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ENGLISH 184: The Novel (COMPLIT 123)

Literary inventiveness and social significance of novelistic forms from the Great Depression to the present.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ENGLISH 184B: Text and Context in Humanities: Oedipus and His Vicissitudes

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.
Last offered: Winter 2010 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

ENGLISH 184E: Literary Text Mining

This course will train students in applied methods for computationally analyzing texts for humanities research. The skills students will gain will include basic programming for textual analysis, applied statistical evaluation of results and the ability to present these results within a formal research paper or presentation. As an introduction, students in this course will also learn the prerequisite steps of such an analysis including corpus selection and cleaning, metadata collection, and selecting and creating an appropriate visualization for the results.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-AQR

ENGLISH 184H: Text Technologies: A History (STS 200D)

Beginning with cave painting, carving, cuneiform, hieroglyph, and other early textual innovations, survey of the history of writing, image, sound, and byte, all text technologies employed to create, communicate and commemorate. Focus on the recording of language, remembrance and ideas explicating significant themes seen throughout history; these include censorship, propaganda, authenticity, apocalypticism, technophobia, reader response, democratization and authority. The production, transmission and reception of tablet technology, the scroll, the manuscript codex and handmade book, the machine-made book, newspapers and ephemera; and investigate the emergence of the phonograph and photograph, film, radio, television and digital multimedia.The impact of these various text technologies on their users, and try to draw out similarities and differences in our cultural and intellectual responses to evolving technologies. STS majors must have senior status to enroll in this senior capstone course.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Treharne, E. (PI)

ENGLISH 186B: American Crime

Examination of the representations of crime in American literature and film with particular focus on the construction of motive and its relation to character. We will pay special attention to the orientation of the writer/director to his or her criminal subject. Writers may include Melville, Wright, McCarthy, Capote, Mailer. Directors will include Berlinger and Sinofsky (the Paradise Lost trilogy) and Patty Jenkins (Monster).
Terms: Win | Units: 5

ENGLISH 187E: CLR James & Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Two Postcolonial Intellectuals

Is a humanist intellectual with a popular audience more likely to be a credentialed expert or an autodidact at odds with the established norms of scholarship? Is such an intellectual, to use Marjorie Garber¿s terms, a professional or an amateur? This course considers these questions in the light of the institutionalization of a humanist curriculum in late colonial Britain and its overseas empire in order to examine two key (post)colonial intellectuals, from Trinidad and India respectively: CLR James and Nirad C. Chaudhuri, both of whose popular and provocative appeals derive from their positions as amateurs and autodidacts. Such an intellectual identity is at odds with colonial education¿s ideological enterprise: to create a certain kind of professional subject. We will read their key works, pay attention to their biographies, and to the intellectual histories surrounding these two key figures of postcolonial thought.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Majumdar, S. (PI)

ENGLISH 187F: Everyday Matters

Literature is often imagined as a phenomenon that enables a magical transcendence of a dull, routinized life. But are there ways in which literature might also be thought of assuming shape and texture from the ordinary everyday that we all experience? Some argue that prior to its relatively modern understanding in terms of specific set of art-objects and artistic practice, the aesthetic was understood as an integral part of the sensory experience of everyday life in all its beauty and messiness. This course will try to capture representations of the ordinary in modern and contemporary literature and engage with anthropological and sociological attempts to understand the elusive category of everyday life.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Majumdar, S. (PI)

ENGLISH 190: Intermediate Fiction Writing

May be taken twice for credit. Lottery. Priority to last quarter/year in school, majors in English with Creative Writing emphasis, and Creative Writing minors. Prerequisite: 90 or 91.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 2 times (up to 10 units total)

ENGLISH 190F: Fiction into Film

Workshop. For screenwriting students. Story craft, structure, and dialogue. Assignments include short scene creation, character development, and a long story. How fictional works are adapted to screenplays, and how each form uses elements of conflict, time, summary, and scene. Priority to seniors and Film Studies majors. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win | Units: 5

ENGLISH 190T: Special Topics in Intermediate Fiction Writing

Focus on a particular topic or process. Work includes aspects of reading short stories and novels, writing at least 30-50 pages of fiction, and responding to peers' work in workshop. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 2 times (up to 10 units total)
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