printer friendly pageENGLISH 135C: The Fiction of Dickens and Carroll
Close reading of works by Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll; their continuing significance, and responses to their work. Emphasis is on their black humor and comedy, social criticism, representation of children, and the visual imagery. Texts are
The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit by Dickens, and
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand
Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Polhemus, R. (PI)
;
Walker, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 136A: The Lyric in 19th-Century Britain
Development of the lyric through the 19th century. Social, political, and economic pressures on lyric. How poetry expresses relations in society. Poems by Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, D.G. Rossetti, C. Rossetti, Arnold, and Hopkins.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Rovee, C. (PI)
ENGLISH 136C: Wordsworth
Focus is on the poet's great decade of 1797-1807 and questions about lyric and society, poetic inspiration and historical upheaval, poetic manifestoes and revolutions, mass society, and the valorization of the contemplative.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Rovee, C. (PI)
ENGLISH 139: Antebellum American Literature
An examination of the rich tradition of American writing in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Short stories, novels, poems, autobiographies, and philosophical essays in the context of major social and political crises during an era of intense debates over slavery, national identity, sexual equality, democracy, and industrial growth. Authors include: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Douglass, Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau, and Stowe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Jones, G. (PI)
ENGLISH 139B: American Women Writers, 1850-1920
How female writers negotiated a series of literary, social, and intellectual movements, from abolitionism and sentimentalism in the nineteenth century to Progressivism and avant-garde modernism in the twentieth. Authors include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Sui Sin Far, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Richardson, J. (PI)
ENGLISH 142G: 20th-Century American Fiction
Major works of fiction by American writers, focusing on race, place and identity, which may include Patricia Powell, Charles Johnson, Mary Yukari Waters, Linda Hogan, and Alejandro Morales. The exploration of the genre relation to discourses of mobility, place and racial identity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Sohn, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 143: Introduction to African American Literature (ENGLISH 43)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143.) The slave narrative and representative genres (poetry, short stories, essays, novels). Works by Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Dunbar, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, and Morrison.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Rampersad, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 143C: Introduction to Asian American Literature (ENGLISH 43C)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143C.) Asian American literature as an interdisciplinary field, combining history, politics, and literature to articulate changing group and individual identity. Themes include aesthetics, colonialism, immigration, transnationalism, globalization, gender, and sexuality.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
ENGLISH 144: British Modernism
The history and theory of modernism, with particular focus on literature written in Britain from 1890 to 1950. Major authors include James, Conrad, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Beckett. Why was it necessary to "make it new"? What were the ambitions, strategies, and limitations of modernism as a project?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 144B: Contemporary British Fiction
How do British novelists chart the dramatic changes in culture, class, gender and race relations, economy, and nation that followed the end of the Second World War? Particular focus on writers who came of age during this period and the generation who succeeded them, including some of today¿s most internationally acclaimed authors. What political, cultural, and historical concerns shape the narrative poetics of works by Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, AS Byatt, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Ian McEwan.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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