Autumn 2005 300-level ENGL courses

(Descriptions last updated: 15 September 2005)

Notes of Interest

Course Descriptions
The following course descriptions have been written by individual instructors to provide more detailed information on specific section sthan that found in the General Catalog. When individual descriptions are not available, the General Catalog descriptions [in brackets] are used. (Although we try to have as accurate and complete information as possible, this schedule remains subject to change.)

Add Codes
All English classes, 300-level and above, require instructor permission for registration during Registration Period 3 (beginning the first day of classes). If students have not registered for a class prior to the first day, they should attend the first class meetings and/or contact the instructor to obtain the necessary add codes.

First Week Attendance
Because of heavy demand for many English classes, students who do not attend all reguarly-scheduled meetings during the first week of the quarter may be dropped from their classes by the department. If students are unable to attend at any point during the first week, they should contact their instructors ahead of time. The Department requests that instructors make reasonable accommodations for students with legitimate reasons for being absent; HOWEVER, THE FINAL DECISION RESTS WITH THE INSTRUCTOR AND SPACE IS NOT GUARANTEED FOR ABSENT STUDENTS EVEN IF THEY CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR IN ADVANCE. (Instructors' phone numbers and e-mail addresses can be obtained by calling the Main English Office, (206) 543-2690 or the Undergraduate Advising Office, (206) 543-2634.)

Upper Division (300-level) creative writing courses
Students who have completed the prerequisites to 300-level creative writing classes as listed in the Time Schedule may register via MyUW during Registration Periods 1 and 2 (during Registration Period 3, admission is by instructor permission only, and any add codes available may be obtained from the instructors at that time). Students who have taken only one of the two prerequisite courses listed for each 300-level class should contact the English Advising office (A-2-B Padelford) for further information.

302 A (Critical Practice)
MW 1:30-3:20
Chaudhary
zahidc@u.washington.edu
Genealogies of Cultural and Literary Theory: Of Subjects and Subjection. In this course we will explore some of the central critical debates in cultural and literary studies through selected foundational texts of contemporary theory that formulate -- implicitly or explicitly – an understanding of the subject. Beginning with a consideration of structuralist understandings of language, and their challenge to humanistic systems of knowledge, we will work our way through poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, tracing the shifts within these competing formulations of the subject. As we begin to disentangle the meanings of what we mean when we say “I,” we will inevitably analyze the relationships between the subject and subjection, ideology and power, language and authorship, theory and politics, citizenship and biopolitics. To this end, we will consider the synergy between theories of the subject and contemporary feminist and postcolonial interventions. We will ground our analyses within particular literary, visual, and theoretical works, learning how to read cultural production as theory, rather than applying theory to selected texts. The course is geared towards developing skills of close-reading and critical writing. Course Requirements: Weekly response papers, Two analytical papers, and a mid-term exam. Text: Photocopied course packet (available at Ave Copy Center).

310A (The Bible as Literature)
M-Th 8:30
Griffith
jgriff@u.washington.edu
A rapid study of readings from both the Old and New Testaments, focusing primarily on those parts of the Bible with the most “literary” interest – narratives, poems and philosophy. Students will be expected to attend class regularly, keep up with reading assignments, and take part in open discussion. Written work will consist entirely of a series of in-class essays done in response to study questions handed out in advance. Text: Michael Googan, ed., New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd edition.

313A (Modern European Literature in Translation)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Popov
popov@u.washington.edu
This course will introduce you to celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights (Beckett, Carmus, Celan, Grass, Kundera, Solzhenitsyn and others) whose works express the conflicted consciousness of post-World War II Europe, and transcend national and linguistic boundaries. This is a reading-intensive course; before the beginning of the quarter, you must read The Tin Drum. Requirements: Research portfolio: 25%; final: 50%; Class: 25% (Meets with EURO 490E; 30L + 10) Texts: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Albert Camus, The Fall; Gunther Grass, The Tin Drum; Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Primo Levi, The Periodic Table; Winfried Georg Sebald, Vertigo; Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (tr. Willets); recommended: Wislawa Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand.

313B (Modern European Literature in Translation)
MWF 9:30-10:20 J
Jane Brown (Germanics)
jkbrown@u.washington.edu
Faust and the Devil in Literature and Music. This course investigates how pacts with the devil appear in our culture and the special connections of this tradition with music. We will look in detail at Marlowe's tragedy Dr. Faustus, at Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II (1808 and 1832), at some Faust operas and films of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Bulgakov's comic novel The Master and Margarita. We will explore how the legend of the pact with the devil came to represent the West's view of itself and of the dangers inherent in our advancing scientific knowledge. Several short exercises, two papers and a take-home final. (Meets with GERMAN 349A.) For further information, see http://courses.washington.edu/litcrit/

315 B (Literary Modernism)
TTh 8:30-10:20
Walker
codyw@u.washington.edu
Three Writers, Three Countries, Three Legacies. This course will focus on Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marianne Moore. We’ll discuss their individual achievements and their influences upon other writers (chiefly: Elizabeth Bishop, Ian McEwan, and Jorge Luis Borges). We’ll also spend some time with other Modernist poets (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and W. B. Yeats) as we discuss parody in terms of literary legacy. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Ian McEwan, Saturday; Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories; Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths; Marianne Moore, The Poems of Marianne Moore (Grace Schulman, ed.); Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems.

316 A (Postcolonial Literature & Cultures)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Chrisman
lhc3@u.washington.edu
This course introduces a range of important international literatures, paying particular attention to writings connected with the historical experience of slavery, colonialism and decolonization. By the end of the course students should have a knowledge and understanding of the creative agendas of post-colonial writing, knowledge of the political, cultural, and socio-historical contexts of post-colonial writing, a grasp of some key concepts of post-colonial literary theory. This course focuses on literature in English from West Africa, South Africa, and the Caribbean. We will look at writings produced under British imperialism and South African apartheid as well as those that followed national independence. Throughout the course we will examine key terms and concepts in post-colonial theory, and discuss these in relation to the set texts. As well as examining the cultural environments which frame post-colonial literatures, and the specific colonial histories they inscribe, we will also chart broad issues such as language, race, gender, nationhood, neocolonialism, historical memory, which are central to many post-colonial writers and critical commentators. Texts: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth; Grace Nichols, I is a Long Memoried Woman; George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin; Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist; Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy; Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born; Zakes Mda, Heart of Redness; Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place.

317 A (Literature of the Americas)
TTh 7-8:50 pm (Evening Degree)
Kaup
(W)
mkaup@u.washington.edu
This course juxtaposes fictional narratives from the northern and southern parts of the American hemisphere which share a common obsession with history. Traumatic scenes of the past – the European invasion of the “New World,” the institution of chattel slavery across the hemisphere, the Haitian and Mexican Revolutions, civil and revolutionary wars – are revisited by twentieth-century novelists because these are “pasts that are not past.” Rather, these are historical events which keep festering like an open wound, and which continue to haunt the present of contemporary New World nations forged in the crucible of racial and ethnic violence.

Throughout the course we will ask the following critical questions: What is an appropriate way of reconstructing violent histories such as slavery, the Haitian or the Mexican Revolution? What are the advantages of using the overly subjective, biased modes of memory an fiction as opposed to the detached, intellectual exercise of writing history? How do literature and historical fiction shape or reflect ethnic and national identities in the Americas? How does gender, race, class influence the way writers approach the process of remembering and reconstructing the past? Is it possible to read these narratives as more than national (U.S., Mexican, Cuban, etc.) works – as works belonging to a common transamerican, hemispheric history, as well as a “literature of the Americas”? (Evening Degree students only.)
Texts: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Carolos Fuentes, Death of Artemio Cruz; Elena Garro, Recollection of Things to Come; Maryse Conde, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem; Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World; Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala; Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden.

321 A (Chaucer)
MW 1:30-3:20
Coldewey
jcjc@u.washington.edu
ENGL 321 explores the world of Chaucer and his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, focusing on important cultural and literary matters. The student workload includes three short response papers, three tests, some memory work, and participation in a formal in-class debate about a subject relevant to the tales we are reading. At the heart of all our investigations is the continuing power and genius of Chaucer’s works. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (ed. Kolve, Norton Critical Edn.); Robert P. Miller, ed., Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds; Boitani & Mann, eds., The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, 2nd ed.

322 A (English Literature: The Age of Queen Elizabeth)
MW 12:30-2:20
Streitberger
streitwr@u.washington.edu
The golden age of English poetry, with poems by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, and others; drama by Marlowe and other early rivals to Shakespeare; prose by Sir Thomas More and the great Elizabethan translators. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1B; Machiavelli, The Prince; More, Utopia; Julia Briggs, This Stage Play World.

323 A (Shakespeare to 1603)
MW 3:30-5:20
Streitberger
streitwr@u.washington.edu
Shakespeare’s career as dramatist after 1603. Study of comedies, tragedies, and romances.Majors only, Registration Period 1. Text: Bevington, ed., Complete Works of Shakespeare.

324 A (Shakespeare after 1603)
TTh 1:30-3:20
LaGuardia
ehl@u.washington.edu
Shakespeare’s career as dramatist after 1603. Study of comedies, tragedies, and romances. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure; Macbeth; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear; Winter's Tale; Tempest.

326 A (Milton)
TTh 9:30-11:20
LaGuardia
ehl@u.washington.edu
Milton’s early poems and the prose; Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, with attention to the religious, intellectual, and literary context. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Text: Orgel & Goldberg, eds., John Milton.

327A (English Literature: Restoration & 18th C.)
TTh 8:30-10:20
Olsen
elenao@u.washington.edu
The literature of England from 1660 to 1750. This course will focus on the emerging public literary culture during the early eighteenth century, which took the form of a great profusion of printed material, a new sense of English literary identity, and the “rise” of the novel. Authors include: John Dryden, William Congreve, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Daniel Defoe. We will also read lesser-known writers, especially focusing on women poets. Reading load is fairly heavy. Other requirements include short response papers, one longer essay, a midterm and/or final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1C: The Retoration and Eighteenth Century; Samuel Richardson, Pamela.

328 A (English Literature: Later 18th Century)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Olsen
elenao@u.washington.edu
In this course, we will read literature of the period formerly known as the “Age of Johnson.” It has also been known as the “Age of Sensibility” and the “Pre-Romantic” era. All of these titles are limited and limiting, and we’ll examine the why and how of all of them by reading poetry and some prose of the period. This was a time when the idea of authorship was in flux, and undergoing changes that led to modern conceptions of creativity and literature. Authors include: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Oliver Goldsmith, Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Reading load is fairly heavy. Other requirements include short response papers, one longer essay, and a midterm and/or final exam. Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1C: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century; Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield.

329 A (Rise of the English Novel)
TTh 2:30-4:20
Popov
popov@u.washington.edu
This course will introduce you to several exemplary early novels (Lazarillo de Tormes; Don Quixote by Cervantes, The Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan, Joseph Andrews by Fielding, and Tristram Shandy by Sterne); in addition, you’ll read extensive excerpts from works by Rabelais, Defoe, Richardson, and some criticism. Discussions will focus on the poetics of the novel as a literary genre and the problems associated with its emergence in England. Our main objective is to read the primary texts, understand the main literary issues, and learn the critical vocabulary related to the genre of the novel. This is an upper-level English course with a heavy reading load (required novels and course pack add up to more than 2000 pages). Before the first meeting, you must read Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes. Requirements and grading: brief assignments on each major novel, quizzes, participation, attendance (20% of your course grade), midterm (40%), final examination (40%). Midterm and final will consist of both short-answer questions and an essay, each part have equal weight. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels; John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress; Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (tr. Rutherford); Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy.

331 A (Romantic Poetry I)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Modiano
modiano@u.washington.edu
This course will offer a broad overview of the political, intellectual and literary history of the Romantic period (1789-1850), focusing on the works of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. We will begin with an investigation of the impact of the French Revolution on the Romantics and of radical developments during this period in religion (the opposition to Christianity), philosophy (the revolt against empiricism), aesthetics (the prevailing interest in the sublime and the emergence of the aesthetics of the picturesque), art (the change from the tradition of portrait paintings or paintings on historical subjects to landscape paintings in which the main subject is represented by nature as the human figure diminishes in size and significance), and gardening (the change from the formal garden to a landscape that more nearly resembles the uncultivated look of the wilderness, according to standards set forth by picturesque aesthetics). After three weeks on these introductory topics, we will turn to an in-depth study of Blake’s poetry and art work, and move on to the literary collaboration between Coleridge and Wordsworth. We will focus on Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s unusual dependence on each other, personal as well as literary, beneficial as well as disabling, and their appropriation of each other’s themes and poetic genres. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Blake, Blake’s Poetry and Designs; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; America: a Prophecy & Europe: A Prophecy; Coleridge, Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose; Wordsworth, Selected Poetry; Marilyn Butler, ed., Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy; photocopied course packet.

333 A (English Novel: Early & Middle 19th C.)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Butwin
joeyb@u.washington.edu
Most people who have never read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—and many who have—fail to put the correct name on the Monster. Why? Well, first of all, he hasn’t any name. What a start in life! No name. In traditional usage that expression—“no name”—would mean that he is (pick your favorite euphemism) Illegitimate. This, or something very much like it, is the starting point of many notable careers in 19th century fiction where we are obliged to follow the trajectory of numerous orphans and bastards whose initial grip on personal identity is thin. They hardly can be said to have names. Dickens’ Great Expectations begins with a boy whose first and last names collapse into a single syllable—Pip—examining the names of his all-but-forgotten parents on their tombstone. He is never called by his father’s family name. Our close reading of four novels written in the first half of the 19th century will permit us to observe the making of a modern identity from which we, at the beginning of the 21st century have not emerged. Who we are and who we are to become depends—or so the story goes—more on our education than on birth and name. This will, then, be a study of education, identity, and the English novel. Lecture and discussion, short essays on each novel with a comprehensive essay at the end of the quarter. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Jane Austen, Emma; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; supplementary readings on Electronic Reserve.

335 A (English Literature: The Age of Victoria)
MW 7-8:50 pm (Evening Degree)
La Porte
(W)
This course addresses the literature of an age of social upheaval. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers were anxious about what literature does for individuals and for society. How does literature enrich our lives? Who ought to write it? Who ought to read it? Does it encourage immorality? Or (worse) revolution? Not coincidentally, these questions were being posed as English literary ideals themselves were becoming more inclusive: when the novel first received credit as a legitimate art form, when women composed an unprecedented portion of the literary world, when critics sought to explore the connections between diverse artistic practices such as painting and poetry, and when art and architecture were widely assumed to represent the fabric of a society. There will be two 5-page papers and several short response papers.. (Evening Degree students only.) Texts: Mermin & Tucker, Victorian Literature: 1830-1900; Charles Dickens, Hard Times.

335 B (English Literature: The Age of Victoria)
TTh 11:30-1:20
Dalley
ldalley@u.washington.edu
How does literature shape the way we think about the “Age of Victoria”? This is the key question we will explore in this course. The Victorians have a long-standing reputation for being prudish and overly proper. A number of modern writers have challenged this characterization by writing novels that attempt to uncover the risqué side of Victorian society, as well as point out the mundane details of Victorian life. In this course we will read a selection of key nineteenth-century texts alongside one or two Neo-Victorian novels in order to develop a better understanding of the relationship between literary representation and historical understanding of the period. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Michael Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White; Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam; A. S. Byatt, Angels and Insects; George Eliot, Mill on the Floss; Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure.

336 A (English Literature: The Early Modern Period)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Kaplan
sydneyk@u.washington.edu
This class will focus on the relationship between literary modernism and social change in England during the first third of the 20th century. We will read novels by D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf; short stories by Katherine Mansfield; and poetry by T. S.Eliot, and a number of other poets of World War I. Majors only, Reg. Period 1. Texts: D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow; E.M. Forster, Howard’s End; Katherine Mansfield, Stories; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Candace, Ward, ed., World War One British Poets; Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark.

337 A (The Modern Novel)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Burstein
jb2@u.washington.edu
While the definition of the novel seems clear, at least as a noun, what precisely does it mean to be modern? “The Modern Novel” seeks to acquaint students with some of the ground-breaking literary texts of the early twentieth century. Our primary geographic focus will be England, but we’ll take at least one pass across the Atlantic, circa 1925, by moving from Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway to Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Hopefully, this will prove startling. We will read closely, at once focusing on the ambiguities of the texts at hand – the sentient student will emerge from the course with a clear sense of what it means to dissect literary language and intertextual comparisons. Thematic topics will include: the status of adultery and fidelity; the role of the modern woman/”The New Woman”; and more generally, the pros and cons – or limitations and liberations – of individual consciousness and its modes of expression. (Can a consciousness be expressed? Or can it be anything other than expressed?) In addition to the above, authors will include Conrad, Ford, Joyce, and Waugh. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier; Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust; Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Dawn Powell, Turn Magic Wheel; James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Youmg Man.

342 A (Contemporary Novel)
MW 2:30-4:20
Karl
agkarl@u.washington.edu
The Metropolitan and the Cosmopolitan. This course will examine notions of the metropolis and the cosmopolitan in contemporary novels. By considering circulation (often of people of hybrid, colonial, indeterminate or contested “origins”) in and through the locales where dominant imperial and economic power are situated, or where they are experienced, we will investigate the ongoing currency of the ideas of the metropolis and of cosmopolitanism in our contemporary cultural and political moment. We will examine the ways that recent novels engage notions of the metropolis and cosmopolitanism as conditioned by functions of advanced capitalism (including mass-media, hyper-consumption, and labor); as impacting the ways that race, religion and ethnicity are incorporated into ideas about the nation and national belonging; as racialized, gendered and sexualized spaces and concepts; as requiring a reconsideration of such notions as assimilation, opportunity, integration and identification. The novels we will read are sometimes devastating, sometimes hilarious; we will situate them as both symptomatic of their social contexts, and also as critical interventions in those contexts, and read them alongside relevant cultural and critical texts. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Monique Truong, The Book of Salt; Gary Shtengart, The Russian Debutante's Handbook; Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia; Monica Ali, Brick Lane; Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist.

349 A (Science Fiction and Fantasy)
TTh 2:30-4:20
Foster
tfoster@u.washington.edu
This version of this course is designed to provide a historical introduction to print science fiction as a genre, with a strong but not exclusive emphasis on the development of the genre in the U.S. during the 20th century. The course will be organized around debates over the definition of science fiction that are internal to the science fiction field. We will therefore read examples of pulp adventure narratives; the hard SF tradition promoted by John W. Campbell, editor of Astounding (later Analog); alternate forms that began to emerge in the 1950s, including the more self-consciously literary narratives associated with Anthony Boucher’s Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as the traditions of social satire and political SF associated with H. L. Gold’s magazine Galaxy, and early feminist science fiction, the “New Wave” movement of the 1960s and 70s and cyberpunk fiction and responses to it. In addition to this historical narrative, the critical concerns that we will consider include the historical and ideological contexts for science fiction narratives, such as the traditions of travel writing and utopian/dystopian speculation, and the formal tension between science fiction’s tendency toward a realist aesthetic and its simultaneous commitment to the fantastic and to imagining departures from realism that often have the effect of defamiliarizing our assumptions about what is normal. Texts: Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars; Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man; Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand; Thomas Disch, Camp Concentration; James M. Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon), Her Smoke Rose Up Forever; William Gibson, Neuromancer; optional: James Gunn, ed., The Road to Science Fiction, Vol. 3.

353 A (American Literature: Later 19th C.)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Shulman
rshulman@u.washington.edu
Under the stimulus of immigration, industrialization and the centralizing tendencies of the Civil War, between 1865 and 1914 the old village-oriented agrarian American changed into an increasingly urban society characterized by large corporations, an expansionist or imperialistic foreign policy, and intense conflicts between capital and labor. The Jim Crow laws of the 1880s and 1890s and the separate-but-equal doctrine of Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) are reminders that the promise of Emancipation was not fulfilled. Our writers were actively engaged in the ideological conflicts of this formative period in American culture. With an eye both on the past and present, during the course we will examine our writers’ contributions to American cultural history. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Photocopied course packet including: Twain, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”; “The United States of Lyncherdom,” anti-imperialist essays; Gertrude Atherton, Senator Norris; Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Stories; Frank Norris, McTeague; Martin Duberman, Haymarket; Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition; Henry James, “The Jolly Corner”; Herman Melville, Billy Budd; Howard Zinn, People’s History.

354 A (American Literature: The Early Modern Period)
M-Th 10:30
Griffith
jgriff@u.washington.edu
We’ll read and discuss an assortment of novels and short stories by American authors writing in the first half of the twentieth century. Students will be expected to attend class regularly, keep up with reading assignments, and take part in open discussion. Written work will consist of a number of brief in-class essays, done in response to study questions handed out in advance. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls; Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Eudora Welty, Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty; John Steinbeck, The Long Valley; Sinclair Lewis, Babbit; Richard Wright, Uncle Tom’s Children.

355 A (American Literature: Contemporary America)
TTh 11:30-1:20
Keeling
bkeeling@u.washington.edu
Postmodern Celebration and Indifference: Indeterminacy of Meaning in Contemporary Literature. Meaning is a phenomenon that is not easily ascribed or located. It is historical, it is social, and it is derived from the traditions of reading, thinking, and understanding from the world in which we are educated and socialized. In this particular view, “meaning” for some twentieth-century writers becomes “indeterminant,” and this indeterminancy results in sense of fragmentation and discontinuity. With discontinuity comes a sense of the world as a field of contesting explanations – none of which can claim absolute authority. Thus, the author who acknowledges the indeterminancy of meaning – with acceptance, with misgivings, with celebration, with indifference – reconceptualizes society, history, and the self as cultural constructs. It is this reconceptualization that we will focus on this quarter. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts:Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood; Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays; Caron McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye; Toni Morrison, Sula; James Baldwin, Another Country; Sherman Alexi, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime; Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena.

368 A (Women Writers)
TTh 4:30-6:20 (Evening Degree)
Karl
(W)
agkarl@u.washington.edu
Women Writers of the Early/ier Twentieth Century. In this course we will consider the work of women writers in English in the earlier twentieth century (up to about World War II) in terms of the significant social, economic and political changes in women’s lives during this period. We will examine how women writers configure public debates – in such significant areas as the nation-state and national identification, imperialism and international politics, racial and ethnic designations, large-scale capitalism and mass-consumerism, and, of course, gender – and engage in cultural and intellectual movements. Over the course of our readings, we will consider the ways in which the literary can be said to intervene in histories of the period, particularly in terms of how these texts participate in rendering versions of femininity that are linked to ideas about race, the nation and the economy. Texts: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Nella Larsen, Quicksand; Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; Monique Truong, The Book of Salt; Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Evening Degree students only)

370 A (English Language Study)
MW 10:30-12:20
Vaughan
miceal@u.washington.edu
(NOTE: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 373 *required* -- students must enroll in both 370 *and* 373 this quarter. Enroll in 370 first, then enroll in 373.) ENGL 370 is a beginning course in the study of language which will introduce students to analytical approach to the study of languages, and specifically to the English language. The course will provide the terminology and tools to permit the careful analysis and comparison of various kinds of languages and their use. ENGL 373 is a beginning course in the study of the history of the English language. That study presupposes a familiarity with the analytical terminology mentioned above, with which we will be able to examine the ways in which English has changed in sounds, form, usage, lexicon, and structure, from time to time and place to place. The two courses are being offered in conjunction and require that a student enroll (and maintain enrollment) in both in order to receive a grade in either. Coordinating the two courses, it is hoped, will result in more efficient use of time and information, and make it possible for more to be accomplished than might be possible otherwise. The requirements for the courses will include keeping up with the reading and participating in the class discussions and exercises. There will be weekly quizzes, at least one paper/project, and a final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: David Crystal, The Stories of English; Charles Barber, The English Language: A Historical Introduction; Edward Finegan, Language: Its Structure and Use.

373 A (History of the English Language)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Vaughan
miceal@u.washington.edu
(NOTE: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 370 *required* -- students should first register for ENGL 370, after which they will be able to register for ENGL 373. *BOTH* 370 and 373 must be taken in Autumn Quarter.) ENGL 370 is a beginning course in the study of language which will introduce students to analytical approach to the study of languages, and specifically to the English language. The course will provide the terminology and tools to permit the careful analysis and comparison of various kinds of languages and their use. ENGL 373 is a beginning course in the study of the history of the English language. That study presupposes a familiarity with the analytical terminology mentioned above, with which we will be able to examine the ways in which English has changed in sounds, form, usage, lexicon, and structure, from time to time and place to place. The two courses are being offered in conjunction and require that a student enroll (and maintain enrollment) in both in order to receive a grade in either. Coordinating the two courses, it is hoped, will result in more efficient use of time and information, and make it possible for more to be accomplished than might be possible otherwise. The requirements for the courses will include keeping up with the reading and participating in the class discussions and exercises. There will be weekly quizzes, at least one paper/project, and a final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: David Crystal, The Stories of English; Charles Barber, The English Language: A Historical Introduction; Edward Finegan, Language: Its Structure and Use.

374 A (The Language of Literature)
TTh 11:30-1:20
Moore
This course investigates the ways that literary texts structure and use language. Employing tools from linguistics and stylistics, we will analyze aspects of literary texts: sound, meter, lexicon, discourse structure, style, pragmatic strategies, varieties of English, and narrative orientation. We will consider different literary genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. Course work consists of two papers, several quizzes, and multiple short writing assignments. Texts: Paul Simpson, Language through Literature; Mick Short, Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose.

381 A (Advanced Expository Writing)
MW 8:30-10:20
Robertson
vernr@u.washington.edu
We will refine our writing practice while paying particular attention to stylistic concerns. We will use postmodern theory as our occasion for writing and there will be several writing assignments with student work culminating in a longer essay analyzing Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 as a postmodern text. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Joseph Natoli & Linda Hutcheon, eds., A Postmodern Reader; Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49.

381 B (Advanced Expository Writing)
TTh 11:30-1:20
Walker
codyw@u.washington.edu
Francis Bacon writes, “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” We’ll endeavor in this class to be full, ready, and exact, as we study and discuss exemplary prose stylists, past and present. Much of what we read will provide direction for our own writing (expect memoirs, arts reviews, cultural commentary, and more). Required texts include The Art of the Personal Essay (Phillip Lopate, ed), The Art of Fact (Keven Kerrane and Ben Yagoda, eds.), The New Yorker magazine (which you can buy off the stand for $3.95 an issue, or obtain through a student-discounted subscription for 60 cents an issue), and a course packet (featuring, among others, H. L. Mencken, A. J. Liebling, George Orwell, Joan Didion, Lorrie Moore, David Foster Wallace, and Anthony Lane). Majors only, Registration Period 1.

383 A (The Craft of Verse)
TTh 1:30-2:50
Elkun
[Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation.] Majors only, Registration Period 1. Prerequisites: ENGL 283 and 284. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.)

383 B (The Craft of Verse)
TTh 1:30-2:50
Bierds
lbierds@u.washington.edu
Intensive study of the various aspects of the craft of verse writing. Readings in contemporary verse and much writing using emulation and imitation. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Prerequisites: ENGL 283 and 284. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.) Text: Parini, Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry.

384 A (The Craft of Prose)
MW 2:30-3:50
Shields
dshields@davidshields.com
[Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Prerequisites: ENGL 283 and 284. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.)

384 B (The Craft of Prose)
TTh 1:30-2:50
Wong
homebase@u.washington.edu
[Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Prerequisites: ENGL 283 and 284. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.)

384 C (The Craft of Prose)
Tues 4:30-7:20 pm
Bosworth
davidbos@u.washington.edu
[Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Prerequisites: ENGL 283 and 284. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.)

AUTUMN 2005 300-Level Courses

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AUTUMN 2005
300-Level Courses