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English 10, King James Version of the Bible I, at the 10 hour with
Professor Wykes
A study of the preeminent English translation of the Hebrew Bible (the
Tanak, or Old Testament), with special emphasis on its relationship to English
literature and on the history of its interpretation. Dist: LIT; WCult: EU for
the classes of 2007 and earlier. WCult: W for the classes of 2008 and later.
Concentration area tag Genre-narrative.
English 20, Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, at the 11 hour
with Professor Otter
An introduction to Chaucer, concentrating on ten of the Canterbury
Tales, and studying him as a social critic and literary artist. Special
attention will be paid to Chaucer’s language, the sounds of Middle English, and
the implications of verse written for the ear. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Course Group I,
Concentration area tags Genre-poetry, Genders and Sexualities.
English 24, Shakespeare I, at the 2 hour with Professor
Campos
A study of about ten plays spanning Shakespeare’s career, including comedies,
histories, tragedies, and romances. Attention will be paid to Shakespeare’s
language; to his dramatic practices and theatrical milieu; and to the social,
political, and philosophical issues raised by the action of the plays.
Videotapes will supplement the reading. Exercises in close reading and
interpretative papers. Prerequisite: English 2/3, English 5 or English 5
exemption status. Dist: LIT ;WCult: W. Course Group I. CA tag Genre-drama.
English 37, Victorian Literature and Culture, 1860-1901, at the 10
hour with Professor Gerzina
This course examines later nineteenth-century British poetry, prose
and fiction in the context of cultural practices and social institutions of the
time. We will locate cultural concerns among, for example, those of capitalism,
political reform, scientific knowledge, nation and empire. And we will consider
revisions of space, time, gender, sexuality, class, and public and private life
that characterized formations of British identity during this period. Texts may
include work by George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Algernon
Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling. We will also read selections from
recent criticism of Victorian culture. Dist: LIT; WCult: EU for the classes of
2007 and earlier. WCult: W for the classes of 2008 and later.
English 41, American Prose, at the 12 hour with Professor
Chaney
Readings of nonfiction narratives by such American writers as
Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Jack
Kerouac. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NA. Class of 2008 and
later: WCult: W. Course Group II. Concentration area tags Genre-narrative,
National Traditions and Countertraditions.
English 48, Contemporary American Fiction, at the 2A hour with
Professor Santa Ana
Contemporary American fiction introduces the reader to the unexpected.
Instead of conventionally structured stories, stereotypical heroes, traditional
value systems, and familiar uses of language, the reader finds new and diverse
narrative forms. Such writers as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Maxine Hong
Kingston, Leslie Silko, Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, and Ralph Ellison, among
others, have produced a body of important, innovative fiction expressive of a
modern American literary sensibility. The course requires intensive class
reading of this fiction and varied critical writing on postmodernism. Dist:
LIT; WCult: NA. Course Group III. Concentration area tags Genre-narrative,
National Traditions and Countertraditions.
English 49, Modern Black American Literature, at the 2A hour with
Professor Vasquez
A study of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to
the present, this course will focus on emerging and diverging traditions of
writing by African Americans. We shall also investigate the changing forms and
contexts of ‘racial representation’ in the United States. Works may include
those by Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Morrison, Schuyler, West, Murray,
Gates, Parks. Dist: LIT; WCult: NA. Course Group III. Concentration
area tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Cultural Studies and
Popular Studies.
English 60.1, History of the Book, at the 11 hour with Professor
Halasz
This course examines the book as a material and cultural
object. We’ll consider various practical and theoretical
models for understanding the book form and investigating the materials,
technologies, institutions, and practices of its production, dissemination, and
reception. We’ll focus primarily on the printed book in Western
Europe and North America, but we’ll also spend time talking about the emergence
of the codex (book), medieval manuscript books, twentieth and twenty-first
century artist’s books and the challenges posed by digitality to the book
form. The readings for the course will be balanced by frequent use
of exemplars drawn from Rauner Library and practical experience in the
Book Arts workshop setting type. Dist: LIT, pending faculty approval.
Course Group IV. CA tags Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies and
Popular Culture. \
English 67.1, Caribbean Literature, at the 10A hour with Professor
Vasquez (cross listed with AAAS 80 and LALACS 66)
This course will examine the work of a variety of Caribbean writers
from former British colonies. We will look at several issues that reappear
throughout the work of these authors. These concerns include (but are not
limited to) notions of exile, the importance of language and music, the
articulation of identity in varying post-colonial states, and representations
of gender, race and ethnicity. The class will also analyze the socio-political
events in particular nations and the ways in which these events influence
writing in the archipelago. Furthermore, the course will explore shared
cultural practices. For example, we will examine the ways in which a strong
tradition of music as protest influences the production of particular poetic
forms in Trinidad and Jamaica. The class will move from early twentieth century
writers like Claude McKay to the important contributions of later writers such
as Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon,
Olive Senior and Derek Walcott. We will examine the more recent innovations in
form, as musical elements are introduced by writers such as Mikey Smith and
Kwame Dawes. Each week's readings will be supplemented with seminal critical
writings including excerpts from the text The Empire Writes Back. Dist:
LIT. WCult: for the class of 2007 and earlier NW. WCult: for the class of
2008 and later CI. Course Group III. Concentration area tags
Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and
Popular Culture. Pending faculty approval.
English 67.2, Culture and Society in Modern Scottish Fiction, at the
2A hour with Professor Hook
The course will cover the period from the early 20th century to the
present day. It will focus on Scotland’s historically complex national and
cultural identity, and consider such themes as religion and morality, class and
gender, industrialization, and rural and urban life in the Scottish Highland
and Lowlands. The Irish contribution to modern literature has been universally
acknowledged. The modern Scottish literary tradition now merits equally close
attention. Dist: LIT. WCult: EU for the classes of 2007 and earlier.
WCult: W for the classes of 2008 and later. Pending faculty
approval. Course Group III. Concentration area tags Genre-narrative,
National Traditions and Countertraditions, Cultural Studies and Popular
Culture.
English 72.1, The Poetry of Wallace Stevens, at the 3A hour with
Professor Renza
The course will mostly consist of reading and discussing Stevens'
collected poems and some prose. We will also read critical interpretations of
his works. Students will give oral class reports and write two essays on
approved topics. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NA. Class of 2008
and later: WCult: W. Course Group III. Concentration area tag
Genre-poetry.
English 72.2, The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, at the 11 hour
with Professor Zeiger
An orphan, a female poet, a lesbian, a long-term expatriate in Brazil,
Elizabeth Bishop is nowhere definitively at home; for a long time, literary
criticism had trouble accommodating her as well. Recently, queer, feminist, and
postcolonial analyses have provided a new critical context for this elusive
poet; we will read widely in this work, while focusing on Bishop's poems,
drafts, and letters. We will also consider her relationships with
contemporaries like Moore and Lowell. . Dist: LIT; WCult: NA. Course Group III.
CA tags Genre-poetry, Genders and Sexualities
English 80.2, Creative Writing, at the 10A hour with Professor
O'Malley
This course offers a workshop in fiction and poetry. Seminar-sized classes meet
twice a week and include individual conferences. Open to sophomores, juniors,
and seniors, and to first-year students who have completed Writing 5 (or have
exemption status). Students who wish to enroll in 80 must submit their
applications to the administrative assistant in the English Office by the last
day of the term preceding the term for which they wish to enroll. Students do
not submit work for entry into the course. A brief application form is
available in the English Office or can be downloaded from the English
Department website. Dist: ART.
English 83.1, Creative Writing, Literary Non-Fiction, at the 2A hour
with Professor Huntington
This course offers students training in the writing of literary
nonfiction. The class proceeds by means of group workshops on student writing,
individual conferences with the instructor, and analysis of work by
contemporary writers
English 85.1, Senior Workshop in Poetry and Prose Fiction, at the 3A
hour with Professor Huntington
This course is to be taken by Creative Writing majors in the fall of
their senior year. Each student will undertake a manuscript of poems, short
fiction, or literary non-fiction. While all Creative Writing majors are
guaranteed a spot in English 85, they must nonetheless submit a five-to-eight
page writing sample to the administrative assistant of the English Department
by May 15 of the spring term preceding their senior year. Please also pick up
the "How To Apply To English 85" form from the English Department and answer
all of the questions asked in a cover letter. Prerequisite: English 80 and 81,
82, or 83. Students who are not Creative Writing majors may be admitted by
permission of the Creative Writing staff. Dist: ART.
English 85.2, Senior Workshop in Poetry and Prose Fiction, at the 3A
hour, Professor O'Malley
This course is to be taken by Creative Writing majors in the fall of their
senior year. Each student will undertake a manuscript of poems, short fiction,
or literary non-fiction. While all Creative Writing majors are guaranteed a
spot in English 85, they must nonetheless submit a five-to-eight page writing
sample to the administrative assistant of the English Department by May 15 of
the spring term preceding their senior year. Please also pick up the "How To
Apply To English 85" form from the English Department and answer all of the
questions asked in a cover letter. Prerequisite: English 80 and 81, 82, or 83.
Students who are not Creative Writing majors may be admitted by permission of
the Creative Writing staff. Dist: ART.
English 85.3, Senior Workshop in Poetry and Prose Fiction, at the 2A
hour, Professor Tudish
This course is to be taken by Creative Writing majors in the fall of their
senior year. Each student will undertake a manuscript of poems, short fiction,
or literary non-fiction. While all Creative Writing majors are guaranteed a
spot in English 85, they must nonetheless submit a five-to-eight page writing
sample to the administrative assistant of the English Department by May 15 of
the spring term preceding their senior year. Please also pick up the "How To
Apply To English 85" form from the English Department and answer all of the
questions asked in a cover letter. Prerequisite: English 80 and 81, 82, or 83.
Students who are not Creative Writing majors may be admitted by permission of
the Creative Writing staff. Dist: ART.
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