FALL 2000

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

ENG L ISH 1A: BEGINNING COMPOSITION. Prerequisite: fulfillment of the Subject A requirement. This course will introduce students to the strategies of personal writing in a multicultural context.

ENGLISH lB: INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION. Prerequisite: English lA. This course will emphasize the transition from personal to public writing in a multicultural context.

ENGLISH lC: APPLI E D INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION. Prerequisite: English lB. This course will address the function of writing in a range of contemporary situations, including that of the academy, from a critical and theoretical perspective..

ENGLISH 12R: I NTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE. CHICANA & CHICANO LITERATURE. This is an introductory level liter a ture class designed for non-English majors. The course provides a brief survey of Chicana/o literature with a focus on growing up narratives including short stories, novel, memoir, children's literature, essay, and drama. Some of the questions we will consider: What is Chican a/o identity as def in ed in these works? What do growing up narratives teach us about Chicana/o culture and the formation of Chica na/o identity? Why do so many Chicana/o authors write such personal stories to the point that they come across as wholly autobiographical even when they are clearly labeled as fiction?

Ms. Lopez. TR 12:40-2:00.

ENGLISH 23A: ENGLISH LITERARY TRA DITIONS. This course will survey the major texts and dominant motifs of English lite rature roughly from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Students will be expected to sit a midterm and an exam, and to produce three papers of varying lengths.
Mr. Bredbeck. TR 11:10-12:30.

ENGLISH 102-01: INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THEORY. Close analysis of formal features of several genres and an introduction to theoretical and critical approaches.

Staff. MWF 8:10-9:00.

ENGLISH 102-02: INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THEORY. The course will introduce English Majors to the cri tical needs of Upper Division classes. We will examine the practice of critical and literary analysis. Using key critical terms to create a critical logic (or illog i c), we will examine the ideological issues involved in novels which recreate an American past . We will read Women's Indian Captivity Narratives, Catharine Ma r ia Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon, Leslie Marmon Silko's Garden in the Dunes, Andrea Barret t' s The Voyage of the Narwhal and Charles Frazie r' s Cold Mountain.

Mr. Cohen. MWF 10:10-11:00.

ENGLISH 103: ADVANCED COMPOSITION. Principles of expository prose, with intensive practice. Advanced course in composition, not remedial.

Mr. Appleford. MWF 10:10-11:00.

ENGLISH 1 17A: SHAKESPEARE. HI STORY. A close analytical study of plays selected from one of Shakespeare's dramatic genres as they are designated in the First Folio.

Mr. Appleford. MWF 8:10-9:00.

ENGLISH 121E: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF T HE AFRICA N CONTINENT. This course will serve as an introduction to the literary-cultural and theoretical productions of the African continent. It will focus on the following topics and questions: colonial discourse about Africa and the production of the "Dark Continent"; pan-Africanism, Negritude, and regional identities; the cultural politics of language usage; postcolonial African conceptualizations of historiography, orality, and ethnographic authority; and gender, sexuality and "tradition." We will watch Ousmane Sembene's film Xala, and read the following primary texts: Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God; Assia Djebar, Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade; Ousmane Sembene, Xala; Nuruddin Farah, Secrets; Bessie Head, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind; Ben Okri, The Famished Road; Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter; M. G . Vassanji, The Gunny Sack ; and Nadine Gordimer, Jump and Other Stories. We will also read the work of the following cultural theorists and historians: Frantz Fanon, Valentin Mudimbe, Kwame Appiah, Anne McClintock, Patrick Brantlinger, Steven Feierman, Carol Boyce Davies, and Nancy Rose Hunt. Two papers and a take-home open-book final examination.

Ms. Roy. MW 7:10-8:30 p.m.

ENGLISH 123A: WOMEN AND LITERATURE. POETRY. Study of writing by women from the medieval period to the present, examining the effects of race and class as well as gender on a literary form and language, and considering questions of literary influence and transmission.

Ms. Orlijan. MWF 2:10-3:00.

ENGLISH 125A: DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL. CONTESTED ORIGINS IN THE RISE OF THE NOVEL. A rguments over which text should take honors as the "first novel" were fought during much of the twentieth century. Others disputed that the long held paradigm of the novel's "rise" was itself problematic, and sugge sted that the debate regarding origin s was evidence of that fact. We will be examining t hree texts that have been contestants for the "first" prize, Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and Richardson's Pamela in order to examine the intellectual and politica l basis of each claim. We will also read thre e other texts for their contribution to the nature-of-the-novel debate: How is it that Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess was written before Pamela and nearly knocked Robinson Crusoe off the bestsellers list? What does Fielding's Jonathan Wild demonstrate about the role of criminality and masculinity in what is g enerally seen as a domesticated and feminized genre? How does Austen's Lady Susan reflect the developments of the eighteenth century and predict the evolution of the genre in the nineteenth? While the course will be structured around critical debate, the main thrust of the student's attention will be spent on close textu al readings. Requirements: Midterm, Paper, and Final.

Ms. Ger iguis. MWF 1 :10-2:00.

ENGLISH 126B: THE AMERICAN NOVEL. THE END OF THE NINET EEN TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT. A critical study of American long fiction, with special attention to such modes as romance, realism, naturalism, mode rn ism, and postmodernism.

Ms. Tellersen. MWF 3:10-4:00.

ENGLISH 132: AMERICAN LITERATURE. HOPE AND REDEMPTION: AMERICAN LITERATURE TURNS TO THE WEST, 1865-1914. After the catastrophic losses of the Civil War, the United States turned to the West for hope and redemption. This class will examine the Western United States as im agined and physical spaces. We will begin with attem pts by Walt Whitman and Clarence King, first Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, to connect the Civil War to the industrial possibilities of the West. We will see how the West is manifested in the popular imagination through dime novels, stories of immigration and of conquest. We will read works by Walt Whitman, Claren ce King, Mark Twain, Maria Ampa ro Ruiz De Burton, Sui Sin Far, Mary Hallock Foote, Black Elk, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, and Mary Austin. Course requirements: Weekly Notes, a short paper, a long paper, midterm and a final.

Mr. Cohen. MWF 12:10-1:00.

ENGLISH 133: AMERICAN LITERATURE. 1914-1945.   Modern perspectives and literary innovations in the work of such writers as Wi lliam Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zoa Neale Hurston, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Eugene O'Neill.

Ms. Holden. TR2:10-3:30.

ENGLISH 138T: STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. A focused study of ideas, forms, or movements in African American literature su c h as autobiography, conjure, the blues tradition, the Black Aesthetic, and literary vernacular.

Ms. Huff. MWF 11 :10-12:00.

ENGLISH 140KK: STUDIES IN LITERARY GEN RE S: PRE-RAPHAELITES AND THEIR CIRCLE. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood--a mid-Victorian fellowship of iconoclastic artists headed by D.G. Rossetti--attracted such literary insurgents as Morris, Swinburne, Meredith, Wilde, and Pater. This course will examine the effects of this brilliant conspiracy of vision and voice on art, l iterature , philosophy, and social economics.

Ms. Collins. TR 12:40-2:00.

ENGLISH 141V: LITERATURE AND RELATED FIELDS. THE I LL USTRATED BOOK. A practical introduction to the illustrated book, with an emphasis on independent term projects. Class meetings (lectures, slide shows, discussions) will address the following issues: theories of visual/verbal relationships since the Renaissance, basic methods for investigating the interaction between texts and their visual accompaniments, traditional iconography, the illustr ation of Shakespeare and Milton, three great artist-illustrators (Hogarth, Blake, Beardsley), and that post-mode rn classic of children's book illustration, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. Term projects may be on illustrated books of any time, place, or genre (including children's books, comic books, and non-literary ill ustration ). There will also be a mid-term quiz and a final exam.

Mr. Essick. TR 11:10-12:30

ENGLISH 148M: STUDIES IN MAJOR AUTHORS. C.S. LEWIS. A survey of Lewis's criticism, fiction, poetry, satire, religious writings, and autobiography. An inquiry into the origins, meanings, shapes, and repercussions of his work, as well as some of the great works of literature that inspired his lifelong work.

Mr. Briggs. TR 3:40-5:00.

ENGLISH 166A: LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTI C PERIOD. A close study of major texts by the "first generation" of Engli s h romantic poets-William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While the number of poets we will consider is small, the range of topics and concepts will broaden our horizons considerably: Blake's work as an artist as well as a poet, masculine se l f-fashioning and constructions of the female, friendship and rivalry among writers living and dead, and the philosophical grounds of the romantic ideology. Assignments: mid - term exam, term paper (topics can be chosen individually), final exam.

Mr. Essick. TR 8:10-9:30.

ENGLISH 172B: LITERATURE OF THE LATER VICTORIAN PERIOD. This course will serve as an introduction to the poetry, fiction, drama, and discursive prose of the second half (roughly 1860 to 1900) of the Victorian period in Britain. It will focus on the following topics and questions: industrial capitalism, political economy, and the critique of modernity; imperialism and the making of Englishness; poverty, criminality, and prostitution; domesticity and bourgeois feminism; the ethics of cultural forms; and science, sexuality and the law. It will feature such authors as J.S. Mill, Harriet Taylor, John R u skin, Mary Braddon, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, Josephine Butler, Florence Nightingale, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle; it will also feature critical essays by Mary Poovey, Patrick Bran tl inger, Jeffrey Weeks, and Helena Michie. Students are strongly advised to read the two novels (Lady A udley's Secret and The Sign of Four) ahead of time. Two pape rs and an open-book take-home final examination.

Ms. Roy. MW 5:10-6:30.