TH
5:00 PM- 8:00 PM
PAR 204

Course Description

E 383L The Teaching of English Composition and Literature http://www.en.utexas.edu/classes/bremen/e316k/tapages/tapages.html Parlin 127 bremen@curly.cc.utexas.edu

TTH
9:30 AM- 11:00 AM
UTC 2.112A

Course Description

Global Literature and Culture--
What is a "self," an individual? Is it a single entity or is it always entangled with others? Is it something created by history, by politics, by art, by culture or by the divine? Or does it fashion itself? Does it change over time and across space? At some level, art is always concerned with making and unmaking the individual and with freeing or chaining this being. Tracking texts from Classical Greece, Palestine and India to medieval Europe and Japan, we will focus on the continuing, and sometimes desperate, attempts of ancient and early modern artists and authors both to phrase and to answer this question. Expected names from the western canon, like Euripedes, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Baudelaire will keep company with Japan's Basho, Russia's Pushkin, Brazil's Borges, and Nigeria's Achebe.

MWF
9:00 AM- 10:00 AM
PAR 303

Course Description

Restricted to Students in the Longhorn Scholars Program of Connexus

This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important.

Grading Policy

An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your final grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an "A" you must have an "A" in all three areas; same for a "B". If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than 2 classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

Texts

Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., Volume A
Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee
Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane

MWF
10:00 AM- 11:00 AM
FAC 21

Course Description

This course will provide an overview of British poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. During the semester we will examine the historical and intellectual contexts of works on the reading list, discuss changes in various genres over time, and examine the ways in which particular themes and ideas are treated in different periods. The course is also intended to offer experience in reading literary works closely and writing about them clearly.

Grading Policy

Four tests, 21% each
Discussion section 16%
The tests will contain a mix of short-answer questions and essay questions

Texts

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors, 7th ed. or most recent.

TTH
2:00 PM- 3:30 PM
WCH 1.120

Course Description

Literature in History--
This course is intended to provide an overview of British literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present. During the semester we will examine briefly the historical and intellectual contexts of the works on the reading list and compare the ways in which particular ideas and genres appear in various literary periods. The course is also intended to offer students experience in reading literary works closely and informedly.

Grading Policy

Five quizzes 20%
Two tests 20% each
Final 20%
Discussion section work 20%

Texts

Dream of the Rood, Battle of Maldon
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Shakespeare, Henry IV, part 1
Milton, Paradise Lost, Books I, II, IX, and XII
Lillo, The London Merchant
Pope, The Rape of the Lock Swift, selections from Gulliver's Travels
Johnson, the Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth, Preface to The Lyrical Ballads
Keats, selected poems
Shelley, Frankenstein

TTH
8:00 AM- 9:30 AM
FAC 21

Course Description

Literature in History--
This course is designed to provide a broad introduction to English literature. In addition to some introductory texts (A. S. Byatt's "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary" and Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe) and various short illustrative texts introduced along the way, there will be four units in this course:

Renaissance: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Othello, and various poems
18th-century: Swift's Gulliver's Travels
19th-century Romantic and Victorian Poetry: Blake, Shelley, Keats, Browning
Modern: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

Grading Policy

MWF
9:00 AM- 10:00 AM
WCH 1.120

Course Description

This course takes up some of the finest literature written in the English language. Beginning with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and making our way through various works by Shakespeare, Austen, and T.S. Eliot, among others, we will follow out the rich narrative of British literary history as it unfolded from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Literary form and its relation to meaning will provide us with a special focus, as will the changing relations between authors and readers. We will also be attuned to the ways in which these literary works challenge us as both readers and citizens.

Grading Policy

Discussion Section-- Attendance, participation, short assignments 20%
Test One (regular semester) 25%
Test Two (regular semester) 25%
Cumulative Final Exam (administered at officially scheduled time during the final examination period) 30%

Texts

TTH
12:30 PM- 2:00 PM
JES A121A

Course Description

Multimedia Approach: Critical Reading, Thinking, Writing--
"American Literature," according to Daniel Aaron, "is the most searching and unabashed criticism of our national limitations that exists." This course aims at examining these limitations through a selective reading of major American writers from the 17th to the 20th century, tracing the development of major literary forms, themes, and historical and cultural trends.

TTH 8:00 AM- 9:30 AM
JES A121A

Course Description

Literature, Culture, and Identity--
This course is a historically arranged survey of American literature that includes voices and perspectives spanning the 17th through the 21st centuries. Novels by Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison, Luis Urrea, and Sherman Alexie will serve as focal points for our discussions about culture and identity (for example, national, ethnic, or gendered) at different historical moments. Our goal will be to see these works as embedded in specific contexts that must be explored in order to understand, as much as possible, the particularized expressions of American identity offered in each.

Grading Policy

Grades will be based on four exams (20% each), and reading responses/quizzes, attendance, and participation (20%).

MWF
9:00 AM- 10:00 AM
FAC 21

Course Description

Literature in Culture--
This course is a historically arranged survey of American masterworks, from the 17th through the 20th century, including writers such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Edwards, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Eliot, Williams, and Frost. Besides considering the works in terms of literary artistry, this course traces the development of major literary forms, themes, and historical and cultural trends reflected in the literature.

Grading Policy

Three one-hour exams and a final three-hour exam (25% each)
Short reading quizzes possible that could affect your final average.

Only one unexcused absence allowed from lectures and one from discussion sections - extra absences could affect your final average. Discussion sections are mandatory. The TA in your discussion section has the option of passing out extra materials and giving short quizzes.

Texts