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ENGLISH 308B: Gilded Age American Literature

Introduction to the creative innovations and the political tensions that stemmed from the formation of a multicultural society during the age of industrialization. We will attempt to place literary works in their historical and cultural contexts, while also surveying recent critical and theoretical developments in areas such as Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism, Minority and Race Studies, and so on.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Jones, G. (PI)

ENGLISH 310: The Transatlantic Renaissance (COMPLIT 332)

The emergence of a transatlantic culture in the early modern period. How is the Renaissance of Europe and England fashioned in a conversation with the cultural forms and material realities of the colonial Americas? And how do colonial writings expand and complicate the available understanding of the Renaissance? Readings in Columbus, More, Hakluyt, Spenser, Shakespeare, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Greene, R. (PI)

ENGLISH 314: Epic and Empire (COMPLIT 320A)

Focus is on Virgil's Aeneid and its influence, tracing the European epic tradition (Ariosto, Tasso, Camoes, Spenser, and Milton) to New World discovery and mercantile expansion in the early modern period.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Parker, P. (PI)

ENGLISH 314E: English Drama Before Shakespeare (TAPS 341E)

English dramatic and theatrical culture from the mystery cycles of the late medieval period to the establishment of professional playhouses in late sixteenth-century London. Different dramatic genres (interludes, moralities, farces, tragedies, comedies, histories, pastoral plays), performance venues (streets, households, inns, schools, universities, court, playhouses), and dramatic traditions (classical, native, continental European) will be represented. Authors (of those who have names) range from Medwall, Skelton, Heywood, Preston, and Edwards to Lyly, Kyd, Greene, Peele, and Marlowe.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Lupic, I. (PI)

ENGLISH 327: Genres of the Novel (COMPLIT 327, FRENCH 327)

Provides students with an overview of some major genres in the history of the modern novel, along with major theorists in the critical understanding of the form. Novels might include works by Cervantes, Defoe, Lafayette, Radcliffe, Goethe, Scott, Balzac, Melville, and Woolf. Theorists might include Lukacs, Bakhtin, Jameson, Gallagher, Barthes, Kristeva, and Bourdieu. *PLEASE NOTE: Course for graduate students only.*
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Cohen, M. (PI)

ENGLISH 332: Ancients, Moderns, and Postmoderns

Literary critics and art historians depend on accounts of modernity, post-modernity, and antiquity that are normative even as they claim to be historicist. We will ask what needs these accounts have served historically, what their theoretical consequences are, and how we should write cultural criticism today. Readings will range from the renaissance to the present, with an emphasis on the historicist turn of the late eighteenth century. Authors may include Petrarch, Winckelmann, Schiller, the Schlegels, Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Jameson.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Hoxby, B. (PI)

ENGLISH 334A: Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations (MTL 334A)

In the late eighteenth century Immanuel Kant proclaimed his age to be "the genuine age of criticism." He went on to develop the critique of reason, which set the stage for many of the themes and problems that have preoccupied Western thinkers for the last two centuries. This fall quarter course is intended as an introduction to these themes and problems. We begin this course with an examination of Kant's philosophy before approaching a number of texts that extend and further interrogate the critique of reason. In addition to Kant, we will read texts by Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukács, and Heidegger.nThis course is the first of a two-course sequence. Priority to graduate students in MTL and English. The course will be capped at 12 students.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

ENGLISH 334B: Concepts of Modernity II: Culture, Aesthetics, and Society in the Age of Globalization (COMPLIT 334B, MTL 334B)

Emphasis on world-system theory, theories of coloniality and power, and aesthetic modernity/postmodernity in their relation to culture broadly understood.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Saldivar, J. (PI)

ENGLISH 362E: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Archive

Introduction to the theories, methods, and politics of the archive in literary studies, using "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and its extensive archives as the frame. Investigation of this novel's forms of circulation, contexts, visual and material culture, adaptations, and revisions will be supported and challenged both by readings in the theories and politics of the archive (including Derrida, Foucault, and Spivak) and the development of research skills in traditional and digital archives.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Spingarn, A. (PI)

ENGLISH 362F: Transnational American Studies

Exploration of the transnational turn in American Studies, focusing on how transnational perspectives enrich and complicate our understanding of American literature, history and the arts. Readings include recent work in transnational American Studies. Topics include experiments with ways of using digital technology to allow archival materials in different locations to be in conversation with each other.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Fishkin, S. (PI)
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