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Recent developments in and neuroscience and experimental psychology have transformed the way we think about the operations of the brain. What can we learn from this about the nature and function of literary texts? Can innovative ways of speaking affect ways of thinking? Do creative metaphors draw on embodied cognition? Can fictions strengthen our "theory of mind" capabilities? What role does mental imagery play in the appreciation of descriptions? Does (weak) modularity help explain the mechanism and purpose of self-reflexivity? Can the distinctions among types of memory shed light on what narrative works have to offer?

This course will explore the historical and cultural reality of the British Empire in a global and comparative context, through works of fiction and non-fiction, history, memoir and a range of cultural chronicles. What relationship did British colonialism have with modernity and the European Enlightenment, and with neoliberalism and globalization that followed decolonization? Texts: CLR James's Beyond a Boundary,, Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, Nirad Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, Witi Ihimaera's Dear Miss Mansfield.

Study, develop, and test new digital methods, games, apps, interactive social media uses to innovate how the humanities can engage and educate students and the public today. Exploring well-known literary texts, digital storytelling forms and literary communities online, students work individually and in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative projects aimed at bringing literature to life. Tasks include literary role-plays on Twitter; researching existing digital pedagogy and literary projects, games, and apps; reading and coding challenges; collaborative social events mediated by new technology. Minimal prerequisites which vary for students in CS and the humanities; please check with instructors.

The course considers representative works by ten poets from the Renaissance to the present. Each set of poems is framed by a problem in poetics such as artifice and sound, the making of voice, the meaning of lyric, and the nature of historicist and biographical interpretation. Shakespeare, Gray, Wordsworth, Whitman, E.B. Browning, Yeats, H.D., Olson, Wolcott, and Hejinian; and readings in recent poetic theory.

Workshop critique of original short stories or novel. Prerequisites: manuscript, consent of instructor, and 190-level fiction workshop.

Focus is on generation and discussion of student poems, and seeking published models for the work.

This course will train students in the transcription and editing of original Medieval and Early Modern textual materials from c. 1000 to 1600, written principally in Latin and English (but other European languages are possible, too). Students will hone their archival skills, learning how to describe, read and present a range of manuscripts and single-leaf documents, before turning their hand to critical interpretation and editing. Students, who must already have experience of working with early archival materials, will focus on the full publication of one individual fragment or document as formal assessment.

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, with "Robinson Crusoe" as the representative of that mode.. Texts by: Defoe, Sterne, Walpole, Godwin, Lewis, Goethe, and Shelley..

In this course, we will use the emerging methods of social network analysis to investigate imaginative worlds of eighteenth-century literature and the role that social connections play in the Enlightenment. Together we will read and analyze Restoration comedies (The Man of Mode), eighteenth-century tragedies (Venice Preserved), Gothic novels (The Castle of Otranto) and early social novels (Evelina). We will identify and study the shapes of the relationships in these texts as we use networking tools, such as igraph and Gephi, to visualize the social world of the text. Previous technical experience is not required as this course also serves as a method-based introduction to network analysis in the humanities.