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Creative Writing |
Medieval Languages and Literature |
The Renaissance in England
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature |
Nineteenth-Century Literature
American Literature to 1900 |
British and American Literature of the
Twentieth-Century |
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Miscellaneous English
Prerequisite to courses numbered 801 to 899: the bachelor's degree, with a major in English or its equivalent of 24 credits of English courses above the required level. Prerequisite to courses numbered 901 to 999: the M.A. degree in English, or the permission of the instructor and the Director of Graduate Studies.
ENWR 531, 532 - (3) (Y)
Poetry Writing
Limited enrollment: Permission of instructor required
before registration. Students should submit an example of their
writing well in advance of the first class meeting
Intensive work in the writing of poetry, for students with prior
experience.
ENWR 541, 542 - (3) (SI)
Playwriting
Limited enrollment: Permission of instructor required
before registration. 541 is prerequisite for 542
Intensive study of one-act plays by such masters as Chekhov, Pirandello,
Synge, with particular attention to character and context and
to scene construction. Each student writes two one-act plays.
ENWR 551, 552 - (3) (Y)
Advanced Fiction Writing
Limited enrollment: Permission of instructor required
before registration. Students should submit an example of their
fiction well in advance of the first class
For short story writers. Student manuscripts are
discussed in individual conference and in class.
ENWR 561 - (3) (Y)
Scriptwriting
Suitable for graduates and undergraduates; explains film,
television and radio production values with exercises in the grammar,
composition and writing of screenplays, radio drama, literary
adaptation, documentaries and docudrama.
ENWR 731, 732 - (3) (Y)
Advanced Poetry Writing
Graduate-level poetry writing workshop. For advanced writing
students. A weekly 2 1/2 hour workshop session consisting of group
discussion of student poems.
ENWR 751, 752 - (3) (Y)
Fiction Writing
Limited enrollment: Permission of instructor required
before registration. 751 is prerequisite for 752
A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the
short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual
conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists
and short story writers is required.
ENWR 801 - (3) (Y)
Independent Writing Project
Prerequisite: Permission of the chairman
Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative
writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts
degree under the direction of a faculty member.
ENWR 891, 892 - (3) (Y)
Creative Writing
Limited enrollment: Permission of instructor required
before registration.
Workshop instruction devoted in different terms to poetry, fiction,
drama, or other forms, depending on the instructor.
ENWR 895, 896 - (3) (Y)
MFA Thesis
The project must comprise a substantial body of original
writing -- 80 pages of fiction (one long or two or three short stories),
a full-length play or two one act plays, or a collection of poems
(approximately 48 pages). And it must, in the opinion of the faculty,
be of publishable quality, comparable to the literature taught
in other courses offered by the department.
ENWR 991 - (3-12) (S)
Research in Creative Writing
Research in creative writing for MFA students.
Medieval Languages and Literature
ENMD 501 - (3) (Y)
Introduction to Old English
Language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England.
ENMD 505, 506 - (3) (E)
Old Icelandic
An introduction to the language and literature of medieval
Scandinavia; readings from the Poetic Edda and the sagas.
ENMD 507 - (3) (SI)
Introduction to Old Irish
Prerequisite: Knowledge of a classical or Celtic language
or permission of instructor
Instruction in the Irish of ca. 800; readings from the Tain.
ENMD 508 - (3) (SI)
Introduction to Middle Welsh
Prerequisite: Knowledge of a classical or Celtic language
or permission of instructor
Instruction in medieval literary Welsh; readings from the Mabinogion.
ENMD 511, 512 - (3) (SI)
Old Irish Literature
The reading of Old-Irish texts in the original language,
with attention to linguistic, textual, and critical problems;
an introduction to theory and method in Celtic scholarship.
ENMD 516, 517 - (3) (SI)
Early Irish and Welsh Literature
A survey of the Celtic literatures from c. 600 to 1600,
based on texts in translation. First semester: heroic and mythological
literature; second semester: Irish pseudo-history, the Welsh
Mabinogion, and Celtic contributions to the Arthurian cycle.
ENMD 520 - (3) (SI)
Beowulf
A reading of the poem, emphasizing critical methods and
exploring its relations to the culture of Anglo-Saxon England.
Readings in translation include Old Norse Prose Edda and
Grettrissage and Bede's Historia.
ENMD 812 - (3) (SI)
Fourteenth-Century Literature
Prerequisite: A course in Chaucer, or permission of instructor
A survey of the major writers and genres, excluding Chaucer.
ENMD 813 - (3) (SI)
Medieval Transitions to the Renaissance
English and Scottish literature from the death of Chaucer
to Tottel's Miscellany (1400-1557).
ENMD 825 - (3) (SI)
Chaucer I
A study of The Canterbury Tales and their backgrounds.
ENMD 826 - (3) (SI)
Chaucer II
Troilus and Criseyde, the early poems, and
their courtly background.
ENMD 840 - (3) (SI)
Medieval and Early Tudor Drama
Prerequisite: Some previous work in Middle English (such
as a course in Chaucer)
An intensive study of selected plays within the liturgical, cyclical,
and moral traditions of the English drama from its Latin beginnings
to the early Renaissance.
ENMD 850 - (3) (SI)
Medieval Romance
A study of Middle English and Continental romance.
ENMD 881 - (3) (Y)
Backgrounds to Medieval Literature I
A study of the renaissance of the twelfth century, with
special attention to its literary, philosophic, and theological
foundations.
ENMD 883 - (3) (SI)
Prolegomena to Medieval Literary Research
An introduction to research tools and methods for the
student of medieval literature.
ENMD 905 - (3) (SI)
Studies in Early English Philology
Prerequisite: ENMD 501 or equivalent
A study of the developing structure of Old and Middle English
with special attention to syntax and dialectology. English paleography
of the period 900-1500 will be taught.
ENMD 922 - (3) (SI)
Piers Plowman
An intensive study of the poem and its cultural tradition.
ENMD 924 - (3) (Y)
Studies in Chaucer
A critical study of Chaucer's narrative art, including
questions of genre, relationship of narrator to audience, techniques
of characterization, and the use of sources.
ENMD 965 - (3) (SI)
Medieval and Renaissance Narrative: Forms and Theory
A theoretical and historical exploration of Medieval and
Renaissance narrative. Readings may include selections from the
works of Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, Boccaccio, Chaucer,
Malory, Sidney, Spenser, Cervantes.
ENMD 980 - (3) (SI)
Studies in Celtic Literature
Advanced work in early Irish or Welsh literature.
ENMD 981 - (3) (Y)
Studies in Old English I
A recent topic was the Vercelli Book.
ENMD 983, 984 - (3) (SI)
Studies in Middle English I, II
Topics in recent years have included the Gawain-poet and
John Gower.
ENMD 991, 992 - (3) (Y)
Research in Medieval Studies
ENRN 811 - (3) (Y)
Renaissance Poetry
The theory and practice of lyric and epic poetry in sixteenth-century
England, with some brief glances at other forms: romance, epyllion,
and verse essay.
ENRN 812 - (3) (Y)
Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry
An intensive study of style and tone in the poetry of
Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell, with some consideration of
poems by Crashaw, Vaughan, and the cavaliers.
ENRN 820 - (3) (Y)
Spenser
The Faerie Queene and the minor poems.
ENRN 821, 822 - (3) (Y)
Studies in Shakespeare I, II
Topics vary from a detailed study of single plays or
The Sonnets to generic considerations of the histories,
or the comedies and romances.
ENRN 827 - (3) (Y)
Milton
An intensive study of Paradise Lost and Samson
Agonistes .
ENRN 840 - (3) (E)
Elizabethan Drama 1585-1642
A survey of English drama (exclusive of Shakespeare) from
Kyd and Marlowe to Shirley.
ENRN 870 - (3) (Y)
Renaissance Prose
A survey of rhetorical projects and postures from humanist
advocacy to the anti-rhetorical pose of Montaigne; we will also
consider the development of English prose style from the early
Tudor period to the era of Milton. Authors to be sampled and/or
studied: Erasmus, More, Castiglione, Montaigne, Sidney, Nashe,
Jonson, Bacon, Browne, Milton.
ENRN 881 - (3) (Y)
The Idea of the Renaissance
Neoplatonists, Protestants, skeptics, empiricists, princes,
pedagogues, painters, poets: this course explores Renaissance
culture in search of an idea of the period both descriptive and
explanatory.
ENRN 920 - (3) (Y)
Shakespeare
Studies the later plays of Shakespeare, including problem
comedies, late tragedies, and last plays. Some attempt is made
to describe the characteristics of the plays as a group, but the
emphasis is on criticism of the individual plays.
ENRN 924 - (3) (E)
Spenser
The Faerie Queene and the minor poems.
ENRN 926 - (3) (E)
Jonson
Jonson's plays, masques, and poems as they reveal his
mind and art.
ENRN 927 - (3) (Y)
Milton
Selected topics in the poetry and prose.
ENRN 940 - (3) (E)
Studies in Renaissance Drama
Topics vary from year to year.
ENRN 981 - (3) (E)
Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature
Topic varies from year to year.
ENRN 983 - (3) (Y)
Studies in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature
Donne and Herbert's thought and expression. Attention
is given to the relationship between their prose and poems.
ENRN 985, 986 - (3) (Y)
Studies in Renaissance Literature
Topic varies from year to year.
ENRN 991, 992 - (3) (Y)
Research in the Renaissance
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENEC 810 - (3) (Y)
The Age of Dryden
Special attention to Marvell, Dryden, Congreve, and Pepys.
ENEC 811 - (3) (Y)
The Augustan Age
The literature of the early eighteenth century, especially
the works of Swift and Pope, but with attention as well to Defoe,
Addison and Steele, Gay, and Fielding.
ENEC 812 - (3) (E)
The Age of Sensibility
Basically a survey course with a good deal of (mostly
prose) reading. Johnson is read extensively as a central figure;
Boswell, Goldsmith, and Sterne as writers influenced by new currents
of thought and feeling. Three writers of intellectual prose are
studied: Hume, Gibbon, and Burke. Several poets are studied briefly,
Burns at greater length.
ENEC 840 - (3) (E)
English Drama, 1660-1800
Special emphasis on Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve,
and Fielding. Attention to the evolution of various dramatic forms,
close reading of major plays, stage history, and the influence
of politics and social change on the drama.
ENEC 850 - (3) (Y)
English Novel I
The novel in the eighteenth century, including works by
Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen.
ENEC 882 - (3) (E)
From Classic to Romantic
A study of the literary changes in style and structure
from 1660 to 1830. Readings include considerable poetry, fiction,
and criticism.
ENEC 950 - (3) (E)
Eighteenth-Century Novel
A study of the various kinds of eighteenth-century novels
and the twentieth-century theories used to interpret them. Novelists
studied include Defoe, Fielding, Godwin, Radcliffe, Richardson,
Smollett, Sterne, and Walpole.
ENEC 981, 982 - (3) (Y)
Eighteenth-Century Studies I, II
Topics vary from a focus on groups of writers, e.g., Johnson
and Goldsmith, to a study of theories of art and order in the
period.
ENEC 983, 984 - (3) (E)
Studies in the Restoration and the Early Eighteenth Century
I, II
Intensive study of a major writer, selected in different years
from Dryden, Swift, Pope, or Johnson.
ENEC 991, 992 - (3) (Y)
Research in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENNC 811 - (3) (Y)
The Romantic Period I
Poetry and prose of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
ENNC 812 - (3) (Y)
The Romantic Period II
Poetry and prose of Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
ENNC 813 - (3) (Y)
The Victorian Period I
Victorian poetry: A critical survey of the major works
of Tennyson, Arnold, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Swinburne.
ENNC 814 - (3) (Y)
The Victorian Period II
A critical survey of selected works in poetry and fiction
of Robert Browning, George Meredith, Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas
Hardy, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This course gives particular
attention to developments in ideas, form, and literary theory
of the Victorian period as reflected by these authors.
ENNC 831 - (3) (IR)
Victorian Intellectual Prose
Survey of the writings of Carlyle, Mill, Macauley, Newman,
Arnold, Ruskin, Pater, and Wilde.
ENNC 851 - (3) (Y)
The English Novel II
Novelists studied include Dickens, Eliot, the Brontës,
and Hardy.
ENNC 852 - (3) (IR)
The Late Victorian Novel 1850-1914
Critical discussion of selected novels of the period.
ENNC 881 - (3) (IR)
Currents in English and Continental Romanticism
English Romanticism and its European context.
ENNC 883 - (3) (IR)
Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Topic varies from year to year.
ENNC 950 - (3) (IR)
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
A study of topics in the relation between novelistic techniques
and the history of ideas. Works will include continental as well
as English novels.
ENNC 981, 982 - (3) (IR)
Studies in Romanticism I, II
Intensive study of one or two writers, e.g., Blake and
Wordsworth, Keats and Byron.
ENNC 983, 984 - (3) (IR)
Studies in Victorian Literature I, II
Topics vary from a focus on major writers, e.g., Browning
and Arnold, to a consideration of the aesthetic movement and its
influence.
ENNC 985, 986 - (3) (IR)
Nineteenth-Century Studies I, II
Topics in different years include Victorian discursive
prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson.
ENNC 991, 992 - (3) (IR)
Research in Nineteenth-Century Literature
ENAM 810 - (3) (IR)
Early American Literature
A survey of American literature to 1840 designed to introduce
the literature of the Colonial and early National periods, and
examine the intellectual and literary backgrounds of nineteenth-century
American literature.
ENAM 815 - (3) (IR)
American Romanticism
A study of romantic thought and art in the nineteenth
century.
ENAM 824 - (3) (IR)
Major American Authors
A study of the work of one or two major writers within
a precise historical context. A recent pair was Hawthorne and
Melville.
ENAM 830 - (3) (IR)
American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
Selected poets of the century, their media, their audiences,
and their reputations. Coverage will be broad, with some emphasis
on Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, and
Crane.
ENAM 836 - (3) (IR)
African-American Poetry
Studies in African-American poetry from the eighteenth-century
to the present. Poets include Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence
Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Jay Wright, Amiri Baraka,
Michael Harper, Audre Lorde, and Rita Dove.
ENAM 853 - (3) (IR)
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Form and technique in the American novel to 1900.
ENAM 854 - (3) (IR)
Studies in American Fiction
Writings of major authors approached through the consideration
of such specific topics as historical romance, Gothic romance,
and American mythmaking.
ENAM 871 - (3) (IR)
Narrative Prose in America
A study of non-fictional prose concentrating on such writers
as Bradford, Mather, Prescott, Parkman, Thoreau, Henry Adams,
Garrett Mattingly, and Norman Mailer.
ENAM 885 - (3) (IR)
American Folklore
Problems of definition, origin, collection, and analysis
of the main genres of folklore in America, both narratives and
songs. Cross-listed as ANTH 732.
ENAM 888 - (3) (IR)
Literature of the South
A survey of the literature of the American South from
Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia to such
contemporary writers as William Styron and Walter Percy.
ENAM 910 - (3) (IR)
Early American Literature
Advanced work in Early American literature.
ENAM 980 - (3) (IR)
Studies in African-American Literature
The topic, which is to focus on a single subject or problem
in the different genres of the literature, will vary -- e.g., the
writer and audience, movements in the literature, an individual
writer or group of writers, folk traditions and the literature
and literary relations with writers in the U.S.A. or in other
countries.
ENAM 981, 982 - (3) (Y)
Seminar in American Literature I, II
Topics range from the colonial period to the cultural
influence of pragmatism.
ENAM 991, 992 - (3) (Y)
Research in American Literature
British and American Literature of the Twentieth Century
ENTC 531 - (3) (E)
The Existential Quest in the Modern Novel
This course traces central ideas of existential thought
from Kierkegaard to Camus and examines their relationship to modern
narrative forms and themes from Dostoevsky to Beckett. The focus
will be on problems of "self" and "authenticity"
and their connections to questions of narrative genre. In addition
to the authors mentioned above, readings will include works by
Tolstoy, Rilke, Gide, Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, and Sartre.
ENTC 811 - (3) (Y)
American Literature 1912-1929
The establishment of literary modernism in the United
States, with particular attention to the masterworks, in various
genres, of the 1920s.
ENTC 815 - (3) (Y)
Literature of the Americas
A comparative study of major fiction writers of North,
Central, and South America in the past 40 years.
ENTC 816 - (3) (Y)
Contemporary American Writers
We will study the resurgence of American Romanticism that
begins in about 1958 and extends into the 70s. Writers considered
will include Mailer, Baldwin, Bellow, Dickey, Ashbery, Kesey,
Michael Herr, and Shange.
ENTC 830 - (3) (Y)
American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
A historical survey of major figures and movements from
Frost and Pound to Roethke, Bishop, and Lowell.
ENTC 831 - (3) (Y)
British Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Studies in the twentieth-century sensibility: distortions
and other tensions in the imaginative worlds of Hopkins, Yeats,
Eliot, and Auden.
ENTC 833 - (3) (E)
Contemporary American Poetry
Selected poets from the 1940s to the present, including
Lowell, Jarrell, Plath, Ginsberg, and others.
ENTC 840 - (3) (Y)
Drama of the Twentieth Century
Concentration of the plays of Lorca, Giraudoux, Brecht,
Durrenmatt, Ionesco, and Pinter; but with some attention to Anouilh,
Frisch, Weiss, Grass, Genet, Beckett, and Ghelderode.
ENTC 850 - (3) (Y)
Twentieth-Century Fiction
A study of British, American, and Continental masterpieces,
with attention to the new ideas and forms in twentieth-century
fiction. Writers include Proust, Joyce, Mann, Lawrence, Faulkner,
Kafka, Gide, Beckett.
ENTC 851 - (3) (E)
Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Emphasis varies, depending on the instructor, from earlier
to later writers in the century.
ENTC 852 - (3) (E)
The British Novel in the Twentieth Century
Studies of major novels from James to the present with
emphasis on James, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and
Beckett.
ENTC 853 - (3) (E)
Major Modern Novelists
A study of several works by a few modern novelists, such
as Lawrence, Woolf, Mann, and Beckett.
ENTC 854 - (3) (Y)
Novels by Caribbean Women
A study of Caribbean women's narratives about women in
the context of post-Negritude struggles for collective and individual
identity. Starting from a presentation of the historical and literary
significance of Negritude and Antillanite, the course explores
the post-modern, post-colonial, and feminist aesthetics of the
narratives and their relations to current issues within Caribbean
and feminist discourses.
ENTC 855 - (3) (E)
Post-World War II American Fiction
A survey of the chief thematic and stylistic trends in
American fiction since 1945. Included will be works by the major
writers of the period -- Barth, Ellison, Hawkes, Mailer, Nabokov,
O'Connor, Pynchon, Wright, and others.
ENTC 856 - (3) (E)
Problems in Post-Modern Fiction
A study of the theory and practice (chiefly the latter)
of post-modern fiction, comparative and international in scope,
including such theorists as Todorov, Barthes, and Sontag; and
such authors of fiction as Calvino, Coover, Butor, Pynchon, Kundera,
Hawkes, Berger, Coetzee, Eco, with the likes of Kafka and Borges
as background.
ENTC 857 - (3) (E)
African-American Fiction
A study of the African-American novel from William Wells
Brown to Toni Morrison, including Jean Toomer, Richard Wright,
Ralph Ellison, among others.
ENTC 881 - (3) (IR)
Afro-American Literature
A study of the twentieth-century Afro-American fiction
writer's quest for voice and form -- e.g., how the writer invents
a new kind of English or how his or her synthesis of elements of the
parent dialect becomes a medium for fiction; and how the texture
of the writer's language either reinvigorates or redefines the
novel as a genre. The course will begin with Charles W. Chestnutt's
The Conjure Woman (1899), end with Alice Walker's
The Color Purple (1982), and include novels by Ralph Ellison,
James Baldwin, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and
others.
ENTC 886 - (3) (IR)
The Harlem Renaissance: Afro-American Writing Between the Wars
Examines the cultural and artistic history of the period. Why was it called a "renaissance"?
Was Harlem a geographic or imaginative world? The framing of documents
of the period will be discussed (Alain Locke's The New Negro,
Hughes' "The Negro and the Racial Mountain," and
Wright's "Blueprint for Negro Writing," most especially).
Includes works of the major authors
(Toomer, Hughes, Hurston, Brown, Wright, and McKay) and the major
themes ("the new negro," the "folk," the idealization
of Africa, the sense of the "Jazz Age" -- as viewed from
within the music).
ENTC 930 - (3) (E)
Contemporary American Poetry
Concentrates on American experimental writing
in the 70s and 80s. After an initial set of inquiries into important
influences (Stein, Zukofsky, Cage, and New American Poetry, and
Ashberry), course moves into a study of various contemporary writers,
including Coolidge, Hejinian, Berstein, Stilliman, Bromige, Palmer,
Howe, Robinson, Armentrout.
ENTC 941, 942 - (3) (E)
Seminar in Modern Drama I, II
ENTC 951, 952 - (3) (E)
Seminar in Modern Fiction I, II
British, American, and Continental novels from Bloomsbury
to Beckett.
ENTC 955 - (3) (O)
Novels by African-American Women
A survey of novels by African-American women and their
relation to central issues within both feminist inquiry and current
critical discourse more widely. Course questions
the problematics of race and gender as categories of literary
study; the politics of reception and interpretation; contingencies
of literary evaluation, and the construction and function of literary
canons.
ENTC 981, 982 - (3) (Y)
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature I, II
Recent topics have been T.S. Elliott and Lawrence, Yeats
and the Irish Renaissance, Auden, British literature of the thirties,
Pound, Stevens, Williams, and Faulkmer.
ENTC 985, 986 - (3) (E)
Seminar in Comparative Literature I, II
Recent topics have been the poetry of Rilke, Valery, and
Stevens and the literature of the Spanish Civil War.
ENTC 991, 992 - (3) (Y)
Research in Twentieth-Century Literature
ENGN 831 - (3) (SI)
The Lyric Genre
A survey of English lyric poems from Chaucer to Auden,
designed to isolate what is lyrical (i.e., unprosaic, musical,
aesthetic, reflexive, egotistical, or sublime) in this body of
literature.
ENGN 840 - (3) (SI)
Drama From 1660 to the Late Nineteenth Century
Drama in England from Dryden and Congreve to Wilde and
Shaw.
ENGN 845 - (3) (SI)
Studies in Tragedy
A thematic inquiry into the idea of tragedy, with readings
in classical, continental, and English drama, and some attention
to the most significant criticism.
ENGN 850 - (3) (Y)
Medieval and Renaissance Romance
Prerequisite: Familiarity with Middle English desired
Readings, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Troilus
and Criseyde (and possibly "The Knight's Tale"
and "The Franklin's Tale"); Malory's Morte D'Arthur
; Books I and VI of "The Faerie Queene", Sidney's
New Arcadia and The Tempest. Exploration of
narrative strategies and themes characteristic of romance
leads us to a consideration of inter alia, the relationship between
romance and such other literary modes as epic, allegory and pastoral;
the self-interpretative tendencies of these texts and the tensions
between the various kinds of solas and sentence they offer the
reader; the problems of achieving satisfactory narrative -- and
didactic -- closure
in a "wondering" and dilatory mode.
ENGN 881 - (3) (IR)
Reason and Sensibility in the Novel
First of four semester courses, each of which may be taken
independently, surveying major issues and terms in the generic
history of the novel. Emphasis is on the relation between
the principal aesthetic and intellectual concerns of the period
ca. 1750-1820 and the development of novelistic forms and techniques.
Texts are drawn from both English and continental fiction.
Authors include Diderot, Goethe, Richardson, Scott, and Sterne.
ENGN 882 - (3) (IR)
Realism
Authors to be studied include Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens,
Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy.
ENGN 883 - (3) (IR)
Naturalism and the Early Modern
Authors to be studied include Hardy, Zola, Chekhov, Mann,
Proust, and D.H. Lawrence.
ENGN 884 - (3) (IR)
Elaborations of the Modern
Authors studied include Breton, Faulkner, Malraux, Mann,
Svevo, and Woolf.
ENGN 981, 982 - (3) (SI)
Seminar in Literary Genres I, II
Topics range from a consideration of comedy as an art
form to a study of various approaches to the novel.
ENCR 801 - (3) (Y)
Introduction to Literary Research
A practical introduction to the research resources of
the University of Virginia and the needs and opportunities for
their use. Students are introduced to the library and its
holdings through a series of practical problems drawn from a wide
range of literary subjects and periods. The course is required
of all degree candidates in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs.
ENCR 860 - (3) (Y)
Criticism in Theory and Practice
Studies in critical theories and the kinds of practical
criticism to which they lead.
ENCR 861 - (3) (Y)
Major Schools of Modern Criticism
A study of modern English, American, and continental critical
movements, with concentration on such critics and theoreticians
as Bergson, Croce, Eliot, Richards, Frye, Ransom, Trilling, and
the French phenomenologists.
ENCR 862 - (3) (Y)
Critical Theory Since Plato
A historical survey of major theories about the nature
and function of literature from antiquity to the present.
ENCR 863 - (3) (Y)
Twentieth-Century Criticism
Topics in modern critical theory and practice.
ENCR 864 - (3) (E)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
The contribution of psychoanalysis (in the Freudian tradition)
to several aspects of literary study -- interpretation, evaluation,
critical theory, literary history, and pedagogy.
ENCR 865 - (3) (E)
Bibliography and Methods of Research
Introduction to the methods and materials of literary
research -- textual, historical, critical, etc.
ENCR 866 - (3) (E)
Ancient Philosophy and Literary Criticism
Examines the origin of literary criticism in the
context of classical philosophy. Beginning with Aristophanes'
The Clouds, the ancient quarrel between poetry
and philosophy is studied. Focus is on the question of why Aristotle
felt compelled to "invent" literary criticism in response
to Plato's critique of the arts. Among the topics to be covered
are the hermeneutics of the Platonic dialogue and the foundation
of the concept of genre.
ENCR 867 - (3) (E)
Feminist Criticism
An introduction to the varieties of feminist criticism
practiced today, with reference to the already complex history
of this field. Prominent examples of psychoanalytic,
linguistic, Marxist, and historical modes of feminist criticism are explored.
Students compare a number of opposing readings of particular
texts, and, in a final essay, apply the methods of a critic or
school of their choice.
ENCR 887 - (3) (Y)
Theories of Interpretation
Discussion of the question of whether texts have "determinate
meaning," theories of Wittgenstein, Quine and Davidson on
the nature of language, distinction between explanation in the
natural sciences and interpretation in the human sciences, and
problems of literary and legal interpretation.
ENCR 960 - (3) (Y)
Types of Critical Theory
A study of the theory and practice of literary history
since 1800 with special attention to the interpretation of periods,
genres, styles, etc. Attention is paid to modern literary
historians.
ENCR 964 - (3) (E)
Current Issues in Theory of Language and Literature
A study of recent developments in linguistics, hermeneutics,
and literary theory in relation to critical practice.
ENCR 965 - (3) (E)
Introduction to Textual Criticism and Bibliography for
the Literary Student
Principles of analytic bibliography and the solution of practical
problems as they apply to literary texts. Studies in the transmission
of texts in different periods ranging from Shakespeare and the
Elizabethan dramatists to nineteenth-century American literature.
Principles of critical editing.
ENCR 966 - (3) (SI)
Phenomenology and Literature
Prerequisite: An 800-level criticism course or the equivalent
A concentrated study of phenomenology's contribution to literary
theory and critical practice. The seminar begins by examining
the major presuppositions of phenomenology as a philosophical
system. Investigates the consequences for aesthetics
to which these assumptions lead. Central issues include the ontology
of the literary work, the dynamics of the aesthetic experience,
and the multivocity of interpretation.
ENCR 967 - (3) (E)
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Centers around the applicability of the
insights of psychoanalysis to the study of literature. Attention
is paid to the development of psychoanalytic thought from
Freud to Lacan. Major texts by Freud, Rank, Jung, Fromm, Klein,
Lichtenstein, Laing, Lacan, and Deleuze-Guattari are read
and discussed. Special attention is given to the connections
between psychoanalysis and aesthetics in the work of Sachs and
Kris.
ENCR 981, 982 - (3) (Y)
Seminar in Critical Theory I, II
Topics will vary from year to year.
ENSP 511 - (3) (SI)
Folk Literature
A study of the international folktale and ballad, employing
both field and library approaches.
ENSP 580 - (3) (SI)
Film Production Studies
Suitable for graduates and undergraduates; explains motion
picture production in detail and includes assessment of role of
film industry in modern society and its effect upon our literary
and artistic values.
ENSP 581 - (3) (Y)
Film Aesthetics
A study of the motion picture as a work of art produced
by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasis
is placed on the major theoretical works (Eisenstein, Pudovkin,
Arnheim, Kracauer, Bazin) and on the analysis of individual films.
Films are studied with particular reference to the techniques
and methods that produce the "aesthetic effect" style,
and to the problems of authorship arising out of considerations
of style and aesthetic unity.
ENSP 582 - (3) (Y)
Nietzsche and Modern Thought
After close reading and discussion of seminal texts by
Nietzsche, the transformation of Nietzsche's ideas will be followed
in these authors: Shaw, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Gide, Malraux, Camus,
Mann, Rilke, and Kafka.
ENSP 583 - (3) (Y)
Literature and the Film
A study of the relationship between the two media, with
emphasis placed on the literary origins and backgrounds of film,
verbal and visual languages, the problems of adaptation from novels
and short story in the film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) to
be read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these
works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week
outside of class.
ENSP 852 - (3) (Y)
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women Writers
A study of the works of George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing,
Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and Sylvia Plath, and an investigation
into feminist critical perspectives. Readings include four novelists and
one poet from each of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
in order to establish both developments and interconnections
in considerations of female authorship and recurrent themes in
the works.
ENSP 870 - (3) (SI)
Special Topics in Pedagogy
Seminar in Pedagogy. Topics may vary from one course offering
to the next.
ENSP 880 - (3) (SI)
Modern Poetry and Visual Art
An investigation of what painting, sculpture and architecture
have meant to poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
with discussion of their poetry in relation to the aesthetics
of the visual arts, art history, and art criticism. Readings from
Keats, Rossetti, Gautier, Rilke, Stevens, Prevert, Quasimodo,
Williams, Jarrell, Wilbur and others -- illuminating the experience
of works by such artists as Donatello, Botticelli, Brueghel, Michelangelo,
Delacroix, Degas, and Picasso. (Cross-listed with Art Department
as ARTH 880.)
ENSP 882 - (3) (Y)
The Literary Use of the Bible
An introduction to the contents of Scripture. Topics include
the saving history, the Mosaic Torah, The Biblical offices, the
doctrine of the Word of God, and the nature of a canon.
ENSP 883 - (3) (SI)
Allegory
The theory of a figurative mode and the place of allegory
in literary history and in traditions of interpretation.
ENSP 955 - (3) (SI)
Society, Character, and Revolution in the Novel
A study of the alterations which traditional realistic
assumptions undergo in the period 1870-1925. Special attention
will be given to Hardy and Conrad.
ENSP 982 - (3) (Y)
Special Topics in Criticism
Seminar in Criticism. Topics may vary from one course
offering to the next.
ENLS 801 - (3) (SI)
Language, Linguistics, and Criticism
An exploration of the relationship between philosophy
of language, linguistic theory, and literary criticism.
ENLS 805 - (3) (SI)
Language Change and Literary Study
An introduction to the study of change in English from
Old English to the present, with emphasis upon the literary language.
ENLS 841 - (3) (SI)
Modern English Grammar
A survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century linguistics,
illustrating the major developments in the study of the English
language from Rask to Chomsky and Lamb.
ENPG 570 - (3) (SI)
Teaching Film Literature
Lecture/seminar series on teaching practical
film making: production, direction, camera techniques, research
and scriptwriting; feature films, documentaries, and docudramas,
educational and government film making; film acting the "star"
system; theatrical and television comparative production, usage
and distribution; societal and cultural significance and impact
of film industry. Suitable for both future teachers and students
of film. No previous knowledge of the subject necessary.
ENPG 812 - (3) (SI)
Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature
A survey of major works from the Middle Ages to the early
eighteenth century. Discussion centers on problems of teaching
these texts. Each member of the class is videotaped conducting
a discussion.
ENPG 813 - (3) (SI)
Teaching Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature
The movement from eighteenth-century to Romantic literary
modes is studied in major texts in a number of genres, with special
attention to theoretical and practical problems of teaching.
ENPG 829 - (3) (SI)
Shakespeare for Teacher and Critic
Discussions of the kinds of interpretation of eight to
10 major plays that can both illuminate the texts and form the
basis of imaginative teaching in secondary school and college.
ENPG 847 - (3) (SI)
Black Literature for Teacher and Critic
A study of the contributions of Afro-American writers
to American literary tradition and of the practical pedagogical
challenges in teaching them.
ENPG 850 - (3) (SI)
Theories of Reading
A study of the theories of reading that can be applied
to the teaching of literature to college students and other adults.
ENPG 851 - (3) (SI)
Teaching Fiction
A consideration of the relation between formal artistic
values of fiction and the practical possibilities of teaching.
ENPG 862 - (3) (E)
The Teaching of Writing
A study of written communication in relation to cultural
and transcultural universals. Attention is given to the teaching
of discursive writing.
ENPG 865 - (3) (SI)
Reading Theory and Literary Interpretation
A consideration of the reading process, especially the
achievement and improvement of adult reading skills, with emphasis
on the arts of reading and teaching literature.
ENPG 880 - (3) (E)
Teaching Composition
A course for college teachers of expository writing that
includes the arts of rhetoric, logic, and style with some emphasis
on teaching strategies.
ENPG 882 - (2) (SI)
Workshop in Teaching Composition
A seven-week seminar on the arts of teaching, writing,
with emphasis on solving problems of assignments, grading papers,
management of a class, teaching style, and forms of discourse.
Limited to eight graduate instructors; preference is given
to candidates for the pedagogy degree.
ENPG 883 - (2) (SI)
Workshop in Teaching Literatures
Designed for graduate instructors teaching ENLT courses,
this seminar has three foci: theories of criticism and psycholinguistics
which discuss how students read and understand belletristic writing;
course objectives, texts, classroom techniques, and assignments;
specific issues and problems that arise in the undergraduate classes
being taught concurrently by the graduate instructors in the course.
Limited enrollment, with preference given to candidates for the
pedagogy degree.
ENPG 981 - (3) (SI)
Philosophy of Composition
The linguistic and psychological bases of writing, with
consideration of the most appropriate goals in teaching writing
and the most efficient means of teaching writing.
ENGL 895 - (3) (Y)
M.A. Thesis Research
A candidate for the M.A. degree in English may choose
to undertake a substantial thesis of about 15,000 words under
the sponsorship of a member of the graduate faculty in English.
Any candidate interested in undertaking such a project for three
credits should draw up a detailed proposal, secure the approval
of one faculty member willing to serve as supervisor, and present
the approved proposal before registration to the Director of Graduate
Studies in English. This course may be taken in either the fall
or the spring semester; it is not available during the summer
session.
ENGL 897 - (3-12) (Y)
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
Students taking this course are expected to make preparations
for taking their M.A. oral examination and begin reading for doctoral
examinations.
ENGL 993 - (3-12) (Y)
Independent Study
For doctoral candidates preparing for the preliminary
oral examination.
ENGL 995 - (3) (Y)
Special Projects in English
Independent study under faculty supervision for a limited
number of superior doctoral students who wish to do intensive
research on a special subject not covered in the usual courses.
Applicants for this course must present a detailed outline of
their projects and secure the written permission of their faculty
supervisor and the Director of Graduate Studies. Only one such
project may be offered for credit for the Ph.D.
ENGL 997 - (3-12) (Y)
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
Students taking this course are expected to make preparations
for their preliminary qualifying oral examinations for the doctorate.
ENGL 998 - (3) (Y)
Advanced Literary Research
Designed for students who are at or near the beginning of the
dissertation writing process. It addresses the problems most often
encountered by students as they begin to tackle the dissertation. The
bulk of the course is spent evaluating and critiquing drafts of
chapters.
ENGL 999 - (3-12) (Y)
Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a
dissertation director.
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