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ENGLISH LITERATURE (L14)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2024

L14 E Lit 100First-Year Seminar: The Literary Life3.0 UnitsLab Required
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01M------9:00A-9:50AMallinckrodt / 303 RikerNo final3600
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A--W-F--9:00A-9:50ATBARikerNo final1200
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B--W-F--9:00A-9:50ATBASchumanNo final1200
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C--W-F--9:00A-9:50ATBATranNo final1200
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L14 E Lit 151First-Year Seminar: Immigrants and Exiles3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-12:50PTBABrownPaper/Project/TakeHome1500
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L14 E Lit 155First-Year Seminar: Campus Novels and Dark Academia: Stories of College Life3.0 Units
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01-T-R---8:30A-9:50ATBAEversNo final1500
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L14 E Lit 156First-Year Seminar: Literature of Addiction: From Opium to Adderall3.0 Units
Description:This course investigates literary representations of addiction, from Thomas De Quincy's CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER (1821) to Ottessa Moshfegh's MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION (2018). We will study the development of familiar stages in narratives of substance abuse-i.e. experimentation, transcendence, downward spiral, "rock bottom," and recovery/sobriety-posing questions like: What symbolic and literal positions have people with addictions occupied in their societies? How has the modern pharmaceutical industry and the War on Drugs impacted perceptions of "typical" drug use? How do race, gender, age, class, and sexuality factor into the imagination and realities of chemical dependency? To what non-narcotic substances-e.g. media, gambling, sex, adrenaline-do we consider people addicted? We will read diverse selections of poetry, fiction, scholarship, and memoir from authors like Samuel Coleridge, William Burroughs, James Baldwin, Sherman Alexie, Denis Johnson, Irvine Welsh, Paul B. Preciado, Melissa Broder, Tao Lin, Michelle Alexander, Laurie Weeks, Mian Mian, Reginald Dwayne Betts, and Nico Walker. Through discussions and short writing assignments, we will explore various imaginations of people with addictions as tortured souls, creative geniuses, immature party-goers, and/or depraved monsters, seeking to better understand the way experiences of addiction shape perception, and in turn, how perceptions of addiction shape human experience.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L61 156Frequency:None / History
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01M-W----11:30A-12:50PTBAHendersonNo final1800
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L14 E Lit 2151Literature in English: Early Texts and Contexts3.0 Units
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:20PTBARosenfeldPaper/Project/TakeHome15154
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02M-W----10:00A-11:20ATBAThomasPaper/Project/TakeHome15150
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03-T-R---2:30P-3:50PTBA[TBA]Paper/Project/TakeHome15100
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L14 E Lit 2152Literature in English: Modern Texts and Contexts3.0 Units
Description:What is modern English literature, and how do we tell its story? Is it a succession of literary movements from romanticism to realism to modernism and beyond? Is it a canon of classic texts to survey? Is it a sustained critique of that canon's exclusions, a recentering of the marginalized authors whose works reveal previously obscured accounts of modernity? It is, in fact, all of the above. In this course, we will introduce students to the central themes, forms, and forces that have shaped the history of English-language literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, and to the tools, vocabularies, and critical practices of contemporary literary studies. Throughout, we will examine the norms and assumptions of literary history, including those based in race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Students will encounter fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction from Britain, Ireland, and the U.S., along with African, Caribbean, or other global literatures in English. Authors studied may include William Wordsworth, Phillis Wheatley, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Frederick Douglass, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, James Baldwin, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zadie Smith. NOTE: Satisfies one of the two 200-level requirements for the English Major.
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01M-W----1:00P-2:20PTBAO'BryanPaper/Project/TakeHome15110
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02-T-R---1:00P-2:20PTBAWestonPaper/Project/TakeHome15150
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03-T-R---11:30A-12:50PDuncker / 1 FinneranPaper/Project/TakeHome18160
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L14 E Lit 316WTopics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction3.0 Units
Description:Little Goody Two Shoes taught morality and the alphabet to the poor children of her village and eventually rode in a coach and six; Nancy Drew drove a blue roadster (later a convertible and still later a hybrid) while solving crimes and bringing justice to the town of River Heights. Between these two landmark characters lie the two and a half centuries of rich and diverse fiction for girls that will be at the center of this writing-intensive course. After grounding our studies by reading selected works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we will concentrate on twentieth-century productions, beginning with the surprisingly progressive serial fiction produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and others in the early 1900s. (Titles such as The Motor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, and The Outdoor Girls advertise the series´ departure from domestic settings.) Throughout our study of both popular and classic texts, we will investigate the social, political and familial roles for girls that the texts imagine. Major genres will include mysteries, frontier fiction, career fiction, domestic fiction, school stories, and fantasy. Authors will include Newbery, Alcott, Montgomery, Wilder, Lindgren, L'Engle, and "Carolyn Keene." Writing Intensive. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L66 316W  L77 3121  L98 3121Frequency:None / History
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:20PTBAPawlNo final141429
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02-T-R---4:00P-5:20PTBAPawlNo final151516
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L14 E Lit 318Topics in American Literature: The Cultural History of the American Teenager3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-12:50PTBAShipePaper/Project/TakeHome252513
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L14 E Lit 324Selected Writers: Jane Austen3.0 Units
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:20ATBAPawlDec 17 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM19199
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L14 E Lit 3520Introduction to Postcolonial Literature3.0 Units
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01-T-R---2:30P-3:50PTBABrownPaper/Project/TakeHome15154
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L14 E Lit 3525Topics in Literature: Authoritarianism and Its Enemies in American History, Theory, and Literature3.0 Units
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:20ALife Sciences / 118 MaxwellPaper/Project/TakeHome010
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L14 E Lit 352ITopics in AMCS: The Real and Fake: Identity, Conflics, and Race in Asian American Literature3.0 Units
Description:Who is a "real" Asian and who is "fake"? Why do stereotypes like "banana" and "coconut" exist? Is cultural identity real or are we just performing certain identities to fit into social positions? This course will address these identarian questions that shape Asian American Literatures. We will draw from the "pen wars" in the 1970's and reflect on the liminality of various Asian American writers caught between Asian and American loyalties. We will unpack real, fake and fabricated identities and discuss how identities have been historically shaped by race, gender, class, but are gradually moving beyond these categories into intersectional realities of selective racialization, desirable, and cosmopolitan Asianess. Utilizing the concept of "racial formation", the course will specifically interrogate four central dynamics of Asian American identity: the politics of Asian American scholarship, frameworks of Asian American representation, the task of the ethnic writer, and the liminal dynamics of New Asian American identities in the age of digitalization and social media. Finally, the course will help students reflect, question and realize their own identarian influence and characteristics, improving critical thinking on modern issues and the habit of reflective reading and writing.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L98 3520  L22 3521  L46 3520Frequency:None / History
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:20ATBAGhoshPaper/Project/TakeHome1960
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L14 E Lit 3552Introduction to Literary Theory3.0 Units
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01M-W----4:00P-5:20PTBABattenPaper/Project/TakeHome15156
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02-T-R---10:00A-11:20ATBAWindlePaper/Project/TakeHome15156
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L14 E Lit 357The Art of Poetry3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-12:50PTBASherryNo final15151
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L14 E Lit 420Topics in Literature: Predicting a Bestseller: Computational Approaches to Publishing Trends3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:20ATBAKirilloffNo final15155
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L14 E Lit 423Topics in American Literature: James Baldwin Now3.0 Units
Description:Marking the centennial of his birth in 1924, this class will examine why James Baldwin became the twentieth-century African American author most loved in the twenty-first. An inexhaustible public witness and the author of poems, plays, essays, novels, and short stories, the Harlem-born Baldwin ranks with the most daring and elegant American literary voices. His first novel, the autobiographical "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), wrestled with the dual heritage of Black Christianity and Depression-era Black social realism. His second novel, "Giovanni's Room" (1956), set in Paris and peopled with non-black characters, explored the intricacies of same-sex desire years before the Stonewall rebellion announced the gay rights movement. "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), the first collection of Baldwin's lush and searching essays and a grandparent of twenty-first century autocriticism, is perhaps the most-tweeted book of our era. Our reading list will contain all of these books, but we'll end with a sequence of texts revealing various facets of Baldwin's resurrected meaning in the wake of Black Lives Matter: among them, Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir "Between the World and Me" (2015); Raoul Peck's documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" (2017); and Eddie Glaude Jr.'s Trump-era treatise "Begin Again" (2020). Altogether, this will be a single-author course on a singular author whose life after death illuminates crucial issues in Black cultural politics in two centuries. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. This course may fulfill the global or minority literatures requirement for students who declare an English major in the fall 2021 semester and beyond.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L14 5111  L46 423  L90 423B  L98 423Frequency:Every 2 Years / History
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:20PTBAMaxwellNo final15156
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02-T-R---10:00A-11:20ATBAMaxwellNo final0018
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L14 E Lit 4231Topics in American Literature: Two American Nobel Laureates: Pearl S. Buck and Sinclair Lewis3.0 Units
Description:In some ways, this is a course about firsts. In 1930, novelist Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1938, novelist and memoirist Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Award and the third American overall (playwright Eugene O'Neill won it in 1936). Both were not only highly esteemed writers; Lewis a satirist of American classes and cultural manners, and Buck largely known for her realistic works about Asia (she grew up in China), the theme of the pull of tradition against rebellion, and her biographies of her missionary parents. Both were popular as well: Lewis's novels Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Mantrap, Dodsworth, Ann Vickers, and Cass Timberlane were made into films. Buck's novels The Good Earth, Dragon Seed, China Sky, and Pavilion of Women were made into films as well as her script for what turned out to be Leo McCarey's last film, Satan Never Sleeps. Except for Lewis's dystopian novel about a fascist takeover of the United States, It Can Happen Here, the works of neither author are as read as they were at the authors' height of fame. This course is an exploration of some the major and lesser-known works of Lewis and Buck, and a consideration of their status in American letters. Why did their best works make the impact they did? And how did their work affect the direction of American literature, particularly from the 1920s through the 1940s?
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
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01M-W----8:30A-9:50ATBAEarlyPaper/Project/TakeHome1510
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