printer friendly pageENGLISH 265F: Literature of the American Renaissance: 1850-1855
Between 1850 and 1855, some of the most influential works of 19th-century American literature were published: Melville¿s
Moby-Dick, Hawthorne¿s
The Scarlet Letter, Stowe¿s
Uncle Tom¿s Cabin, Thoreau¿s
Walden, Douglass¿s
My Bondage and My Freedom, and Whitman¿s
Leaves of Grass. Under pressure to invent a literature commensurate with the anomalies of American life, these writers achieved an astonishing degree of formal novelty. We will look closely at the ensuing difficulties of interpretation and their significance as precursors of literary modernism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 290: Advanced Fiction Writing
Workshop critique of original short stories or novel. Prerequisites: manuscript, consent of instructor, and 190-level fiction workshop. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 291: Advanced Creative Nonfiction
Continuation of 191. 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:
ENGLISH 191.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Wolff, T. (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:
Sharif, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 293: Literary Translation (DLCL 293)
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: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Santana, C. (PI)
ENGLISH 300: Medieval Methodologies (DLCL 300, MUSIC 300C)
An introduction to the essential tool-kit for medievalists, this course will give all medievalists a great head start in knowing how to access and interpret major works and topics in the field. Stanford's medieval faculty will explain the key sources and methods in the major disciplines from History to Religion, French to Arabic, English to Chinese, and Art History to German and Music. In so doing, students will be introduced to the breadth and interdisciplinary potential of Medieval Studies. A workshop devoted to Digital Technologies and Codicology/Palaeography will offer elementary training in these fundamental skills.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Starkey, K. (PI)
ENGLISH 301B: Love and Loss in Early English, 900-1300
Examination of what makes literature so human. We'll investigate heroic, lyrical and religious voices in the earlier Middle Ages from 900-1300 to discover what connects early literature and culture to our modern world.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Treharne, E. (PI)
ENGLISH 303: Experiment and the Novel (COMPLIT 353A)
A double exploration of experiment in the novel from 1719 into the 19th century. Taking off from Zola's
The Experimental Novel," consideration of the novel's aspect as scientific instrument. Taking the idea of experimental fiction in the usual sense of departures from standard practice, consideration of works that seem to break away from techniques of "realism" devised prior to 1750. Texts by: Sterne, Walpole, Burney, Sade, Godwin, Lewis, and Goethe. Substantial readings in the theory of the novel.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
ENGLISH 313: Performance and Performativity (FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)
Performance theory through topics including: affect/trauma, embodiment, empathy, theatricality/performativity, specularity/visibility, liveness/disappearance, belonging/abjection, and utopias and dystopias. Readings from Schechner, Phelan, Austin, Butler, Conquergood, Roach, Schneider, Silverman, Caruth, Fanon, Moten, Anzaldúa, Agamben, Freud, and Lacan. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Phelan, P. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Parker, P. (PI)
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