 | Except for creative writing courses, which have different restrictions, courses are offered on three levels, as indicated by their course number. The 1000-level courses (1000-1999) are introductory graduate courses open to M.A. and Ph.D. students and to upper-level undergraduates with permission of the instructor; 1000-level courses serve as introductions to periods, genres, or theoretical approaches. The 2000-level courses (2000-2999) are open to M.A. and Ph.D. students. The 3000-level courses (3100-3999) are doctoral seminars open to Ph.D. students only. Enrollment in writing workshops is limited to 12 students.
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS
Workshop in Poetry I, II
G41.1910, 1911 Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Program. Komunyakaa, Levine, Olds, visiting faculty. 4 points per term.
Discussion of students’ own work. Students are expected to bring in a new poem each week. They may be asked to memorize several great poems of their choosing. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
Workshop in Fiction I, II
G41.1920, 1921 Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Program. Breytenbach, Marshall, visiting faculty. 4 points per term.
Regular submission and discussion and analysis of student work in one or more fictional modes (short story, short novel, novel), with examination of relevant readings illustrating point of view, plot, setting, characterization, dialogue, and aspects of style. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
CRAFT COURSES
These courses are normally restricted to creative writing students.
The Craft of Poetry
G41.1950 Visiting faculty. 4 points.
Poetry from the point of view of the writer. Discussion of ways of producing rhythm in language; formal and free verse; metaphor; the humanizing conventions; syntax; the line; revision; and so on. Students may be asked to memorize poems.
The Craft of Fiction
G41.1960 Doctorow, visiting faculty. 4 points.
Study and analysis of major examples of the novel, novella, and short story to disclose the technical choices confronted by their authors. Consideration of theme and its formulation; choice of protagonists and minor characters; techniques of characterization; point of view; reflexivity and the author’s relation to his or her material; structure of the narrative; deployment of symbol and image clusters; and questions of rhythm, style, tone, and atmosphere. Complemented by the study of critical works.
The Craft of Short Fiction
G41.1962 Marshall. 4 points.
Designed specifically for the graduate fiction writer and for those who are interested in exploring the short story form. Through an analysis of the short fiction of the major writers, the course provides students with a greater understanding of how these writers employ the basic elements of fiction in fashioning their stories. This analysis in turn increases students’ own proficiency as writers.
PROSEMINAR
Proseminar
G41.2080 Required for and restricted to first-year Ph.D. students. Freedgood, Gilman, Guillory, Harper, Poovey. 4 points.
Introduction to the aims and methods of doctoral work in the institutional context of the literary profession.
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Introductory Old English
G41.1060 Hoover, Momma. 4 points.
Study of the language, literature, and culture of the Anglo-Saxons from about AD 500-1066. Oral readings of the original texts and a survey of basic grammar. Representative prose selections are read, but emphasis is on the brilliant short poems—Caedmon’s Hymn, The Battle of Maldon, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Dream of the Rood—that prepare the reader for the epic Beowulf.
Introductory Middle English
G41.1061 Carruthers, Rust. 4 points.
Study of representative prose and verse texts from 1100 to 1500, read in the original dialects, with emphasis on the continuity of literary traditions and creative innovation.
Development of the English Language
G41.2044 Hoover, Momma. 4 points.
History of the English language from its beginnings in the fifth century to the present, with special emphasis on the Indo-European origins of English; Old and Middle English; internal developments in phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary; and the rise of a standard dialect.
The Structure of Modern English
G41.2045 Hoover. 4 points.
Introduction to the linguistic study of the English language, with special emphasis on phonetics, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and the linguistic study of style.
Topics in the English Language
G41.2072 Carruthers, Hoover, Momma. 4 points.
Varied content, approaches, and organization. Possible topics include, among others, linguistic approaches to literature, philology and literary history, speech-act theory/pragmatics and the study of literature, Standard English and the idea of correctness, and dialect and literature.
RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
Practicum: Composition Theory
G41.2046 Identical to E11.2511. Required for teachers in the Expository Writing Program. Staff. 4 points.
Study of the current research on the composing process and its implications for classroom teaching. Considers all aspects of the writing process from prewriting through final product. Participants may be observed in a classroom setting.
Contemporary Rhetorical Theories
G41.2047 Collins. 4 points.
Survey of contemporary rhetorical theories in terms of the three somewhat overlapping predominant models: the Western rhetorical tradition from Aristotle onward; modern linguistics and the philosophy of language; and the part social context plays in the determination of meaning as related to the third source of models—the social sciences, especially sociology, psychology, and social psychology.
The History of Rhetoric
G41.2048 Carruthers. 4 points.
Survey of representative Western arguments about the nature of discourse, from Plato to Erasmus. Topics include epistemological, ethical, and literary values and the questions of the power, authority, and purposes of language.
LITERATURE
Modern Irish: Gaelic Tradition in Writing and Folklore
G41.1080 Waters. 4 points.
Topics in Irish Literature
G41.1085 Waters. 4 points.
The Bible as Literature
G41.1115 Identical to G90.2115. Feldman. 4 points.
Studies in Beowulf
G41.1152 Prerequisite: G41.1060 or the equivalent. Momma. 4 points.
Beowulf in the light of paleography, metrics, and comparative editions; historical and literary analyses are also examined.
The Renaissance in England
G41.1322 Gilman. 4 points.
Major prose and poetry of the 16th century: More, Wyatt, Marlowe, Nashe, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and others.
Shakespeare I, II
G41.1344, 1345 Archer, Gilman. 4 points per term.
First term: major comedies, histories, and tragedies from Titus Andronicus to Hamlet. Second term: Othello to The Tempest.
17th-Century Poetry
G41.1420 Gilman. 4 points.
Major poets of the earlier 17th century, including Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Herrick, the Cavaliers, Crashaw, Marvell, Vaughan, and (the early) Milton.
Introduction to the Victorian Novel
G41.1662 Freedgood, Maynard, Poovey, Spear. 4 points.
Major works of British fiction by Dickens, Thackeray, the
Brontës, Eliot, and others.
Introduction to the Modern British Novel
G41.1720 Deer. 4 points.
The principal works, including novels by Lawrence, Forster,
Joyce, and Woolf.
Modern Afro-American Novelists
G41.1750 Harper, McHenry. 4 points.
Representative novels by Ellison, Toomer, Williams, Wright,
Naylor, Baldwin, and Morrison.
Afro-American Poetry
G41.1755 Harper, McHenry. 4 points.
The oral tradition; poetry from the Harlem renaissance to
the present.
World Literature in English
G41.1764 Sandhu, Young. 4 points.
Literature that emerged with the breakup of the British
Empire, with representative works from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, South
Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Topics in Performance
G41.1770 Chaudhuri, Harries. 4 points.
Various topics in the history and theory of performance,
including animality, spectatorship, mass culture, and others.
Introductory Topics in the History of the Production of
Knowledge
G41.1800 Poovey. 4 points.
Introductory Topics in Criticism
G41.1955 Harper, Haverkamp, Maynard, Meisel. 4 points.
Introductory Topics in Literary Theory
G41.1957 Freedgood, Guillory, Harper, Haverkamp,
Hoover, Meisel. 4 points.
Topics in Early Modern Culture
G41.2155 Newman. 4 points.
Chaucer I, II
G41.2266, 2267
Carruthers, Dinshaw, Rust. 4 points per term.
First term: reading and discussion of the text of Canterbury
Tales. Second term: Troilus and other works.
Topics in Medieval Literature I, II
G41.2270, 2271 Carruthers, Dinshaw, Momma, Rust. 4 points
per term.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
G41.2333 Archer, Gilman, Guillory, Newman. 4 points.
Marlowe, Jonson, Kyd, Marston, Tourneur, Webster, Middleton,
Rowley, Ford, Chapman.
The Age of Donne
G41.2414
Gilman. 4 points.
The poetry of Donne, Herbert, Jonson, and selected minor
poets; the prose of Hooker, Donne, Bacon, Browne, and Burton.
The Age of Milton
G41.2422
Gilman. 4 points.
The poetry of Crashaw, Vaughan, Traherne, Marvell, Milton,
Herrick, and the Cavaliers; the prose of Milton, Hobbes, Walton, and Bunyan.
Milton
G41.2430
Gilman, Guillory. 4 points.
The poems of Milton, with emphasis on the major works
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, together with selected
readings in Milton’s prose.
Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature
G41.2521 Griffin, Siskin, Starr, Waters. 4 points.
The major works of Dryden, Swift, and Pope, together with
the works of such contemporaries as Bunyan, Butler, Rochester, Marvell, Behn,
Astell, Addison, and Steele.
Topics in 18th-Century Literature I, II
G41.2540, 2541 Griffin, Siskin, Starr, Waters. 4 points per
term.
The Romantic Movement I, II
G41.2620, 2621 Lockridge, Siskin. 4 points per term.
First term: prose and poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and
Coleridge, with romantic prose. Second term: prose and poetry of Byron,
Shelley, and Keats, with romantic prose.
Topics in Romanticism I, II
G41.2626, 2627 Lockridge, Siskin. 4 points per term.
Topics in political, philosophical, and critical approaches
to romanticism.
Topics in Victorian Literature
G41.2650 Freedgood, Maynard, Poovey, Spear. 4 points.
Victorian Studies
G41.2661
Freedgood, Maynard, Poovey, Spear. 4 points.
Victorian poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose in cultural
context.
The Victorian Novel
G41.2662
Freedgood, Maynard, Poovey, Spear. 4 points.
Novels selected from those of Dickens, Thackeray, the
Brontës, Mrs. Gaskell, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, Hardy, Samuel Butler,
and Gissing.
The Literature of the Transition I, II
G41.2700, 2701 Maynard, Meisel. 4 points per term.
The emergence of modern British literature from the 1800s to
the 1920s. First term: Butler, Shaw, Wells, Chesterton, Pater, Wilde, Henry
James, Gissing, Henley, Thomson, Hardy, Houseman, Kipling, and Conrad. Second
term: the Georgian poets (selections), Bennett, Galsworthy, Strachey, Forster,
Woolf, Lawrence, Owen, Rosenberg, Sassoon, Ford, Yeats, Pound, and Joyce.
Modern British Novel
G41.2720 Deer, Meisel. 4 points.
The problem of modernism in English prose fiction from Pater
to Joyce and Woolf.
Contemporary British Novel
G41.2721 Deer, Sandhu. 4 points.
Topics include pulp; fictions and documents of the permanent
war culture; popular music; graphic, avant-garde, children’s, and postcolonial
narrative and film. Readings include Beckett, Burgess, Sillitoe, Spark,
Lessing, Rushdie, Amis, Ishiguro, Alan Moore, Ballard, Dyer, Sinclair, and
Welsh.
The Literature of Modern Ireland I, II
G41.2730, 2731 Donoghue, Waters. 4 points per term.
First term: the literature and mythology of the ancient
Celt, the historical backgrounds of Irish nationalism, Anglo-Irish writers of
the 18th and 19th centuries, the founders of the literary revival—Yeats, Moore,
and Synge. Second term: Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, O’Casey, Carroll, A. E.,
Stephens, Gogarty, Clarke, Kavanagh, Colum, Rogers, Joyce, O’Flaherty,
O’Faolain, O’Connor, and Stuart.
Early American Literature
G41.2802 Baker, Waterman. 4 points.
American literature, 1607-1800, in its cultural setting.
Topics include the literature of exploration and promotion; American Puritan
poetry and prose; writing in the early South and the middle colonies; rise of
the epic, the novel, and the theatre during the American Revolution, with
related study of music and painting of the period; the beginning of American
romanticism.
American Literature: 1800-1865 I, II
G41.2810, 2811 Baker, Collins, Waterman. 4 points per term.
First term: Brown, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Douglass,
and Thoreau. Second term: Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.
American Literature: 1865-1900
G41.2820 Baker, Crain, McHenry, Patell. 4 points.
The poetry and fiction of the post-Civil War era, including
Dickinson, De Forest, Howells, Twain, Garland, James, Crane, Frederic, Chopin,
and Norris.
Colloquium in American Civilization
G41.2834 Patell. 4 points.
Topics in American Literature I, II
G41.2838, 2839 Baker, Collins, Crain, Harper, Hendin,
McHenry, Patell, Waterman. 4 points per term.
Studies in major authors and themes.
American Fiction: 1900-1945
G41.2841 Hendin, McHenry, Patell. 4 points.
Readings in 20th-century American fiction and nonfiction
prose, with emphasis on the theory of fictional genres, literary innovation,
stylistic experimentation, and recurrent themes in the modern novel; Dreiser,
Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Cather, Steinbeck, Lewis,
and Wolfe.
Contemporary American Novel
G41.2844 Hendin, McHenry, Patell. 4 points.
Selected novels of Ellison, Mailer, Bellow, Malamud, Roth,
Hawkes, Gaddis, Pynchon, Nabokov, Barth, and Flannery O’Connor.
Henry James: Major Works
G41.2861 Crain, Hendin. 4 points.
In-depth study of the major works of Henry James,
emphasizing his treatment of the American scene, the aesthetic and moral impact
of Europe on the American character, and his changing literary, formal, and
psychological preoccupations.
Topics in Postcolonial Literature
G41.2900 Gajarawala, Watson, Young. 4 points.
Intermediate-level study of literary and theoretical works
pertaining to the eras of decolonization and globalization.
Literature and Philosophy
G41.2912 Haverkamp, Lockridge. 4 points.
Mutual influence of “literary” and philosophical texts;
philosophical and rhetorical terminology; poetics, politics, and law; poetics,
aesthetics, and hermeneutics; critique, criticism, and deconstruction; theories
of fiction and memory.
Literature and Psychology
G41.2913 Collins, Haverkamp, Meisel. 4 points.
Examination of the common ground of literature and
psychology in the light of modern psychoanalytic theory.
Topics in Literature and Modern Culture
G41.2916 Donoghue, Sandhu. 4 points.
Studies in the interaction of literature and modern culture.
Topics in Modern Literature
G41.2917 Deer, Donoghue, Sandhu. 4 points.
Topics may include the formal properties of literary modernism, its social and political contexts, or particular modernist authors.
Modern British and American Poetry
G41.2924 Donoghue. 4 points.
Studies in major poets, with emphasis on the intrinsic
character of poems; Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Stevens, Williams, Eliot,
Crane, Auden, Thomas, Lowell, and Hughes.
Contemporary Poetry
G41.2927 Shaw. 4 points.
Approaches to the work of contemporary poets. Context varies yearly.
Modern Drama I, II
G41.2930, 2931 Chaudhuri, Harries. 4 points per term.
First term: representational drama of Scribe, Hauptmann,
Ibsen, Strindberg, Gorki, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, O’Neill, Williams,
Miller, Albee, and Osborne. Second term: nonrepresentational drama of Büchner,
Strindberg, Kaiser, O’Neill, Jarry, Apollinaire, Ibsen, Yeats, Eliot, Brecht,
Pirandello, Artaud, Genet, Ionesco, Beckett, and Pinter.
Poetic Structure and Genres
G41.2952 Collins. 4 points.
Part one: a survey of the classical genres, e.g., epic,
pastoral, elegy, and satire; their decline in the 18th century; and, in their
place, the rise of the modern lyric. Part two: an examination of the structure
of poetic texts, with special attention to their representation of cognitive
states and processes.
Major Texts in Critical Theory
G41.2953 Haverkamp, Lockridge. 4 points.
Major texts in critical theory from Plato to the present
century are examined in order to raise fundamental questions concerning the
origins, nature, and uses of literature.
Contemporary Criticism
G41.2954 Gilman, Harper, Meisel. 4 points.
Comparative examination of major schools of contemporary
criticism, American and European, describing the variety of critical
perspectives and how they are interrelated.
Topics in Criticism I, II
G41.2955, 2956 Donoghue, Harper, Haverkamp, Maynard, Meisel.
4 points per term.
Application, exemplification, and reception of literary
theory; history of criticism and theory. Critical configurations like the division
of the public sphere and private space.
Topics in Literary Theory I, II
G41.2957, 2958 Freedgood, Guillory, Harper, Haverkamp,
Meisel. 4 points per term.
Content varies.
The Language of Criticism
G41.2960 Donoghue. 4 points.
Study of 15 to 20 terms in traditional and contemporary
criticism, along with their contexts and their application in practical
criticism.
Rhetoric and Deconstruction
G41.2964 Haverkamp. 4 points.
Continuity/discontinuity of rhetoric and poetics with
deconstruction as criticism. First- and second-degree deconstruction. Theory of
metaphor and tropes; allegories of reading.
Survey of Critical Theory I, II
G41.2965, 2966 Identical to G29.2500, 2501. Javitch,
Lockridge. 4 points per term.
Major texts in critical theory. First term: classical,
medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical texts from English and Continental
literature. Second term: European romantics to contemporary theory, with
reference to neoclassicism.
Introduction to Advanced Literary Study for M.A. Students
G41.2980 Required for the M.A. degree. Archer,
Chaudhuri, Freedgood, Harries, Maynard, Rust. 3 points.
An introduction to major methodological and theoretical approaches to literature and culture through the close reading and contextualization of select literary works.
RESEARCH
Guided Research
G41.3001, 3002, 3003, 3004 Prerequisite: permission of the director of graduate studies. 1-4 points per term.
DOCTORAL SEMINARS
Ordinarily open only to Ph.D. students. Open to exceptionally qualified M.A. students only with permission of the instructor. Admission for all students ordinarily requires prior work in the field. Work in the course is geared to the writing of a potentially publishable research paper. With the approval of the instructor and the director of graduate studies, seminars offered in other departments might in some cases count as doctoral seminars.
Topics in Medieval Literature I, II
G41.3269, 3270 Carruthers, Dinshaw, Rust. 4 points per term.
Topics in Renaissance Literature I, II
G41.3323, 3324 Archer, Gilman, Guillory, Newman. 4 points per term.
Topics in 17th-Century Literature I, II
G41.3432, 3433 Gilman, Newman. 4 points per term.
Topics in 18th-Century English Literature I, II
G41.3536, 3537 Griffin, Siskin, Starr, Waters. 4 points per term.
Topics in Romantic Literature I, II
G41.3626, 3627 Lockridge, Siskin. 4 points per term.
Topics in Literary Theory
G41.3629 Haverkamp. 4 points.
Topics in Victorian Literature I, II
G41.3650, 3651 Freedgood, Maynard, Poovey, Spear. 4 points per term.
Topics in British Fiction from 1890 to the Present
G41.3720 Deer, Meisel. 4 points.
Topics in Irish Literature
G41.3730 Donoghue, Waters. 4 points.
Topics in Early American Literature
G41.3802 Waterman. 4 points.
Topics in American Literature: 1800-1865 I, II
G41.3810, 3811 Collins, Jackson, Waterman. 4 points per term.
Topics in American Literature: 1865-1900
G41.3820 Baker, Collins, McHenry, Patell. 4 points.
Topics in American Literature Since 1900 I, II
G41.3840, 3841 Harper, Hendin, McHenry, Parikh, Patell. 4 points per term.
Topics in Postcolonial Literature
G41.3900 Young. 4 points.
Advanced study of literary and theoretical works pertaining to the eras of decolonization and globalization.
Topics in the History of Rhetoric
G41.3918 Carruthers. 4 points.
Topics in Criticism I, II
G41.3920, 3921 Haverkamp, Maynard, Meisel. 4 points per term.
Topics in British and American Poetry I, II
G41.3926, 3927 Donoghue. 4 points per term.
Topics in Poetics
G41.3954 Collins, Donoghue, Lockridge. 4 points.
Topics in Criticism I, II
G41.3957, 3958 Haverkamp, Magnuson, Patell, Poovey, Starr. 4 points per term.
Topics in the History of the Production of Knowledge
G41.3951 Poovey, Siskin. 4 points.
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