Spring 2024 Undergraduate English Courses

01   MTH2  10:20-11:40 AM  CAC    07409   SPELLMEYER   HH-B5 Rhyme and meter, metaphor and simile—these can frighten people away, but they’re only poetry’s tools.  Of course, Shakespeare’s sonnets look nothing like the sprawl of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”  But there’s vastly more to poetry than its tools. Words can shape our deepest experience, and when poets do new things with words, they take apart the world we know and reassemble it in surprising ways.  This is why the philosopher Jean-Jacques...

01   MTH2   10:20-11:40 AM  CAC   07410    JACKSON     MU-204 We will study some of the seminal works and writers of twentieth-century fantasy, from J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Susan Cooper to Philip K. Dick (the godfather of sci-fi crossovers), Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett.  What have been the genre’s key influences, and how has it developed?  How have fantasy works reflected broader historical and cultural trends?  How have they mediated national and global anxiety and fears about the future,...

01  TTH4  2:00-3:20  PM   07411    GLISERMAN   MU-115 Introduction to the Graphic Novel will explore how graphic novels are built and told—we will learn a conceptual vocabulary to discuss how the graphic novel achieves its objective of obtaining the reader’s attention and engagement. We will develop our understanding of graphic novels by way of a graphic introduction to comics.  Our understanding will develop by examining a range of graphics—e.g., Persepolis, Maus, Fun Home, Our Cancer Year,  Ghost World,...

01 MTH3  12:10-1:30 PM    CAC    07412    SPELLMEYER   FH-B5 The first wave of environmental writers saw Nature as vast, sacred, and wild.  But the second wave looked with mounting alarm as runaway technology and economic growth posed a mortal danger to the natural world itself.  Today, in spite of much bad news, things are definitely looking up: a third wave of novelists, essayists, and poets are hard at work creating what they call “a new ecological civilization.”  They ask us to reweave the damaged web of...

01  TTH6   CAC   07413    SHOCKLEY     MU-210 This course will be focused on Black Speculative Fiction.  We will study a wide range of materials, including novels, graphic novels, short stories, poetry, and film, in which the narratives take us into worlds of "what ifs."  What if magic or ghosts were real?  What if humans were rescued from a dying Earth by a very non-human species from another planet?  What if the past or the future were suddenly brought into close proximity with the present?  The creators of these...

01   MW4    CAC    07414    GOODLAD   MU-212 The Culture of Now: AI and the Human The Culture of Now is a rubric for a series of courses devoted to exploring the cultural history of issues of pressing global concern. In this version of the course, “AI and the Human,” students will explore literary and other cultural texts (including narrative fiction, film, serial television, and non-fiction texts from leading journalists and experts) while learning about artificial intelligence more broadly. Over the last...

01  MW5    07441  IANNINI FH-B4 02 MW6    07442 ROBOLIN  HH-A5 03 MW7    07443 IBIRONKE SC-206  04 TTH7    07444 SLOAN SC-205 05 TTH5    07445 SADOVNKOVA MU-210 06  W3F4   07446  RAMONI  SC-219 07 TF2    07447 GANIY HH-A5 08  MTH2    07448 JARAMILLO FH-B3 90   ASYNCHRONOUS   KING    91    ASYNCHRONOUS   KING   92   ASYNCHRONOUS   SCANLON   This course provides an introduction to principal methods and materials in contemporary literary studies. In order to suggest some of the range of the field, ordinarily it includes close attention to works from at least two genres and two historical periods to be selected by the instructor. The course will introduce students to the meaning and use of key terms...

01 MW5    CAC  07426   SARMA      SC-116 Black Bodies, Black Selves Who, or what, counts as “human”? Does freedom mean the same thing to everyone? What worlds might those in captivity imagine or create for themselves? How is selfhood shaped by bodily experience? These are just some of the questions explored by the nineteenth-century Black writers we focus on in this course. Though they lived in a time when many of the most powerful institutions and ideologies believed that Black bodies were abnormal,...

01   TTH7   CAC   07427   SOSA CABANAS   SC-207 Comparative Racisms: Black Aesthetics and the Phantoms of Freedom in the United States and the Hispanic Caribbean ______________________________________________________________________________ This course aims to study parallels, convergences and aesthetic differences in the cultural history of black anti-racism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the United States. The aim is to offer a panoramic view of the literary and artistic expressions of...

02  TF1  CAC  07429     PANARAM     SC-114 In the United States, slavery and daring attempts to escape it have become the subject of such popular works as 12 Years a Slave, Underground, and Harriet. We have heard less, however, about the “Middle Passage,” one of the most difficult parts of the slave trade to represent. The Middle Passage refers to the involuntary migration of enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean and, specifically, the weeks and months they spent abroad ships as they crossed from...

01   TTH4      CAC    07428    ALSTON     CI-203 20th Century African American Literature  This survey course is an introduction to the major authors, key works, and defining critical debates of early 20th century African American literature. Guided by a focus on the relationshipbetween literary genre and social formations, the course takes an intersectional approach to the form and content of early 20th century African American novels, short stories, poetry, drama,autobiography and essays. The selected...

04   M4  CAC   05799    KEATES   MU-001   Career Explorations for English Majors is an opportunity to explore post-graduate paths taken by majors in English and other Language and Humanities programs and to practice your self-presentation.

Multiple Sections Students will examine how digital media has contributed to new modes of thinking about topics of social and cultural importance. Through assigned texts and selected videos, podcasts, and other examples of popular digital media we will be meditating on what creativity and communication means in the 21st century. Students will develop projects that utilize digital media in order to generate their own ideas around the question: what does it mean to be connected in the digital age?

01   W 2,3   CAC   07030  PEARLSTEIN  MU-002

01   F 2,3   CAC   07031   VOTIPKA  MU-001 02   M 2,3  CAC   07032   DUFFY   MU-305

01  TH 4,5   CAC   07045   HULME   MU-302

02   M 6,7  CAC  07372   ABATE   FH-A3 04   TTH6  BUSCH   18394   BOUHLAS   ARC-326 Writing Grant Proposals is designed for students who hope to enter professional careers requiring knowledge of grant writing. The course will teach students the mechanics of proposal writing and the political and social aspects of "grantsmanship," as they develop their skills in identifying sources of grant funding, doing useful research to support their applications, and tailoring their proposals to specific audience...

01  MTH2  C/D  07376  HOWLAND  HCK-213 02   MTH1   BUSCH  07377  EGBERT  SEC-220 Students will refine their skills in presenting technical and scientific issues to various audiences while they critically examine social aspects of scientific information. The course examines new opportunities for covering science (especially on the Internet), the skills required to produce clear and understandable prose about technical subjects, important ethical and practical constraints that govern the reporting of...

02   T1,2   CAC   07379   TEICHER   SC-201 An introductory course designed to help students read, write, and think like lawyers. Students will be introduced to the basics of legal writing, including understanding jurisdiction and precedent, analyzing and interpreting case law, drafting predictive legal memoranda, writing an appellate brief, and preparing oral arguments. The class provides valuable preparation for law school.

01   MW5  C/D   07378   MESSINA   HCK-115 Writing in the Professions: Preparing for Careers in the Humanities is an intensive writing and research course for students with some idea of their intended direction; student leave this class with a ready-to-go portfolio.

04   T3   LIV   07387   KEATES / BOUHLAS    LSH-B121 Interns will create the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Writing Conference at Livingston Student Center. Interns will select papers, organize, publicize, and run the URWC the day of the event. They will act as respondents/advisors to student-presenters as they develop their work for multimedia presentations and serve as marketing experts, creating press releases for RU news media, designing promotional materials, building a social media presence, and...

01   BY ARRANGEMENT   07388    This Internship may be used toward a Technical or Professional Writing Certificate or completion of their major requirements in the English Department. All placements must be approved by the Internship Director, and approval will depend both on the general suitability of the career field in question or the specific tasks and projects that the placement will entail.  Contact Donald Dow for permission to add the course.

01   W 4,5   CAC    07438     LEARS   RQ-203 THIS COURSE SAME AS 506:392 Writing thoughtful prose for a general audience is not an arcane task; there are no trade secrets, but there are tips and tricks, rhetorical strategies, habits of mind that help the words flow and the argument work. Exploring the craft, we will examine public writing that has presented complex intellectual, political, or personal issues without reducing them to pablum. We will highlight the importance of editing as well—the...

02   MTH1   CAC   07453   POWELL   MU-114 This class will explore the place and purpose of literary journals within the publishing world, examine contemporary literary journals—both print and online— and the responsibilities of the editor to writer and audience. We will begin by discussing the history and the current state of the publishing industry, including mainstream book publishing, independent presses, and literary magazines. We will attempt to answer questions like: What does “good writing” look like,...

01  TTH5   CAC   07051   FLITTERMAN-LEWIS  MU-301       TH 6,7         FILM SCREENING                     MU- This course will take an in-depth look at two of the most important directors in the history of world cinema, Jean Renoir and Fritz Lang.  Renoir, son of the French Impressionist painter, was a master of what some scholars consider to be the Golden Age of French cinema, Poetic Realism of the 1930s.  His fluid camera work and his use of deep space, his careful attention to populist subjects and settings of daily life, make his...

01  TTH4  CAC   07052   FLITTERMAN-LEWIS  MU-301       W 7,8                                                            MU-301 This course will develop a feminist analysis of the cinema from the dual perspective of individual films themselves and their social/cultural context. Using examples from both Hollywood and alternative feminist cinema, we'll trace the development of feminist film criticism and theory, from the landmark articles of Claire Johnston and Laura Mulvey to the current work of Ginette Vincendeau and Mary Ann Doane, among others. We'll consider...

01   TTH5   CAC   18588  BARRIENTOS   CA-A2 A Brave New World: Poetry and Prose in the Early Modern Transatlantic This course will provide a global and comparative outlook on the circulation of literatures in English and Spanish in the Early Modern period. The conquest and colonization of the territories we now call the Americas and the Caribbean took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What was a violent process of cultural and territorial dispossession, forever changed the...

01   MW4   CAC   17870   ROBOLIN   FH- The region of southern Africa has been marked by some transformative political shifts that have regularly drawn the world’s attention: from violent colonial rule and a period of intensive racial segregation (apartheid) to its more recent transition toward the challenges of democratic rule.  As a result, the story of southern Africa has been told and retold, and it has been cast in many different ways, from different angles.  This course will cover a range of...

01   ASYNCHRONOUS  ONLINE   07430   MANGHARAM    This course will provide a critical survey of some of the major issues in contemporary literary and cultural theory through the lens of capitalism and colonialism. We will ask: How did the inception of capitalist systems in the colonies change ways of living and working? What were the forms of resistance against colonial and capitalist control? Are new forms of imperialism replacing colonization and how? Is true decolonization possible in an age of...

01   MW6   CAC   07431  IBRIONKE  MU-204 Happiness in African and World Literatures ON DECEMBER 2017, I went to Sierra Leone for the first time in my 24 years of life. Of course, I was met with pure glee by some, for the mere fact that I was connecting with the place my mother calls home. I was also met with confusion by others. Many mused on the safety of the continent and what it means to travel to an African country reeling from an epidemic and natural disaster. Yet, I knew Sierra Leone’s recent...

01   W4,5     05554     C/D     SWEET       RAB-018 This course examines a range of literature and texts that provide a window into Native American cultures, histories, and worldviews. Spanning oral histories of creation stories to autobiographical writing in the twenty-first century, this course will analyze the diversity of Native American literature and its evolving relationship to Native American culture and identity. Students will engage with Native American philosophical, cultural, religious, and historical ideas...

01  TTH5  CAC     05557     ISAAC    MU-212 This course same as 050:377:01 Violence and Asian American Literature Violence has the ability both to destroy but also to recreate identities and subjects, both to tear away from and to stake claims to nations and places. How and why is violence a recurring theme in Asian American literature? From the Philippine-American War (1898) and the Pacific wars against Japan (1941), Korea (1950s) to the Vietnam War (1960s) and the War on Terror (2001) in the past...

01   MW5   CAC   08295    NOVACICH    MU-213

01  TTH4   CAC  07342    SERRANO  CI-203 This course same as 195:388:01  and 667:388:01 From the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711 until the overthrow of the last Muslim ruler and expulsion of the Jews by Christian rulers in 1492 (and the definitive expulsion of the Muslims in 1614), the Iberian Peninsula was a crucible of intercultural invention, transmission and exchange. We will explore the music, architecture and literature of this world, known as al-Andalus to the Muslims and Sepharad to the Jews, in...

01    TTH5    CAC      07419   YOUSEF   SC-220 Amid revolutions, political unrest, and rapid industrial and economic change, the Romantic era was a time of tumult and change. New ideas about the nature of the self, about human rights, the nature of community, as well as a distinctly modern concept of the imagination arise in response to the challenges of this pivotal historical moment. This course will examine the richly varied forms of literature and aesthetic innovation that characterize this period and...

01     BUCKLEY    07420        ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE In this course we’ll survey the rich and varied theatre and drama of the nineteenth century, a period during which the stage was transformed first into a modern, popular institution and then into a radical countercultural art.  We’ll explore the development of several of the century’s major new forms and modes, including melodrama, realist and naturalist drama, and the theater of the early avant-garde, and look at their relations to social and political...

01  MW4    CAC   07421   IANNINI    FH-A6

01   MW4   CAC   07422   LUCIANO   MU- “America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher in 1855. This class is devoted to the phenomenon Hawthorne dismissed: literary production by U.S. women and non-binary writers from the seventeenth century to the present. We will consider whether and how writing can be understood as gendered and whether “women’s writing” possesses distinctive features. Reading across historical periods, across genres, including...

01 MW5    CAC  07426   SARMA      SC-116 Black Bodies, Black Selves Who, or what, counts as “human”? Does freedom mean the same thing to everyone? What worlds might those in captivity imagine or create for themselves? How is selfhood shaped by bodily experience? These are just some of the questions explored by the nineteenth-century Black writers we focus on in this course. Though they lived in a time when many of the most powerful institutions and ideologies believed that Black bodies were abnormal,...

01   T 2,3   CAC     07435    YOUSEF   MU-002  Realism, Character, Desire This seminar offers an immersion in the literature of an era that continues to shape our sense of what novels are, and of how fiction can both reflect and shape our sense of self and society. We will be reading three of the most important and influential works of the period: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. These novels are long, richly detailed, and...

01  MW4  CAC     07416    LEVAO      FH-B5 The course is dedicated to eight major plays written across the second half of Shakespeare’s  career. The brilliance and complexity of his earlier, or Elizabethan, works deepened in the Jacobean period, maintaining much of his ingenuity and exuberance while darkening their portrayal of psychological and ethical conflict. We will read a remarkable series of powerful tragedies together with some quirky but ambitious comedies—the so-called “problem comedies” and “late romances.”...

01  MTH3   CAC    07417   COIRO      SC-205 Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Imitation of the Past and the Invention of Modernity 17C poetry is formally innovative and politically and intellectually daring, and it’s funny, sexy and outrageous: sometimes all these things at the same time! Great stuff. Several poets we will read have had an enormous influence on later English poets and have thus shaped the history of English poetry (such as: Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Milton, Marvell). Other major poets were,...

01   TTH5   CAC   18588  BARRIENTOS   CA-A2 A Brave New World: Poetry and Prose in the Early Modern Transatlantic This course will provide a global and comparative outlook on the circulation of literatures in English and Spanish in the Early Modern period. The conquest and colonization of the territories we now call the Americas and the Caribbean took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What was a violent process of cultural and territorial dispossession, forever changed the...

01  MW5      CAC    07434   LEVAO    HC-N106  This will be a course on the doubling, splitting, and mirroring of characters in Shakespeare's works as representations of Renaissance identity paradoxes.  Enacting conflicting impulses, these dyads descend from numerous literary, philosophical, and other sources: the revival of classical friendship with its ideal of an "alter ego"; foundational myths regarding loving and enemy twins; images of androgyny and hermaphroditism (the doubleness of sexual identity);...

01   CAC   MTH3   07418    OBEROI   SC-101 Issues and Problems in Restoration Literature: Genre, Science, and Politics This course will examine the tumultuous period of the English Restoration (1660-1689). This period saw the publication of seminal literary and philosophical texts that responded to and theorized the political, religious, and scientific upheavals. While we will read texts that firmly belong in this period such as Paradise Lost (1667), The History of the Royal Society (1667) and Oroonoko...

01   MTH2   CAC  06551    SWENSON   AB-1100 Born in the age of democratic revolutions, Romanticism set the terms for the literary modernity with which we still live and work. Originality and creative genius emerge as the hallmark of the author and the standard by which his or her work is to be judged.  Nature ceases to be a universal model of beauty the arts strive to imitate and takes on the cast of both an elemental force always threatening the self with destruction and a vision of peace and innocence.  In...

01  MW5      CAC    07434   LEVAO    HC-N106  This will be a course on the doubling, splitting, and mirroring of characters in Shakespeare's works as representations of Renaissance identity paradoxes.  Enacting conflicting impulses, these dyads descend from numerous literary, philosophical, and other sources: the revival of classical friendship with its ideal of an "alter ego"; foundational myths regarding loving and enemy twins; images of androgyny and hermaphroditism (the doubleness of sexual identity);...

01   T 2,3   CAC     07435    YOUSEF   MU-002  Realism, Character, Desire This seminar offers an immersion in the literature of an era that continues to shape our sense of what novels are, and of how fiction can both reflect and shape our sense of self and society. We will be reading three of the most important and influential works of the period: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. These novels are long, richly detailed, and...

01   MW4   CAC    07436   GOLDSTONE    AB-2250 This seminar considers global fiction in English through the lens of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Surveying a selection of the fiction writers in English who have won the prize, from Rudyard Kipling (born in British India, 1907 prize) to Abdulrazak Gurnah (born in Zanzibar, 2022 prize), the course traces the development of a fascinating, sometimes delightfully bizarre canon of prose-narrative world literature in English. This development tells us as much...

90    ASYNCHRONOUS   07437    BUCKLEY    ONLINE

01   W 4,5   CAC    07438     LEARS   RQ-203 THIS COURSE SAME AS 506:392 Writing thoughtful prose for a general audience is not an arcane task; there are no trade secrets, but there are tips and tricks, rhetorical strategies, habits of mind that help the words flow and the argument work. Exploring the craft, we will examine public writing that has presented complex intellectual, political, or personal issues without reducing them to pablum. We will highlight the importance of editing as well—the...

02   M 5,6   CAC    GOODLAD   AB-3100 Design Justice AI: An Approach to Media Theory This upper-level seminar considers the topic of “AI and the human” from the vantage of a wide range of media (including novels, short stories, film, serial television, and non-fiction texts from leading journalists and experts) as well as design justice approaches to studying what is now called “generative AI.” (Design justice is a theoretical and practical approach that emphasizes technologies designed in consultation...

01   W 4,5   CAC   07458    PRICE    MU-302 This course studies how the written word travels through time and across media.  What is a book?  How do you make one?  What rules have different cultures made about when to share, sell, preserve, censor or pulp?  What aspects of human experience are books good –and bad-- at transmitting?  How did the books on our shelves or drives get there, and how do we ensure that what we write today will survive into the future?  (Should it?)  What light can artefacts from...

02    MTH1    CAC  07453   POWELL  MU-114 In this class, we will explore the place and purpose of literary journals within the publishing world, examine contemporary literary journals—both print and online—and the responsibilities of the editor to writer and audience. We will begin by discussing the history and the current state of the publishing industry, including mainstream book publishing, independent presses, and literary magazines. We will attempt to answer questions like: What does “good writing”...

01     MTH3    CAC     07452   BARON    SC-120 Sound and Literature: The Politics of Listening This course offers an exploration of the field of sound studies by examines the theories, practices, and politics of listening in the past and present. We will begin by considering some helpful theoretical frameworks for approaching questions of sound, listening, aurality, noise, acoustics, speech, language and music. We will proceed through close listening and reading exercises, exploring how sound and voice are...

01  MTH3   CAC   07454  JACKSON  MU-111 Allegories are a strange narrative form: narrative because they aren’t always literary (written and oral)—they can, for instance, take visual form.  Many well-known artists worked in the medium of allegory: think here of Bronzino, Rubin, Raphael, or Salvator Rosa.  They can be conceptual—beyond the visual and too elusive to be fully illustrated in writing.  But they must have a narrative; they must tell a story or contain a message, however hidden or buried. While...

01    TTH4  CAC   07455   JURECIC  HH-A5 In this course, we will read, think, and talk about literature, illness, and medical beliefs. We will read fiction, nonfiction, and essays that invite us to come to terms with the messiness of languages, history, and politics. The course is divided into four sections. We begin with pandemics and metaphors, juxtaposing the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the more serious Angels in America, Part 1 by Tony Kushner, a play about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the...

01  TTH5     CAC   07456    GLISERMAN   MU-114 This course also fulfills 20th Century period requirement. We will be reading two or three twentieth century novels—Hemingway, Woolf and Fitzgerald. We will be reading them slowly and in a different way, using digital tools to see into the matrix of language underneath the linear narrative. In addition to the novels, we will read relevant critical and theoretical essays on information theory (Gleick, Hofstadter, Bateson) to give us perspective on what we are...

02   M 5,6   CAC    GOODLAD   AB-3100 Design Justice AI: An Approach to Media Theory This upper-level seminar considers the topic of “AI and the human” from the vantage of a wide range of media (including novels, short stories, film, serial television, and non-fiction texts from leading journalists and experts) as well as design justice approaches to studying what is now called “generative AI.” (Design justice is a theoretical and practical approach that emphasizes technologies designed in consultation...

01   W 4,5   CAC   07458    PRICE    MU-302 This course studies how the written word travels through time and across media.  What is a book?  How do you make one?  What rules have different cultures made about when to share, sell, preserve, censor or pulp?  What aspects of human experience are books good –and bad-- at transmitting?  How did the books on our shelves or drives get there, and how do we ensure that what we write today will survive into the future?  (Should it?)  What light can artefacts from...

01   MW4   CAC   07422   LUCIANO   MU-114 “America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher in 1855. This class is devoted to the phenomenon Hawthorne dismissed: literary production by U.S. women and non-binary writers from the seventeenth century to the present. We will consider whether and how writing can be understood as gendered and whether “women’s writing” possesses distinctive features. Reading across historical periods, across genres,...

01  MW5     CAC     07423    GROGAN     HH-A5 20th C Poetry: The New York School This course takes a deep dive into the New York School, a post-war poetic movement that emphasized humor, play, daily life, surrealism, and visual art. The begins with the poets central to the early movement—Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. Through our readings of the poets, we will address topics including: humor, fun, play; writing the city; camp; queer sexuality; gender and...

01   TTH5   CAC   07424   JURECIC  HH-B3 What does it mean to be, feel, or think as a woman? Or to be, feel, or think as woman writer? In this course we will discuss twentieth-century women’s literature in English and the contexts in which the singular term “woman” comes under question. Women and women writers were shaped by historical eras, cultural beliefs—including feminisms—and embodied life. Their experiences often overlapped and intersected with race, ethnicity, class, gender identity, sexuality, and...

01  TTH4   CAC   07425  LAWRENCE   SC-119  In this course we will read several novels and short stories collections published in the United States over the past 10 years. There is no overarching thesis for the course. Instead, students will be asked to read the assigned texts carefully and participate in a collective conversation on what trends or shared practices we can identify in this specific constellation of texts. Authors studied may include Susan Choi, Manuel Machado, Lorrie Moore, Brandon...

01   MW4   CAC    07436   GOLDSTONE    AB-2250  This seminar considers global fiction in English through the lens of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Surveying a selection of the fiction writers in English who have won the prize, from Rudyard Kipling (born in British India, 1907 prize) to Abdulrazak Gurnah (born in Zanzibar, 2022 prize), the course traces the development of a fascinating, sometimes delightfully bizarre canon of prose-narrative world literature in English. This development tells us as much about the...

01  TTH5     CAC   07456    GLISERMAN   MU-114 This course also fulfills 20th Century period requirement. We will be reading two or three twentieth century novels—Hemingway, Woolf and Fitzgerald. We will be reading them slowly and in a different way, using digital tools to see into the matrix of language underneath the linear narrative. In addition to the novels, we will read relevant critical and theoretical essays on information theory (Gleick, Hofstadter, Bateson) to give us perspective on what we are...