The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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The course traces the development of English literature from the beginnings through the early modern period, emphasizing the distinctive cultural orientation dominant in each period and showing how that orientation conditions the way we under-stand representative works of literature. It
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This course provides basic terminology and techniques for understanding and discussing poetry. On the assumption that poetic language is different from the language of prose, and reading poetry demands different tools, we will study subjects such as imagery, meter, speaker, and forms, through a
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An encounter with systematic thinking on language, representation, and literature, from antiquity (Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric, Platonic aesthetics) through the Renaissance (Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie) the eighteenth century (Kant on aesthetic
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This course aims to examine the development of American fiction from the establishment of the Republic in the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the aftermath of the Civil War. The course will explore the emergence of a distinct American literary tradition, which reflects aspects of an
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This course will focus on the period between the world wars, from 1918 through the decades of the 1920's and 1930's.
The literature of this period was marked both by modernist aesthetics and by dramatic social changes in the social fabric caused by reaction to the mass immigration at the
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What is pastoral? Is it portrayal of shepherds? Representation of simplicity that is superior to complexity, nature to artifice, rural life to urban values? Why, though it was considered a low genre, as compared to epic and tragedy, has the pastoral endured into modern times? Can Arcadia, a
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This course will trace the development of the theme of the West in American culture and the development of the Western as a distinctly American genre from the Early National period to the present. It will address attendant issues, such as the marking and crossing of borders (geographical
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The emphasis in this course is on the contemporary drama produced during the past three decades. The plays have been drawn together with a view to exploring certain interconnections in their themes: territory, property, oppression (political and sexual), the boundaries of the 'normative'. In
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The Victorian period is considered the pivotal age of the British novel. By the mid-nineteenth century the novel had become the most popular and dominant form of literary writing, attracting a wide reading public of all social classes. In this course we will read three influential works by Emily
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Rhyme is one of the most persistent, mysterious, and salient features of poetry, and has been part of English poetry for hundreds of years. It has been used in many different ways for many different, even contradictory effects. In this class we will read a wide selection of poetry both old and
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In this course we will read postmodern works of fiction. These texts challenge totalizing thought, and offer in its stead narratives which destabilize notions of continuity, borders, and hierarchies. Postmodern texts engage with the notion of "master narratives" which shape our culture, and
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This course will explore the idea of the monstrous in the English middle ages (approximately 1100 to 1500) and will look at various ways of representing monsters, hybrids, and the unnatural. We will concentrate on medieval ideas about the body, the line between sacred and profane, and the role
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African American Literature - Sonia Weiner 4 Hour Course This course will consider the emergence of early African American literature in the nineteenth century and its evolvement in the twentieth century. The course will focus on the African American struggle for freedom – from slavery,
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This course will explore the link between Jazz music and 20th century American literature and culture. Listening to musical examples in the class, and reading theoretical work on the politics of aesthetics, the course will offer an introduction to jazz as a basis for literary analysis.
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Autobiography has been identified by American critics of culture as “the essential American genre, a form of writing closely allied to our national self-consciousness” (Jay Prini, The Norton Book of American Autobiography, 11). The course will focus on the affinities as well as the tension
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This course examines the complexities of Jewish American poetry in its delineation as a distinct, ethnic poetic tradition. While this tradition dates back two centuries, scholars are only beginning to understand its unique thematic and formal features. In tandem with theoretical writings in the
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This seminar examines fiction written by American women writers in the second part of the 20th century. Their fiction reflects the diversity inherent in the contemporary scene of cultural pluralism. We will examine their different racial ethnic and regional affiliation, as well elements they
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The seminar will focus on the ability of literary texts to pose difficult questions, and to explore possible answers to these questions. We will also consider how to ask questions about literary texts. Our work will focus on themes raised by John Milton and some of his contemporaries in the
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This seminar explores the period in poetry from 1890 to World War II through the poetic work of William Butler Yeats. Using other poets for orientation, such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, we will trace the development of Yeats’ models for poetry and life.

PRIMARY TEXTS:
The
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Lacan's late teaching is marked by a transition from linguistics to topology as a conceptual grid for the thinking of the psyche. Since the Saussurean-Jakobsonian dimension of Lacan's teaching accounted both for his own frequent turns to the literary (e.g. in the seminar on Poe's "Purloined
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This seminar will explore the growing field of masculinity studies in the context of American culture and history. The first part of the semester will be devoted to a critical examination of some theories about masculinity originating from men's studies, feminist theory, psychoanalytical
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The topic of "ethnicity" in American Literature has become subsumed in recent years by the discourses of race and culture. We will return to the concept of ethnic literature as central to discussions of American writing and American identity, and will examine ethnicity in relation to language,
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The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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The aim of the proseminar is to prepare you for participation in academic seminars and for the writing of seminar papers. You will be required to develop an extended, researched analysis of a literary work assigned in class. This course is designed to teach and rehearse specific skills, such as
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This course will provide an overview of American Culture based on written texts from the Colonial Period to the contemporary scene. Material will be drawn from a variety of genres, among them poetry, slave narrative, captivity narrative, autobiography, novel, romance, essay, and short story. לסילבוס המלא...

This course is an introduction to William Shakespeare and his world. We shall examine his vast canon by first perusing the Sonnets, and then proceed to consider six plays from a generic perspective. Each genre will be discussed, followed by a close reading of the relevant text, encompassing:
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The course is intended to provide the student of literature with tools to analyze the structure of narratives. Narrative is not only a literary category. It is indispensable to our understanding of science, history, cinema, journalism, and the electronic media. Narrative is the way we think
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This course will compare the cultures, histories and literatures of the African and Jewish diasporas. We will seek to understand how and under what circumstances the notion of diaspora has evolved and changed over time within both the black and Jewish communities. In both cases, we will examine
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How does sexuality manifest itself through poetic form? What are the conceptual relationships between the character, the letter, and the orifice as components at once of the poetic text and of the sexual reality of the unconscious? How do the gaze and the voice as objects of the drive endemic
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“The real war will never get in the books,” Walt Whitman once wrote. And yet few topics have received as extensive a treatment by American literature as the Civil War. In this course we will analyze 19th and 20th-century literary works on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in an
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This course will examine New York as a Real and Symbolic 'Locus' in Yiddish American Literature. It will address the main aspects of the Jewish New York experience as reflected in the writings of Yiddish poets and writers of prose fiction, and to trace the various levels of significance the
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The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was the age of revolution and romanticism. In this course we will read a variety of texts in different genres, ranging from extracts from the key political texts of Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, to the novels, poetry and drama that responded to
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This course will explore Native American identity as imagined and represented by Native and non Native American authors in the twentieth century. Readings will include texts by D’Arcy McNickle, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Sherman
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This course will begin to explore the image and the persona of the ‘other’ in American poetry. Beginning with Longfellow’s Hiawatha and Walt Whitman’s catalogues of other in “Song of Myself” and ending in the phenomenon of Slam and Rap Poetry. Although the emphasis is on the phenomenon and not
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Canadian literary production blossomed in the second half of the 20th century, at a time when Canadians where searching for an independent national identity. The course will examine samples of the literary production of this period, in relation to their historical and socio/political
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This course studies selected works of two English Renaissance giants: Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. On the surface, Sidney, brilliant knight, promising courtier, aristocratic patron of the arts, a living pattern of the humanistic ideal, for whom writing was a trifling pastime in the
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Early Modern treatises on English rhetoric attribute the invention of this art to poets. According to Thomas Wilson, the art of remembrance was first invented by the Greek poet Simonides, who was able to call by name the disfigured carcasses of the dead because he remembered the sitting place of
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From its earliest days, the genre of science fiction has explored the limits of humanity and how these may be transcended. This course will focus on the recognisable Americanness of a significant subset of the genre, as American writers from the middle of the twentieth century onwards have
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Few literary conventions teach us as much about the culture that produced them as the coming-of-age plot. In charting the transition from childhood to adulthood, this plot explores the most basic definitions governing normative identity in a given social setting. For many years, however,
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Freud's "Mourning and Melancholy" is seminal to Freud's conceptualization of melancholy as an affect which is an effect on the ego of the loss of a highly cathected object that becomes identified with the primal lost object. In his return to Freud, Jacques Lacan stressed that the stakes of this
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This seminar will examine the poetry of the late Victorian period, tracing the development of the spirit of decadence from Rossetti and Swinburne to Oscar Wilde and Yeats. We will examine some of the moral, ethical, romantic and aesthetic problems facing the aesthetic and decadent poetry. In
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Canada has been defined as a country of multiple borderlines - geographical, sociopolitical and cultural. The course aims to explore these borderlines as contributing to the structuring of Canadian selfhood. We will focus on texts by women writers of the post WWII era, among them Margaret
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How do works of Jewish American writers serve as sites of cross cultural translation? We will discuss the artistic strategies, cultural dynamics, and the politics of translation as these are exemplified in texts that mediate between cultures in terms of language, religion, and ethnicity. Among
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