Undergraduate courses in English

(Same as ENGLISH 109.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 109.) Introduction to English literary history from the late 14th through the mid 17th centuries. Emphasis is on interpretation of major works by Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Milton. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Riggs, D)

ENGLISH 14Q. Tis All in Pieces: John Donne and the Early Modern World

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Situating Donne's work within his historical and cultural milieu; how his writing reflects changes on the threshold of the modern era. The historical, scientific, and cultural milieu of the early modern world. Related developments in mathematical perspective and early modern art. The influence of his dramatic realism on modern poets such as Browning, Eliot, and Rich, and composers such as Benjamin Britten and Bob Dylan. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Win (Brooks, H)

ENGLISH 20. Masterpieces of English Literature II: From the Enlightenment to the Modern Period

(Same as ENGLISH 120.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120.) From the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, lyric and dramatic poetry, Romanticism, realism, Modernism, characterization, narrative voice, and the influence of history on literature. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Spr (Jarvis, C)

ENGLISH 21. Masterpieces of American Literature

(Same as ENGLISH 121.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 121.) How race and ethnicity have been pivotal in the construction, proliferation, and development of American Literature. Authors: Mary Rowlandson, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, Fae Myenne Ng, Helena Maria Viramontes, N. Scott Momaday, and John Okada. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Sohn, S)

ENGLISH 22. Jane Austen into Film

(Same as ENGLISH 122.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 122.) Jane Austen's six novels and their transformation into films from the 40s to the present. Historical motives and psychological imperatives for recreating Austen's work in cinematic form, emphasizing narrative techniques distinctive to prose and camera. Fundamentals of narrative theory and cinematic analysis. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Spr (Shloss, C)

ENGLISH 42B. The Films of Woody Allen

(Same as ENGLISH 142B.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for English 142B.) Allen as one of the most influential, prolific, and controversial filmmakers. His comic vision, attitudes towards sex and gender relations, and cultural importance. The development of his career and work. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Polhemus, R)

ENGLISH 42E. The Films of the Coen Brothers

(Same as ENGLISH 142E.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 142E). Visual or filmic aspects of narration and the place of major Coen films in the company of precedent films such as Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. Films include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men. Readings include The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Fields, K)

ENGLISH 43A. American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore

(Same as ENGLISH 143A.) Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, Black Elk Speaks. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Fields, K)

ENGLISH 47. Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature

(Same as ENGLISH 147.) How contemporary writers are influenced by their forebears, even as they reinvent or rewrite the inherited tradition, by interrogating the meanings of the concept of the contemporary by grouping old and new texts. Groupings include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, and Ian McEwan's Saturday. Sources include film adaptations. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Staveley, A)

ENGLISH 51N. Drama Queens: Powerful Women on Stage

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Eight strong women at the center of works of Greek, Shakespearean, and modern theater in the context of social misogyny. How they enact the social and spiritual visions of their creators. Sources include film performances. Students perform simple scene work. No acting experience required. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Aut (Friedlander, L)

ENGLISH 52N. Ten Top Books

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. The books most frequently taught in U.S. English departments including classics by Nathaniel Hawthorne and F. Scott Fitzgerald and recent works by minority writers such as Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Cultural and historical contexts, and the aesthetic and social factors that canonize these literary supertexts. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Win (Jones, G)

ENGLISH 53N. Aesthetic Taste and Gastronomy

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. A sampling of aesthetics and gastronomy as defined by 18th-century British essayists and their heirs from England and France. Focus is on the development of middle class taste, figurative as well as food-oriented, and manners, snobbery, and sensibility. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Win (Gigante, D)

ENGLISH 60. Poetry and Poetics

(Same as ENGLISH 160.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 160.) Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Greene, R), Win (Jenkins, N), Spr (Boland, E)

ENGLISH 65N. Contemporary Women Fiction Writers

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Novels and story collections by women writers whose work explores: domestic and global politics; love, sexuality, and orientation; and spirituality and its meanings. Readings includes Dandicant, Eisenberg, Munro, Morrison, O'Brien, and Erdrich. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Aut (Tallent, E)

ENGLISH 69Q. Sources of Global Challenges Today, Possibilities for Global Solutions: A Literary Exploration

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Concerns central to literary study, comparative study in race and ethnicity, and African and African American Studies as expressed in fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, the U.S., and Hawai'i. Issues include: relations between the West and the Muslim world; class and race in the U.S.; the shift of world populations from rural society to the metropolis; international immigration and refugee situations; and how women's lives are impacted by society, and how they shape and change it. Opportunities for dialogue with members of local ethnic and religious communities. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Spr (Drake, S)

ENGLISH 70N. Shakespeare on Film

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Premises of film criticism. Films include A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Max Reinhardt and Peter Hall; Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zefirelli and Baz Luhrman; Henry V by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh; and Hamlet by Sven Gade, Olivier, Grigori Kozintsev, Zefirelli, Branagh, and Michael Almereyda. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Aut (Riggs, D)

ENGLISH 77N. Living in the Past: Italy in the Anglo-American Imagination

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Italy as metaphor, in depictions by British and American writers from Shakespeare and Byron to D.H.Lawrence and Robert Hellenga. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Aut (Evans, M)

ENGLISH 81. Philosophy and Literature

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Anderson, L; Vermeule, B)

ENGLISH 82Q. Shakespeare's Plays

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Eight representative plays; sonnets. Student papers provide topics for discussion. Students direct and perform scenes from the plays studied. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Rebholz, R)

ENGLISH 85Q. The Brontës: A Victorian Family

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. The Brontë children's stories of personal power and political intrigue, based on the the news of the period. Readings include Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey focusing on the tedium, aspirations, and frustrations of these gifted women. Historical, cultural, and autobiographical questions in these novels, the juvenilia, and a representative later work. Prerequisite: PWR 1. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Win (Paulson, L)

ENGLISH 87N. The Graphic Novel: Word, Image, Sound, Silence

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. The evolution of funnies to comics and graphic novels. How definitions and representations of this genre have changed over the last century. The controversy over the status of the graphic novel. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Lunsford, A)

ENGLISH 90. Fiction Writing

The elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Students write complete stories and participate in story workshops. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

5 units, Aut (Antopol-Johnson, M; Horack, S; Kealey, T; Tanaka, S; Tyree, J), Win (Antopol-Johnson, M; Pneuman, A; Tyree, J), Spr (Antopol-Johnson, M; Hutchins, S; Reese, R; Tanaka, S; Tyree, J)

ENGLISH 91. Creative Nonfiction

(Formerly 94A.) Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Students use creative means to express factual content.

5 units, Aut (Hummel, M), Win (Tyree, J; Johnson, A), Spr (Hummel, M)

ENGLISH 92. Reading and Writing Poetry

Prerequisite: PWR 1. Issues of poetic craft. How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. May be repeated for credit.

5 units, Aut (McGriff, M; Ekiss, K), Win (McGriff, M), Spr (McGriff, M; Ekiss, K)

ENGLISH 94. Introduction to Creative Writing: Form and Structure

For minors in creative writing. The forms and conventions of the contemporary short story and poem. How form, technique, and content combine to make stories and poems organic. Prerequisite: 90, 91, or 92.

5 units, Win (Hummel, M), Spr (Snider, B)

ENGLISH 99T. Technology for Artists and Writers

Practicum. How creative writing and other artistic pursuits have moved from the actual world of print, art galleries, and concert halls to the virtual world. How artists and writers are using online facilities such as Second Life, YouTube, and blogs as platforms to create storytelling and art. Students create a web portfolio, using Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, that showcases their talents and interests using photography, film, music, creative writing, dance, visual arts, and theater.

3 units, Win (Kealey, T; Sabol, J)

ENGLISH 102. Chaucer

Chaucer's verbal art in the context of medieval literary traditions, focusing on The Canterbury Tales. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Lerer, S)

ENGLISH 105. The Renaissance

English literature from Sir Thomas More's Utopia to Milton's Paradise Lost. The good state, the good man, and the good poem. Major literary genres of the period: lyric, romance, comedy, tragedy, and epic. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Summit, J)

ENGLISH 109. Masterpieces of English Literature I: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and their Contemporaries

(Same as ENGLISH 9.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 109.) Introduction to English literary history from the late 14th through the mid 17th centuries. Emphasis is on interpretation of major works by Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Milton. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Riggs, D)

ENGLISH 111. Age of Chaucer

Survey of late-medieval English literature. Major authors include Chaucer, Langland, Margery Kempe, and the Pearl-poet. Genres include dream vision, romance, and lyric. Issues include the politics of writing in Middle English, the Christianization of Arthurian romance, and the construction of social class. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Karnes, M)

ENGLISH 112A. Wicked Witches of the West: Dangerous Women in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy

Workshop. Women who fascinate, control, and frighten men in classical and Elizabethan drama. The presentation of women in three pairs of Greek and Elizabethan plays and in two 20th-century works. Theatrical styles of each period through doing scenes, watching films, and the history of theater. No background in performing required. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

5 units, Win (Friedlander, L)

ENGLISH 113. Sex and Violence in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Nine tragedies by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Middleton, John Webster and John Ford; their literary and cultural settings. Why Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights depicted extreme forms of sociopathic behavior such as murder, rape, infanticide, incest, and necrophilia. The connections between sex and violence in these plays. Why are they still read and performed? What can be learned from them? GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

5 units, Win (Riggs, D)

ENGLISH 115A. Shakespeare and Modern Critical Developments

Approaches include gender studies and feminism, race studies, Shakespeare's geographies in relation to the field of cultural geography, and the importance of religion in the period. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Parker, P)

ENGLISH 120. Masterpieces of English Literature II: From the Enlightenment to the Modern Period

(Same as ENGLISH 20.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120.) From the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, lyric and dramatic poetry, Romanticism, realism, Modernism, characterization, narrative voice, and the influence of history on literature. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Spr (Jarvis, C)

ENGLISH 121. Masterpieces of American Literature

(Same as ENGLISH 21.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 121.) How race and ethnicity have been pivotal in the construction, proliferation, and development of American Literature. Authors: Mary Rowlandson, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, Fae Myenne Ng, Helena Maria Viramontes, N. Scott Momaday, and John Okada. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Sohn, S)

ENGLISH 122. Jane Austen into Film

(Same as ENGLISH 22.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 122.) Jane Austen's six novels and their transformation into films from the 40s to the present. Historical motives and psychological imperatives for recreating Austen's work in cinematic form, emphasizing narrative techniques distinctive to prose and camera. Fundamentals of narrative theory and cinematic analysis. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Spr (Shloss, C)

ENGLISH 123. American Literature and Culture to 1855

(Same as AMSTUD 150.) Sources include histories, poetry, autobiography, captivity and slave narratives, drama, and fiction. Authors include Mather, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Franklin, Brockden Brown, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, and Melville. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Win (Jones, G)

ENGLISH 125A. The Gothic Novel

(Same as COMPLIT 125A.) The Gothic novel and its relatives from its invention by Walpole in The Castle of Otranto of 1764. Readings include: Northanger Abbey, The Italian, The Monk, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and Dracula. What defines the Gothic as it evolves from one specific novel to a mode that makes its way into a range of fictional types? GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Bender, J)

ENGLISH 135. Victorian Poetry

The thematic, formal, and aesthetic innovations of Victorian poetry which is often imagined as a dead space between the romantic and modernist movements. Readings include R. Browning's dramatic monologues, Tennyson's Idylls, Swinburne's English Sapphics, and Michael Field's collectively written lyrics. Narrative Victorian poetry, including Meredith's Modern Love and Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and its relation to the 19th century's ascendant form, the novel. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Jarvis, C)

ENGLISH 135H. Thomas Hardy

The autobiography, novels, and poems of Thomas Hardy. Emphasis is on his combination of a self-consciously modern cast of thought with an apparently paradoxical preoccupation with the personal, local, and national past, as described by Michael Millgate in his seminal biography of the author. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Jarvis, C)

ENGLISH 136. Romantic Poetry and Poetics

Major Romantic writers including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Focus on form in the lyrical ballad, ode, epic romance, and closet drama. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Gigante, D)

ENGLISH 136A. The Lyric in 19th-Century Britain

Development of the lyric through the 19th century. Social, political, and economic pressures on lyric. How poetry expresses relations in society. Poems by Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, D.G. Rossetti, C. Rossetti, Arnold, and Hopkins. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Rovee, C)

ENGLISH 137A. Oscar Wilde

Major works of this Magdalen College alumnus. Genres include: poems, plays, social criticism, art theory, novels, short stories. Wilde's intellectual significance in his time and for the modern age that he helped to usher into existence. The struggle for art's significance in an increasingly cutthroat world; the changing face of Oxford in an era of democratization; the costs of being different in a straitlaced Victorian society. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Rovee, C)

ENGLISH 138T. Mark Twain and The Assault of Laughter

How a phunny phellow, notorious liar, and irreverent blasphemer became a moral barometer of American literature; how his fictions, satires, and burlesques provided a comic barrage against the pretensions of his day. Major works such as Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson, and less known works such as No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. Twain's literary and comic techniques, and how his complex and mythic fictions erupt along America's fault lines of race, gender, and class. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Obenzinger, H)

ENGLISH 139A. Henry James

Readings include The Portrait of a Lady and shorter fiction such as Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Dekker, G)

ENGLISH 140A. Creative Resistance and the Holocaust

Literature, music, art, and photography that emerged from the European Jewish catastrophe. Sources include Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Charlotte Salomon, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Cynthia Ozick. Guest lecture by Holocaust survivor. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Felstiner, J)

ENGLISH 142B. The Films of Woody Allen

(Same as ENGLISH 42B.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for English 142B.) Allen as one of the most influential, prolific, and controversial filmmakers. His comic vision, attitudes towards sex and gender relations, and cultural importance. The development of his career and work. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Polhemus, R)

ENGLISH 142E. The Films of the Coen Brothers

(Same as ENGLISH 42E.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 142E). Visual or filmic aspects of narration and the place of major Coen films in the company of precedent films such as Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. Films include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men. Readings include The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Fields, K)

ENGLISH 142G. 20th-Century American Fiction

Major works of fiction by American writers, starting in the 20s with Hemingway and Fitzgerald and continuing with Faulkner, Welty, Ellison, and writers on the contemporary scene such as Morrison and DeLillo. Fiction as a genre, and its evolution in response to forces in modern American life and art. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Rampersad, A)

ENGLISH 143A. American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore

(Same as ENGLISH 43A.) Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, Black Elk Speaks. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Fields, K)

ENGLISH 143E. Introduction to African and African American Studies

(Same as AFRICAAM 105, HISTORY 255B.) Interdisciplinary. Central themes in African American culture and history related to race as a definitive American phenomenon. African survivals and interpretations of slavery in the New World, contrasting interpretations of the Black family, African American literature, and art. Possible readings: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, and bell hooks. Focus may vary each year. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Win (Elam, M; Carson, C)

ENGLISH 146. Development of the Short Story: Continuity and Innovation

The dual concepts of continuity and innovation. The illumination of love, death, desire, violence, and empathy. Texts include Maupassant, Babel, Chopin, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, and Flannery O'Connor. Required for Creative Writing emphasis. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Tallent, E)

ENGLISH 147. Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature

(Same as ENGLISH 47.) How contemporary writers are influenced by their forebears, even as they reinvent or rewrite the inherited tradition, by interrogating the meanings of the concept of the contemporary by grouping old and new texts. Groupings include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, and Ian McEwan's Saturday. Sources include film adaptations. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Staveley, A)

ENGLISH 150D. Women Poets

The development of women's poetry from the 17th to the 20th century. How these poets challenge and enhance the canon, amending and expanding ideas of tone, voice and craft, while revising societal expectations of the poet's identity. Poets include Katharine Philips, Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Boland, E)

ENGLISH 152D. W.E.B. DuBois as Writer and Philosopher

(Same as AFRICAAM 152, PHIL 194L.) Capstone seminar for Philosophy and Literature programs. Preference to majors in English, Philosophy, African and African American Studies, or the Philosophy and Literature programs. Life, career, thought, and writings of DuBois. Focus on the first half of his career, interactions among his early philosophical perfectionism, his work in social theory/social science, and his literary ambitions as an essayist and novelist. Sources include Souls of Black Folk, as well as his books on history and sociology, scholarly essays, and novels. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Elam, M; Anderson, L)

ENGLISH 153C. British Literature of the 1910s

The 1910s opened with the birth of modernism in Britain, but ended elegiacally, as the country mourned almost a million dead. The diverse literary output of a decade interrupted by war, including novels by E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence, short stories by Katherine Mansfield and James Joyce, the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, and the avant garde poetic experiments of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Sullivan, H)

ENGLISH 153H. Digital Humanities: Beyond the Book

(Same as HUMNTIES 198J.) How electronic texts, literary databases, computers, and digital corpora offer unique ways of reading, analyzing, and understanding literature. Intellectual and philosophical problems associated with an objective methodology within a traditionally subjective discipline. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Jockers, M)

ENGLISH 153J. Virginia Woolf and the Social System

Woolf's major prose narratives in light of the social and historical circumstances which brought them into being and to which they respond. Topics include The Voyage Out as the portrait of the artist as a young woman; Mrs. Dalloway and the English class system; the domestic politics of To the Lighthouse; feminism in historical perspective in A Room of One's Own; pacifism and the coming of war in Between the Acts; and lesbian consciousness in Orlando. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Shloss, C)

ENGLISH 160. Poetry and Poetics

(Same as ENGLISH 60.) (English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 160.) Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

3-5 units, Aut (Greene, R), Win (Jenkins, N), Spr (Boland, E)

ENGLISH 163. Shakespeare

Major plays emphasizing theatrical representation of extreme characters. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Riggs, D), Win (Orgel, S), Spr (Hoxby, B)

ENGLISH 171A. English in the World

World literatures in English outside the traditional British and American canons. The emergence of varieties of English worldwide and consequent literary production as a consequence of British colonialism. Major sites of such Anglophone literatures include the former British colonies of sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and S. Asia; the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada; and Ireland and S. Africa. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Majumdar, S)

ENGLISH 172D. Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

(Same as CSRE 196C, HISTORY 65, PSYCH 155, SOC 146.) How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, given next year

ENGLISH 172E. The Literature of the Americas

(Same as COMPLIT 142.) The intellectual and aesthetic problems of inter-American literature conceived as an entirety. Emphasis is on continuities and crises relevant to N., Central, and S. American literatures. Issues such as the encounters between world views, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, 20th-century avant gardes, and distinctive modern episodes such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magical realism, and Noigandres in comparative perspective. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Win (Greene, R)

ENGLISH 175. Poetry and Environmental Awareness

The environmental imprint and impetus in poetry: Native American poetry, the Bible, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Keats, Clare, Whitman, Dickinson, Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, Williams, D. H. Lawrence, Jeffers, Roethke, Lowell, Millay, Swenson, Bishop, Levertov, and later poets through Hughes, Walcott, Snyder. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Felstiner, J)

ENGLISH 176. Science Fiction: Techno Dreams and Nightmares

Reinventions of human minds and bodies through technology in science fiction texts and films from around the world (U.S., Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Argentina), focusing on mechanically produced creatures (robots, computers, cyborgs, Ais) and biologically engineered beings (evolved animals, androids, clones, aliens). Novels, short stories and films by Shelley, Wells, Huxley, Bioy Casares, Schmidt, Dick, Gibson, Atwood, and Oshii; theoretical texts on the reshaping of human identity in the age of technology. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Heise, U)

ENGLISH 180. The Bible as Literature

English literature abounds with references to the Bible that register its cultural and religious significance and its power and beauty as literature. Focus is on its literary qualities, with attention to form, style, structure, themes, and the historical circumstances of the text's composition. No prior knowledge of the Bible required. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Karnes, M)

ENGLISH 181. The Great Age of the English Essay

Ramblers and idlers, tatlers and hypoochondriacs, spectators and loungers, connoisseurs and talking parrots: the English essay includes many voices and perspectives, addressing major issues including beauty, war, marriage, adultery, friendship, animal cruelty, and the vulnerability of old books. Focus is on questions of character, genre, and literary style. Authors in the periodical essay tradition including Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Thomas De Quincey. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Gigante, D)

ENGLISH 181C. Shakespeare and Dickens

The problems and stakes of reading two central but historically-separated authors through one another. How theatrical are Dickens's novels and how can the theatrical in Dickens be understood as a working-through of Shakespeare? How do the elements of performance manifest themselves in both? What substitutes for the role of narrator in Shakespearean drama? How can these authors be understood as paradigms of national writing which defines normative British culture and as fundamentally eccentric? GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Orgel, S; Woloch, A)

ENGLISH 182H. Children's Literature

What is children's literature? How does it matter? Focus is on relationships of illustration and text, the wider literary scene and writings for children, and the status of reading by and with children since the early 18th century. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Heath, S)

ENGLISH 182R. Oxford Aestheticism

Works by Victorians who were influenced by or resident in Oxford during the peak years of the industrial age. Focus is on those who were integral in the development of British aestheticism. Oxford writers include Walter Pater, William Morris, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. How these authors' ideas developed in an environment shaped by religious controversy, educational democratization, modernization, and Oxford's own tense position between the bucolic and the urban. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Rovee, C)

ENGLISH 182S. Looking North: Canadian Literature

Novels, short stories, and drama by some of Canada's leading contemporary writers including Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Michel Tremblay. Issues of gender, race, culture, nationalism, bilingualism, and geography. How these writers map the Canadian experience and address issues relating to the postmodern and the postcolonial. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Staveley, A)

ENGLISH 183F. Contemporary Critical Theory

The study and use of critical theory in the humanities from the 20th century onwards; antecedents in the 18th and 19th centuries. The relationship between disciplinary developments in the production of knowledge and the enactment of power in the domains of gender, class, and race. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Majumdar, S)

ENGLISH 183H. Critical Methods from New Criticism to New Historicism

The theory behind and examples of the major modes of critical interpretation practiced in the 20th century: close reading, reader response criticism, speech act theory, genre criticism, intertextual reading, and historicist interpretation. Plays by Shakespeare and lyric poems by Donne, Keats, Coleridge, and Shelley. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Hoxby, B)

ENGLISH 183R. Roland Barthes

The author of the thesis about the death of the author, treated as an author. Readings span Barthes' career from early pieces on cultural signs and mythologies to later, more personal works on photography and love. Themes include the value of theory, the significance of literature, and the relationship of criticism to life. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Rovee, C)

ENGLISH 184. The Novel, The World

(Same as COMPLIT 123.) Combining perspectives of the novels of the world as anthropological force with the sense of reality, and as protean form that has reshaped the literary universe. Readings from: ancient Greece; medieval Japan and Britain; and early modern Spain, China, and Britain; romantic theories of the novel; 19th-century realism and popular fiction; modernist experiments; and postmodern pastiches.

5 units, Spr (Moretti, F)

ENGLISH 184C. Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern

(Same as HUMNTIES 162.) Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how historical pressures challenged conceptions of artistic form, self, divine, and the physical universe. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, On the Soul; Attar,The Conference of the Birds; Dante, Inferno; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies; Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther, The Bondage of the Will; Montaigne, Essays; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; poems by John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth; Shakespeare, Othello; and works of art. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Brooks, H)

ENGLISH 184D. Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Modern

(Same as HUMNTIES 163.) Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and English majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and imaginative literature in the modern period. Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Beckett. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Staveley, A)

ENGLISH 184L. Confessions: Writing and Reading the Self

Autobiography and memoir. Sources include personal writers (St. Augustine, J. J. Rousseau, Casanova, Frederick Douglass) and philosophical speculations on the nature of selfhood (René Descartes, Daniel Dennett). Fulfills capstone seminar requirement for the Philosophy and Literature tracks. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Lerer, S)

ENGLISH 185. Opera as Cultural History

The history of opera as mirror to the development of modernity in Western culture. Its interdisciplinary and crosscultural nature. Its relationship to issues central to cultural studies such as gender, race, class, and nation. Questions of authorship, the meaning and reliability of musical and literary texts, and performance and production practices. Sources include filmed operas from different periods and language traditions. No knowledge of music or foreign languages required. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Wyatt, M)

ENGLISH 186A. American Hauntings

Cultural, psychological, social, and political dynamics of haunting in American literature, from the early national period to the late 20th century. Sources include ghost stories and other instances of supernatural, emotional, or mental intervention. Authors include Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, and Stephen King. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Richardson, J)

ENGLISH 190. Intermediate Fiction Writing

May be taken twice for credit. Lottery. Priority to last quarter/year in school, majors in English with Creative Writing emphasis, and Creative Writing minors. Prerequisite: 90 or 91.

5 units, Aut (Hutchins, S; Tanaka, S), Win (Tanaka, S), Spr (Antopol-Johnson, M; MacDonald, D; Tyree, J)

ENGLISH 190F. Fiction Writing for Film

Workshop. For screenwriting students. Story craft, structure, and dialogue. Assignments include short scene creation, character development, and a long story. How fictional works are adapted to screenplays, and how each form uses elements of conflict, time, summary, and scene. Priority to seniors and Film Studies majors. Prerequisite: 90.

5 units, Win (Tanaka, S)

ENGLISH 190G. The Graphic Novel

Interdisciplinary. Evolution, subject matter, form, conventions, possibilities, and future of the graphic novel genre. Guest lectures. Collaborative creation of a graphic novel by a team of writers, illustrators, and designers. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

5 units, Win (Johnson, A; Kealey, T)

ENGLISH 190R. Form and Theory of the Novel

Seminar for creative writers. How writers connect detail, description, action, dialog, and thought to create scenes; how the balance of these elements creates an author's voice. The novel in terms of tradition, convention, design, and narrative strategy. Guest instructors from Stanford's Jones Lecturers. Prerequisites: manuscript and consent of instructors.

5 units, Spr (Johnson, A)

ENGLISH 190V. Reading for Writers

Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90.

5 units, Win (Gordon, M)

ENGLISH 191T. Special Topics in Intermediate Creative Nonfiction

Workshop. Continuation of 91. Focus is on forms of the essay. Works from across time and nationality for their craft and technique; experimentation with writing exercises. Students read and respond to each other's longer nonfiction projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.

5 units, Spr (Hummel, M)

ENGLISH 192. Intermediate Poetry Writing

May be taken twice. Lottery. Priority to last quarter/year in school, majors in English with Creative Writing emphasis, and Creative Writing minors. Prerequisite: 92.

5 units, Win (Ekiss, K), Spr (McGriff, M)

ENGLISH 192T. Special Topics in Intermediate Poetry Writing

Generation and discussion of student poems. How to recognize a poem's internal structure; how to seek models for work. Students submit portfolio for group critique. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 92.

5 units, Aut (Ekiss, K)

ENGLISH 192V. The Occasions of Poetry

Taught by the Mohr Visiting Poet. Prerequisite: 92.

5 units, Win (Doty, M)

ENGLISH 194. Individual Research

See section above on Undergraduate Programs, Opportunities for Advanced Work, Individual Research.

5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ENGLISH 196A. Honors Seminar: Critical Approaches to Literature

Required of students in the English honors program. Reading and writing advanced literary criticism. Critical writings and approaches. Goal is to support the development of students' honors theses.

3 units, Aut (Woloch, A)

ENGLISH 196B. Honors Essay Workshop

Required of English honors students.

2 units, Aut (Obenzinger, H)

ENGLISH 197. Seniors Honors Essay

In two quarters.

1-10 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

ENGLISH 198. Individual Work

Undergraduates who wish to study a subject or area not covered by regular courses may, with consent, enroll for individual work under the supervision of a member of the department. 198 may not be used to fulfill departmental area or elective requirements without consent. Group seminars are not appropriate for 198.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ENGLISH 198L. Individual Work: Levinthal Tutorial

Undergraduate writers work individually with visiting Stegner Fellows in poetry, fiction, and if available, nonfiction. Students design their own curriculum; Stegner Fellows act as writing mentors and advisers. Prerequisites: 90, 91, or 92; submitted manuscript.

5 units, Win (Staff)

ENGLISH 199. Senior Independent Essay

Open, with department approval, to seniors majoring in English who wish to work throughout the year on a 10,000 word critical or scholarly essay; see note under "Honors Program" above. Applicants submit a sample of their expository prose, proposed topic, and bibliography to the Director of Undergraduate Studies before preregistration in May of the junior year. Each student accepted is responsible for finding a department faculty adviser. May be repeated for credit.

1-10 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

ENGLISH 233. Baroque and Neobaroque

(Same as COMPLIT 233, SPANLIT 293E.) The literary, cultural, and political implications of the 17th-century phenomenon formed in response to the conditions of the 16th century including humanism, absolutism, and early capitalism, and dispersed through Europe, the Americas, and Asia. If the Baroque is a universal code of this period, how do its vehicles, such as tragic drama, Ciceronian prose, and metaphysical poetry, converse with one another? The neobaroque as a complex reaction to the remains of the baroque in Latin American cultures, with attention to the mode in recent Brazilian literary theory and Mexican poetry.

5 units, Win (Greene, R)

ENGLISH 290. Advanced Fiction Writing

Workshop critique of original short stories or novel. Prerequisites: manuscript, consent of instructor, and 190-level fiction workshop.

5 units, Aut (MacDonald, D), Spr (Johnson, A)

ENGLISH 292. Advanced Poetry Writing

Focus is on generation and discussion of student poems, and seeking published models for the work.

5 units, Spr (Ekiss, K)

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