| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ENGLISH 6 | SHAKESPEARE | SANCHEZ, M.E. | This course will attempt to reclaim Shakespeare from his reputation as a natural but artless genius. Instead, we will consider him in the context of both the classical, medieval, and continental tales that he inherited and the historical events and ideologies by which he was surrounded. Reading poetry and plays from throughout his career as primary texts, along with their antique and contemporary analogues, our goal will be threefold. First, we will strive for an understanding of formal and philosophical principles that emerge throughout his work. Second, we will consider how he responded to both the works to which his plays allude and the historical changes of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Third, we will inquire as to the effect of the performative aspect of his plays has on our understanding of their formal properties and their “meaning.” Primary reading will be a selection of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets; secondary reading will include his source material in Petrarch, Ovid, Castiglione, Hollinshed, Plutarch, and Virgil. Note: this course fulfills the Shakespeare requirement for the English Subject Matter Preparation Program for students interested in becoming teachers at the K-12 level. |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus on poetry and its conventions. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus on poetry and its conventions. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final. |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus on poetry and its conventions. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus on poetry and its conventions. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final. |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus on poetry and its conventions. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final. |
| ENGLISH 28A | POETIC IMAGINATION | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus on poetry and its conventions. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final. |
| ENGLISH 28C | REALISM & ROMANCE | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus predominantly but not exclusively on the narrative use of “realism” and “romance,” understood in a dialectical relation to each other. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final. |
| ENGLISH 28C | REALISM & ROMANCE | STAFF | In these sections of the E28 series described above, we will focus predominantly but not exclusively on the narrative use of “realism” and “romance,” understood in a dialectical relation to each other. Course work will entail three papers, including one revision, and a final. |
| ENGLISH 28C | REALISM & ROMANCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 28D | CRAFT OF POETRY | DAVIS, S.E. | This course treats roughly the same material as E28A, but was conceived with future writers in mind. It stresses the art of writing a bit more, and may offer opportunities for creative writing. E28D and E28A may not both be taken for credit. See department for additional information |
| ENGLISH 102A | RENAISSANCE LIT | SILVER, V.A. | |
| ENGLISH 102B | THE GOTHIC | FOLKENFLIK, R. | |
| ENGLISH 102C | RACE AND RHETORIC | ETTER, W.M. | |
| ENGLISH 102C | LIT & VISUAL CULTUR | ETTER, W.M. | |
| ENGLISH 102D | BLOOMSBURY & HARLEM | BARRETT, L.W. | This course will examine the divergent versions of modernism produced by the self-conscious artistic movements based in Bloomsbury, London and Harlem, New York by considering the divergent racial and aesthetic sensibilities of the literary productions of the two groups, the divergent forms of disillusionment and optimism these groups produce in response to the conditions of early twentieth century modernity, their treatments of the concept of “primitivism,” as well as the divergent roles of the bourgeois paradigm of social relations in the works of these groups. Authors considered will include Quinton Bell, Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Jean Toomer, Discussion will consider matters of race, gender, and sexuality; course work will include a mid-term exam, a final exam, and a 5-6 page paper. |
| ENGLISH 103 | AMERICN DOCUMENTARY | GOBLE, M.A. | |
| ENGLISH 103 | TRUE-CRIME WRITING | SIEGEL, B. | |
| ENGLISH 103 | EARLY 17THC POETRY | DENMAN, J. | |
| ENGLISH 105 | ASIAN-AMER WRITERS | KATRAK, K.H. | This course explores the work of selected Asian American writers in the English language. Our study analyzes the politics of location and how locations impact ethnicities. Writers’ identities are negotiated along issues of race, gender, language, nationality, and crucially in our contemporary time, geography. Our study, which uses a historical perspective, includes recent South Asian American writers, as well as second and third generation U.S. citizens of Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, and other ethnicities. We will study writers such as Joy Kogawa, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Maxine Hong Kingston among others. Requirements include class presentation, in-class writing, midterm and final exams. Same as AsianAm 110. |
| ENGLISH 105 | HARLEM RENAISSANCE & SOPHIATOWN RENAISSANCE | MASILELA, N. | The course will investigate and analyze some of these seminal United States cultural and literary influences on South Africa. On the cultural plane, of essential importance will be an understanding of how the concepts of the New Negro and New African were formulated and came into being, as well as the ‘construction’ of the literary periods of the Harlem Renaissance and the Sophiatown Renaissance. Within each literary period, the complexly different intersection and combination of literary modernity and literary modernism will be theorized. Each literary period had a peculiarly differential structure of generic forms. Despite this, several parallels between writers will be discussed: say, between Zora Neale Hurston and Bessie Head, W.E.B. Du Bois and H.I.E. Dhlomo, Langston Hughes and Rive Rive and Ezekiel Mphahlele, Rudolph Fisher and Arthur Maimane, George Schuyler and Casey Motsisi, and etc. Several of the assigned books are anthologies. Fredric Jameson has recently observed: “The eclipse of avant-gardes (including political ones) has often been taken to be more than accidental characteristic of the postmodern turn; less often remarked is the concomitant substitution---for the great avant-garde manifestos and indeed for the very conception of the great individual master text or statement---of the anthology, the collective symposium, as the generic expression of the emergence of new concerns and new fields or objects of study.” Clearly, the relation between United States and South Africa concerning modernity and modernism is an emergent new concern of intellectual endeavor. Course work will require attendance, discussion, a midterm paper (5 pages) and a final paper (10 pages). Same as AfAm 150. |
| ENGLISH 106 | TRUE-CRIME WRITING | SIEGEL, B. | |
| ENGLISH 106 | CONTEMP AFRICAN LIT | NGUGI, W.T. | |
| ENGLISH 106 | 19THC NOVEL | GELLEY, A. | |
| ENGLISH 106 | RELIGION AND MAGIC | SANCHEZ, M.E. | |
| ENGLISH 210 | ROMANTCSM & HISTORY | ROBERTS, H.J. | |
| ENGLISH 210 | EARLY AMERICAN LIT | CLARK, M.P. | |
| ENGLISH 210 | TRANSATL RECEPTIONS | MAILLOUX, S.J. | |
| ENGLISH 215 | PROSPECTUS WORKSHOP | NORRIS, M.C. | |
| ENGLISH 230 | JOYCE | NORRIS, M.C. | |
| ENGLISH 230 | CHAUCER | ALLEN, E.G. | |
| ENGLISH 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 398 | RHET/TCHNG OF COMP | STAFF | |