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ENGLISH 802: TGR Dissertation

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 0 | Repeatable for credit

ENGLISH 122A: Austen and Woolf

Reading of three novels by Jane Austen¿arguably the most influential and gifted of British female novelists-¿and three novels by Virginia Woolf, whose debt to Austen was immense. Topics include the relationship between women writers and the evolution of the English novel; the extraordinary predominance of the marriage plot in Austen¿s fiction (and the various transformations Woolf works on it); each novelist¿s relationship to the cultural and social milieu in which she wrote.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

ENGLISH 172C: Easy Riders and Migrant Laborers: American Mobility in Literature and Film

The open road¿a quintessential American image. This seminar explores the stories of open space, social mobility, and renewed possibilities that pervade American literature, film, and culture. What accounts for the pull of the open road? What roles have these stories played in American identity? We¿ll pursue and complicate these ideas, examining how differences of class, race, gender, and national origin inflect them. The focus will be the twentieth century, a period that witnessed the rise of U.S. global power, mass immigration, and the freeway. Authors/directors include Jack Kerouac, Dennis Hopper, Tomás Rivera, Bharati Mukherjee, Ridley Scott, and Simon Ortiz.

ENGLISH 338: The Gothic in Literature and Culture (COMPLIT 338, FRENCH 338)

This course examines the Gothic as a both a narrative subgenre and an aesthetic mode, since its 18th century invention. Starting with different narrative genres of Gothic expression such as the Gothic novel, the ghost tale, and the fantastic tale by writers such as Walpole, Radcliffe, Sade, Poe, and E.T.A. Hoffmann, the course goes on to ask how the Gothic sensibility permeates a wide range of 19th century cultural phenomena that explore the dark side of Enlightenment, from Romantic poetry and art to melodrama, feuilleton novels, popular spectacles like the wax museum and the morgue. If time permits, we will also ask how the Gothic is updated into our present in popular novels and cinema. Critical readings will examine both the psychology of the Gothic sensibility and its social context, and might be drawn from theorists such as Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Zizek.
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