printer friendly pageENGLISH 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
Instructors:
Castle, T. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Jockers, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Phelan, P. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Shloss, C. (PI)
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
Instructors:
MacDonald, D. (PI)
;
Tallent, E. (PI)
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
Instructors:
McGriff, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Felstiner, J. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Santana, C. (PI)
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