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Fall
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FOR PREREGISTRATION AND REGISTRATION
123 SECS. 1-43 FR. COMP.
See time schedule.
(STAFF)
232-20H SHORT STORY AND NOVEL (DORIA) MWF 11
Discussion will probe narrative methods of representing various
human situations and author's attitudes toward them. Authors
include James, Twain, Faulkner, Nabokov, Mailer, Eliot.
323-2 CREATIVE WRITING (SQUIRES) TTh 2-3:30
Criticism and writing of short fiction and poetry; half of the
term devoted to each form. Workshop method employed.
amples from Shakespeare, Donne and Marvell, Wordsworth,
Keats, Eliot, Yeats and Auden. Three novels will be read: one by
Austen or Dickens or Hardy, one by a 20th century- author,
and one chosen by each student for an independent project.
Some critical essays will be read.
150 SECS. 1-45 FR. COMP.-SHAKESPEARE
See time schedule.
GREAT BOOKS 191 FRESHMAN HONORS
See time schedule.
(STAFF)
(WILLIAMS)
323-3 CREATIVE WRITING
(STAFF) MWF i
235-1 INTRO TO LIT: DRAMA
For sections see time schedule.
(LUNN) W 10
426-2 PRACTICAL CRITICISM
GREAT BOOKS 201-1
(SUPER) MWThF 9
Authors treated include: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Lucretius, Vergil. The course wilt
be divided about equally between the great imaginative works
of the Greek and Latin epic writers and dramatists and the dis-
cussion of central philosophical questions about the nature of
man, the universe, and God as conceived by Plato, Aristotle,
Lucretius, and Thucydides. The method of treatment is informal
class discussion of the books read.
GREAT BOOKS 201-2 (KIDDLE) MTWTh 10
Readings: Homer, Iliad; Aristotle. Poetics and Ethics; Aeschylus
Agamemnon; Sophocles Oedipus the King and Antigone; Euri-
pides Medea-and Hippolytus; Aristophanes Lysistrata; Thucydides
Peloponnesian War; Plato Republic; Lucretius Nature of Things;
Vergil Aeneid.
Introductory course dealing with the literary and theatrical arts
involved in drama. Plays: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone;
Euripides, Medea; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Shakespeare, Henry
IV, Part 1, Othello; Ibsen, Hedda Gabler; Rostand, Cyrano de
Bergerac; Synge, Riders to the Sea; Chekhov, Cherry Orchard;
Shaw, Doctor's Dilemma; O'Neill, Emperor Jones; O'Casey, Juno
and the Paycock; Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Beckett,
All that Fall, Act Without Words; Albee, Zoo Story. One or two
plays may be substituted.
269-1 INTRO TO AMERICAN LIT (FRANKLIN) M 10
For sections see time schedule.
Discussion of Melville, S. Crane, Hemingway or Fitzgerald, and
Anais Nin.
269-11 INTRO TO AMERICAN LIT
For sections see time schedule.
325-1 thru 6, 8 thru 10 INTERMED EXPOSITION
See time schedule.
(STAFF)
(SMIEHOROWSKI)
TTh 9-10:30
(HAUGH) M 2
GREAT BOOKS 201-3
(OGDEN) MWThF 11
An Introductory American Literature course. It offers an inten-
sive study or five major American Writers, sampling roughly a
hundred years of American writing with attention to the various
genres:. Authors include Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Crane, and
Hemingway.
269-23 INTRO TO AMERICAN LIT (ENGEL) MWF 3
Discussion of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Lardner, O'Neill.
Mainly class discussion, but with background explanations and
focus on central themes: human excellence. and weakness in
the context of the heroic age, of. Greek city-state life, and of
"world" wars; man in relationship to the divine; justice and in-
justice. Textbooks: Lattimore's Iliad (Chicago), Lattimore's
Oresteia (Chicago), Watling's Theban Plays (Penguin), Vela-
cott's Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin), Rex Warner's History
of the Peloponnesian War, and Plato's Republic and Other Works
(Dolphin).
269-24H INTRO TO AMERICAN LIT (REASKE)
MWF 10
GREAT BOOKS 201-4 (JONES)
MTWF 11
Authors treated include: Homer, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sopho-
cles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Plato and Vergil. Directed
discussions on each day's readings; approximately 50 pages per
assignment. Three examinations of essay type within the semes-
ter. Student has choice of 20 page paper based on approved
topical outline submitted in advance, or a regular final examina-
tion on major substantive questions on the works read throughout
the course,
GREAT BOOKS 201-5
(NIEMEYER)
MTWF 12
Authors included: Hom, VAeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristh-
phones, Thucydides, Plato, Vergil, Ovid. Class discussion of the
assigned readings on virtually any aspect of the texts-histori-
cal, sociological, philosophical-although the first interest is
literary.
GREAT BOOKS 201-6 (GEORGE) MTWF 1
Authors include: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides,
Plato, Aristotle, Vergil (plus some Greek and Roman lyric poetry,
if time permits). Lecture and recitation. Discussion of assigned
readings in the light of basics of literary theory and criticsm, his-
toriogrophy, philosophical method (esp. in field of aesthetics) .
Papers and reports: two major papers are assigned for
term, one for an individual analysis of a work or problem, one
for comparative analysis of two works (one of which may be a
modern work read outside class: e.g., a student may elect to
write on Sophocles' Antigone vs. Anouilh's play of the same
title). In addition, each student is required to deliver before the
class an oral report (one per term ' covering some specific aspect
of the reading (e.g., dramatic structure in The Eumenides; the
relevance of Book X to the rest of The Republic).
Creative participation in the oral pre.sentations (dramatic
readings, lectures with slides, and the like) is encouraged.
Whenever opportunty permits, one guest per term is invited to
speak or lead a class discussion. In my experience, these "added
features" and encouragements have done a great deal to make
the class livelier and more rewarding.
Probable texts include: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
Mohicans; Nathaniel Hawthorne, stories; several novels in-
cluding The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance; H.
Melville, Benito Cereno, Typee, and perhaps Moby Dick; Henry
James, The American, Daisy Miller; Jean Toomer, Cane; Richard
Wright, Uncle Tom's Children. Poetry includes that of Walt
Whitman, Emily Dickinson, E.A. Robinson, Robert Frost, Wallace
Stevens, Mariannne Moore, and Robert Lowell. This course will
focus primarily on the development of American fiction by
beginning with the historical romance of James Fenimore. Cooper,
passing through the so-called American Renaissance by a study
of Hawthorne and Melville, and concluding with the fiction of
Henry James, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright who show us
different aspects through very different narrative styles of the
rise of modern America. Several lectures, tied to suggested but
not required reading, will deal with varieties of orose narrative
in eighteenth-century America and with the experimental
contemporary fiction; thus students will hopefully have under-
standable access to writers as different as Cotton Mother and
Kurt Vonnegut. There will be a unit on American poetry, with
particular attention given to Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and
Stevens.
269-25 INTRO TO AMERICAN LIT (DAVIS) MWF 2
Texts will include Hawthorne's Selected Tales and Sketches, 3rd
Edition (Rinehart), Melville's Selected Tales and Poems (Rine-
hart), Whitman's Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (River-
side), O'Neill's The Later Plays (Modern Library) and Long
Day's Journey into Night (Yale) , and Contemporary Poetry in
America, ed. Ailler Williams (Random House).
281-1 CORE I: GT ENGLISH BKS. MTWTh 1
281-2 CORE 1: GT ENGLISH BKS. MWThF 9
281-3 CORE I: GT ENGLISH BKS (SANDS) MTWF 10
Selections treated will include Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, "Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight", Marlow's Dr. Faustus, and
Bacon's essays and portions of his philosophic works. The Meta-
physical poets will be emphasized with the psychological im-
plications of their "wit" underscored. Also Milton's Paradise
Lost with discussion of its possible place in the deveolpment of
English thought.
281-4 CORE 1: GT ENGLISH BKS (CATHCART) MWThF 11
Course will confront six of the major authors of English litera-
ture from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries with
emphasis on a close reading of individual texts in class discus-
sions, and, where necessary, brief lectures on literary periods
and movements. The works studied wiil include tales by Chau-
cer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory, a play or two
by Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton's Paradise Lost.
281-5 CORE I: GT ENGLISH BKS (ELKINS) MTWF 1
Course involves the reading and discussing of Chaucer, Spenser,
Shakespeare, and Milton. Possible inclusions: Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight, Sidney, Jonson, Donne.
281-6 CORE I: GT ENGLISH BKS (LENAGHAN) MWThF 2
Texts include Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight,
Doctor Faustus, Poetry of John Donne, The Duchess of Malfi, and
Paradise Lost. Course will focus on the individual works.
281-7 CORE I: GT ENGLISH BKS (MULLIN) MWThF 3
Principal focus on the major works: The Canterbury Tales, The
Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Sonnets, The Alchemist, Volpone,
and Paradise Lost.
325-7 INTERMED EXPOSITION (SANDS) MWF 2
Goals of the course include discovery of one's identity through
the process of writing. Papers may be in the form of historical
report, extended journal entry, critical assessment, autobiog-
raphical sketch, etc. Stress will be laid cn the manipulation of
style and tone to fit given purposes and subject matter. Occa-
sional papers will be mimeographed and handed out for group
discusson. There will be a few texts, chosen with an eye to time-
liness.
329 ELIZ & JAC STUDIES (INGRAM) ARR
Since all the important artists, writers, and musicians of the
Elizabethan age lived in London-with the single exception of
Edmund Spenser--the aim of this course will be to clarify for
the student the nature of the interaction of the Elizabethan
artist with his environment, the nature of the daily pressures
and exhilarations which life in London might produce. Units
will be devoted to the geography of the City, its political organ-
ization, the economics of daily life and the relation of the guild
structure to City government, the tensions between the City and
the Court, and the relation of the City to the nation. Special
topics will include education, the care of the sick and infirm,
sanitation, dietary and sumptuary laws, the running of markets,
the presence of aliens in the City, the recurring problem of the
plague, control of the river, military conscription, economic ex-
pansion into the- new world, and the status of women. Research
will be restricted for the most part to primary materials.
331 INTRO TO POETRY (HORNBACK) MWF 12
A study of both traditional and contemporary English and Ameri-
can poetry-studied together rather than "historically." Poetry as
an imaginative art, asking imaginative responses. Although the
class will be large, it will be a discussion class; and students will
be invited to weekly small-group meetings. Texts for the course
include: The Pleasures of Poetry, Contemporary American Poetry,
and Galway Kinnell's The Book of Nightmares.
332 (HUM 236) CINEMA (COHEN) TTh 11-12:30
341 LITERARY PROBLEMS (MARTIN) MWF 10
The work of six or seven male and female "pairs" of Victorian
and modern writers will be examined. The members of each
pair will be closely related in some way (e.g. close friends,
husband-wife, members of a literary "movement," etc.). The
ways in which male and female styles differ will be examined,
with their mutual influences thus at a maximum. Some tentative
hypotheses concerning sex-determined habits of thinking and
feeling will be ventured. Course will focus on the language pat-
terns, from narrative structures to syntax, with which writers
order and transform their various subjects and ideas. Possible
writers to be studied are Dante & Christina Rosetti, Robert &
Elizabeth Browning, Edith Wharton & Henry James, Ezra Pound
& H.D., Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, Marianne Moore &
Wallace. Stevens, Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes.
426-4 PRACTICAL CRITICISM
426-5 PRACTICAL CRITICISM (RUCKER) MWF 4
Authors treated include Faulkner Robbe-Grillet, and Fitzgerald.
The aim of the course, conducted through lecture and discus-
sion, is to expose the student to various critical approaches to
literature and to assist him in determining criteria by which to
judge literary merit. A series of essays by representative critics
will be studied to provide the tools to be used in the four or
five analyses upon which the final grade will be based,
427 THE SHORT PLAY (WYMAN) M 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Writing short plays is the principal activity in this course. Stu,
dents are required to write a minmum of two short ploys, and a
third or fourth is encouraged. Many students will have the op-
portunity to see their plays performed in workshop productions
acted by students from the Theatre courses. To stimulate cre-
ativity, short plays are read, nearly all of them modern. Addi-
tionally, class discussions often focus on current productions
offered regularly by the Speech Dept., and attendance at these
productionsdis encouraged. Occasionally, short writing exercises
are assigned. There is much individual work with the instructor,
as each student's problems are analyzed and solutions found to
playwriting difficulties.
429 WRITING POETRY (CLARK) ARR
This course will meet once a week in the evening at my house
to discuss student writing. Each member of the class must expect
to have his poetry discussed on at least one occasion. Students
will meet with me individually at least once every two weeks.
Admission by permission. Those wishing to enter should send a
sample of their work to Walter Clark/ Department of English/
University of Michigan during the month of August. A list of
those admitted will be posted on the door of 2635 Haven Hall
by the first day of classes. Manuscripts returned outside door
of 2635.
430 CONTEMP LIT-FICTION (WEISBUCH) MWF 11
The course will treat English, American, and Continental fiction
of the past twenty years. It will focus on those writers who seem
to deal most directly with the question: what attitudes suit
the modern experience? What is that experience? How can the
novel contrive a form that will express and clarify that sense
of experience? The course may be organized by such categorical
solutions as existentialist, romantic, and structuralist. Since
Norman Mailer's career spans these categories, we will read
several of his works. Other authors may include: Sartre, Comu,
Beckett, Amis, Murdoch, Fowles, Nabokov, Barth, Bellow,
Lessing, and Pynchon.
431 (HUM 406) NOVEL TO 1850 (FALLER) MWF 2
A history of the novel from Defoe to Dickens, Mini-lectures
and maxi-discussions. To encourage discussion, students will be
required to turn in memoranda on their reading (questiions,
brief critical observations) for each class period. Texts include:
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders; Richardson, Pamela,
Clarissa; Fielding, Shamela, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones; Sterne,
Tristram Shandy; Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma; Dickens,
Pickwick Papers, Bleak" House, Great Expectationis.
432 (HUM 407) THE MODERN NOVEL (KONIGSBERG)
TTh 10:30-12
Texts treated are Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov;
James, The Ambassadors; Lawrence, Women in Love; Joyce,
Ulysses; Mann, The Magic Mountain; Kafka, The Trial; Ml-
raux, Man's Fate; Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! A study of
some of the major novels written in England, America and on
the continent during the past 100 years. The course will study
these texts primarily to understand their achievements as works
of art, but also to learn what they tell us about the develop-
ment of the novel during this period and major cultural and
intellectual trends in the modern world.
(STAFF) MWF 3
Frye's Anatomy of Criticism will be used as the basis for a
discussion of a systematic approach to literary criticism. An
attempt will be made to apply Frye's model to a variety of
writers, past and contemporary.
426-3 PRACTICAL CRITICISM (LUNN) MWF 1
This course aims to give practice in the elucidation and evalua-
tion of literary works. Close-reading of selected works of Joyce
(fiction), Hopkins (poetry), and Beckett (drama) will be the
means to uncovering major critical problems that arise in
judging literature. Creative writing by members of the class will
be used when such writing serves the aims of the course.
342 LIT AND CULTURE (McNAMARA)
Subtitle: "The Literature of Ireland"
MWF t
This course, which requires no prior knowledge of the subject,
will present a survey of the history of Ireland in relation to a
number of selected literary texts drawn from the Gaelic and
Anglo-Irish traditions; all readings will be in English. Among
the types of literature to be studied are: heroic saga (The
Cattle-Raid of Cooley); Fenian legends and poems; bardic and
love poetry; satire (The Midnight Court); fiction and verse
leading to the Celtic Revival; the plays of J.M. Synge and Sean
O'Casey; fantasy (At Swim-Two-Birds). The course aims at
introducing students to the range and variety of Irish literature
as it reflects different aspects of social and cultural realities in
the history of Ireland.
GREAT BOOKS 201-7
(ENGEL) MWThF 2
Authors include: Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Virgil. Discussion.
350-1 SHAKESPEARE PLAYS (STYAN )
Subtitle: Shakespeare on the stage.
MWF 11
GREAT BOOKS 201-8
GREAT BOOKS 201-9
(PASLICK)
(GINZLER)
MTWF 3
MWThF 12
Authors include: Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aris-
tophanes, Thucydides, Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, Ovid. A study of
selected Classical works, their themes and cultural background.
Assigned readings and class discussion.
A close study of about 10 tragedies and comedies, the emphasis
being on the appreciation of Shakespeare's meaning and values
in his theatre.
350-2 SHAKESPEARE PLAYS (SCHULZE) MWF 2
A close reading of ten of Shakespear's principal plays in an
attempt to understand and appreciate some of Shakespeare's
dramatic ideas.
350-3 SHAKESPEARE PLAYS (McDOUGAL) MWF 3
Plays include. Richard 11, Henry IV, Pt. 1, Henry V, As You Like
It Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Antony & Celo-
patra, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest. The Sonnets.
383 (HUM 328) LIT AND SOC CHNG (MATHES) MWF 1
GREAT BOOKS 203 GRT BKS-MOD WORLD
(WEBER)
MTThF 10
Great Books of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Read-
ings from Marx, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dostoevsky, Nietz-
che, Shaw, Kafka, Freud, Proust, Camus, Sartre, some poetry.
Students are encouraged to pursue specific topics that might
interest them. Discussion.
433 (HUM 408) DRAMA TO 1642
(JENSEN) MWF 9
386 (HUM 338) LIT SCIENCE (HUGHES)
MWF 9
223 SECS. 1-6 CREATIVE WRITING
See time schedule.
(STAFF)
387 (HUM 237) LIT & PHIL
(LOOMIS) MWF 11
This is a course in dramatic history, at least in part. In treating
such topics as the development of dramatic kinds, the growth of
the theatres, the etsablishment of companies of players, and
other matters of history and biography the lecture method will
be employed. Once the course is underway, class discussion will
become a more significant part. Students will be asked to present
oral reports on specific critical questions, and we will have one
or two panel discussions focused on the staging problems pre-
sented by particular plays. While our first business will be to
understand these plays in their historical context, we shall also
be concerned with assessing them as theatre pieces and consid-
ering their value for a modern audience. Focus will be on major
figures exclusive of Shakespeare: e.g. Marlowe, Jonson, Webster.
231-1 INTRO TO LIT: POETRY (HAYDEN)
M i
MTWF 4
388 (HUM 239) QUEST UTOPIA IHOLCOMBE) MWF 11
281-8 CORE I: GT ENGLISH BKS
(FORSTN ER)
231-2-5 (Sections of above)
See time schedule.
(HAYDEN AND STAFF)
231-6 INTRO TO LIT: POETRY (CLOYD) MWF 10
A disciplined introduction to the reading of poetry, English and
American, culminating in the study of one major poet. Dis-
cussion.
231-8H INTRO TO LIT: POETRY (SQUIRES) TTh 10:30-12
Class discussion of important poems from the Renaissance to
the present. Special emphasis will be placed upon the poetry
of John Keats.
231-10H INTRO TO LIT: POETRY (COLES) MWF 3
Course will treat representative poets from the Elizabethen
Period to the present. A systematic introduction to the elements
of poetry, to formal analysis of poetry, and to the uses of
poetry as an element in aesthetic and cultural history. Atten-
tion will be given to transformations of style and practice from
traditional to modern poetry. Two or three weeks at the end
of the term will be devoted to an extended examination of
Keats's poems and letters. Discussion.
A masterpiece survey from Chaucer to Milton including the works
of such artists as Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and supplemented
by influential writings from thinkers Hobbes, Locke, etc.
282-1 CORE II: GT ENGLISH BKS (GREENHUT) MTWF 1
The course will center on major works from. Augustan, Romantic,
Victorian and Modern Literature including: Pope's Rape of the
the Lock and Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Fielding's Tom Jones
and Sheridan's School for Scandal; Wordsworth's Prelude and
representative odes by Keats and Shelley; Austen's Emma and
Dickens's Great Expectations; Arnold's Empedocles on Etna and
Culture and Anarchy; Pater's Renaissance and Wilde's Portrait
of Dorian Gray; Shaw's Major Barbara and Joyce's Portrait of
the Artist; representative poems by Yeats and Eliot. Discussion.
282-2 CORE II: GT ENGLISH BKS (BORNSTEIN) MTWTh 2
Significant works of English literature from Pope to the present.
Special emphasis will be given to Romantic poetry, and its re-
lationship to Augustan and modern poetry.
282-3 CORE II: GT ENGLISH BKS (STEINHOFF) MTWTh 10
Reading of some classic works of English literature chosen from
the following authors: Swift, Pope, Boswell, Fielding, Austen,
Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, Wells, Shaw, Eliot, and Joyce.
Discussion,
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391 CHAUCER TO MILTON (McNAMARA)
For juniors in honors concentration.
392 CHAUCER TO MILTON (GARBATY)
For juniors in honors concentration.
MWF 11
MWF 3
435-1 MODERN.DRAMA
{STYAW MWF 3
409 AMERICAN ENGLISH (BAILEY) MWF 11
Course is devoted to the social and regional dialects heard today
in America with attention to the linguistic attitudes that sustain
them. A variety of exemplary cases will be treated: Southern
and Mountain Speech, "Black. English," Hispono English, Hawai-
ian Pidgin English. Students will be encouraged to formulate a
research problem involving field work in the commiunity. Text:
Bailey & Robinson, Varieties of Present-Day English.
412 MODERN GRAMMAR (KING) MWF 10
Chomsky, Fillmore, Gleason, Jespersen, Langacker. The main
topics are syntax and sematics: the forms of sentences and how
they are used. Emphasis is on theory and on individual research,
vithesome attention to pedagogical applications, especially as
related to literature, philosophy, and psychology. Written reports
and seminar discussions are part of the method, with wide
latitude in choice of specialization.
423-1 CREATIVE WRITING (JOHNSON) MWF 11
Advanced creative writing class. Course will be taught on on
individual basis, with occasional group/workshop sessions. Per-
mission to enroll determined by approval of submitted manu-
scripts.
423-2 CREATIVE WRITING (WRIGHT) TTh 9-10:30
A stage-centered approach to modern drama, with close study
of a few plays for understanding of content, genre, and style,
as seen in the context of their own theatre. Readings will em-
phasize master playwrights who have determined the theatre of
todav: Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Pirondello, Brecht, Beckett,
and Genet.
435-2 MODERN DRAMA
(STAFF) MWF 11
436 ART OF THE FILM (ALEXANDER) T 2, Th 2-4
In-depth study (four or five films each) of the three directors,
Fellini, Godard, Bergman, with attention to differences in style,
scope, sensibility, and purpose. Lecture Tuesday and two-hour
discussion of the film (the film present) Thursday. Smaller
discussion groups will also be organized. No pre-requisite, but
students without a previous filmrcourse are strongly advised to
see Professor Alexander for suggestions on summer reading.
231-7,9, 11 INTRO TO LIT: POETRY
See time schedule.
(STAFF)
439 CONTEMP CRITICISM
(CLARK) MWF I
307-1 INTRO MODERN ENGLISH
(LOURIE) M 11
232-1 SHORT STORY AND NOVEL (ALEXANDER) M 9
For sections see time schedule.
Selection of short stories: Turgenev, Lewis Carroll, Flaubert,
Dostoevsky, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Asimov; a
For sections see time schedule.
Introduction to Modern English explores several aspects of con-
temporary American English. It will first survey the regional and
social dimensions of diversity in American English, then examine
The aim of the course is to develop a sense of what contem-
porary critics are up to and to place these critics in the context
of a general consideration of the aim and methods of the
critical activity. Students will read three critics since 1920 with
care; others briefly, in as wide a range as possible. The Modern
Critical Spectrum, Goldberg and Goldberg; The Interests of
Criticism, Hazard Adims The Concnt n of Ctici:m: .. F n