Department of English
Graduate-Credit Courses in Language and Literature
Academic Year 2009-2010, Semester IIAll courses carry four credits, unless otherwise indicated.
Language and Linguistics
CAS EN 518 A1/B1 English as a Second Language
Prereq: consent of instructor. Application of linguistic concepts to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Includes description of contemporary English grammatical structures that pose problems for learners and teachers.
Zlateva Tues 4:00-7:00Literature
CAS EN 530 A1 The Romantic Age: Studies in British Literature from 1789 to 1832
Romanticism considered in light of social, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical issues. Authors may include Blake, Burke, Wollstonecraft, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Godwin, Byron, Cobbett, Scott, Clare, Mary and Percy Shelley, Keats, De Quincey, and Hazlitt.
Ostas Mon, Wed, Fri 2:00-3:00CAS EN 534 A1 American Literature: 1855 to 1918
American literature from the Civil War to WWI. Realism and naturalism, race, class and urbanization, marriage and the new woman. Alger, Twain, James, Harper, Howells, Crane, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, Dickinson, Frost.
Jarrett Tues, Thurs 12:30-2:00CAS EN 535 A1 Modern British and Irish Poetry
An exploration of major poets of the long twentieth century, from Thomas Hardy and W. B. Yeats through the War Poets, Eliot, Loy, Auden, and Lawrence to Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon.
Riquelme Tues, Thurs 12:30-2:00CAS EN 536 A1 Modern American Poetry
Study of five or six poets from the following: Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Frost, Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Ammons, Ashberry, Plath, Ginsberg, or Merrill
Costello Mon, Wed, Fri 12:00-1:00CAS EN 544 A1 The Modern British Novel
Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster, Beckett, and other novelists of the period 1895–1956.
Fogel Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00-11:00CAS EN 545 A1 The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
From its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Works by Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and others.
Otten Mon, Wed, Fri 2:00-3:00CAS EN 546 A1/A2 & B1 The Modern American Novel
From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others. Section A2 is for SED MAT students only.
A1/A2: Matthews Mon 3:00-6:00
B1: Van Anglen Tues, Thurs 2:00-3:30CAS EN 547 A1 Contemporary American Fiction
Syllabus varies from semester to semester but this course may be taken only once for credit.
Mizruchi Tues, Thurs 11:00-12:30CAS EN 576 A1 19th Century American Women Writers
Hawthorne’s “damned mob of scribbling women” in historical/cultural context. Gender, genre, authorship, sexuality, class, race, shifts in critical approaches. Foster, Stowe, Warner, Fern, Southworth, Davis, Jewett, Hopkins.
Korobkin Tues, Thurs 9:30-11:00CAS EN 578 A1 Jane Austen in Context
We will investigate the question of tradition and the individual talent in Austen's fiction by reading what she read. Exploration of such writers as Johnson and Burney highlights the distinctive contours of both her masterpieces and her juvenilia.
Redford Tues, Thurs 12:30-2:00CAS EN 582 A1 Fictions of the Fifties
Exploration of major fiction written between the end of WWII and the death of JFK. Topics include reactions to literary Modernism, the Cold War, Existentialism, the “lonely crowd.” Authors include Ellison, Bellow, O’Connor, Kerouac, Mailer, Baldwin.
Chodat Mon, Wed, Fri 1:00-2:00CAS EN 586 A1 Postcolonial Theater
The emergence of a national theater movement is a feature of decolonization. “Writing back” to traditions in world-class Anglophone dramatists from Ireland (Gregory, Synge, Yeats), Trinidad (Walcott, Matura, Lovelace), Nigeria (Soyinka, Ladipo), and South Africa (Fugard and “township theater”). Also offered as CAS AA 537 A1.
Breiner Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00-11:00CAS EN 587 A1 Studies in African American Literature: Law, Race, Literature
Representations of civil rights, race, and law in African American literature. Legal texts as backdrop to writings on the law’s limitations in protecting black civil rights: Walker, Jacobs, Douglass, Hopkins, Chesnutt; Wright, Ellison, Randall, Obama. Also offered as CAS AA 502 B1.
Jarrett Tues, Thurs 9:30-11:00
GRS EN 606 A1 Literary Criticism II
Survey of literary critical perspectives and trends in humanistic theory relevant to literary interpretation from the middle of the twentieth century onward, including formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, gender studies, new historicism, and post-colonial studies. Frequent writing assignments of various lengths.
Riquelme Tues, Thurs 9:30-11:00GRS EN 682 A1 The Sixties in Fiction and Theory
Examination of some of the most influential literary and theoretical texts of the 1960s. Topics include interpretation, language, metafiction, postmodernism, and multiculturalism. Authors will include Pynchon, Barth, Morrison, Bellow, Sontag, Derrida, and Foucault.
Chodat MWF 10:00-11:00GRS EN 694 A1 Music and Poetry
An historical survey of the relations between the two arts from the Greeks to the present. Discussion of poetry in many languages; emphasis on English. Chant, song, madrigal, opera, and other forms. Ability to read music required.
Winn Tues, Thurs 9:30-11:00GRS EN 696 A1 The Question of the Real in Fiction and Film
In this course we will explore questions of the "real"-or probable, natural, and familiar-and the "strange"-or unreal, fantastic and uncanny-in fiction by Chekhov, Poe, Tolstoy, and Kafka and films by German Expressionist and Italian Neorealist directors.
Brown Tues, Thurs 2:00-3:30GRS EN 696 B1 Animals and Literature Since 1800
How can we cast ourselves into the inner lives of alien creatures, from amoebas to elephants? We’ll consider animals in literature and film and track theoretical shifts in the category of animal. Authors include Byron, Hardy, Darwin, Woolf and Kafka.
Henchman Mon, Wed 3:00-4:30GRS EN 726 A1 Social London
Status, struggle and solidarities in the heteroglot drama and life of early modern “Londinopolis.” Wide-ranging readings in Tudor-Stuart plays, especially city comedies, by many authors, in verse satires and non-canonical materials (libels, court cases, conduct manuals, etc.).
Siemon Thurs 3:00-5:30GRS EN 728 A1 The 18th Century Novel: History and Interpretation
This seminar explores the relevance of theory to the historical understanding of the 18th century English novel. Works by Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Walpole, and Austen read alongside and against formalist, sociological, feminist, aesthetic, and ethical traditions of analysis.
Prince Mon 3:00-5:30GRS EN 786 A1 Modern Long Poem
The long poem as sequence, notebook, atypical research, non-novel, nearly genreless book: excerpts
and sometimes whole works by Crane, Williams, Stein, Pound, Loy, Auden, Prince, Zukofsky, Olson,
Hill, Howe, and others, American and British.
Fogel Wed 12:00-2:30GRS EN 788 A1 Transnational Modernism
Examines hemispheric and transatlantic influences surrounding the formation of American modernism. Readings byHenry Adams, Du Bois, Henry James, Eliot, Pound, Stein, Hughes, McKay, Césaire, and others. Topics include the transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, internationalism, translation, and the role of the “region.”
Patterson Mon 12:00-2:30GRS EN 791 A1 Film Theories
An omnivorous study of various film theories, examined in relation to weekly screenings of illustrative films. We will also read some literary theory (e.g. about narrative and realism) in an effort to apply that thinking to cinema.
Monk Tues 3:00-5:30