printer friendly pageENGLISH 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
Instructors:
Vermeule, B. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Phelan, P. (PI)
;
Matic, L. (TA)
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
Instructors:
Elam, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Sohn, S. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Saldivar, R. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Miller, D. (PI)
;
Moretti, F. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Karnes, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Rovee, C. (PI)
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