M 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Literary plots involving social and erotic progress examined in works from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include social ambition or decline, the marriage plot and its alternatives, the narrative role of family or social outsiders, and sexuality and narrative form. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Pre 1900 Philosophical and epistemological tensions that characterize emergent American literature and its development in the nineteenth century. Readings in Broken Arrow, the journals of Lewis and Clark, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Henry James, William James, and relevant criticism and historical materials. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, with special attention to the composition, idioms, and group dynamics of different life-worlds: regional, national, and international. Connections from race and Southern history, through the high-gloss, fast-paced jazz age, to the traumas of World War I and the Spanish Civil War. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Comparative study of literature from East Asia and the Asian American diaspora. Focus on shared issues such as native speakers, translation, mother tongues, ethnicity and race, national languages, and colonialism. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The African American practice of poetry between 1900 and 1960, especially of sonnets, ballads, sermonic, and blues poems. Poets studied include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, and Robert Hayden. Includes sessions at the Beinecke Library for inspection and discussion of original editions, manuscripts, letters, and other archival material. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Major twentieth-century poets, including Yeats, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Moore, Stevens, and Auden. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Introduction to lyric poetry in Europe and North America, c. 1900-1940, along with several nineteenth-century precursors, emphasizing the ambition of certain works (as though lyric had taken over the function of epic). Poets studied include Baudelaire, Valéry, Rilke, Pound, MacDiarmid, and Brecht. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A discussion of texts that address the transformation of visual culture and the act of seeing in modern industrial society. The dynamics such texts reveal in relationships between individuals and mass culture, authenticity and commodity, theory and ideology. Questions of imperialism, rationalism, industrialism, voyeurism, tourism, and realism as inscribed in landscape, architecture, painting, photography, theater, and cinema. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A survey of major dramatists from George Bernard Shaw to Sarah Kane, including recent works of contextualized performance practice. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The persistent impulse in Western culture to imagine the end of the world and what might follow. Social and psychological factors that motivate apocalyptic representations. The differences and the constant features in apocalyptic representations from the Hebrew Bible to contemporary science fiction. Attitudes toward history, politics, sexuality, social class, and the process of representation in apocalyptic texts. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Portrayals of cognitive and linguistic impairment in modern fiction. Characters with limited capacities for language as figures of 'otherness.' Contemporaneous discourses of science, sociology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. The ethics of speaking about or for subjects at the margins of discourse. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Topics include the Living Theater, Happenings, Cunningham/Cage, Open Theater, Judson Dance Theater, Grand Union, Bread and Puppet Theater, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Meredith Monk, Mabou Mines, Robert Wilson, and the Wooster Group.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Pre-1800 Literature Course Permission of instructor required A survey of English lyric poetry from the early sixteenth century through the mid-seventeenth, focusing on poetic forms and traditions and the place of poetry in the social, political, and religious life of the time. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Historical survey of works of fiction that have shaped feminist and queer thought from the late eighteenth century to the present. Authors include Wollstonecraft, C. Brontë, Gilman, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Wittig, Walker, Morrison, Churchill, and Winterson. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period The relation between literature and science, including philosophical, ethical, and political questions. Focus on science fiction as a genre. Science and the scientist as represented in works of fiction. Works by Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. G. Wells, Charles Darwin, Octavia Butler, Alan Turing, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, Stanley Kubrick, Ursula Le Guin, Richard Powers, Philip K. Dick, and David Cronenberg. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Libr Meets during reading period Study of the Bible as literature, as a collection of works exhibiting a variety of attitudes toward the conflicting claims of tradition and originality, historicity and literariness. Advanced courses are open to students normally after two terms of English or the equivalent, or with the permission of the instructor. Starred courses may be used to fulfill the two-seminar requirement for English majors.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A study of novels and other writings of J. M. Coetzee, exploring issues of animal and human rights, apartheid, race, gender, colonialism and postcolonialism, sex, pain, religion, and globalization. For seniors who intend to fulfill the senior requirement for the English major by enrolling in a senior seminar. Open to interested juniors and seniors outside the major when space is available.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A study of literature that responds to a changing post-World War II Britain, with attention to the problem of who ?belongs? and who is an ?outsider.? Authors include Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Alan Hollinghurst, William Trevor, Bernard MacLaverty, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Colin McInnes, and Samuel Selvon. For seniors who intend to fulfill the senior requirement for the English major by enrolling in a senior seminar. Open to interested juniors and seniors outside the major when space is available.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Libr Meets during reading period Advanced study of James Joyce's For seniors who intend to fulfill the senior requirement for the English major by enrolling in a senior seminar. Open to interested juniors and seniors outside the major when space is available.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Selected novels by Henry James, from For seniors who intend to fulfill the senior requirement for the English major by enrolling in a senior seminar. Open to interested juniors and seniors outside the major when space is available.
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Cultural origins and development of the historical novel in Britain and America, from its journalistic roots in Defoe to recent fiction in the aftermath of 9/11. Authors include Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Primo Levi, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Claire Messud. Supplementary readings in criticism and theory of the novel. For seniors who intend to fulfill the senior requirement for the English major by enrolling in a senior seminar. Open to interested juniors and seniors outside the major when space is available.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The complete works of Ralph Ellison and related works (in various art forms) of his contemporaries, including Wright, Baldwin, Bearden, and Louis Armstrong. For seniors who intend to fulfill the senior requirement for the English major by enrolling in a senior seminar. Open to interested juniors and seniors outside the major when space is available.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Emphasis on the writing of short fiction. Criticism of student work; rhetorical and technical exercises in narrative form, genre, and style; readings in classical and contemporary fiction. Frequent conferences. Admission to writing courses is by application and is based chiefly on work submitted by the student. For application deadlines, consult the English department Web site or visit 107 LC. Application forms are posted on the Web at www.yale.edu/english/undergraduate.html.
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T 2.30-5.00 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required A seminar and workshop in writing for the stage. Readings emphasize contemporary plays, with some theory. Writing assignments include weekly exercises and the execution of a one-act play. Admission to writing courses is by application and is based chiefly on work submitted by the student. For application deadlines, consult the English department Web site or visit 107 LC. Application forms are posted on the Web at www.yale.edu/english/undergraduate.html.
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Th 1.30-4.00 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period A nonfiction workshop, confronting the challenges of journalism as an art. Emphasis on voice and structure. Study of texts that may suggest modes, voices, forms, and styles for nonfiction pieces. Frequent writing projects and revisions. Admission to writing courses is by application and is based chiefly on work submitted by the student. For application deadlines, consult the English department Web site or visit 107 LC. Application forms are posted on the Web at www.yale.edu/english/undergraduate.html.
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