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Examines modernist sentimentality as it is figured in notions of property. By exploring the legal and literary relationship between owning and being, we will consider how writers such as Forster, Woolf, Joyce, and Lawrence use property to conceive of human relationships-- and by extension, social justice-- in dramatically new ways. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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What comes after the debate over race in feminism? Is there agency after poststructuralist turn in identity politics? Examines post-1990 poststructuralist, U.S. third world, and postcolonial feminisms. Knowledge of 1980s feminism/race presumed. Relationship of theory to practice in the scene of development via two case studies and novel. Kaplan, Alarcon, Spivak, Sellah, Butler, Brown, Hartman, Mohanty, Sandoval, Shiva, Sellah, Mitter, Kabeer, Visvanathan, Ong, Marshall. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores central questions in current Anglo-American postcolonial theory, and examines how related questions emerge with specific inflections in writings by Africanist philosophers, historians, and creative writers. Issues include: varied connotations of the very idea of "Africa"; ideology and subjectivity; constructivism and essentialism; nationalism and globalization; aesthetics and politics. Texts by Amilcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon, Stuart Hall, Paulin Hountondji, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Gayatri Spivak, Yvonne Vera. Enrollment limited to graduate students. Undergraduate seniors may be admitted with instructor's permission. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Since the invention of photography in 1839, novelists have often claimed the camera as an important model for their work. We will endeavor to investigate this claim, asking in the process what the links between modernism and the visual arts have to tell us about the nature of fictional representation. Readings to include a number of theoretical discussions of photography. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Introduces students to the intellectual current that has come to be called "postcolonial theory" in contemporary criticism. We read influential theoretical writings alongside literary texts by postcolonial writers and critics. We thus combine theoretical with literary texts in order to explore intersections or disjunctions between idioms, genres, and philosophical investments on the subject of "postcoloniality." Issues include: subjectivity, nationalism, globalization, the idea of literature. Texts by: Coetzee, Fanon, Gordimer, Naipaul, Said, Spivak, and Walcott. Enrollment limited to graduate students. Others require instructor¿s permission. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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An exploration of the controversies that have surrounded the political implications of modernist form. Topics will include the Brecht-Lukacs debate, surrealism and the politics of the avant-garde, the so-called "great divide" between innovative and popular art, and the relation of modernism to postmodernism. In addition to examining important theoretical statements, we will test their arguments against selected literary examples. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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This course constructs a dialogue between debates on post-Holocaust aesthetics ("Is poetry possible after Auschwitz?") and the central questions of postcolonial theory ("Can the Subaltern Speak?"), and considers the ethical and aesthetic salience of shame. It is organized around three writers whose work suggests that the novel form itself might require decolonization: Naipaul, Coetzee and Caryl Phillips. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Examines U.S. cultural texts of the `50s in relation to both domestic race politics and foreign policy concerns. Explores issues of assimilation, conflict, containment, development, and integration in a transnational as well as a national framework. Writers we study may include Bellow, Ellison, Himes, Kerouac, Roth, and Okada. This course is limited to graduate students. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Reads a number of important modernist novels alongside the work of early 20th-century American photographers, focusing on what this fiction's engagement with photography has to teach us about the reproduction and circulation of American identity and history. Writers include James, Dos Passos, Hurston, Agee, Welty, and Ellison; photographers include Stieglitz, Strand, and Weston. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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An inquiry into the form, purpose, longevity, and afterlife of American realism. In what way did it differ from its British counterpart? In what ways was it different from naturalism, modernism, and romanticism? What was its aesthetic and political legacy? How has it been read by critics? Writers to include Melville, Dreiser, Norris, James, Chestnutt, Wharton, Jewett, and Wright. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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We will read psychoanalytic theory alongside African American literary texts and cultural artifacts in an attempt to discover the variety of ways in which these two bodies of work speak to one another. We will be as likely to utilize African American "vernacular theory" and cultural practies to read psychoanalysis as to use psychoanalytic theory to read Afridan American texts. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Intended for graduate students interested in the relationship between socio-historical conditions and literary form, and for those interested in thinking beyond a narrowly periodized notion of the postmodern. Beginning with Lukács's The Theory of the Novel , considers the problematic of literary representation as it emerges in the modern age. Readings include Beckett, Nabokov, Burroughs, Amis, Rushdie, McEwan, Lyotard, and Moretti. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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For more than a century, African American literature and criticism have been definitively shaped by claims about the linked fate of the black masses and the world of letters. These contested assertions provide occasions for rethinking the traditional ends of black literary production. Class conflict, the waning of black nationalism, and diasporic identity politics, are among the topics examined under this rubric. Likely literary writers include Washington, Larsen, Ellison, Brooks, and Wideman. Enrollment limited to 18 graduate students. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar examines recent novelists rewriting canonical 19th-century texts by Dickens and others, playing with matters of postcoloniality and gender. Jack Maggs, for example, answers the questions, ¿Can the subaltern speak?¿ and ¿Does the empire write back?" while Fingersmith offers a lesbian version of the Victorian sensation novel. Patchwork Girl rewrites Frankenstein, stitching together fiction, gender, and identity. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required. 1.000 TO 5.000 Credit Hours 1.000 TO 5.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Recent feminist theory addresses identity politics and the critique of the subject; problematics of race, class and gender; the challenge of queer theory; the demand for materialist analysis. We consider these topics in light of the problematics of address. What are the forms of feminist address? How are they received or refused? Who are the subjects of contemporary feminisms? 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Pursues a genealogy of theoretical attempts to explain what narratives are, how some come into dominance, how others challenge domination, and how narratives consequently undergo historical change. Beginning with a brief "pre-history" of components of narrative, we examine the coalescence of "narrative theory" out of "formalism" during the 60s, its displacement by post-structuralism in the 70s, and its return in contemporary cutural studies. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Investigates theories of literature in two self-conscious historical epochs: classical antiquity, represented by figures such as Plato, Aristotle, and Horace, and by practices such as marginal notation of texts, literary commentaries, and performance techniques; and the 20th century, represented by figures such as Adorno, Barthes, and Bahktin, with special attention to the intersections between philosophy and literature and poststructuralist conceptions of textuality. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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Intensive study of Walter Benjamin's essays on modern culture and literature (in particular Goethe, Baudelaire, Proust, and Kafka). Explores the consequences of his thinking for problems in contemporary literary and cultural theory. German and/or French helpful but not required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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How does Deleuze help us read modern culture? This course will focus on Deleuze's writings on literature, painting and cinema as a point of entry to the work of one of the most original and intriguing thinkers of the late 20th century. We will look at the reasons for Deleuze's fascination with Anglo-American literature, and discuss the extent to which Deleuze's model of literary analysis breaks with -- while remaining fundamentally indebted to -- Marxism and psychoanalysis. Other readers include Melville, Kafka, T. E. Lawrence, as well as films by Antonioni, Godard and Sembene. Enrollment limited. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Readings in aesthetics, literary theory, structuralism-poststructuralism, and cultural studies that address the form/content distinction in one of its many avatars. Topics will include the sign, thematics, formlessness, formalism and historicism, tenors and vehicles, structure, and defamiliarization, among others. Previous work in literary or cultural theory strongly recommended. Enrollment limited. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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An exploration of the relation between historical and formalist approaches to literary interpretation, from the New Critics to the so-called "New Formalism." What is the role of form in historically and politically oriented criticism (examples will be taken from Marxism, the New Historicism, feminism, cultural studies, and post-colonial theory)? What happens to history when form takes center stage (for example, in structuralism and deconstruction)? Is it possible (and desirable) to avoid a pendulum swing between the poles of historicism and formalism and to mediate the conflicting claims of history and form? Or is a focus on one at the expense of the other the necessary cost of an incisive interpretive strategy? In addition to theoretical readings that exemplify the conflict between history and form, attention will be paid to the history of reception of one or more literary works in order to articulate the practical implications of their opposition and interdependence. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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A study of the concept of passivity in queer theory, literature, and film. Subjects will include AIDS and temporality; the senses and dissolution; ascesis and chastity; pornography and sovereignty. We will explore post-structuralist theories and continental philosophies (Agamben, Cavarero, Deleuze, Derrida, Marion, Nancy) that resonate with the kind of queer receptivity that will be the object of study. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College English Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students MUST register for MCM 2310G S01 (CRN 25038). 0.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Graduate School College English Department Return to Previous New Search
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