What are the conditions of possibility for modernist and postmodernist literature and culture? What social, political, formal, scientific, and technological developments must be factored into productive encounters with the literature of ""the new""? This course explores such questions in literary and theoretical texts, as well as in art, film, and architecture, to experience the new […]
This course focuses on the complex project of writing the city, in Anglo-American literature, from the 1840s to the late 1930s. The primary concern is prose fiction and poetry, but the works or visual artists, architects, and social scientists will be considered.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4144 6.00, […]
This course examines the visionary tradition - a heretical medley of trauma, trance, introspection, formal innovation, and apocalyptic speculation - in key poets and prose writers from William Blake to Sylvia Plath and James Merrill. Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 4163 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4411 3.00, AS/EN 4411 6.00. PRIOR […]
This course will examine the genre of autobiography- the account of the author's own life- in both historical and contemporary texts.Topics to be examined will included: the creation and discovery of a self or social identity doubles or complementary selves; reliable and unreliable narration; the self-fashioning of the artist or writer; metaphors for the inscription […]
This course examines the visionary tradition - a heretical medley of trauma, trance, introspection, formal innovation, and apocalyptic speculation - in key poets and prose writers from William Blake to Sylvia Plath and James Merrill. Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 4163 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4411 3.00, AS/EN 4411 6.00. PRIOR […]
This course will examine the genre of autobiography- the account of the author's own life- in both historical and contemporary texts.Topics to be examined will included: the creation and discovery of a self or social identity doubles or complementary selves; reliable and unreliable narration; the self-fashioning of the artist or writer; metaphors for the inscription […]
Examines three Shakespearean plays (Othello, King Lear and The Tempest) and eight contemporary counterplays - dramatic texts which interrogate the originals from the various perspectives of race, gender, sexuality, class and politics. Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4143 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4146 3.00 was AS/EN 4324 3.00
This seminar examines a number of contemporary theatrical interrogations - what Bertolt Brecht termed counterplays - of the plays of two major dramatists: William Shakespeare or Anton Chekhov.Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 4143 6.00, AP/EN 4146 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4324 3.00, AS/EN 4326 3.00, AS/EN 4326 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL […]
This seminar examines a number of contemporary theatrical interrogations - what Bertolt Brecht termed counterplays - of the plays of two major dramatists: William Shakespeare or Anton Chekhov.Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 4143 6.00, AP/EN 4146 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4324 3.00, AS/EN 4326 3.00, AS/EN 4326 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL […]
This course examines and theorizes the life and supposed death of tragedy from Aeschylus to Suzan-Lori Parks, attending particularly to relationships between tragic plot and human agency, form and politics, tragedy and history.Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 3192 6.00, AP/HUMA 3014 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AK/EN 3835 6.00, AK/HUMA 3300 6.00, AS/EN […]