| CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)
English 417: Shakespeare
to 1600
Dubrow
The course engages
with six plays Shakespeare wrote before 1600, as well as with his
sonnets. We will discuss a range of issues, from the stylistic and
generic workings of the plays to their engagement with cultural tensions
about such arenas as national politics and gender. We will also frequently
discuss questions of performance and production. Like most of my undergraduate
courses, this one will be based on a combination of discussion (including
small-group workshops) and lecture. It will emphasize enhancing one’s
skills in analyzing and writing about literature; for instance, to
encourage the class members to develop their own ideas rather than
simply repeating mine, we will have a system of email exchanges. In
part because students who know each other and me tend to work together
more productively, the group will get together for one or two pizza
parties and if feasible a theater party to see a Shakespeare production
and/or Shakespeare films.
English 420: English literature 1600-1660
Dubrow
We will read
a range of poetry and prose from the period (drama is covered in a
separate course), including the extraordinary love and religious poems
of John Donne, the spiritual writings of George Herbert, the lyrics
in which Lady Mary Wroth exemplifies and negotiates the complexities
of establishing a female voice in a male tradition, the scientific
writings of Sir Thomas Browne, early works by Milton, and so on. Our
discussions will attempt to position the texts in both social and
cultural contexts, emphasizing, for example, their relationship to
the religious controversies of the period and the impending civil
war.
Spanish 513: Literatura del Siglo de Oro: La comedia barroca
Hildner
Analysis of six
seventeenth-century "comedias" by Lope de Vega, Calderón
de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón, and Moreto.
German 601: German Culture before 1648 (Fall 2002)
Mödersheim
http://www.palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/˜moeders/gr601
German 611: Survey of German Literature to 1700 (Spring 2003)
Mödersheim
http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/~moeders/gr611/
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