printer friendly pageENGLISH 170: Literary Criticism and Literary Texts
Historical study of literary critical theorizing from classical times to the present. Issues such as subjectivity, originality, gender, evaluation, and canonicity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Evans, J. (PI)
ENGLISH 172D: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 196C, PSYCH 155, SOC 146)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Brannon, T. (PI)
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Frink, B. (PI)
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Fu, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Brannon, T. (PI)
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Frink, B. (PI)
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Fu, A. (PI)
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Hetey, R. (PI)
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Kim, J. (PI)
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Markus, H. (PI)
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Moya, P. (PI)
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Osborne, E. (PI)
ENGLISH 172E: The Literature of the Americas (COMPLIT 142)
The intellectual and aesthetic problems of inter-American literature conceived as an entirety. Emphasis is on continuities and crises relevant to N., Central, and S. American literatures. Issues such as the encounters between world views, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, 20th-century avant gardes, and distinctive modern episodes such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magical realism, and Noigandres in comparative perspective.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 176: Science Fiction: Techno Dreams and Nightmares
Science fiction from
Frankenstein to graphic novels and Japanese anime. How have modern information and biotechnologies changed our notion of the human? In what ways are bodies and minds transformed? How do transformations change our ideas about what it means to be an individual, a citizen, a man or woman? In what ways are boundaries between humans, machines and animals redrawn through technology? How do cultures and societies change when boundaries shift? How do technology, art, writing relate to each other. Novels, films, comic books by Shelley, Wells, Bioy Casares, Dick, Scott, Gibson, Sterling, Atwood, Oshii, Morrison and Quitely.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Chang, V. (PI)
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Heise, U. (PI)
ENGLISH 183F: Introduction to Critical Theory
An introduction to critical theory, beginning with some of the defining moments of its history in the 20th century, to current developments in the field in the context of the contemporary global skepticism of humanistic critique, both in its institutional capacity and within the larger public sphere. Texts by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Helene Cixous, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Edward Said, David Lodge and others.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Majumdar, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 184B: Text and Context in Humanities: Oedipus and His Vicissitudes (HUMNTIES 100)
Tales of Modernity from Sophocles, Freud, Chekhov, Babel, and Woolf. Introduction to cross-disciplinary approach in humanities through foundational texts in the modern tradition. The main focus is on Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), alongside his ancillary writings. Contemporary social thought and historical scholarship provide the context (Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, Karl Schorske, John Murray Cuddihy) while works of imaginative literature (Sophocles, Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, and Virginia Woolf) illuminate the significance of the Oedipus myth for understanding the inter-generational conflict in antiquity and modernity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
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Staveley, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 184C: Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern (HUMNTIES 162)
The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how such historical pressures along with developments in mathematical perspective and science challenged earlier conceptions of space, artistic form, the self, politics, the divine, and the physical universe on the threshold of the modern era. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, Dante, Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli,
The Prince; Luther, Montaigne, Marlowe,
Doctor Faustus; Wroth, Galileo, Donne, Shakespeare,
Othello; and works of art and music.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Brooks, H. (PI)
ENGLISH 184D: Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Modern (HUMNTIES 163)
Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and English majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and imaginative literature in the modern period. Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Beckett.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Staveley, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 185: Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy (HUMNTIES 185, MUSIC 190H)
The revival of ancient tragedy in the Baroque opera house. The central mysteries of tragedy: knowledge of suffering, necessity of sacrifice, pleasure of pathos. How tragic drama and opera used poetry, dance, and music to sway the passions and prompt reflection. Greek myths of Medea, Iphigenia, Alceste, Idomeneo. Plays by Euripides and Racine; operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Charpentier.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Hadlock, H. (PI)
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Hoxby, B. (PI)
ENGLISH 187H: Lady Sings the Blues: Blues, Literature, and Black Feminism
Examination of a long tradition of feminist articulations in black women's blues expressed in sound and literature over the course of the twentieth century. Familiarity with the recurrent tropes of black women's blues and how these coalesce in a feminism based on the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality by bringing together black women writers, thinkers, and songstresses such as Gayl Jones, Bessie Smith, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday. Supplemental readings from cultural theorists such as Angela Davis, Hazel Carby, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and others in order to build a critical framework for interpreting, historicizing, and theorizing black women's blues.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender
Instructors:
Heard, D. (PI)
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