English

Department of English
Hill Hall, Room 503
Phone:  973/353-5279, x503
Fax:      973/353-1450
http://english-newark.rutgers.edu

INDEPENDENT STUDY (BA cr.)
26:350:522:T1:91615
5/26-8/12
MEETING TIME BY ARRANGEMENT

By permission only.

Individual study directed by a faculty member arranged for qualified students.

FICTION FOR FICTION WRITERS (3 cr.)
26:350:525:B6:91862
EVE: 5/26-7/2
MW 6:00-9:45
ZEUGIN           CONKLIN 445

The nuts and bolts of constructing both longer and shorter narratives, with emphasis on critical analysis and writing techniques. This course counts toward both the writing and literature tracks.

PSYCHOANALYSIS, LITERATURE, CULTURE (3 cr.)
26:350:551:H6:94507
EVE: 7/6-8/12
TTh 6:00-9:45
KAHN            HILL 216

This course will expose students to key readings and concepts in psychoanalytic thought, beginning with Sigmund Freud's work and moving on to reconceptualizations of Freud's theories by Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and other thinkers.  Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring theories regarding the unconscious; sexuation; fantasy and the fantasmatic; the signifier; trauma; the gaze; the fetish; gender and sexuality; desire; and otherness.  In addition to primary texts of 
both a metapsychological and case study nature, secondary literary and film texts will offer students ways to apply seminal psychoanalytic theories, as well as to consider their relationship with literary and cultural criticism.

Students are strongly encouraged to get into e-mail contact with the professor prior to the start of term.

READINGS IN LITERATURE (3 cr.)
26:350:698:T1:92702
5/26-8/12
MEETING TIME BY ARRANGEMENT
LARSON

By permission only.

Course description coming soon.

AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900 (3 cr.)
26:352:511:T6:94512
EVE: 5/26-8/12
M 6:00-10:00
KINIRY           HILL 617

Recent approaches to major American authors, chiefly of the 19th century, including Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, James, Twain, and Dickinson.