1820
The early American novel, including the work of Rowson, W. H. Brown, Brackenridge, Burroughs, Crèvecoeur, Tyler, Tenney, Sansay, and C. B. Brown. In conjunction with current theories on the rise and generic specificity of the novel, what, if anything, distinguishes the emergence and development of the American novel considered historically, sociologically, and formally? Early American thought on the relationship of nationhood to artistic expression in order to analyze Americanness as a property of the novel and to evaluate the concept of a national novelistic tradition.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 230A:
The Novel in Europe: The Age of Compromise, 1800-1848 (COMPLIT 230A)
The novel after the French revolution and the industrial take-off. Novelistic form and historical processes ¿ nation-building and the marriage market, political conservatism and the advent of fashion, aristocracy and bourgeoisie and proletariat... ¿ focusing on how stylistic choices and plot structures offer imaginary resolutions to social and ideological conflicts. Authors will include Austen, Scott, Shelley, Stendhal, Puskin, Balzac, Bronte.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 236:
Victorian Literature and Photography
How issues raised by birth of photography and photography¿s prehistory are manifested in Victorian literature. Readings in photographic theory include Benjamin, Barthes, Sontag. Novels, stories, and poems by Dickens, Tennyson, Carroll, Browning, Wilde.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 241:
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
Focus is on novelists, but also poets, critics, and playwrights. Authors include relatively well-known writers such as Behn and Wollstonecraft, and lesser-known authors such as Sarah Scott, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Anna Seward. Recent feminist scholarship on eighteenth-century women's writing, generic issues, and the question of a women's literary tradition, the material conditions of female authorship in the period, and the history of the eighteenth-century literary marketplace.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 253:
Literary Studies and the Digital Library
Ways of reading, interpreting, and understanding literature at the macro scale as an aggregate system. Theoretical issues; landmark essays in the field; how digital libraries and literary corpora invite new types of literary research that challenge conventional approaches.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 260:
Frederick Douglass
The essays, journalism, autobiographies, and fiction of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). Starting from the representation of his initial state of non-being in the 1845 Narrative, examination of the ideas, convictions, and expressive conventions from which Douglass drew in constructing his image of public and private selfhood. How that self-representation evolved across the 19th century, with attention to the antebellum years. How to construe the relationship of the charismatic individual to the larger life of a nation he is assumed to represent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 261D:
Globalization and Contemporary Fiction (HUMNTIES 194M)
The globalization of the contemporary Anglophone novel. How the English language novel relates to recent models of archiving world literature. How novels from Nigeria, India, Guyana and Australia foreground the socio-political implications of colonialism and decolonization, the amorphous relationship of the public and private spheres, the contended fates of human rights and territorial sovereignty. Texts by Sinha, Kempadoo, Shangvi, Greenville, Moretti, Casanova, Slaughter and others.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 265M:
Musical Theatre (DRAMA 165M, DRAMA 365M)
Major innovations in the musical from South Pacific to High School Musical. Concentration on American classics with forays into film adaptations and licensing, marketing, and cast recordings. Attention to issues of race and gender.
Terms: Win, Sum
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 279D:
James Joyce and Ulysses
Close reading of Ulysses as one of the most significant literary works of modernism and 20th-century literary history. The nature and variety of its significance, and the meanings that Joyce's epic of modernism generates.
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, Win
| 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
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 293A:
The Tasks of the Translator: Theory and Practice
An overview of translation theories and practices over time. The aesthetic, ethical, and political questions raised by the act and art of translation and how these pertain to the translator¿s tasks. Discussion of particular translation challenges and the decision processes taken to address these issues. Coursework includes assigned theoretical readings, comparative translations, and the undertaking of an individual translation project.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 303F:
Institutions of Enlightenment: The Invention of the Public Sphere
The cultural foundations upon which the Enlightenment instituted a public sphere and constituted its relationship to the private (or intimate) sphere. Aim is to explore the invention and naturalization of some of the most fundamental institutions of the Enlightenment -- institutions such as the public, the private, the market, public opinion, literature, and even more basic categories such as the individual, society, culture, knowledge, and politics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 308A:
Mark Twain
Journalism, travel books, fiction, drama, sketches, and essays by Mark Twain; critical and creative responses to his work from the 19th century to the present (including pieces originally published in Argentina, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, etc. not translated until 2009); how Twain and his critics engaged such issues as race and racism, satire and social justice, imperialism, personal and national identity, gender, performance, travel, and technology. What are Twain¿s legacies in 2010, the centennial of his death? Guests will include actor Hal Holbrook and novelist David Bradley. Field trip to Mark Twain Papers at Berkeley.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 310:
The Transatlantic Renaissance (COMPLIT 332)
The emergence of early modern transatlantic culture, emphasizing how canonical works of the Renaissance may be reimagined in a colonial context and how the productions of the colonial Americas make sense as Renaissance works. Topics: mestizaje and creole identity, gender and sexuality, law, religion and the church, mining, commerce, and government. European and American authors: Thomas More, Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge, William Shakespeare, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and lesser known figures.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 311A:
Modernism and Literature of the First World War
Focus on British and American novels, poems, and memoirs written during or in the decade following the Great War (1914-1918). Major texts include works by Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain, Ernest Hemingway, and Virginia Woolf. Viewings of classic films on the subject: Renoir's Grand Illusion, Attenborough's Oh What a Lovely War (starring John Lennon) and Tavernier's Life and Nothing But.
Terms: Win
| 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: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 319:
Realisms and Anti-Realisms
The strategies and aesthetics of representation in fiction and film. Foundational articulations of a realist aesthetic crossing political and generic divides. Georg Lukács, Erich Auerbach, and André Bazin, in relation to polemics against realism developed since the 60s. The significance of returning to these theories and to the idea of realism itself in the wake of poststructuralism and deconstruction.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 334A:
Concepts of Modernity 1: Philosophical Foundations (MTL 334A)
Preference to first-year graduate students in Modern Thought and Literature and English. Kant's 18th-century development of the critique of reason; how it set the stage for the themes and problems that have preoccupied Western thinkers. Focus is on texts that extend and problematize the critique of reason. Writers include Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukács, and Heidegger.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 342:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Eight tragedies by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Middleton, John Webster and John Ford. Portrayals of sexual transgression followed by violent retribution. Exploration of the criminalization of sex in Renaissance England from the perspectives of early modern gender systems, performance practices, theories of representation, institutional settings, and cultural critiques. Why Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights depict extreme forms of sociopathic behavior: murder, rape, infanticide, incest, necrophilia. Why are these plays still read and performed in the twenty-first century? What can be learned from them?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 343A:
Comedy and Tragedy in Early Modern English Theater I
Enrollment restricted to graduate students. First quarter of two quarter sequence. The parameters of the genres of comedy and tragedy on the early modern English stage. Focus is on dramatic texts; some attention to classical and later theoretical formulations. The prevalence of hybridity in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with plays such as Doctor Faustus, Measure for Measure, Sejanus, and The Winter's Tale serving as guides to generic practice. Audience.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 343B:
Comedy and Tragedy in Early Modern English Theater II
Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Second quarter of two quarter sequence. The parameters of the genres of comedy and tragedy on the early modern English stage. Focus is on dramatic texts; some attention to classical and later theoretical formulations. The prevalence of hybridity in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with plays such as Doctor Faustus, Measure for Measure, Sejanus, and The Winter's Tale serving as guides to generic practice. Audience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 345:
Eighteenth-Century Satire
A study of the masterpieces of satire from eighteenth-century Britain with some attention to classical sources and contemporary analogues. What role does satire play in contemporary American culture: when does speech become too hot to handle? Do we have a requirement that people mean what they say? What is the role of invective in public discourse? Authors include: Horace, Juvenal, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney, Voltaire, George Orwell.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 356T:
Intro to Psychoanalysis as a Critical Method (DRAMA 356T)
Primary reading in Freud, Lacan, Laplanche, Irigaray and Kristeva. Secondary readings in film theory (Mulvey to Silverman), art history (Bryson, Bersani) and poststructuralism (Derrida, Foucault, Butler).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ENGLISH 362B:
Black to the Future: The Next Generation of Racial Representation
Study of race theory in the Obama era: why and how to study race in literary and cultural study in the post-civil rights, post-race era.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 362D:
G/local Colors: Race, Regionalism, and Its Afterlife in American Literature
Intricacies and problematics of American literatures in relation to different spatial and geographical scales centered within and beyond the United States. Authors include Sarah Orne Jewett, Alexander Chee, Kate Chopin, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ana Castillo, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Paul Yoon.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 363G:
The Post-race Aesthetic in Post-postmodern American Fiction
In the wake of postmodernism a new generation of writers has emerged whose work signals a turn to a "post-race" era in American fiction. Examination of the evolving relationship between race, social justice, identity, and narrative form in the 21st century novel. This post-race aesthetic requires a new imaginary for thinking about the nature of a just society and the role of race in its construction. Focusing on the topic of race in relation to literary form and narrative theory explains why 21st-century authors have initiated a new stage in the history of the novel.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 364:
Style (COMPLIT 364)
The return of a term that was central in 20th-century criticism, and has all but disappeared in recent decades. Focus ison looking at concepts of style from various branches of linguistic and literary theory, and examination of some revealing examples in novels and films. Team taught with D.A. Miller from U.C. Berkeley.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 365A:
Forms of Selfhood and Subjectivity in Early America, 1630-1800
Exploration of the formation of models of selfhood and subjectivity, both individual and corporate, in colonial through postrevolutionary America Readings encompass literary and non-literary expressive forms. Categories of selfhood and subjectivity drawn from political, religious, social, and metaphysical thought, including the concepts of sainthood and election; republican and democratic subjectivity; the now-competing, now-contiguous notions of inherent right and conscience; and the processes of conversion and secularization. Current theoretical attempts to frame the subject, predominantly the work of Foucault on the hermeneutics of subjectivity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 370:
Literature and Wisdom
Study of the pursuit of wisdom in and through literature. Readings include Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Abelard, Alan of Lille, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Thomas Gallus, Langland, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and the Cloud-author.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 372A:
Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Poetics
Sixteenth-century English poetry in a continental context. Generic experimentation from several distinctive standpoints: e.g. Petrarchism; the plain style; psalters, religious lyrics, and contrafacta; and Puritan voices. Attention to questions of gender, politics, and religion. Poets include Petrarch, Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Gascoigne, Philip and Mary Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and several minor figures.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 384A:
Romanticism in Ruins
The idea of the ruin. Romanticism in theory. Literary treatments of fragments, remnants and remains. The problem of post-romantic reception and a tradition in ruins.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 384C:
Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence
Topics include Hardy's and Lawrence's views of modernization, urbanization, sexual politics, desire, and the novelistic project. Works studied include Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Augmented by critical readings.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 389:
Modernism's Everyday
An approach to literary modernism's commitment to everyday life. Topics include emergent aesthetic implications of the ordinary, its relationship with late 19th- and early 20th-century developments in ethnography, art, emergent landscapes of urban modernity, flanerie and the poetics of space, advertising, consumerism, representations of domesticity, and boredom. Texts include James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Michel De Certeau, Henry Lefebvre, Giorgio Agamben, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Elizabeth Goodstein.
| Units: 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. 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 397X:
The Teaching of Literature: How We Teach & Why (EDUC 405X)
This course is designed for graduate students in English and English Education who are interested in questions surrounding the teaching of literature at both the secondary and collegiate level. The course weaves together theoretical considerations of the purposes for teaching literature, including assumptions about the kinds of readings and readers literature teachers are trying to create, with investigation of pedagogical practices.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
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);
Fields, K. (PI);
Fishkin, S. (PI);
Gigante, D. (PI);
Greene, R. (PI);
Heise, U. (PI);
Jenkins, N. (PI);
Johnson, A. (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);
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);
Sohn, S. (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 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 142B:
The Films of Woody Allen
(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.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 199:
Senior Independent Essay
Open, with department approval, to seniors majoring in non-Honors English who wish to work throughout the year on a 10,000 word critical or scholarly essay. Applicants submit a sample of their expository prose, proposed topic, and bibliography to the Director of Undergraduate Studies before preregistration in May of the junior year. Each student accepted is responsible for finding a department faculty adviser. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGLISH 261B:
East Goes West: Transnational Asia/Pacific Spatial Geographies
East goes west as a metaphor to invoke the conceptions of fantasy and desire that play out in transnational scope. What attracts diasporic Asian/American subjects to the locations that they travel to, whether it be an identified homeland with which a character attaches a strong affinity, or to a new country where the promise of economic possibilities await?
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 262B:
Biography and Life Writing
Study of the psychological, moral and legal issues surrounding the representation of an individual's life experience, achievement, and cultural situation. Insight into ways in which psychoanalysis, feminist theory and post-colonial studies affect understanding biographies and life writing. Study of key texts in the genre like Nabokov's Speak Memory, Cellini's Autobiography, Nissim Rejwan's The Last Jews in Baghdad, and Sherifa Zuhur's Asmahan's Secrets.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 280:
Art. Religion, and the Quest for Faith: Four Great Modern Novels
Four acknowledged masterpieces of the last two decades by four of the world's most influential modern novelists. Emphasis is on the nature of the emerging global culture, the place of art, and the quest for faith in modern times. Texts are My Name is Red, Pamuk; The Satanic Verses, Rushdie; Disgrace, Coetzee; and 2666, Bolano.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 304:
The Great Age of the English Essay: Addison to DeQuincey
How this characteristic form of 18th-century literature was responsible for the making of the middle class and forging its taste and values through personal reflections, social critique, and a multiplicity of styles including the confessional and the parodic. The context of Enlightenment and Romantic culture including politics, print culture, social life, and manners.
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 334B:
Concepts of Modernity 2: 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 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.
| Units: 3-5
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
