| 0626.1122 חיבור | |
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| גב' הלן כצנלסון , גב' אנה קיסין-שכטר | שו"ת |
| The Composition Course is a process writing course which is designed to help the student develop critical reading and writing skills. Students learn how to formulate an issue for a paper, how to develop, organize and instantiate their papers, and how to use secondary sources responsibly. Students also develop their language skills as they learn to use academic rhetoric, and the conventions of academic writing in English, including MLA documentation
The primary texts used in the course are poems and short stories. Students are required to submit two papers of approximately 1200 words which engage the primary texts and use secondary sources appropriately. As this is a process course, students submit drafts of their papers, get feedback from their instructor and peers and revise as required. A portfolio including all the drafts leading up to the final paper, the two final papers and a final self-assessment paper are the basis for evaluating a student’s progress at the end of the course. Texts: Harbrace Handbook or MLA Handbook | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.1204 ניתוח דראמה | |
| גב לינדה שטרייט | שו"ת |
| This course is an introduction to the major trends in Western Drama, from the birth of the Classics to contemporary gender specific drama. The historical overview will encompass a discussion of the dramatic text set against the relevant socio-cultural background, to illustrate the mutual influence of drama and ideology. We shall also examine the development of specific genres, and the changing perspectives of the actor/audience relationship. There will be a close discussion of texts which will include excerpts and complete works from the Classic, Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, Modern and Post Modern periods. Relevant critical articles will also be examined to illuminate the changing methodological approaches.
Texts An anthology prepared by the English Department Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus (The Major Authors. Norton: New York, London) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Penguin classics) Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Cambridge U.P. , trans. Frank McGuiness); John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (Faber) Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (Methuen). David Mamet, Oleanna (handout in class) Requirements 3 Quizes, mid and final examination. | |
| הערות: קורס תאוריה | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 25/02/2004 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 04/06/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.1208 תיאוריה של סיפורת | |
| ד"ר אילנה גומל | שו"ת |
| 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 about the succession of events in time.
The course will combine discussion of this broader sense of narrativity with emphasis on narrative fiction. We will discuss theoretical texts analyzing various aspects of narrative, including plot, setting, point of view, and genre. In conjuction with the theoretical material, we will read a number of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and others. In addition, two longer texts will be analyzed in the light of the theoretical paradigms we will learn in the course of the semester. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Cynthis Ozick, The Shawl | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 21/06/2004 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 23/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.1217 נתוח שירה | |
| ד"ר קרן אלקלעי גוט | שו"ת |
| DR. KAREN ALKALAY-GUT
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 close examination of examples from classical and contemporary English and American poetry. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: 2 hourly examinations, one final examination. PRIMARY TEXT: The Norton Anthology of Poetry, shorter fourth edition, Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, John Stallworthy, eds. 1997. Other texts will be provided on Internet. | |
| הערות: קורס תאוריה | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 10/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 09/06/2004 בשעה 18:00 | |
| 0626.1280 מבוא לתרבות אנגליה | |
| פרופ ג רום מנדל | שו"ת |
| The course traces the development of English literature from the beginnings through the early modern period, emphasizing the distinctive cultural orientation dominent in each period and showing how that orientation conditions the way we understand representative works of literature. It provides a skeletal framework for the sequence of “periods” in English literature by focusing on major figures and characterisic genre.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: Two mid-term examinations and a final examination. REQUIRED TEXT: The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Major Authors. 7th edition. New York and London: Norton. | |
| הערות: קורס בסיסי | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 17/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 19/03/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.1500 מבוא לתרבות אמריקה | |
| ד"ר הדה בן בסט | שו"ת |
| The purpose of this course is to examine the development of a distinct American cultural discourse from the Colonial period to the 20th century. The texts read in class offer a variety of genres and voices representing the different facets of American cultural production.
TEXTS: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Sixth edition. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: Midterm and final exams. | |
| הערות: קורס בסיסי | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 24/06/2004 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 25/07/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| 0626.2014 ספרות פוסט-קולוניאלית | |
| גב יעל מאורר | ק"מ |
| This course examines a selection of texts which have come to be known as “post-colonial”. This (problematic) term includes the works of writers under colonial rule, and of second generation immigrants. Writers of diverse ethnic groups, genders and socio- political affiliations figure under this umbrella term.
The course presents a variety of approaches to what may be termed the “postcolonial condition”. This condition is shared by the colonizer and the colonized, the immigrant and the native of the colonizing country, the center and the margins. In this spirit , we’ll look at the works of authors like George Orwell, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, and others. We’ll also examine the theoretical background in an attempt to understand the controversy surrounding the term “postcolonial”. How does this theoretical engagement influence our concepts of gender, social and economic issues and culture? To what extent to these dissenting voices alter our perceptions of the binary oppositions which make up our world view? Course Reqirements Active participation One paper A final exam | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 26/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 07/05/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2023 רומנסה וסאגה בימי הביניים | |
| פרופ ג רום מנדל | שו"ת |
| This course will concentrate on the origins and development of two characteristically medieval genre, the romance and the saga. After a brief introduction to the background of romance and its relation to the culture from which it springs, students will read a few early and unsophisticated examples of these two genre, some major continental and Icelandic examples, and then end with the omnium gatherum of romance and saga material in English, Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: One analytic essay (with an option to write a second), one mid-term examination, the final examination. REQUIRED TEXTS: Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan, ed. A. T. Hatto. Penguin. Hrafnkel’s Saga and Other Stories, ed. Hermann Palsson. Penguin. Seven Viking Romances. Trans. Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards. Penguin. Chrétien de Troyes. Arthurian Romances. Ed. D. D. R. Owen. Everyman edition. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte Darthur. The Winchester Manuscript. Ed. Helen Cooper. Oxford. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 27/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 05/05/2004 בשעה 18:00 | |
| 0626.2025 ספרות הרנסאנס | |
| ד"ר ארין הנריקסון | שו"ת |
| The course is an introduction to the literature of the Renaissance and an investigation of the concept of “renaissance” in relation to British literature. We will explore the major genres of imaginative writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, including drama, lyric, and epic poetry, and consider such major themes as the relationship between liberty and obligation and the emergence of print culture. Readings will be drawn from the works of Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Shakespeare, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer, among others.
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1 (eds. Abrams and Greenblatt) and additional readings to be distributed. Requirements: One paper, midterm and final. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 27/06/2004 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 28/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2032 ניתוח הסיפור הקצר | |
| גב מרים מנדל | שו"ת סמ' א' |
| We will read a variety of short stories, some
written in the 19th century but most written in the 20th (by James, Lawrence, Mansfield, Anderson, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Joyce, Kafka, and others). We will discuss various elements (characterization, setting, structure, language, narrative distance and perspective) and examine how these elements work in eliciting and controlling the reader's response to the text. Written Work: One short analytical paper, Midterm Exam, Final Exam Primary Texts: Douglas Angus, The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age Warren and Erskine, Short Story Masterpieces Several xeroxed stories | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 20/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 21/05/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2042 סופרות קנדיות | |
| ד"ר הדה בן בסט | שו"ת |
| The course explores issues of Canadian culture and identity formation through the fiction of prominent Canadian women authors writing in the post-World-War-II era. We will focus on texts by Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Galant and Alice Munro, in the attempt to understand the similarities between the search for a distinctive Canadian national identity and the restructuring of female selfhood.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: midterm paper, final exam TEXTS: (subject to revision) Margaret Atwood: Surfacing; from Bluebeard’s Egg; from Survival; from Good Bones Margaret Laurence: A Bird in the House; from The Heart of a Stranger Mavis Galant: selected Stories Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women; from Selected Stories | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 11/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 07/05/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2045 מחזות בעיתיים של שקספיר | |
| ד"ר גבריאל ביינר | שו"ת |
| The course focuses on two related groups of Shakespearean plays, which have the common denominator of relating both to tragedy and to comedy - one focusing mainly on the exploratory power of tragic stress within a comic frame, the other predominantly on the healing power of comedy beyond tragic threat. The conventional names for these groups are not particularly good, but they are used here for convenience of reference: 'problem plays' and 'romances'. Both groups have been regarded as difficult, sometimes even baffling; the project in this course is to make the plays accessible, whatever their complexity, through understanding the dramatic stragegy and its import.
The latest Arden edition is recommended, but the New Cambridge is a good alternative. Problem Plays Romances Measure for Measure Pericles Troilus and Cressida Cymbeline All's Well The Winter's Tale The Tempest | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 24/02/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 02/06/2004 בשעה 18:00 | |
| 0626.2051 שירת המאה ה-16 | |
| גב מרים באום | שו"ת |
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The course will be an in-depth study of the poetry of the so-called Golden Age of English Literature, through both a close reading of selected poems – primarily love poetry - and a survey of some of the extensive critical literature that has been devoted to this poetry. We will focus, in particular, on the contribution of the political and sexual realities of the Elizabethan court to the creation of this poetry, in addition to the influence of the continental literary tradition. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 23/06/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 19/07/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| 0626.2063 מילטון | |
| ד"ר ארין הנריקסון | שו"ת |
| This class will explore the works of John Milton (1608-1674) and the religious, political, and literary contexts in which they were written, printed, and read. We will read his poetry (ranging from the fragment on “The Passion” to the epic Paradise Lost) and experiment with various critical tools for interpreting it. We will also read a small selection of Milton’s prose, concentrating on his defenses of divorce and free speech. I will ask you to think critically about traditional assumptions about the prose. In addition to close engagement with these primary materials, we will look at some of Milton’s sources, the works of his contemporaries, and recent scholarship on his work.
Texts: The Complete Poems and Major Prose (ed. Hughes) and additional readings to be distributed. Requirements: One paper, midterm and final. Literature of the Renaissance Henriksen, Dr. Erin The course is an introduction to the literature of the Renaissance and an investigation of the concept of “renaissance” in relation to British literature. We will explore the major genres of imaginative writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, including drama, lyric, and epic poetry, and consider such major themes as the relationship between liberty and obligation and the emergence of print culture. Readings will be drawn from the works of Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Shakespeare, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer, among others. Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1 (eds. Abrams and Greenblatt) and additional readings to be distributed. Requirements: One paper, midterm and final. | |
| 0626.2064 פרוסמינר בספרות | |
| ד"ר אילנה גומל , ד"ר רוברט גריפין , ד"ר ארין הנריקסון , גב מרים מנדל , גב אנה קיסין-שכטר | פרוס' |
| The aim of the proseminar is to prepare the student for participation in academic seminars and the writing of seminar papers. The student is required to develop an extended, researched and original analysis of a literary work assigned in class. The course is designed to teach specific skills, such as close reading and analysis of a literary text; developing a coherent critical thesis; working with bibliography; incorporating critical material; and writing and revising a long paper. The paper (12-15 pages long) is due at the end of the semester but the first draft is submitted halfway through and then revised and expanded through discussions with the instructor and input from other students. Several critical essays are assigned in class and the student is responsible for finding additional critical material. The coursework also includes such exercises as compiling a bibliography, writing short response papers, and attending conferences with the instructor.
Texts: Harbrace Handbook A literary text | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2065 שלהי המאה בספרות אמריקנית | |
| מר מלכיאל קייסי | ק"מ |
| This course explores the ways in which a series of others -- the female, the black, the Jew -- figure in the construction of American identity and literature at the turn of the nineteenth century. We will read The Education of Henry Adams (excerpts), Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw ,Wharton’s The House of Mirth , and Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 30/06/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 30/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2066 פואטיקה אורפית | |
| ד"ר שירלי שרון זיסר | שו"ת סמ' ב' |
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The modern thinking of the human soul evinces a fascination with two archaic myths: the myth of Oedipus, and to a lesser extent, the myth of Narcissus. Yet the thinking of the intricacies of the soul and their formations, the psychoanalysis in action that is Renaissance poetics and philosophy of language, the two saturated with a rhetoric inseparable from an erotics pays hardly any attention to Oedipality. Instead, Renaissance poetics as psychoanalysis in action entices us to think and unfold the conceptual, structural, rhetorical, anagrammatical and phonic and/as psychic components of two myths repressed (but hence fortunately preserved) as modes of exploring the psyche: the interrelated myths of Orpheus and Philomel. Unlike the Oedipus myth, these two myths do not engage the question of paternal prohibition. Unlike the Oedipus myth, their structure is more dyadic than triadic. Renaissance poetic and musical texts are saturated with echoes of journeys to and returns from the underworld, with references to the poet who sings so beautifully he tames stones and beasts, but who is reborn from hell to sing no longer of his heterosexual love for his spouse, but of the love of boys, and with allusions to the myth of an erotic sorority whose metamorphic symptom is the enchanting song of the nightingale. What might we learn from the intricate Renaissance poetizations of Orpheus and Philomel about fundamental mental structures occluded by the focus on the Oedipal family romance? How might the aesthetic formations of these Renaissance texts help us rethink the formations of the unconscious beyond Oedipality? What might they teach us about the centrality of the oral, of song(e), to more archaic, elemental, unchartered territories of the psyche? What might they teach us about the structures of a variety of forms of desire and sexuality, their structure, and their interrelations with one another? We will explore these and other questions through a close analytic listening, rooted, as is all psychoanalysis, in affect and the unconscious, to Philomelic and Orphic texts of the Renaissance. We will, throughout, compare our analytic findings with the thinking of the formations of sexuality and the unconscious in the work of thinkers such as Freud, Lacan, Dennis Vasse, and Montrelay, with a view to taking them further. Requirements: short reports in the course of the semester; term paper. Primary texts will include Richard Barnfield’s Orpheus his Journey into Hell (1595); George Puttenham’s Arte of Englishe Poesie (1588); the anonymous narrative poem “Orpheus and Eurydice”; Thomas Campion’s Orpheus masques, Arthus Golding’s translation of book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Robert Greene’s Orpharion (1588), and texts on the orpharion as musical instrument, John Dickenson’s “Ten Sonnets: To Philomel;” Richard Barnfield’s Affectioante Shepheard and Cynthia and Dickenson’s Cupid’s Journey into Hell (1594). Music: Songes and Aires by Campion, Purcell, Byrd, Blow, Robert Jones | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 11/07/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 12/08/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2071 ספרות אפריקנית-אמריקנית | |
| גב סוניה וינר | ק"מ |
| It is a commonplace that we live in the postmodern era but there is little consensus as to what this means. The seminar will provide a general overview of the theories of postmodernism, which attempt to account for the unique cultural features of the contemporary period. We will relate to such issues as the putative end of history; the collapse of humanism; the primacy of language; and the role of technology.
However, the seminar will engage primarily with the postmodern construction of space. We will discuss the shift from modern to postmodern architecture; urban experience and the idea of the city; virtual reality and hyper-reality; globalization; and the disappearance of time. The focus of the seminar will be on theoretical texts by Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Fredric Jameson, Slavoy Zizek and others. We will also discuss and analyze such films as Blade Runner, Matrix, Ghost in the Shell and others. Requirements: class participation, an oral presentation, two short papers and a seminar paper. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 13/07/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 05/08/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2073 ספרות נשים במאה ה-18 | |
| גב אמי גרנאי | ק"מ |
| Directed Reading Semester I
The eighteenth century was a time that saw a sharp rise in the writing and publication of literary texts by women, but only in the past twenty years is this writing being acknowledged for its centrality and impact upon the cultural production of the time. Eighteenth-century women writers dealt with a variety of issues, including the political developments and upheavals of the time, and the place of women in society. This response was expressed in different literary forms, such as the sentimental novel, the Gothic novel, political tracts, drama, the sonnet, and lyrical and blank-verse poetry. In this course, we will read texts that exhibit the diversity of this cultural engagement as it was expressed in various genres, and examine the ways in which women writers contributed to and influenced the development of print culture during this period. Texts: Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story Ann Radcliffe, The Italian Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France (selection) poems by Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and others Requirements: one short paper final exam | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 09/02/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 14/05/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2074 ספרות לפני מלחמת האזרחים | |
| ד"ר מלאת שמיר | שו"ת |
| "What is an American?" This question, posed by writer St. Jean de Crevecoeur in an essay by that title only a few short years after the American Revolution, continued to occupy American writers in the decades to come. Writers from Cooper to Melville attempted to formulate a coherent and inclusive American identity, an attempt that often involved the negation, exclusion or suppression of alternatives. This course will examine debates over national character and national identity as they played themselves out in both canonical and neglected texts, through transformations in language, literary genres, and prose styles.
TEXTS will include novels by J. F. Cooper, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson, and short works of fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and H. D. Thoreau. REQUIREMENTS: attendance and participation, short reading responses, short paper, and final exam. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 08/02/2004 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 09/06/2004 בשעה 18:00 | |
| 0626.2076 ספנסר | |
| גב מרים באום | שו"ת |
| The course will focus on Edmund Spenser, one of the major writers of the English Renaissance, beginning with his first work: The Shepheardes Calender, which inaugurated the passion for pastoral in England, and then moving on to selected parts of Spenser's epic romance: The Faerie Queene, one of the central works of the English Renaissance, to which the greater part of the course will be devoted. We will follow some of the twists and turns of the epic adventures, and discover that while it tells an exciting story, Spenser's romance also affords
fascinating insights into the thoughts, beliefs and deep-rooted anxieties of the men (gender intentional) of the period, a time of immense political, social and intellectual activity and change. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 08/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 09/08/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2077 שירה ויקטוריאנית | |
| ד"ר קרן אלקלעי גוט | שו"ת |
| This course will examine some of the moral, ethical, romantic and aesthetic problems facing the poetry written during the reign of Queen Victoria by concentrating on various central figures, from Tennyson to Morris. The industrial revolution, the discoveries of Darwin, the alteration of significance of religion, resulted in the necessity of reevaluating institutions as broad as religion and as specific as love. This course will also focus on the aesthetic and decadent movement of the poetry written during the reign of Queen Victoria by concentrating on various central figures, from Swinburne to Yeats. The development of poetic forms, such as the sonnet sequence and the dramatic monologue, will be emphasized, particularly in their relation to the social and moral issues of the period.
PRIMARY TEXTS: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, V.II Internet texts. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: 2 hourly examinations, one final examination. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 07/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 08/08/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2081 דיקנס | |
| גב גליה בנזימן | ק"מ |
| The most popular novelist of his own day, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) has been dubbed “the Shakespeare of the novel” by more than one twentieth-century critic, and his corpus has not ceased to attract massive critical attention and a large readership.
The aim of this course is twofold: first, to do close reading of a selection of fictional and non-fictional writings by Dickens, and examine his style, thematic concerns, and narrative technique; second, to familiarize the students with the literary, intellectual, social, and political milieu in which Dickens lived and worked. We will try to establish possible links between his poetics, manifesting a unique mixture of satire and sentimentality, and his outspoken, yet sometimes inconsistent, social views. TEXTS: We will be reading a variety of texts by Dickens – the novelist, the public figure, and the private man. Our primary texts will be the novels Oliver Twist and Hard Times and the novella A Christmas Carol, as well as excerpts from Sketches by Boz and a selection of letters, public speeches, and essays. Besides these, we will look at excerpts from critical evaluations of Dickens from the nineteenth century to the present. REQUIREMENTS: one exam, one paper, participation in class discussion. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 17/02/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 02/06/2004 בשעה 18:00 | |
| 0626.2094 דרמה בריטית מודרנית | |
| גב לינדה שטרייט | שו"ת |
| This course examines the development of British theatre, from the 1960s to the end of the 1990s. The abolition of theatre censorship in 1968 effected changes in the theatrical landscape which were themselves part of a wider social and cultural transformation. We shall examine four plays of the period, and key elements will include theatre of the absurd (Pinter), history (Hare), theatrical illusion (Stoppard) and ‘in-yer-face’ theatre (Marber). Attention will be paid to the cultural and theatrical milieux from which each play arose, and to the varied presentation methods which the writers choose.
Texts Harold Pinter The Caretaker (Samuel French, 1960) David Hare, Plenty (Faber and Faber, 1978) Tom Stoppard The Real Thing (Faber and Faber, 1982) Patrick Marber Closer (1997, Methuen) Requirements: two quizes, one paper, final examination. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 20/06/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 20/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2095 תיאוריה של הבקורת | |
| ד"ר רוברט גריפין | שו"ת |
| An introduction to the conceptual vocabulary of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Includes readings in Saussure, Jakobson, Bakhtin, DeMan, Derrida, Foucault, Raymond Williams, Judith Butler, Barbara Smith, et al.
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| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 15/06/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 02/08/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| 0626.2170 המינגווי ופיצג'רלד | |
| גב מרים מנדל | שו"ת |
| We will look at the making and reading of these authors' major works, focusing on their use of biographical, historical, geographical and literary "fact" in the creation of fiction and nonfiction. Among topics to be discussed will be the relationship between structure and meaning, as well as the relationship between fiction and biography, autobiography, and current events at home and abroad. In the process we will see how their own and succeeding generations read Hemingway and
Fitzgerald (the men and their work) differently. Written Work: One short analytical paper, Midterm Exam, Final Exam Primary Texts: Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms A Moveable Feast The Complete Short Stories Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night The Crack-Up Short Stories | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 18/06/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 18/07/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| 0626.2271 שייקספיר | |
| ד"ר גבריאל ביינר, ד"ר שירלי שרון - זיסר | שו"ת |
| first semester
The course offers an introduction to the art of primitive listening to the work of Shakespeare, a reading which, as Michele Montrelay puts it, can lead us back to our origins. We will learn this art of primitive listening, attentive the poetic formations of the unconscious, primarily from the quintessence of Shakespeare’s poetics: the lyric poetry of the sonnets and the narrative poetry, in particular “A Lover’s Complaint,” the sequel to the Sonnets (1609), which may be termed the key to Shakespeare’s poetics. We will use our perceptions of Shakespeare’s mappings of the formations of the unconscious to explore Shakespeare’s poetic plays in their various genres, paying close attention to the relationship of all these genres to the genre which Renaissance writers were most preoccupied with, aesthetically, conceptually, and psychologically: the genre of pastoral (past-oral), the genre most engaged with the thinking of desire as an anchorless movement of encore (en-corps). We will read the texts while paying close attention to Shakespeare’s manipulation of poetic and rhetorical forms as means for the exploration of issues of desire, perversion, sexualities, femininity, origin, and dream. Texts: The Sonnets “A Lover’s Complaint” “The Rape of Lucrece” Henry V As You Like It Measure for Measure Taming of the Shrew Hamlet Cymbeline Requirements: midterm, final, one paper. second semester This introductory course in Shakespearean drama deals with a selection of his plays, with at least one representative from each of the major genres. In each case, the course will define the relevant generic strategy and apply it analytically to the play, while attempting to take into account the particularity and complexity of that play. The overall selection is arranged in rough chronological order, so that it also gives some sense of Shakespeare's development.The recommended edition is the latest Arden, but the New Cambridge is a good alternative A Midsummer Night's Dream Richard II Henry IV Part One Hamlet Measure for Measure Troilus and Cressida Tempest | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 09/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 10/08/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2350 צ'אוסר ובני זמנו | |
| גב דורינא ינקו | ק"מ |
| Our readings in Chaucer and several of his anonymous contemporaries will pay attention to the treatment of social, political, and legal developments in the fourteenth century. The selection from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales will concentrate especially on the contrast between belief and credulity in the religious and legal spheres, as well as on the representation of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. Leaving the celebrated Tales, we will go on to read an unfinished love poem by Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite. The attitudes represented in these texts will be compared with those of anonymous religious and love poems of the period, as well as with the representation of Christian history in a selection of medieval plays. The main texts will consist of a Middle English edition of The Canterbury Tales (Penguin or Norton), as well as some xeroxed materials.
Course requirements: one midterm paper, one final exam. | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 14/06/2004 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 04/08/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2658 המערב בספרות האמריקנית | |
| ד"ר מלאת שמיר | שו"ת |
| Advanced Course, Semester II
This two-hour 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 colonial period to the present. It will address attendant issues such as the marking and crossing of borders (geographical borders, borders of genre, borders of identity), the construction of masculine individualism, inter-racial relations and hybridity. TEXTS will include mostly fictional works but also cinematic masterpieces. Writers and directors will include James F. Cooper, Bret Harte, Owen Wister, John Ford, Fred Zinnemann, and Clint Eastwood. REQUIREMENTS: attendance and participation, quizzes, final paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 22/06/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 22/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.2680 חלומות אמריקניים | |
| ד"ר מלאת שמיר | שו"ת |
| החלום האמריקני הוא חלום על חופש ונאורות, על הזכות להתעשר והזכות להיות מאושר, על צדק ושוויון חברתי. מדוע, אם כן, כאשר אנו פוגשים בו בתרבות האמריקנית הוא לובש תדירות צורה של חלום בלהות? מהם אותם הצללים המלווים את החלום האמריקני על גלגוליו השונים? מה קורה לחלום כאשר הוא נתקל במציאות חברתית ופוליטית? קורס זה ייבחן שאלות אלה ואחרות דרך סקירה של התפתחות הסיפורת בארצות הברית. נכיר סופרים חשובים (כמו הות'ורן, מלוויל, פוקנר ומוריסון) אסכולות וז'אנרים מרכזיים (כמו המערבון, הבלש, ריאליזם ופוסט מודרניזם) ונבדוק את היחס בין החלום האמריקני לבין גורמים כמו מוסד העבדות, מעמד האישה, הקפיטליזם התעשייתי, ועוד. | |
| הערות: קורס פנורמי | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 14/06/2004 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 23/07/2004 בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3014 ספרות יהודית-אמריקנית | |
| פרופ חנה וירט נשר | סמינר ב.א. |
| This course will examine the development of Jewish-American literature within the context of the American literary tradition, of the history of the Jews in the United States, and of the problematics of identity (ethnicity, religion, race, and class). We will be focusing on various aspects of memory and textuality, first in relation to the experience of immigration and then with regard to post-holocaust consciousness, home and exile, and multiculturalism in America. Among issues that will be studied are canon, genre, voice and speech representation, translation and translatability, intertextuality, and the ethics and poetics of post-holocaust literature.
The readings consist of short stories, essays, novels, and autobiographical writing. The book-length works available at the Dionon will be: Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (a few of these will also be on reserve at Weiner) The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature Mary Antin, The Promised Land Henry Roth, Call It Sleep Cynthia Ozick The Shawl Art Spiegelman, Maus A few stories will also be photocopied and made available in the department: Bernard Malamud, “Lady of the Lake,” “The Jewbird” Philip Roth, “Eli, the Fanatic” Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice” And stories by Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, Lev Raphael, Leon Kobrin, Lamed Shapiro, among others. Theoretical readings will be drawn from the following: Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity Walter Benn Michaels, Our America Murray Baumgarten, City Scriptures Lawrence Langer, The Literature of the Holocaust Alvin Rosenfeld, A Double Dying Horace Kallen, “Democracy versus the Melting Pot” Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Identities Hana Wirth-Nesher, What is Jewish Literature? Students will be expected to attend regularly, present a referat in class, prepare a seminar proposal and annotated bibliography, and submit a seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3021 ספרות ופסיכואנליזה | |
| ד"ר שירלי שרון זיסר | סמינר ב.א. |
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“Psychoanalysis does not make any observations in order to rediscover them in the text of Sophocles. Freud’s evocation of a text by Dostoyevski is not sufficient grounds for saying that the criticism of text guarded by the discourse of the university, has been given “more air” by psychoanalysis. .. psychoanalysis is not what can motivate literary judgment. My critique [of Poe] is focussed only on Poe’s being a writer who formulates a message concerning the the letter … it is certain that, as always, it is psychoanalysis that receives from literature, if it takes out from its reservoirs of repression an idea which is less psychobiographical. I propose the letter to psychoanalysis as an offering, as what shows to psychoanalysis what it is about. .If literary criticism could effectively be renewed by psychoanalysis, it would be because psychoanalysis is there because the texts measure up to it, showing it the enigmas which are its concern.” ---- Jacques Lacan, Lituraterre (1971) This course will interrogate literature as psychoanalysis in action. It regards literature as clinical material, the raw material of the human soul, which at the same time, in its aesthetics and especially its rhetoric, literary locus of the formations of the unconscious, includes reflections on the human soul, reflections which, if extricated from the literary text, can teach us much about the enigmas which are psychoanalysis’ concern. Even more significantly, these aesthetic reflections constituting the literary texts and the psychic material which they mould into shape require us to read the literary text as the full speech of its unconscious? This course offers a training in the reading of literature as psychoanalysis in action. Such a training requires more than an introduction to basic concepts in the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Andre Green, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, Michele Montrelay, Francois Baudry, or Denis Vasse. It requires a special type of engagement with literary text: an engagement which lets go of the egoic, phobic insistence on verifiability and performs the art of primitive listening, at once rigorously intellectual, passionate, and rooted in the unconscious, which, as Michele Montrelay puts it, can magically lead us back to our origins. With this art of primitive listening, we shall move beyond what Lacan calls the empty speech of the literary text’s semantic/narrative content to articulate the truth of the unconscious and of origin. With this in mind, we shall read Freud’s theorizations of basic psychoanalytical concepts such as the unconscious, the symptom, the drive, desire and anxiety, the perversions, and the dream-work, look at Abraham and Torok’s theorizations of the psycho-linguistic mechanisms of anasemia, incorporation and introjection, and at Andre Green’s theorizations of the narcisisisms of life and death, and move on to Lacan’s specification of these and other psychoanalytical concepts including transference, love, jouissance, need, demand and desire, eros and its relation to Being and to lack, neurosis and psychosis, perversity, perversion and others, and to Monterlay’s and Vasse’s thinking of origin, of archaic subjectivity, of the floating and fragmentary states of the unconscious, of intimacyand of fragments of jouissance. Suggested literary texts include short stories and novels by Virginia Woolf, films featuring James Dean, Gus Van Sant’s film My Own Private Idaho, and poetic texts of the English Renaissance, but in line with the seminar’s focus on the unconscious, suggestions from students for literary texts which unfold the unconscious would be most welcome. Psychoanalytical texts will include extracts from: Freud’s On Dreams, The Interpretation of Dreams, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Unconscious, The Ego and the Id, Symptoms, Inhibitions, and Anxiety, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s The Shell and the Kernel, Lacan’s Ecrits and Seminars 1, 5, 7 and 20, Andre Green’s Narcissism of Life, Narcissism of Death, and in particular work by Michele Montrelay. Requirements: class presentation of seminar project, outline and draft of seminar paper to be submitted in the course of the semester; seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3037 זהות אמריקנית | |
| ד"ר הדה בן בסט | סמינר ב.א. |
| This seminar will explore issues of identity formation in modern American fiction.
Texts will be read in the context of ethnicity, race, gender and religion, reflecting the diversity inherent in the contemporary American multicultural climate. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: Referat, in-class essay, seminar paper. TEXTS (subject to revision): John Updike: from The Afterlife; In the Beauty of the Lilies O’Connor Flannery: selected stories. James Baldwin: Go Tell It On the Mountain: from Going to Meet the Man; Walker Alice: The Color Purple; selected stories Grace Paley: from The Collected Stories Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmin; from The Middleman and Other Stories | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3038 הרומן המוקדם | |
| ד"ר רוברט גריפין | סמינר ב.א. |
| What is a novel? Where and when did it appear? It is difficult to answer these questions, but we will read a selection of early prose fictions that are part of the debate: Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves; Aphra Behn, Oronooko and other tales; Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe and Roxana; Richardson, Pamela; and Fielding, Tom Jones. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3043 סאטירה וקומדיה | |
| ד"ר גבריאל ביינר | סמינר ב.א. |
| The English Renaissance is the period which produced some of the greatest achievements in drama, in a great variety of genres and modes and their interactions and combinations. Without attempting a comprehensive overview, or account of all the dramatic forms of the period, the course focuses on a number of great plays, comedies as well as tragedies, which deploy the satiric mode. The following plays are a minimal list, to which some items may be added during the course.
Ben Jonson. Volpone Ben Jonson. The Alchemist Marston. The Malcontent Tourneur. The Revenger's Tragedy Webster. The Duchess of Malfi Middleton and Rowley. The Changeling Ford. 'Tis Pity | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3044 סיפורי חניכה ברומן האמריקני | |
| ד"ר מלאת שמיר | שו"ת |
| 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. Little wonder, then, that this plot is one of the most widespread and vibrant forms in the US, where questions of individual and group identity, conformity and dissent, innocence and maturity, have always been central. This seminar will investigate the coming-of-age plot in a variety of 19th and 20th century American works of fiction, using the tools of genre theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis.
TEXTS will include fiction by Washington Irving, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid. REQUIREMENTS: active participation, preparation of study questions, quizzes, and a seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3047 שירה אמריקנית מודרנית | |
| ד"ר קרן אלקלעי גוט | סמינר |
| influences, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allen Poe, then the major influences in modern American poetry, including William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes and e. e. cummings. The second half of the semester will be focused on a few individual representative poets such as Louise Gluck, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, and others.
Seminar Requirements: There will be an essay in class to summarize the first half of the semester. After the middle of the semester, students will be required to present one paper to the class on one aspect of the work of a single poet. There will also be a bibliographic assignment. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3050 נרטיבים ויקטוריאניים | |
| ד"ר אילנה גומל | סמינר |
| We define ourselves through stories. The image of the self is created in, and through, narrative, and such narratives are influenced by cultural, social, and generic determinants.
The Victorian era, preoccupied with the issue of identity in an unstable world, is rich in narratives of the self, in which the main character goes through a process of change and development. We will focus on two modalities of such narratives: the traditional bildungsroman, which is a story of a young man finding his place in society; and the female bildungsroman, which uneasily combines the heroine’s psychological growth with the traditional closure of marriage. We will also look at the Gothic double of the bildungsroman, portraying not the creation, but the destruction and disintegration of the self. The seminar will relate to the larger cultural issues of the “invention of man”, to use Foucault’s phrase, and the role of class, race and gender in the construction of identity. We will explore the rise of psychology as a particular narrative modality of self-representation. Texts: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Shorter texts and critical material will be assigned in the course of the semester. Requirements: Class participation, an oral presentation, a short response paper, and a seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.3095 כתיבת נשים בעידן המודרני המוקדם | |
| ד"ר ארין הנריקסון | שו"ת |
| One of the most important developments in literary criticism in the past twenty years has been the expansion of knowledge of and interest in the works of female authors of the early modern period, from 1500-1800. This course will provide an overview of the field of early modern women’s writing, introduce students to the tools of study relevant to the field, and read several authors in depth, including Anne Askew, Rachel Speght, Mary Herbert Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, and Elizabeth Cary. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4056 ריאליזם בספרות אמריקנית | |
| פרופ חנה וירט נשר | סמינר מ.א |
| This course will examine Realism in American literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in terms of literary history, genre, narrative strategies, social history, social theory, and psychology. Literary works will include prose fiction by Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, James, Gilman, and Cahan, as well as critical and theoretical readings. Among the topics that will be addressed are place and space, speech representation, dialect and local color writing, objects, and concepts of character.
Literary Works Henry James, The Bostonians (and another short work by James) Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Critical and Theoretical Readings (specific works to be listed at a later date) Among the authors we will be reading: Freud, William James, Vernon Parrington, Rene Wellek, Lionel Trilling, Harry Levin, Walter Benn Michaels, and Eric Sundquist. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4064 מתח בין ז'אנרים | |
| ד"ר גבריאל ביינר | סמינר מ.א. |
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This course deals comparatively with a number of great European plays which use a distinctive dramatic strategy, labelled here 'generic tension' - whether the tension be with the norm of tragedy or of comedy. The course has a double focus, on poetics (defining the distinctiveness of the strategy and at least some of its range on the basis of the plays) and on detailed analysis (using, and hopefully refining or perhaps qualifying, the poetics). Although one of the working assumptions (open to challenge) is that the generic strategy is constitutive in the plays, it is used in the seminar primarily as a point of entry into the texts and their complexity, and also into comparative issues between them. The dominant interest is in the plays as profound and enduring dramatic exploration. The corpus includes plays by Euripides, Ibsen, Chekhov, Kleist, Synge, Brecht, Lorca, and Shakespeare. All the non-English plays are read in English translation. Hopefully, it will be possible to work with xeroxed texts, and there is no requirement to buy any for the course. The basic list of texts is (bracketed items are for reference, not full analysis): Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis, Alcestis, The Trojan Women, Hecuba. Ibsen. The Pillars of the Community), The Wild Duck Chekhov. Uncle Vanya, (The Seagull) Kleist. Amphytrion J.M. Synge. The Playboy of the Western World. Bertold Brecht. Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti, (Mother Courage) Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4185 הארכאי ברנסאנס | |
| ד"ר שירלי שרון זיסר | סמינר |
| The literature of the English Renaissance, especially in the predominant mode of pastoral, manifests a preoccupation with the category of origin, in its interrelation with issues of seduction, desire, sexualities, loss, and melancholy. The thinking of rhetoric, another predominant strain in early modern letters, is also informed by an engagement with the category of origin.
The late sixteenth century in England witnessed an unusual proliferation of texts that, after the fashion of Longos’s Daphnis and Chloe , the Idylls of Theocritus, Virgil’s Eclogues, recounted the lives and loves of shepheards. In addition to well-known texts such as Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia , Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheard’s Calendar and Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Renaissance pastorals included Shakespeare’s fascinating and neglected poem, “A Lover’s Complaint,” John Dickenson’s Arisbas: Euphues Among his Slumbers or Cupid’s Journey to Hell and The Shepheard’s Complaint, Robert Greene’s The Reports of the Shepheards and Menaphon: Camilla’s Alarum to Slumbering Euphues in his Melancholie Cell, Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynd: Euphues’s Golden Legacy , Michael Drayton’s The Shepheard’s Garland, William Smith’s Chloris: The Complaint of the Passionate Despis’d Shepheard and Richard Barnfield’s The Affectionate Shepheard. Beginning with the most archaic of pastorals, the biblical Song of Songs and the founding texts of the genre by Longos, Theocritus and Virgil but focussing on the intriguing pastoral tradition of late sixteenth-century England, we shall try to unfold these pycho-rhetorical, psycho-erotic structures of those texts. What is the conceptual relation of pastoral to the two components of its name – the (archaic) past and the oral? What is the conceptual relation of these two components to one another? Why indeed is the genre so preoccupied with the acoustic and the oral/aural not only in its name but also in its foregrounding of euphony and acoustic pleasure? What is the relation of this insistence on euphony and the name “Euphues” that appears in the title of several of these pastorals (which is the name not only of a prototypical humanist portrayed in John Lyly’s influential Euphues but also of a particular rhetoric promulgated by Lyly that privileges the beauty of harmony and sound)? How are the euphonic and Euphuistic related to the issues of sleep and dream that some of these pastorals name in their very titles? How are they related to the realm of Cupid or Eros, of desire, that the title of one of Dickenson’s pastorals names? What is it that makes pastoral the ideal linguistic vehicle for the exploration of polymorphic sexualities, from heterosexuality and androgyny through perversion to homoeroticism and incest? Why is it that pastoral consistently chooses rhetorical forms such as aposiopesis, anapodoton, apostrophe and in particular simile, that bracket the ontological? These are some of the questions we will keep in mind as we read Renaissance pastoral texts through an art of primitive listening based in affect and the unconscious, the only aurality which, Michele Montrelay says, can lead us back to our origins. The course will explore the early modern thinking of origin in Renaissance literature and rhetorical theory. In particular, we will address the questions of the possibility of writing origin, of forms of signification which can perform the archaic modes of being Renaissance fictionalizations of origin represents, aesthetic forms which can carry the archaic yet continue to function in an economy of loss. Throughout, we shall keep our findings from the the primitive listening to Renaissance texts in dynamic interaction with psychoanalytical engagements with the category of the archaic, especially those of Michele Montrelay, Denis Vasse, and Francois Baudry. Texts: the above Requirements: oral presentation of seminar project, outline and draft to be submitted in the course of the semester, seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4218 שירה בתרבות פופולרית | |
| ד"ר קרן אלקלעי גוט | סמינר מ.א. סמ' ב' |
| This seminar will explore the way in which popular culture interweaves throughout poetry from the period of the nineteenth century until the present. Various media and poetry will be used. One example: the thematic and formal use of popular music, from dance hall, and children’s songs, to rock, blues and jazz will be traced in poetry by Swinburne, Yeats, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg and others. The use in music of poetic references as well as poetic elements will also be considered. Other areas of popular culture include dance, comics, television, Internet, and film.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS Students are required to prepare an organized presentation for class on a date and subject to be determined between the instructor and the student within three weeks of the beginning of the semester. This aspect of the seminar is essential in order to organize appropriate materials and bibliography. Students who cannot fulfill this requirement should not register for this seminar There will also be two brief essays written in class. The grade for this course will consist of 1) preparation of questions 2) active class participation 3) critical reports 4) essays in class 5) written referat 6) the seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4220 פוסט-מודרניות | |
| ד"ר אילנה גומל | סמינר מ.א. |
| It is a commonplace that we live in the postmodern era but there is little consensus as to what this means. The seminar will provide a general overview of the theories of postmodernism, which attempt to account for the unique cultural features of the contemporary period. We will relate to such issues as the putative end of history; the collapse of humanism; the primacy of language; and the role of technology.
However, the seminar will engage primarily with the postmodern construction of space. We will discuss the shift from modern to postmodern architecture; urban experience and the idea of the city; virtual reality and hyper-reality; globalization; and the disappearance of time. The focus of the seminar will be on theoretical texts by Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Fredric Jameson, Slavoy Zizek and others. We will also discuss and analyze such films as Blade Runner, Matrix, Ghost in the Shell and others. Requirements: class participation, an oral presentation, two short papers and a seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4350 הסטוריה של הבקורת | |
| ד"ר רוברט גריפין | סמינר מ.א. |
| After a brief consideration of Aristotle's Poetics, this course surveys the major movements of twentieth-century literary theory: New Criticism, Structuralism, Marxist and Psychoanalytic approaches, Deconstruction, Feminism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| 0626.4656 סיפורת של גבריות | |
| ד"ר מלאת שמיר | סמינר מ.א. |
| After centuries of wondering "what is femininity?" intellectuals are currently fascinated by a second question, implied in the first: "what is masculinity?" This seminar builds up from two basic assumptions: that masculinity, like femininity, is a fictional construct, and that, as such, it is not the exclusive property of one race, sexuality, or sex. The first part of the semester will be devoted to a critical examination of some of the major theories about masculinity originating from feminist theory, psychoanalytical thought, cultural studies, and the emergent field of men's studies. In the second part we will look at various representations of men, manhood, and masculinity in 19th and 20th-century US cultures, from the rugged individual to the urban rebel, from the white-collar worker to the gender outlaw.
REQUIREMENTS: active participation, preparation of critical questions, two short reports, a referat paper. * All my courses will make extensive use of Virtual TAU websites. The syllabi, requirements, detailed descriptions, and course libraries will be available for previewing a few weeks before the beginning of each semester at virtual.tau.ac.il, using the course number as guest ID and as password. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |