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ENGLISH 1: English Reading Group

A forum for conversation and exchange on different literary topics
Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable 5 times (up to 5 units total)

ENGLISH 14Q: 'Tis All in Pieces: John Donne and the Early Modern World

One of the most innovative and dramatic poets in literary history, John Donne¿s writing bears the marks of the profound changes that were occurring on the threshold of the modern world, in such areas as science, astronomy,mathematical perspective, religion, exploration, theatre, and art. Donne¿s dramatic realism exerted a shaping influence on such modern poets as Browning, Eliot, and Rich; on contemporary composers such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Benjamin Britten; and on Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Margaret Edson. Topics include Donne's work within the vibrant historical and cultural milieu of the early modern world and related developments in early modern art and theatre.
Terms: Win | Units: 2-3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Brooks, H. (PI)

ENGLISH 19SI: Science Fiction for Writers

A survey of several genres of fantasy and science fiction (soft or social science fiction, cyberpunk, dystopian fiction, new wave, zombies, etc.) with an eye towards exploring techniques for imbuing stories thematic depth and complex imaginings. Students will compose their own story for end-of-quarter workshop. Readings (may) include: Jonathan Lethem, Philip K. Dick, Adam Johnson, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Tzvetan Todorov, film.
Terms: Aut | Units: 1-2
Instructors: Greene, R. (PI)

ENGLISH 21: Masterpieces of American Literature (AMSTUD 121, ENGLISH 121)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 121.) A survey of some of the definitive texts of American writing, such as Leaves of Grass, Benito Cereno, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Waste Land, The Sun Also Rises, The Golden Apples, and The Crying of Lot 49.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ENGLISH 22N: Virginia Woolf: Art and Politics

Introduction to Woolf's diverse oeuvres: her novels, essays, short stories, diaries, and letters focusing on how she devised an art form shaped by political consciousness but not subordinate to it. How, for Woolf, were art and politics, the private and the public, the artist and the activist conjoined. Navigation of the multiple intersections of Woolf's artistic experimentation and sociopolitical consciousness from 1917 to 1941.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Staveley, A. (PI)

ENGLISH 32: Technologies of Reading and Writing: The Nineteenth Century versus the Digital Age (ENGLISH 132)

The nineteenth century was a critical period for technological development that accelerated forms of communication. As the telegraph replaced the letter, daily gossip columns replaced word of mouth, and photographs replaced the painted illustration, theories of writing and reading changed dramatically. Through texts such as Keats's Letters, Shelley's Frankenstein, Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and Stoker's Dracula, this course explores the effects of media on the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature. This course also facilitates comparative work by juxtaposing 19th-century media with contemporary technologies of writing and reading, such as emails, blogs, and wikis, and the impact of these technologies on the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature today.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3-4
Instructors: Hess, J. (PI)

ENGLISH 43: Introduction to African American Literature (AFRICAAM 43, AMSTUD 143, ENGLISH 143)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143.) African American literature from its earliest manifestations in the spirituals, trickster tales, and slave narratives to recent developments such as black feminist theory, postmodern fiction, and hip hop lyricism. The defining debates and phenomena within African American cultural history, including the status of realist aesthetics in black writing; the contested role of literature in black political struggle; the question of diaspora; the problem of intra-racial racism; and the emergence of black internationalism. Attention to the discourse of the Enlightenment, modernist aesthetics, and the role of Marxism in black political and literary history.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ENGLISH 43A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (ENGLISH 143A, NATIVEAM 143A)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 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: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ENGLISH 45F: The Human Love of Mystery: A Journey Through Detective Fiction (ENGLISH 145F)

Reading and discussion of mystery and detective fiction from Sherlock Holmes through the Golden Age of Agatha Christie, to the "hard-boiled private eye" in Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels. Topics include the independent female private eye and social changes that allowed her emergence; the definition of mystery and detective fiction to include Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Morrison¿s Song of Solomon, and Freud's theories; the enduring hold this genre has on imaginations; the fundamental concerns with justice and fear; and 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
Instructors: Drake, S. (PI)

ENGLISH 47: Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature (ENGLISH 147)

Examination of seven predominately twentieth-century novels juxtaposed to interrogate the contemporary moment. How do novelists understand the present by representing the past? How and why do novelists rewrite, reinvent, or renounce the plotlines of influential forebears? Narrative forms include Realism, Romance, Modernism, Postmodernism, Utopia/Dystopia. Topics include narrative voice, intertextuality, social satire, politics and war, time and memory, gender and race in novels by Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Michael Cunningham and Ian McEwan. Relevant clips from recent film adaptations.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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