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Cultures and Countercultures: The American Novel after World War II
A study of the postwar American novel in the context of the intellectual history of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. We will read the postwar novel in relation to the affluent society, the vital center, the lonely crowd, the power elite, the one-dimensional man, the post-industrial society. Authors to be considered include Baldwin, Bellow, Ellison, Highsmith, McCarthy, O'Connor, Petry, Pynchon, and Roth. Two lectures and one discussion meeting weekly. Students should register for ENGL 0100J S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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Love Stories
What do we talk about when we talk about love? We will see how writers have addressed this question from Shakespeare's day to the present. Writers may include Shakespeare, Austen, Eliot, Flaubert, Graham Greene, Marilynne Robinson, and/or others. Students should register for ENGL 0100P S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. WRIT
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How Poems See
What makes poems and pictures such powerful forms of life? Why do pictures have so much to tell us? How do we see things in words? How do graphic images, optical images, verbal images, and mental images together constitute ways of understanding the world? Looking at poems and images from Giotto and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Dickinson and Turner through such modern poets and painters as Stevens, Ashberry, Warhol and Heijinian, we will study sensory and symbolic images, the uses and dangers of likeness, and the baffling confluence of concrete and abstract, literal and figurative, body and mind, matter and spirit.
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Being Romantic
"Romantic literature" and "Romantic art" are familiar concepts in the history of culture. But what does "Romantic" actually mean? Were Coleridge and Keats especially dedicated to writing about erotic love? Why would "Romantic" literature emerge during the period of the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution? What does early 19th-century "Romanticism" have to do with the meaning and status of the "Romantic" in our culture today? Readings in British and American writing from Blake and Mary Shelley to Ani DiFranco and Rage Against the Machine.
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The Medieval King Arthur
Where did stories of King Arthur come from and how did they develop in the Middle Ages? We will read the earliest narratives of King Arthur and his companions, in histories and romances from Celtic, Anglo- Norman, and Middle English sources, to examine Arthur's varying personas of warrior, king, lover, thief. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students. FYS WRIT
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Realism and Modernism
The novel as a genre has been closely identified with the act of representation. What it means to represent "reality," however, has varied widely. This seminar will explore how the representation of reality changes as modern fiction questions the assumptions about knowing, language, and society that defined the great tradition of realism. English and American novels will be the primary focus of our attention, but influential French, German, and Russian works will be studied as well. Limited to 20 first-year students. Banner registration after classes begin requires instructor approval. FYS
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- Armstrong
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Brontës and Brontëism
The novels of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë alongside works (fiction and film) influenced by or continuing their powerful (and competing) authorial visions: Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), Rebecca (Hitchcock), The Piano (Campion), and Suspiria (Argento). Among other questions, we will discuss the role of Romanticism, feminism, the bodily imaginary, colonialism, and genre. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students. FYS
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Tragic Variations: Classical, Early Modern, Contemporary
The genre of tragedy has been one of the most hotly contested and theorized topics in the Western canon, yet today, commonplace events are routinely deemed tragic. This seminar examines the history of tragedy by considering representative and foundational literary and philosophical texts (Shakespeare, Aristotle, Sophocles, Milton, Marlowe, and Nietzsche) to understand the “tragic”: catharsis, revenge, fate, pity, etc. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. WRIT
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Shakespeare
We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances, considering their historical contexts and their cultural afterlife in terms of belief, doubt, language, feeling, politics, and form. Students should register for ENGL 0310A S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. WRIT
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Mark Twain's America
A course for all kinds of readers of Twain and his contemporaries. Close readings of fiction and essays that focus on race, slavery, capitalism, and the development of "modern" literature. Works include Puddinhead Wilson, Huck Finn, and Connecticut Yankee.
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Melville, Conrad, and the Sea
Stories begin with the sea: Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad and the Seven Seas, Odysseus trying to sail home. The sea is the place of ‘tall tales,’ of adventure, and of terror, but also of industrial labor and modern commerce. This class reads the sea narratives of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad within this larger narrative and historical context.
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- Burrows
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African American Literature and the Legacy of Slavery
Traces the relationship between the African American literary tradition and slavery from the antebellum slave narrative to the flowering of historical novels about slavery at the end of the twentieth century. Positions these texts within specific literary, historical, and political frameworks. Authors may include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. DPLL
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Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay
An introduction to university-level writing. Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and develop techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings from a wide range of texts in literature, the media, and academic disciplines. Assignments move from personal response papers to formal academic essays. Enrollment limited to 17. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Ward
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Readey
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Schapira
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- DeBoer-Langworthy
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Rowe
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Cunniff
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Ramamurthy
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Krowiak
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Grandy
Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Stanley
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Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Designed to familiarize students with the techniques and narrative structures of creative nonfiction. Reading and writing focus on personal essays, memoir, science writing, travel writing, and other related subgenres. May serve as preparation for any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Writing sample may be required. Enrollment limited. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
Fall sections 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomore students. Fall section 03 is reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Golaski
Fall sections 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomore students. Fall section 03 is reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Hardy
Fall sections 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomore students. Fall section 03 is reserved for first-year students.
- Primary Instructor
- Stanley
Fall sections 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomore students. Fall section 03 is reserved for first-year students.
Fall sections 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomore students. Fall section 03 is reserved for first-year students.
Fall sections 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomore students. Fall section 03 is reserved for first-year students.
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Myth + Modern Essay
A writing and research focused course, in which students read a small selection of ancient texts (including The Epic of Gilgamesh and Ovid’s Metamorphoses) and use the myths retold to illuminate the contemporary world and to inform the essays they write. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
- Primary Instructor
- Golaski
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The Artist in the Archives
While artists can benefit greatly from archival work, they are not typically given the tools to make use of these institutions. This writing intensive course takes a two pronged approach to the problem: embedding students in archives both at Brown and RISD to produce creative, lyrical, and multi-media essays; and exploring how artists have used these institutions for information and inspiration. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
- Primary Instructor
- Stewart
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Journalistic Writing
This course, taught by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, teaches students how to report and write hard news and feature stories. Students learn to gather and organize material, develop in-depth interviewing techniques, use public records to report stories and become better observers of everyday life. The first half of the semester focuses on hard news and investigative reporting -- crime, government and court news. The second half is devoted to feature writing -- profiles and the art of narrative storytelling. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
1050G, Section 01 is reserved for first-year and sophomore students only.
- Primary Instructor
- Breton
1050G, Section 01 is reserved for first-year and sophomore students only.
- Primary Instructor
- Breton
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Multimedia Nonfiction
Through a series of short assignments, we will learn what audio, visual, and performative tools are available to us and how these different mediums can affect our stories. The course culminates in a final project where each student will pursue a long-form story of their choice of subject and medium. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
- Primary Instructor
- Stewart
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Writing in Place: Travel, Ecology, Locality
To explore the relationships among people, places and language, this course will incorporate science and nature writing, environmental / ecological writing, travel writing, psychogeography and architectural writing. Assignments and practices will include diaries, observational writing, reporting, criticism and more lyrical forms. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
- Primary Instructor
- Schapira
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Writing Diversity: A Workshop
This course explores various forms of writing that address the broad spectrum of human experience, including issues of race, gender, varying physical and mental ability, social class, and inequities resulting from colonization, among others. Students will attempt to understand the issues and each other through class readings and articulating personal responses in writing. Writing sample required. Pre-requisite: ENGL 0900, ENGL 0930, or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. S/NC. DPLL
- Primary Instructor
- DeBoer-Langworthy
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Further Adventures in Creative Nonfiction
For the advanced writer. A workshop course for students who have taken ENGL 0180 or the equivalent and are looking for further explorations of voice and form. Work can include personal essays, literary journalism and travel writing. Readings from Ian Frazier, Joan Didion, David Sedaris, John McPhee and others. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
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Testimony
How does the creative nonfiction writer bear witness to profound political, social, and environmental change? In this course students engage with the world as writers. They will conduct extensive interviews within the Brown community and beyond and will turn those first hand testimonials into a suite of creative nonfiction pieces in various genres including the lyric, personal, “found,” and multi-media essay. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.
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The Teaching and Practice of Writing: Writing Fellows Program
This course prepares students for their work as Writing Fellows. Course readings, activities, and assignments introduce students to: post-process writing theory and pedagogy; data-based investigations of the revision habits of experienced and inexperienced writers; and effective methods for responding to student writing and conferencing with student writers. Enrollment is restricted to undergraduates who have been accepted into the Writing Fellows Program in the preceding July. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
- Primary Instructor
- Kastner
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Nature Writing
This course seeks to develop your skills as a sensitive reader and writer of the natural world. You will build a portfolio of revised work through a process of workshops, tutorials, and conferences, and engage in discussion of a range of written and visual narratives with reference to their personal, political, and ecological contexts. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.
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Independent Study in Nonfiction Writing
Tutorial instruction oriented toward some work in progress by the student. Requires submission of a written proposal to a faculty supervisor. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor permission required. S/NC.
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- Breton
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- DeBoer-Langworthy
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- Foley
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- Imbriglio
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- Readey
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- Stanley
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- Taylor
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- Stewart
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- Schapira
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- Ward
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- Golaski
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Chaucer
Texts in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer including the romance Troilus and Criseyde; dream vision poems Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls; Chaucer's translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; his shorter poems; and two Canterbury Tales. Prior knowledge of Middle English not required. Not open to first-year students.
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Introduction to the Old English Language
This course offers a thorough introduction to the earliest period of English language and literature. We begin with an extensive coverage of grammar and syntax before reading short texts and a few Old English poems, including The Battle of Brunanburh and Judith. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Tolkien and the Renaissance
This course explores the work of J.R.R. Tolkien alongside Renaissance forbears such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and others. Topics to include love and friendship, good and evil, violence and nonviolence, and how literature offers distinctive forms of life. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Shakespearean Comedy
We will read a selection of Shakespeare’s comedies with attention to his European sources and analogues. Consideration of both formal and historical questions including genre, convention, the Shakespearean text, gender, sexuality, status and degree, and nation. Not open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Undergraduate Independent Study in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures
Tutorial instruction oriented toward a literary research topic. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor permission required.
- Primary Instructor
- Bryan
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- Foley
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- Rabb
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- Redfield
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- Rambuss
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- Newman
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- Kuzner
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Capital and Culture
An introduction to the literature and culture of the Victorian period through the categories and questions of political economy: especially the making of the working class, finance, and industrialization. The objective is twofold: to examine novelists, poets, and prose writers in the light of Karl Marx's influential analysis of capitalist society, but also to contextualize and situate Marx as a Victorian, who lived in London for the majority of his life.
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Getting Emotional: Passionate Theories
This course examines connections between emotion, feeling, and affect in several key texts from 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century literatures. We will ask how and why affect becomes a central concept for writers and thinkers in the Enlightenment, and chart the ways in which affect productively opens up onto contemporary theorizations of identity, gender, sexuality, and race. Possible authors include: Wordsworth, Austen, Blake, Equiano, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wilde, Pater, Kant, Melville, Hofmansthal, Hume. Films by Todd Haynes, McQueen, Campion, Frampton. Theoretical readings by Berlant, Ellison, Terada, Deleuze, Stewart. Enrollment limited to 20 juniors and seniors.
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Writing and the Ruins of Empire
An exploration of literary representations of "empire" and "imperialism" from the 18th century to the present. Readings in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volney's Ruins of Empire, and a wide range of 19th- and 20th-century texts. Some consideration of theories of imperialism and of visual representations of cultures of empire. Enrollment limited to 20. Prior coursework in 18th- and 19th-century literature advised. WRIT
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Undergraduate Independent Study in the Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures
Tutorial instruction oriented toward a literary research topic. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor's permission required.
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- Blasing
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- Primary Instructor
- Burrows
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- Egan
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- Primary Instructor
- Khalip
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- Primary Instructor
- Gould
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- Keach
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- Nabers
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- Rabb
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- Rooney
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- Redfield
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- Anderson
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- Parker
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Literature and the Problem of Poverty
Explores poverty as a political and aesthetic problem for the American novelist. Examines the ways that writers have imagined the poor as dangerous others, agents of urban decay, bearers of folk culture, and engines of class revolt. Also considers these literary texts in relation to historical debates about economic inequality. Writers may include Crane, Faulkner, Wright, Steinbeck, and Hurston.
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American and British Poetry Since 1945
Study of poetry after 1945. Readings include Bishop, Plath, Ashbery, Merrill, O'Hara, Heaney, Larkin, Walcott, Rich, Dove. Enrollment limited to 20.
- Primary Instructor
- Blasing
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Yeats, Pound, Eliot
Readings in the poetry and selected prose of Yeats, Pound, and Eliot. Enrollment limited to 20.
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- Blasing
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Image, Music, Text
This course examines a number of novels and short stories alongside their various cinematic, theatrical, or musical adaptations in order to ask what a medium is and what distinctive formal features might define literature, cinema, theater, and music. Writers will include Melville, Conrad, Maupassant, Mann, and Cortazar; filmmakers will include Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, Visconti, and Coppola; critics will include Barthes, Deleuze, and Ranciere. Limited to 20 junior and senior concentrators in English, Comparative Literature, MCM, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Literary Arts.
- Primary Instructor
- Burrows
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Undergraduate Independent Study in Modern and Contemporary Literatures
Tutorial instruction oriented toward a literary research topic. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor's permission required.
- Primary Instructor
- Armstrong
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- Bewes
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- Primary Instructor
- Blasing
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- Burrows
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- Foley
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- George
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- Katz
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- Kim
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- Murray
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- Nabers
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- Reichman
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- Rooney
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- Rambuss
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- Gandhi
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- Smailbegovic
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Neuroaesthetics and Reading
Analysis of the theories of art, reading, and aesthetic experience proposed by neuroscience and cognitive science in light of traditional aesthetics and contemporary literary theory. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite: At least one course on neuroscience or cognitive science and one 1000-level literature course. Instructor permission required.
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- Armstrong
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Reading Narrative Theory
Narrative is a powerful category of analysis spanning genres, historical periods, media forms, and the distinction between the "fictional" and the "real." This course examines major narrative theorists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will focus on literary examples, such as theories of the folktale and novel, and scholarship that interrogates the work of narrative in historiography, in cinema and television, and in extra-literary contexts (in the struggle of political campaigners to “control the narrative” or debates on narrative in gaming, medical research, law, and theory itself). Limited to 20 senior English concentrators. Others admitted by instructor permission only.
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Senior Honors Seminar in English
Weekly seminar led by the Advisor of Honors in English. Introduces students to sustained literary-critical research and writing skills necessary to successful completion of the senior thesis. Particular attention to efficient ways of developing literary-critical projects, as well as evaluating, incorporating, and documenting secondary sources. Enrollment limited to English concentrators whose applications to the Honors in English program have been accepted. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor in English. S/NC
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Senior Honors Thesis in English
Independent research and writing under the direction of a faculty member. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor in English. Open to senior English concentrators pursuing Honors in English. Instructor permission required.
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Senior Honors Seminar in Nonfiction Writing
This course is designed for students accepted into the Nonfiction Honors Program. It will be run in workshop format, and will focus on research skills and generative and developmental writing strategies for students embarking on their thesis projects. Weekly assignments will be directed toward helping students work through various stages in their writing processes. Students will be expected to respond thoughtfully and constructively in peer reviewing one another's work. Open to seniors who have been admitted to the Honors Program in Nonfiction Writing. Instructor permission required.
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- Imbriglio
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Senior Honors Thesis in Nonfiction Writing
Independent research and writing under the direction of the student’s Nonfiction Writing honors supervisor. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor for Nonfiction Writing. Open to senior English concentrators pursuing Honors in Nonfiction Writing. Instructor permission required.
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- Imbriglio
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Proseminar
This seminar, required for first-year graduate students in English, considers the state and stakes of literary studies today. The course aims to familiarize students with contemporary critical debates and stances in the wider discipline, and to engage with current methodologies, theories, and analytical tensions. We also address issues of professionalization as they relate to the first years of graduate work. Enrollment limited to 10. S/NC.
- Primary Instructor
- Reichman
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Graduate Independent Study in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures
Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required.
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- Bryan
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- Egan
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- Foley
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- Rabb
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- Redfield
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- Rambuss
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- Kuzner
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Satire and Irony
Satire is not so much a genre as it is a mode of discourse, like irony, that resists formal constraints and can function in almost any kind of text. Satire’s dynamic contradictions (reform and frustration; laughter and anger; topicality and generality; purposefulness and pointlessness; public and private) enliven early modern texts, and complicate the relationship between language and meaning. Theories of satire provide a framework for the study of its history and practice. Emphasis falls on the great age of satire (especially the works of Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries) but some attention will be given to earlier and later examples.
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American Literature and Middle Class Labor
A study of the representation of forms of middle class in labor in American Fiction from the 1830s through the 1970s. Authors to be considered include Melville, Douglass, Jacobs, Twain, James, DuBois, Cather, Hurston, Fitzgerald, and Ellison. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Graduate Independent Study in the Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures
Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required.
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- Blasing
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- Burrows
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- Egan
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- Khalip
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- Gould
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- Keach
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- McLaughlin
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- Nabers
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- Rabb
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- Rooney
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- Redfield
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- Anderson
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- Parker
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Postcoloniality and Globalism
Seminar addresses intersections and disjunctions between two currents in contemporary literary and cultural criticism: “postcolonial theory” and “world literature theory.” We read "theory” alongside imaginative literature by writers and critics associated with concepts of postcoloniality, globalism, and diaspora. Themes include: race, identity and subject-position, and the problem of “literature” itself, understood as mode of thought and act of will. Readings will include: Césaire, Damrosch, Fanon, Hall, Jameson, Naipaul, Said, Soyinka, Spivak, Walcott, Wright, Wynter. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Graduate Independent Study in Modern and Contemporary Literatures
Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required.
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- Armstrong
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- I: Independent Study/Research
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- Bewes
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- Primary Instructor
- Blasing
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- Primary Instructor
- Burrows
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- George
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- Katz
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- Kim
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- Murray
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- Nabers
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- Reichman
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- Rooney
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- Stanley
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- Rambuss
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- Gandhi
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- Smailbegovic
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Ultimate Dialogicality: Thinking With Bakhtin
“In Dostoevsky’s polyphonic novel we are dealing not with ordinary dialogic form … [but] with an ultimate dialogicality, … a dialogicality of the ultimate whole ..." With this claim, Bakhtin’s writing on literature arguably leaves the realm of criticism and becomes philosophy. In so doing it also anticipates some of the most challenging and significant developments in contemporary literature. Besides Bakhtin's major works, readings include Deleuze, Rancière, Flusser, Woolf, Sebald, Kelman. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Scholarly Writing for Journal Publication
Writing and professionalization workshop intended for graduate students in literary studies. Topics covered include selection of journal; framing, structuring and composition of the article; the logistics of peer review; sharing and workshopping drafts; working with academic mentors and advisors. Every passing student will have a publishable article under consideration by the end of the semester. Enrollment limited to 12 English Ph.D. students. Instructor permission required. S/NC.
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Seminar in Pedagogy and Composition Theory
An experimental and exploratory investigation into writing as a preparation for teaching college-level writing. Reviews the history of writing about writing, from Plato to current discussions on composition theory. Against this background, examines various processes of reading and writing. Emphasizes the practice of writing, including syllabus design. Enrollment restricted to students in the English Ph.D. program.
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Preliminary Examination Preparation
For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing for a preliminary examination.
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- E: Grad Enrollment Fee/Dist Prep
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Thesis Preparation
For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing a thesis.
- Schedule Code
- E: Grad Enrollment Fee/Dist Prep
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Courses of Interest to Students Concentrating in English
These courses, offered in other departments, are cross listed with the English Department and do not require advisor approval to count toward the concentration for English concentrators. Please refer to the primary department for registration details.
Cogut Center for Humanities
HMAN 1972X Kubrick's Work
HMAN 2400B Trans/Passing, In Theory
HMAN 2971D Caring for the Truth
Hispanic Studies
HISP 1240O Theater of Renaissance England and Spain
