סילבוסים של החוג לאנגלית בשנת הלימודים תשס"ה

מעודכן ליום ראשון 21 באוגוסט 2005


0626.1122  חיבור Composition
גב' הלן כצנלסון Helen Katznelsonשו"ת
לקורס מספר קבוצות:
0626.1122.01, סמסטר א'
0626.1122.02, סמסטר א'
0626.1122.05, סמסטר ב'
0626.1122.06, סמסטר ב'

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

מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.1208  ניתוח סיפורת NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
ד"ר אילנה גומל Dr. Elana Gomelשו"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 conjunction 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.


הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 17/02/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 02/03/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.1217  ניתוח שירה POETRY ANALYSIS
ד"ר קרן אלקלעי-גוט Dr. Karen Alkalay-Gutשו"ת
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, optional paper.

PRIMARY TEXT: Texts will be provided on Virtual TAU Site.

הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 17/06/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 17/07/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.1280  מבוא לתרבות אנגליה Introduction to British Culture
ד"ר ארין הנריקסן Erin Henriksenשו"ת
This course provides an overview of British literature—from Anglo-Saxon to modern—and introduces students to major authors, texts, themes and genres of the British tradition. It prepares students for advanced courses through intensive practice in close reading and analysis of literary texts.

הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 10/02/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 30/03/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.1500  מבוא לתרבות אמריקה Introduction to American Culture
פרופ' חנה וירט-נשר Professor Hana Wirth-Nesherשו"ת
This course will provide an overview of American Culture from the first European presence in the Americas to the post World War II era. Material will be drawn from a variety of genres, among them poetry, captivity narrative, slave narrative, autobiography, novel, romance, political essay and treatise, short story, and film.

Texts:
Norton Anthology of American Literature

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Some material will be scanned and available at the library.

Assignments: Midterm and final examination.



הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 09/06/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 04/08/2005 בשעה 12:30
0626.2014  ספרות פוסט-קולוניאלית Postcolonial Literature
גב' יעל מאורר Yael Maurerק"מ
This course aims to examine a selection of texts which have come to be known as “post- colonial”. This (problematic) term includes the works of writers under colonial rule, second generation immigrants and authors belonging to the colonizer class.
Writers of diverse ethnic groups, genders and socio\political affiliations figure under this umbrella term.

In the course of the semester, we will thus explore 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 discuss the works of authors like George Orwell, Hanif Kureishi, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and others. We will also look at the theoretical background in an attempt to understand the controversy surrounding the term post-colonialism. How does this theoretical engagement influence our conceptions of gender , social and economic issues and culture ? To what extent do these dissenting voices alter our perceptions of the binary oppositions which make up our world view?



Course requirements : active participation
One paper
One exam
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 15/02/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 20/05/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2032  הסיפור הקצר The Short Story
גב' מרים מנדל Miriam B. Mandelשו"ת
We will analyze 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, and others) to see how they work. We will look at elements such as setting (time and place), structure, registers of language, narrative
distance and perspective, etc, to see how these elements work in eliciting and controlling the reader's response to the text.

Required: Active class participation, 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
הערות: סמסטר ב'
0626.2051  שירת המאה ה-16 16th cen. Poetry
ד"ר מרים באום Dr. Baumשו"ת
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.
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 08/02/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 13/04/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.2054  הנובלה הגותית במאה ה- 18 Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel
גב' איימי גרנאי Garnai, Amyק"מ
When we think of the word “Gothic”, various images come to mind: the mysterious castle, locked rooms and secret passageways, a tyrannical villain, and the vulnerable hero or heroine who is subjected to unspeakable terror. In producing these images, the Gothic also encodes a critique of patriarchal tyranny, and thus an explicit or implicit political awareness. At the end of the eighteenth century, this signaled specifically an engagement with the social, political and economic upheaval which characterized the period and with the desire for individual freedom articulated by the French Revolution. In this course we will read texts that engage with these issues, and that display the recurring themes and images that mark literary works as “Gothic”, and which, in doing so, also exhibit the variety and heterogeneity of the genre.

Texts:

Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
Matthew Lewis, The Monk
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Requirements: mid-term assignment, final exam
הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 07/06/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 25/07/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2057  קריאה רדיקלית של מילטון The Radical Milton
ד"ר ארין הנריקסון Erin Henriksenשו"ת
Was John Milton a revolutionary, a feminist, a romantic, a hero and an iconoclast? Or was he conservative, misogynist, and heterodox? What is radical literature and what purposes does it serve? Through reading Milton’s prose and poetry (including Paradise Regain’d, A Masque, and On Education, among others) we will explore the important critical disagreement about how to understand Milton’s writing. The course will also explore the representation of Milton and his work by the Romantic poets, especially Blake and will give some attention to modern critical interpretations as well.
הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 04/07/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 05/08/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2064  PROSEMINAR
ד"ר אילנה גומל Dr. Elana Gomel , גב' מרים מנדל Miriam B. Mandel , ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר Sharon-Zisser, Dr. Shirleyפרו"ס ב"א
לקורס מספר קבוצות:

0626.2064.01- סמסטר א'- ד"ר אילנה גומל Dr. Elana Gomel :
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

0626.2064.02 סמסטר א', ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר:
An introduction to critical thinking, writing, and documentation focussing on an analysis of Shakespeare’s poetry. Reading and documentation assignments will be given throughout the semester and culminate in the composition of a term paper.

0626.2064.04,0626.2064.05-סמסטר ב'- גב' מרים מנדל Miriam B. Mandel :
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 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; producing a bibliography; incorporating critical material; and writing and revising a long paper. The paper (12-15 pages) 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, critiquing critical essays, and attending conferences with the instructor.

Texts: Harbrace Handbook (or similar handbook)
A literary text: to be announced in class


מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.2065  שלהי המאה בספרות אמריקנית The Turn of the Century - American Literature
מר קייסי מלכיאל Malkiel Kaiseyק"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.
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 10/06/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 02/08/2005 בשעה 12:30
0626.2067  ספרות אמריקנית מודרנית Modern American Fiction
פרופ' חנה-וירט נשר Professor Hana Wirth-Nesherשו"ת
This course will focus on the period between the world wars, from 1918 through the decades of the 1920's and 1930's.
This was a period marked both by mainstream responses to the mass immigration at the beginning of the century and to the mass migration of African Americans to urban areas in the North and by literature emerging from these minority cultures. We will look at the historical, sociological, and political factors that shaped the cultural production of this rich period, including political nativism, blackface minstrelsy, early film, and urbanism. Among the issues that will be discussed will be formal experimentation in narrative technique and characterization, plots of cross-cultural encounter, inscriptions of the “Other,” the construction of national identity, symbolic geography (such as the frontier, Europe, the urban underground, the South) and the ideological aspects of the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender.


Primary Works:


Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918)
Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1932)
Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (1934)

We will also read several poems and essays.


Requirements
Midterm Examination
Short Paper
Final Examination
You will be receiving a list of critical materials for this class.



הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 31/01/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 06/04/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.2072  AMERICAN REALISM AND NATURALISM
SHAMIR, DrAdvanced course
The terms “Realism” and “Naturalism” are used in the context of American culture to describe the dominant literary styles of American fiction during the period between the Civil War and the beginning of the Twentieth Century. In this course we will analyze these two styles in relation to social and political changes in the US in this period: the increasing rate of democracy and literacy, industrial and urban growth, expanding population base due to immigration, Reconstruction and segregation, and changes in the role of women.

TEXTS:
Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Frank Norris, McTeague
Kate Chopin, Short Stories
Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

REQUIREMENTS:
Short papers, final paper, short final exam.

הערות: Semester I
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 10/02/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 01/06/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.2076  ספנסר Spencer
ד"ר מרים באום Dr. Baumשו"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.

הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 15/02/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 04/05/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.2081  דיקנס CHARLES DICKENS
גב' גליה בנזימן BENZIMAN, GALIAק"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’s novels from the nineteenth century to the present.

REQUIREMENTS: one exam, one paper, participation in class discussion.

הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 28/06/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 28/07/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2082  יהודים ויהדות בספרות אנגליה Jews and Judaism in English Literature, 1500-1800
ד"ר ארין הנריקסון Erin Henriksenשו"ת
In this course we will study major works of early modern British literature that are related to the history of Jews and Jewish culture in England at this time. The class will examine representations of Jews and Judaism in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, Lanyer, Donne, Haywood, Edgeworth and others and ask questions about how literature reflects and often creates social change.
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 17/02/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 18/03/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2085  THE POLITICAL NOVEL IN AMERICA
SHAMIR, Dr. MBA Advanced Course
The genre of the “political novel” is a difficult one to define. Some define it as literature that deals with the world of politics and politicians; others insist that all novels are political. Rejecting the first definition as too narrow and the second as too wide, this course will survey the ways in which specific political issues were dealt with, and have shaped, the American novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will examine a variety of artistic forms deployed by political novelists: bestsellers, propagandistic works, satire, utopia, sentimentalism, and more.

TEXTS will include novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Dixon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edward Bellamy, Upton Sinclair, and Richard Wright.

REQUIREMENST: short papers, final paper, and a short final exam.

הערות: Second Semester
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 20/06/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 21/07/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2090  צילום וספרות Literature and Photography
גב' סוניה וינר Sonia Weinerק"מ
Since its invention in 1839, photography has challenged and innovated the way we perceive our world. Visual images saturate our world, and play major cultural and social roles. From the 19th century, visual images have penetrated in various ways into literary works. This course will consider the relationship between verbal and visual texts. Questions raised will address the predominance of one medium over the other and the impact of one medium on the other when the two are combined in one text.

Primarily, we will analyze theoretical aspects pertaining to photography as a medium and consider social and cultural assumptions underlying the photographic medium. For this, we will read cultural critics such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. We will then consider the various intersections between literature and photography, between verbal and visual texts, as we explore the multiple implications resulting from this stimulating interaction.

Literary texts will include works by various authors, such as: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster, Jamaica Kincaid and Joyce Carol Oates.

הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 28/01/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 18/05/2005 בשעה 18:00
0626.2093  דרמה ברנסאנס English Renaissance Drama
ד"ר גבריאל ביינר G. Beinerשו"ת
This course attempts to give an overview of a period which is prolific and varied, and it necessarily does so selectively. The course focuses mainly on the high peaks, that is the plays which have been proven to be great by their ability to survive historical changes and the vicissitudes of critical fashions – drama which is not of merely historical interest. Occasionally, however, it will be necessary to have a look at some texts which were important to developments in the period, and may be said to have been instrumental to the emergence of the high peaks.
The overview will include the main dramatic genre in this area.
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 04/02/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 15/04/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2094  דרמה בריטית מודרנית BRITISH MODERN DRAMA
גב' לינדה שטרייט LINDA STREITשו"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.


הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 24/06/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 01/08/2005 בשעה 12:30
0626.2097  אהבה חצרונית בספרות ובפסיכואנליזה Courtly Love in Literature and Psychoanalysis
ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר Sharon-Zisser, Dr. Shirleyשו"ת
Courtly love is a literary and cultural tradition, centering on the erotic relation between an inaccessible (usually female) beloved and a wretched male lover which flourished in Europe of the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, but whose influence extends throughout the English Renaissance and informs psychic structures and representations of love into our times. The formal and thematic characteristics of this tradition have been amply documented by scholars. And yet, Jacques Lacan says in one of the returns he makes to the category of courtly love in the course of his teaching, “remains enigmatic.” What psychic structure(s) is/are at stake in the phenomenon of courtly love that has come to us mainly through literature? Why were these psychic structures inscribed mainly in literary form? What might courtly love teach us about the relationship between literature (specifically poetry) and neurosis, neurosis and writing? How are all these connected with the aesthetic and formal, and especially the rhetorical, properties of courtly love? How might the phenomenon of courtly love nuance and modify our understanding of sublimation and its relation with the sublime? What are the implications of courtly love literature for our understanding of the impossibility of a rapport between the sexes, especially when this literature is counterpointed with another literary tradition alongside which it flourished in Renaissance England – that of pastoral?
The seminar will explore these questions via acquaintance with basic texts of the courtly love tradition, including Ovid’s Art of Love, Andreas Capelanus’s the Art of Courtly Love, manifestations of courtly love in the English literary tradition, from medieval romance through the Petrarchan poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Wyatt, and others, and through the anti-Petrachism of Shakespeare and Renaissance pastoralists. Our conceptual guides will be Lacan’s meditation on courtly love in his seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis, as compared with his earlier meditations of love in the first seminars, and his return to courtly love in his twentieth seminar on love and woman’s jouissance.

Requirements: mid-term exam, term-paper
הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.2271  שייקספיר SHAKESPEARE and HIS WORLD
גב' לינדה שטרייט LINDA STREIT , ד"ר גבריאל ביינר G. Beinerשו"ת
בקורס זה שתי קבוצות:

0626.2271.01 - גב' לינדה שטרייט. סמסטר א':
This course is an introduction to William Shakespeare and his world. We shall examine
his vast canon by first perusing the Sonnets, and then proceed to consider six plays from a generic perspective. Each genre will be discussed, followed by a close reading of the relevant text, encompassing: tragedy, revenge drama, comedy, tragicomedy, historical drama, and problem plays. Each text will be contextually considered against its socio-cultural background, to illustrate the mutual influence of drama and ideology. We shall examine the changing perspectives of the actor/audience relationship, and also attend a performance of Hamlet at the Cameri theatre. Relevant critical articles will be studied to evaluate the changing methodological approaches to the world of Shakespeare.

Texts
Sonnets
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Richard 11I, The Tempest

Requirements
One in-class quiz, one take-home assignment, mid and final examination.

0626.2271.02 - ד"ר גבריאל ביינר. סמסטר ב':
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 א' יתקיים ביום 26/01/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 11/03/2005 בשעה 9:00
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 27/06/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 07/08/2005 בשעה 12:30
0626.2315  שירה רומנטית Romantic Poetry
ד"ר עידית אלפנדרי Dr. Idit Alphandaryשו"ת
The course introduces the major romantic poets and studies their most enduring works of poetry and prose.
The course explores the diverse meanings of imagination, as they appear in the works of the different poets. It analyzes the image of the struggle between desire and reason in Blake, and of the dialectic of innocence and experience in his poetry. What is the source of evil in the human mind, and how does poetic imagination restore a human being according to Blake? While students are reading The Prelude, they will study the phases of “growth of a poet’s mind,” in Wordsworth’s phrase. In the evening of the end of the Prelude, students will attend class again, to view a screening of the movie Nell from 1994. Next, students will explore the innovations that Wordsworth and Coleridge introduce to poetic diction in Lyrical Ballads. While reading Coleridge, students will elucidate the relation between imagination, poetic representation, and perception that emerges from his poems, including Kubla Kahn. While reading Lord Byron students will concentrate on central thematic concepts in his poetry, such as youth, love, exile and egoism. The course also explains the relation between poetry and power, or blankness, which appears in Shelley’s poetry. We will wind up the course with two considerations of Romantic poets and their poetry by those closest to them: We will look at Keats’s understanding of beauty and its relation to culture and history, and from his letters students will understand how the poet perceives the older generation of romantic poets and the poetic task that they undertook. In their reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, students will also explain the importance of self-creation, and the aspects of good and evil that inhabit man.
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 24/01/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 04/03/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.2350  צאוסר ובני זמנו Chaucer and His Contemporaries
גב' דורינא ינקו Dorina Iancuק"מ
Our reading of late fourteenth century sources will focus on a selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's major work, The Canterbury Tales, as well as on a broader range of anonymous texts, drawn from drama, poetry, religion and the law. We will examine several tales, plays, poems, sermons and legal texts. Through our interdisciplinary readings, we will debate the meanings of belief, evidence, contractual obligation, guilt and penitence in fictional and non-fictional contexts.
Required texts:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Penguin edition
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays.
Other texts will be provided in class.
Course requirements:
Attendance and participation, one short written assignment, one final examination.

הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 05/07/2005 בשעה 16:00
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' יתקיים ביום 03/08/2005 בשעה 9:00
0626.3014  ספרות יהודית-אמריקנית Jewish American Fiction
פרופ' חנה וירט-נשר Professor Hana Wirth-Nesherסמינר ב"א BA Seminar
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, poems, 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


The other works to be purchased will be announced later in the summer.


Evaluation
Students will be expected to attend regularly (no more than three absences), to participate in class discussion, present a referat in class, prepare a seminar paper proposal and annotated bibliography, and submit a seminar paper. There may be occasional short writing assignments.




הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.3018  TRAVEL LITERATURE
SHAMIR, Dr. MBA Advanced Course
Analyzing the writing of explorers, travelers, and tourists from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, this seminar will trace the development of American literature and culture in a transnational context. It will use tools borrowed from narratology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and postcolonial theory to analyze the meeting of cultures, the role of alterity in the creation of the self, and the trope of the journey. Its themes will include: discovery and encounter, conquest and colonization, home/homelessness, tourism and modernity, borders and hybridity.

PRIMARY TEXTS:
Christopher Columbus, Letters
John Smith, from The General History of Virginia
Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
Edgar Allen Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Hemingway, Short Stories
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
Ann Tyler, Accidental Tourist

SECONDARY TEXTS:
By Stephen Greenblatt, M. Louise Pratt, Dean MacCannell, Sigmund Freud, James Clifford, Julia Kristeva, and others.

REQUIREMENTS:
Short written assignments, class participation and presentation, seminar paper.

הערות: Second Semester
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.3043  סאטירה וקומדיה Satire in English Renaissance Comedy
ד"ר גבריאל ביינר G. Beinerסמינר 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
הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.3049  המועקה בספרות ובפסיכואנליזה Anxiety in Psychoanalysis and Literature
ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר Sharon-Zisser, Dr. Shirleyסמינר ב"א BA Seminar
“Anxiety is the one affect that does not lie” Jacques Lacan claims in his seminar of 1962-1963, devoted to this concept. This is because anxiety – not anxiety in the common psychiatric sense of object-less dread but in the Freudian sense of Angst which, Lacan says, “is not without an object,” is the only affect which has to do with the real, with the lost object exceeding representation.
How might one conceptualize anxiety? What are its relations to representation, a category central at once to psychoanalysis and to the act of literature? How can the concept of anxiety help us understand categories of representation that logically precede signifiers which have a lexical, semantic sense? What consequences do theorizations of anxiety in the works of Freud and Lacan have for our understanding of various problems of the aesthetic? What are the consequences of the psychoanalytic thinking of anxiety for the ethics of interpretation? What are the aesthetic manifestations of anxiety (on the level of form, not content), and how do they differ in accordance with the field of the drive (oral, scopic, written), or with the artistic genre (drama, visual art, poetry, prose) in which they manifest themselves?
The seminar will explore these and other questions relating to anxiety and the aesthetic, taking as a guide Lacan’s tenth seminar and Freud’s writings on anxiety, including the early writings on anxiety neurosis, and Symptoms, Inhibitions, and Anxiety. Literary case-studies will be selected from the works of Shakespeare and other Renaissance poets.

Requirements: class presentation, project pursued throughout the semester, seminar paper
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.3055  הסטוריה ותיאוריה של הטקסט The History and Theory of the Text: Textual ScholarshipThe Hist
ד"ר ארין הנריקסון Erin Henriksenסמינר ב"א B.A. Seminar
This seminar is designed to introduce students to the theoretical and practical tools of textual scholarship by asking how books are made, read, and studied. We will learn about book history (from antiquity to the internet), authorship theory, editing literary texts, and techniques for studying rare books. The course will then focus on several case studies of important literary works from the British and American traditions that can be explored using this methodology, including those chosen by students for their seminar projects.

הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.3822  תיאוריה של ביקורת הספרות THEORY OF CRITICISM
ד"ר רוברט גריפין GRIFFIN, DR. ROBERTסמינר ב"א (B.A. Seminar)
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, and others.

הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4067  אנונימיות והמחבר ANONYMITY AND AUTHORSHIP
ד"ר רוברט גריפין GRIFFIN, DR. ROBERTסמינר מ"א (M.A. Seminar)
What does it mean that the vast majority of books published before the twentieth century appeared without the name of the author on the title page? In what ways does the material form of publication affect the relation between the writer and text, and between the reader and the text? This seminar is an exercise in the growing field of book history, but intends to focus insistently on the implications of book history for literary criticism. Historical and theoretical background reading will prepare us to discuss texts by Swift, Defoe, Sterne, Laclos, Hogg, Nabokov, and others.
הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4071  ספרות וגוף LITERATURE AND THE BODY
ד"ר אילנה גומל Dr. Elana Gomelסמינר מ"א
What is the relationship between literature and corporeal experience? How is the body represented in language? Can physical pleasure and pain be conveyed through discourse? Are there specific literary genres that reflect specific aspects of our physical existence?
These questions are central to the growing trend in cultural scholarship that analyzes the interactions between the human body and its literary and cinematic representations. The seminar will survey the theoretical approaches to corporeality, including gender studies, history of the body, and post-humanity. We will deal with such contentious issues as pornography, depiction of violence, and images of mortality. The course is primarily theoretical and its selection of literary and cinematic texts is meant to illustrate different approaches to the representation of the body.

Requirements: two short papers, a class presentation, and a final seminar paper.
הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4073  שירה אמריקנית CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
ד"ר קרן אלקלעי-גוט Dr. Karen Alkalay-Gutסמינר מ"א (M.A. Seminar)
This seminar will discover the major poets and the major issues writing from the 1950- 2005. Although we will be using a text, the seminar will consist in a large part of supplementary material determined in part by the participants in the seminar. Students are encouraged to bring in materials -- poems, performances, disks, etc, that will contribute to the discussion of the nature, characteristics, forms, and direction of contemporary poetry. We will begin the semester by exploring the ‘first generation:’ Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, then proceed to ‘classic’ contemporary poets such as Louise Gluck, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Anne Sexton, and others. Finally we will study the “Language” poets, such as Charles Bernstein and Robert Perlman, the Nuyoricians, the Midrashic feminists, and others.


TEXTS: Paul Hoover. Postmodern American Poetry. Norton, 1994
J. D. McClatchy. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Vintage Books USA, 2003.


COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Students will be required (1) to provide materials and discussion questions for one class discussion (2) to join with another student to discuss in class opposing views on a poetic issue (3) to write 10 one-page critical responses to the poetry and theory introduced during the semester (4) to write a summary for the seminar at the end of the semester.


הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4074  שייקספיר, ג'ויס, לאקאן Shakespeare, Joyce, Lacan
ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר Sharon-Zisser, Dr. Shirleyסמינר מ"א MA Seminar
The seminar will center on Jacques Lacan’s twenty-third seminar, which is devoted to a study of Joyce’s art as a point of departure for the theorization of the fundamental concept of the sinthome, that particular psychic construct that enables a subject to bind jouissance (the symptomatic suffering which satisifies him) so that he might continue living. Joyce’s art, and in particular his late work, Finnegan’s Wake, in which language is emptied of sense to become a site of pure jouissance, is paradigmatic for Lacan as an instance in which symbolic enunciation is turned thing, We will use Lacan’s seminar as a springboard to questions at the heart of the vexed and far from sufficiently theorized relation of literature to psychoanalytic thinking. These will include the im-possibility of content or context-related hermeneutics such as literary criticism of all schools engages in, the nature of poetry, the place of sense in a literary work, the means by which an aesthetic work voids itself of sense and stages the real. A special place will be accorded to the question of linguistic-rhetorical form in psychoanalysis in relation to the sinthome, jouissance, and the real, and question Lacan’s late teaching does not treat but that may be productively theorized, in the wake of Lacan’s late work, via Shakespeare’s verbal art in its imbrication with the rhetorical theory on which it draws. Texts by Freud, other relevant texts by Lacan, and Seminars recently delivered by Jacques-Alain Miller on the leaking of sense and the centrality of poetry to psychoanalysis will provide supplementary reading.

Requirements: five short written responses submitted in the course of the semester, referat, seminar paper (optional).


הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4094  מתח בין הז'אנרים Generic Tension as Exploratory Mode
ד"ר גבריאל ביינר G. Beinerסמינר מ"א M"A seminar
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)
[If time permits, also: Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida.]

הערות: סמסטר א'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4098  THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE IN AMERICAN CULTURE
SHAMIR, Dr. MMA Seminar
This seminar explores questions of narrative boundaries and narrative topographies in the context of liberal hegemony, the "separate spheres" ideology, and their critics. It asks philosophical, political, and historical questions about the public/private binary and its attendant gender figurations, and explores, more specifically, the way nineteenth-century U.S. culture and literature shaped--and was shaped by-- this "great divide."

PRIMARY TEXTS: include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, and Henry James.

SECONDARY TEXTS: include essays and book chapters by Jurgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, Richard Sennett, Walter Benjamin, Nancy Fraser, Carol Pateman, Michael Warner, and Lauren Berlant.

REQUIREMENTS: short writing assignments, class presentation, and final paper.

הערות: Semester I
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
0626.4610  הנרי ג'יימס ווירג'יניה וולף HENRY JAMES AND VIRGINIA WOOLF
פרופ' חנה וירט-נשר Professor Hana Wirth-Nesherסמינר מ"א MA SEMINAR
This course will examine the writings of Henry James and Virginia Woolf in a number of different frameworks: periodization (the ongoing debate about modernism and post-modernism); genre (artistic subversions and experimentation with traditional genres; gender (the construction of masculinity and femininity as theme and narrative strategy); national identity (exile, emigre, imperialism, imagining national communities); aesthetics and ethics (concerns about the relation between art and war, between art and commerce); historical and social contexts (social class, commodity culture, “Gilded Age,” and “Victorian-Edwardian England”); self-reflexivity (the authors’ own artistic theories as well as art as theme and the relation to other art forms).


Texts:

James, The Portrait of a Lady
The Aspern Papers
"The Art of Fiction"
The Figure in the Carpet"
"The Beast in the Jungle"
The Ambassadors


Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
To The Lighthouse
"Modern Fiction"
"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"
A Room of One's Own
The Waves
Between the Acts


Critical and theoretical works will be announced.


הערות: סמסטר ב'
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.
מועד ב' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך.