תיאורי הקורסים

		שנה"ל תשפ"א (2020/2021)
מספר קורס	שם קורס
0626-1142	מיומניויות יסוד - כתיבה אקדמית באנגלית Basic Skills - Basic Academic Writing in English
In this four-hour course, students are introduced to the fundamentals of academic reading, writing, and research in English, with the goal of producing a clear and correct academic-level essay. Topics in the course include: English grammar and proficiency; close reading of literary texts; essay structure; thesis statements; textual evidence; argumentation; library skills and databases; reading and referencing secondary sources; plagiarism; and MLA citation. Regular attendance is mandatory. The tools studied during the semester are necessary for success in the course, as well as other courses throughout the degree program. * Basic Academic Writing in English is a prerequisite for the advanced writing course, Writing Proseminar in English. *A grade of 70 in Basic Academic Writing is required for continuing in the undergraduate program of the Department of English and American Studies. In this four-hour course, students are introduced to the fundamentals of academic reading, writing, and research in English, with the goal of producing a clear and correct academic-level essay. Topics in the course include: English grammar and proficiency; close reading of literary texts; essay structure; thesis statements; textual evidence; argumentation; library skills and databases; reading and referencing secondary sources; plagiarism; and MLA citation. Regular attendance is mandatory. The tools studied during the semester are necessary for success in the course, as well as other courses throughout the degree program. * Basic Academic Writing in English is a prerequisite for the advanced writing course, Writing Proseminar in English. *A grade of 70 in Basic Academic Writing is required for continuing in the undergraduate program of the Department of English and American Studies.
מספר קורס	שם קורס
0626-1142	מיומניויות יסוד - כתיבה אקדמית באנגלית Basic Skills - Basic Academic Writing in English
מספר קורס	שם קורס
0626-1142	מיומניויות יסוד - כתיבה אקדמית באנגלית Basic Skills - Basic Academic Writing in English
מספר קורס	שם קורס
0626-1142	מיומניויות יסוד - כתיבה אקדמית באנגלית Basic Skills - Basic Academic Writing in English
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0626-1208	Narrative Analysis Narrative Analysis
Narratives govern our lives. They shape the way in which we view our surroundings, others and ourselves. Narratives can be captivating, powerful, deceptive and intricate. This course aims to teach students the basic terms of narrative analysis and to help them apply these terms to some of the most engaging short stories in the English language. Under my guidance, students will learn about the elements of fiction: plot, point of view, characterization, setting, style, and theme. We will read and explore texts from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries and consider some of the central issues in the history of narrative theory. By the end of this course, students will have acquired the necessary skills in order to embark on the critical analysis of fiction on an academic level. Course requirements include two writing assignments (40% + 40%) and participation in the class forum (20%).
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0626-1217	Poetry Analysis Poetry Analysis
Poetry Analysis (Theory Course) ניתוח שירה Though some poems are very long, a poem is typically a fairly small piece of text that manages to achieve a great deal in spite of its brevity. There is thus an interesting disparity between poetry's material minimalism and conceptual and perceptual magnitude. Why is it, or how is it, that a poem grabs us or asks for our attention in the ways that it does, if it does? This course will provide basic terminology and techniques for discussing, understanding and misunderstanding poetry's modes of operation. Through readings of poems from classical and contemporary English and American poetry, we will study such subjects as imagery, meter, figurative language, speaker, and poetic sound. Readings: Texts will be provided on the course website. Students are expected to have the poems with them at all times in class. Note: Attendance is mandatory for this course.
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0626-1250	Introduction to Theory Introduction to Theory
Introduction to Theory (BA intro) The purpose of this introductory course is to familiarize students with the central figures, ideas and intellectual movements that have shaped the study of literature. The history of the field will be presented as a series of intellectual conflicts in which competing schools of thought about the nature of literature, language, meaning, selfhood and truth clash and inform one another. We shall read texts by Plato and Aristotle, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde, Marx, Freud, Derrida, Foucault and other 20th-century theorists. Requirements: reading, attendance, midterm exam, final exam. Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism מבוא לתיאוריה Basic Theory Course קורס תיאוריה Dr. Nir Evron niron@tauex.tau.ac.il ד"ר ניר עברון Introduction to Theory (BA intro) The purpose of this introductory course is to familiarize students with the central figures, ideas and intellectual movements that had shaped the study of literature. The history of the field will be presented as a series of intellectual conflicts in which competing schools of thought about the nature of literature, language, meaning, selfhood and truth clash and inform one another. We shall read texts by Plato and Aristotle, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde, Marx, Freud, Derrida, Foucault and other 20th-century theorists. Requirements: reading, attendance, midterm exam, final exam.
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0626-1278	Introduction to British Culture 1 Introduction to British Culture 1
תיאור הקורס מופיע בסילבוס בשפה האנגלית. What did the English language sound like over a thousand years ago? Why is it so different today? Has British culture always enjoyed the same global prestige? What are its sources? How did it come to assert itself? What was it like to be a woman in the fourteenth century? Is Shakespeare really the greatest love poet? Can texts written in the remote past speak to present readers? These are some of the questions asked, and partly answered, by this survey of English literature from its earliest medieval records to the Renaissance and beyond. It aims to familiarize you with some of the best poetry and drama ever produced in England and to give you the tools to understand, enjoy, and take further courses on the works you will study. By the end of the semester, you should be able to identify, analyze, contextualize, and trace the development of their forms, themes, and ideologies. Please note that this course requires full attendance in all classes, including any make-up lessons, regardless of the method of instruction used to teach them.
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0626-1279	Introduction to British Culture 2 Introduction to British Culture 2
The course presents a survey of English literature from the beginning of the eighteenth century until early twentieth-century modernism, along with the required historical and political context. We will read texts by Swift, Defoe, Pope, Dr. Johnson, Blake, Charlotte Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Browning, Tennyson, Rossetti, Yeats, Conrad, Wilde, T.S. Elliot, Joyce and Woolf. We will examine literary periods such as Romanticism, the Victorian period and Modernism, the literary and cultural production that defined them, and the historical developments that shaped and informed them. As such, we will reflect upon the interrelations between text, context and history.
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0626-1500	Introduction to American Culture Introduction to American Culture
Introduction to American Culture This course will introduce American culture through a variety of written and visual texts spanning the colonial era to the present. The course will emphasize how America is not just a juridical but an imaginative and narrative construct, asking how this construct arose from and transformed the pre-national and pre-colonial landscape. Among the broad issues we'll explore are the relationship of the individual to the community; the imaginative function of the frontier in structuring American identity; the persistence of racial division across U.S. history; America's fraught relationship to imperialism as both a post-colony and an imperial power; and the eventual globalization of American culture. We will also consider the term 'America' as a signifier for both the U.S. nation-state and the entire hemisphere ('the Americas'), emphasizing the hemispheric relations that helped determine national development. We will interpret U.S. novels, poems, speeches, autobiographies, and films in acquainting ourselves with the country's rich culture and history. Evaluation Method: Short Essay (20%); Term Paper (40%); Final Exam (30%); Participation (10%) Introduction to American Culture This course will introduce American culture through a variety of written and visual texts spanning the colonial era to the present. The course will emphasize how America is not just a juridical but an imaginative and narrative construct, asking how this construct arose from and transformed the pre-national and pre-colonial landscape. Among the broad issues we'll explore are the relationship of the individual to the community; the imaginative function of the frontier in structuring American identity; the persistence of racial division across U.S. history; America's fraught relationship to imperialism as both a post-colony and an imperial power; and the eventual globalization of American culture. We will also consider the term 'America' as a signifier for both the U.S. nation-state and the entire hemisphere ('the Americas'), emphasizing the hemispheric relations that helped determine national development. We will interpret U.S. novels, poems, speeches, autobiographies, and films in acquainting ourselves with the country's rich culture and history. Evaluation Method: Short Essay (20%); Term Paper (40%); Final Exam (30%); Participation (10%)
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0626-1511	מה הם לימודים אמריקניים? What is American Studies?
What is American Studies? What does America stand for? What does it mean to be an American? And subsequently, who 'is' considered an American - and who is not? These are the core questions - as timely as ever - that we will seek to explore during the semester. This course will introduce students to American Studies, as both an academic discipline that we study as well as a contested idea to be debated. It surveys the increasingly broadening fields of study that fall under the rubric of American Studies - literature, history, social sciences, cinema, music and art - and teaches students 'how to' conduct research by applying or combining them. At heart, the course seeks to give students a 'taste' of the excitingly diverse, and constantly evolving, flavors of American Studies in order to help them locate a particular area/topic/era/methodology that they might wish to pursue in a more advanced manner in their later studies. Grading and Assignments Class Participation (including short response paper) - 25% midterm exam (in class) - 25% Final Paper 50% What does America stand for? What does it mean to be an American? And subsequently, who 'is' considered an American - and who is not? These are the core questions - as timely as ever - that we will seek to explore during the semester. This course will introduce students to American Studies, as both an academic discipline that we study as well as a contested idea to be debated. It surveys the increasingly broadening fields of study that fall under the rubric of American Studies - literature, history, social sciences, cinema, music and art - and teaches students 'how to' conduct research by applying or combining them. At heart, the course seeks to give students a 'taste' of the excitingly diverse, and constantly evolving, flavors of American Studies in order to help them locate a particular area/topic/era/methodology that they might wish to pursue in a more advanced manner in their later studies. Grading and Assignments Class Participation (including short response paper) - 25% midterm exam (in class) - 25% Final Paper 50%
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0626-2064	Writing Proseminar Writing Proseminar
Writing Proseminar - 626206401, 626206402, . Anna Kissin Shechter Writing Proseminar is an intensive academic writing workshop designed to prepare you for writing academic papers, such as seminar papers. You will be required to produce a research paper of about 2500 words analyzing a literary work - a novel or a play -assigned in class. In the process of working on this project, you will practice and rehearse specific skills, including close analysis of a literary text, problematizing, defining, contextualizing, organizing; you will practice argumentative skills and learn to perfect your control of rhetoric, vocabulary and style. You will hand in written assignments twice a week, hand in a partial first draft midway through the semester and then keep revising and expanding that draft until it is complete.* Your final paper, as well as your course portfolio of assignments, is due at the end of the semester. *important: Writing Proseminar places a high demand on your time and energy - an average of 6-8 hours per week for your reading, writing, and library research in addition to class time. The key to success in proseminar is to make it your high priority for the semester. * Important: attendance is mandatory and must start with the first meeting of the Proseminar Writing Proseminar - 626206401, 626206402 Anna Kissin Shechter Writing Proseminar is an intensive academic writing workshop designed to prepare you for writing academic papers, such as seminar papers. You will be required to produce a research paper of about 2500 words analyzing a literary work - a novel or a play - assigned in class. In the process of working on this project, you will practice and rehearse specific skills, including close analysis of a literary text, problematizing, defining, contextualizing, organizing; you will practice argumentative skills and learn to perfect your control of rhetoric, vocabulary and style. You will hand in written assignments twice a week, hand in a partial first draft midway through the semester and then keep revising and expanding that draft until it is complete. Your final paper, as well as your course portfolio of assignments, is due at the end of the semester. *Important: Writing Proseminar places a high demand on your time and energy ? an average of 6-8 hours per week for your reading, writing, and library research in addition to class time. The key to success in proseminar is to make it your high priority for the semester. ** Important: attendance is mandatory and must start with the first meeting of the Proseminar.
מספר קורס	שם קורס
0626-2064	Writing Proseminar Writing Proseminar
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0626-2368	American Modernism American Modernism
This seminar will focus on novels published during the interwar period (1918-1939). Often dubbed the "modernist" phase in American literary history, this period saw an explosion of literary innovation, as young novelists began experimenting with new forms of expression. From Ernest Hemingway's clipped, hard-boiled style to William Faulkner's baroque, grandiloquent rhetoric, modernist formal experimentation challenged established notions of literary form and cleared new paths for the novel. Thematically too post-WWI iconoclasts broke with earlier conventions, and explored themes of violence, alienation, racial discrimination and poverty with new urgency and force. Often bewildering, at times frustrating, always demanding, the writers on our syllabus had transformed American literature.
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0626-2377	Marriage At the Turn of the Twentieth Century Marriage At the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Is marriage simply a romantic and intimate bond between two consenting adults? This course explores the institution of marriage as a site through which society institutes and maintains a certain social order, allocates and regulates the distribution of property, rights and privileges, defines citizenship, draws racial lines, prescribes gender roles, and points at boundaries of normalcy. We will read novels and short stories first published at the turn of the twentieth century in the context of changing marital laws and conventions, examine various marriage plots, and become acquainted with social phenomena such as the man-woman, the shadow-wife, the Boston marriage, and with a variety of marriages, including polygamy, an open marriage, and same-sex relations.
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0626-2422	Drama and Creative Writing Drama and Creative Writing
Drama and Creative Writing - Dr. Noam Gil Drama and Creative Writing course will give you the opportunity to develop the skills and techniques as writers, focusing on dramatic genres. We will read and analyze a range of theoretical approaches to dramatic practices as well as selected exemplary texts. We will explore key concepts such as character, plot, action, scene, dialogue, and apply them practically and creatively in class. Class time will be devoted to a discussion of the writer's craft as well as sharing students' work. Drama and Creative Writing - Dr. Noam Gil Drama and Creative Writing course will give you the opportunity to develop the skills and techniques as writers, focusing on dramatic genres. We will read and analyze a range of theoretical approaches to dramatic practices as well as selected exemplary texts. We will explore key concepts such as character, plot, action, scene, dialogue, and apply them practically and creatively in class. Class time will be devoted to a discussion of the writer's craft as well as sharing students' work.
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0626-2559	The American Novel of Manners in Three Acts: Howells, James, Wharton The American Novel of Manners in Three Acts: Howells, James, Wharton
The novel of manners, a genre that specializes in close, pseudo-anthropological descriptions of a complex and socially stratified cultural world, came late to the United States. Developed in nineteenth-century Europe, the form made it to America's shores only after the Civil War. What took it so long? Why did American variants of the genre, made famous by Jane Austen and George Eliot, Balzac and Flaubert, only appear in the latter part of the century? How were the Americanized versions of the novel of the manners different from their European models? Our course will explore these and similar questions. Through close readings in the works of America's seminal novelists of manners, W. D. Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, we will investigate this key genre and the social-historical contexts in which it flourished. The novel of manners, a genre that specializes in close, pseudo-anthropological descriptions of a complex and socially stratified cultural world, came late to the United States. Developed in nineteenth-century Europe, the form made it to America's shores only after the Civil War. What took it so long? Why did American variants of the genre, made famous by Jane Austen and George Eliot, Balzac and Flaubert, only appear in the latter part of the century? How were the Americanized versions of the novel of the manners different from their European models? Our course will explore these and similar questions. Through close readings in the works of America's seminal novelists of manners, W. D. Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, we will investigate this key genre and the social-historical contexts in which it flourished.
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0626-2682	היסטוריה ויזואלית של ארה?ב Visual History of the United States
לאורך ההיסטוריה של ארצות הברית, היה לתרבות החזותית, ולצילום בפרט, תפקיד מכריע בתיעוד ועיצוב הזהות האישית והקולקטיבית, הזיכרון ההיסטורי, והמרחב הגיאוגרפי האמריקני. תרבות חזותית זו חיזקה את וערערה על סטריאוטיפים מגדריים, גזעיים, מעמדיים, ופנים-אזוריים. הקורס יציג בפני הסטודנטים את ההיסטוריה החזותית האמריקנית, תוך התמקדות באירועים ותמות ספציפיות, החל ממחציתה השנייה של המאה התשע עשרה ועד לראשית המאה ה -21. נקרא מאמרים קנונים של חוקרי תרבות חזותית ונחקור את עבודותיהם של צלמים מקצועיים וחובבנים, תוך הדגשת דרכי הפצתן ושימושן בידי מוסדות וסוכנויות ממשלתיות, עסקים פרטיים ואישים מרכזיים. הסוגיות שבהן נדון יכללו את הקשרים שבין ביטוי חזותי אינדיבידואלי לנרטיבים ציבוריים; היחסים המורכבים בין ההיסטוריה (חקר אירועי העבר) והצילום (הדרך החזותית בה מפורש ומיוצג העבר); והפער בין תיעוד היסטורי, זיכרון לאומי וייצוג אמנותי. מטרת הקורס היא להבין את המשמעויות הפוליטיות, האינטלקטואליות, הכלכליות, החברתיות, והתרבותיות של ההיסטוריה החזותית האמריקנית, ואת השינויים שחלו בה במרוצת השנים. הקורס אף שואף לעורר את דמיונם ההיסטורי של הסטודנטים, לטפח הבנה היסטורית ואסתטית, ולחשוף את תרומתה של התרבות החזותית להבניית האופי הלאומי, הזיכרון ההיסטורי, והסמלים האמריקנים. הסטודנטים יכירו את המתודולוגיות והתיאוריות המרכזיות בתרבות החזותית, ילמדו כיצד לקרוא ולפרש דימויים, ויבינו כיצד אלו מייצרים היסטוריות שונות. Throughout U.S. history, visual culture, and photography in particular, has been a crucial tool for both documenting and shaping an individual and collective identity, memory, and space. It has both transcended and reinforced lines of race, class, gender, and region. This course is designed to introduce students to American visual history, focusing on specific events and themes from the second half of the nineteenth century through the early 21st century. We will read basic works by scholars who study visual resources, and explore the works of amateur and professional photographers, their distribution, and their use by governmental agencies and institutions, private businesses and individuals. The questions with which we will be concerned include the connections between individual visual expression and public narratives, the complicated relationship between history (i.e., the study of past events) and photography (i.e., a way in which the past is represented and interpreted), and the gap between historical documentation, national memory, and artistic representation. The course aims to understand American visual history, in a manner that is open to its political, intellectual, economic, social and cultural meanings, as well as its evolution over time. It also attempts to spark students? historical imaginations, to nurture both creativity and historical understanding, and to promote an understanding of how visual culture has contributed to the creation and reformulation of American national character, memory and icons. Students will get familiar with basic methodologies and theories of visual resources and learn how to ?read? and interpret images and how images create imaginaries of the past.
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0626-2683	American Literature and Popular Culture American Literature and Popular Culture
Department of English and American Studies American Literature and Popular Culture Spring Semester, 2021 Advanced Course Dr. Sonia Weiner Office: Webb 503 Office Hours: By Appointment Mail: soni@tauex.tau.ac.il American Literature and Popular Culture will focus on elements of popular culture that appear within literary texts (the term popular culture will be explored and defined). We will analyze and theorize these popular presences or intertexts, and consider a) the history of the intertext within American culture at large and b) the cultural work the intertext performs within the literary text (to what extent is the literary manifestation of the cultural intertext part of popular culture?) There will be an emphasis on the visual, namely, the texts examined will include popular photographic images (actual or narrative descriptions) and references to films. One of the texts we read will be comics. Tentative Readings (definitely not a final list): Jamaica Kincaid, Biography of a Dress (alongside sections from Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye and Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom-s Cabin), Joyce Carol Oates, You Must Remember This, Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Theoretical Texts will be linked to each literary text. General texts will include: John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, Marcel Danesi, Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives, Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator. Requirements: Active Participation Midterm Home Exam: 40% Final Paper: 60%
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0626-2684	Myths of the Origin of Language Myths of the Origin of Language
?How is it that orthography exists? It?s the most stupefying thing in the world,? Lacan writes in the ?Geneva Lecture on the symptom? (1975), asking a question that is impossible to answer except, as Clause Levi Strauss suggest, by myth. But it is long before Lacan that thinkers have not only pondered the enigma of the emergence of language but proposed myths in response to the impossible with which this question confronts them. In this core course, we shall first study the literary-cultural foundations of myth, especially as set forth by Levi Strauss, and long before that, by Giambattista Vico. We shall then examine various myths of origin ? first, myths of the origin of painting from Pliny the Elder through psychoanalyst Francoise Dolto and George Bataille?s analysis of the Lascaux cave paintings in The Tears of Eros, and then, after we consider Freud?s myth of the birth of civilization in Totem and Taboo, read myths of the origin of language ? one articulated in Plato?s Phaedrus and then analyzed by Derrida, and the fascinating but not often analyzed myth of Simonides that reverberates in the rhetorical tradition from Cicero onwards, and consider what it can teach us about the relation between the emergence of language and that of mourning, whose most prominent poetic vehicle has been the elegy
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0626-2711	ארצות הברית במזרח התיכון United States in the Middle East
מאז 1945, משחקת ארה"ב תפקיד מוביל ורב השפעה במזרח התיכון, וחותרת לעצב זירה זו על פי צרכיה בראות עיניה ובהתאם לחזון של כל אחד ממנהיגיה. לעתים הוכתרו יוזמותיה בהצלחה, ולעתים קרובות יותר הולידו תסכול הדדי. קורס זה בוחן את המאזן האמריקני במזרח התיכון תוך הצגת האירועים והצמתים העיקריים מאז 1945, ובאמצעות התמקדות במספר שאלות מפתח: כיצד מצטייר המזרח התיכון בעיניים אמריקניות? כיצד השפיעו תהליכי קבלת החלטות והשיח הפנים-אמריקני על המדיניות האמריקנית? כיצד התפתחו התפקיד והתפקוד האמריקני כמתווכת בסכסוך הישראלי-ערבי? ומה הם המרכיבים המעצבים את הדינמיקה בין ארה"ב לבין הזירה המזרח תיכונית בדור האחרון, מאז תום המלחמה הקרה? שאלות אלה מקבלות משנה תוקף בנקודת הזמן הנוכחית, כאשר קהיליית מדיניות החוץ האמריקנית בוחנת מחדש את חיוניות המעורבות באזורנו, לאור תמורות בשוק האנרגיה ובמאזן הכוחות העולמיים - וכאשר ישראל נדרשת להתמודד עם השחיקה האזורית במעמד הפטרון האמריקני, דווקא בעת שהאזור מצוי באי-וודאות יסודית ומתמשכת. The United States has played a key role in the Middle East since 1945, seeking to mold the region in accordance with its interests and vision, as perceived by its leaders. Sometimes successful, this effort has more often generated mutual frustration. This course assesses the American track record in the Middle East, through the presentation of seminal events and crossroads, and the examination of core questions. How do Americans view the Middle East? How did decision-making processes and the societal discourse affect Washington's policy toward the region? How has America's role as mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict evolve over time? And which factors have shaped Washington's regional policy since the end of the Cold War? A survey of these questions assumes particular urgency nowadays, as Washington's policymaking community re-examines the very utility of regional involvement, in light of shifts in both the global energy market and the global balance of power ? and as Israel is forced to adjust to the erosion of US power, at a time of fundamental regional uncertainty.
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0626-3141	Apocalypse and Dystopia in American Culture Apocalypse and Dystopia in American Culture
Visions of the world?s collapse and the government?s deformation abound in recent American culture. What is at stake in imagining the end of the world? How do such imaginings open or foreclose possibilities for revolutionary change? Is it possible to imagine the world as having already ended? This course explores twentieth-century and contemporary U.S. representations of apocalypse and dystopia, examining their aesthetic and political facets. We will range across fiction, poetry, and film, pairing primary works with short theoretical readings. Course texts will include: Nathaniel West?s The Day of the Locust; T.S. Eliot?s The Waste Land; Octavia Butler?s Parable of the Sower; Louise Erdrich?s Future Home of the Living God; James Cameron?s Terminator 2; and Colson Whitehead?s Zone One.
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0626-3236	Tradition and Identity in Swift and Defoe Tradition and Identity in Swift and Defoe
The rise of the New Sciences in seventeenth-century England to about a phasing out of a number of long-standing religious, political, and philosophical traditions. From the expunging of Aristotelian physics to the radicalization of English Protestantism and the bolstering of constitutional monarchy, the intellectual landscape of England was swiftly changing. The seminar will take a look at the manner in which the competing notions of science, personal identity, and tradition manifest themselves in Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders and Jonathan Swift?s political writings as well as in his great novel Gulliver?s Travels. Readings will include a selection of contemporary philosophers such as John Locke, George Berkeley, and Thomas Hobbes, Giambattista Vico, and more.
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0626-3587	Poetic Forms , Formulas and Formulations Poetic Forms , Formulas and Formulations
The field of contemporary poetry is often, if somewhat artificially, divided into camps, like traditional/formal poetry and avant-garde poetry. But many experimental and innovative poets employ traditional forms in interesting ways. In that sense, part of what makes poetry innovative is precisely its negotiation with markers of traditional poetry (like the sonnet and rhyme). In this seminar we will look at new (and old) manifestations of old (and new) forms, and read texts by poets and critics who explicitly address the question of form. The seminar will be particularly beneficial for students with an interest in poetry. Note: Attendance is mandatory for this course.
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0626-3803	African American Literature African American Literature
The Department of English and American Studies African American Literature From Zora Neale Hurston to Nafissa Thompson-Spires Seminar, Fall Semester 2020 Dr. Sonia Weiner Office: Webb 503 Mail: soni@tauex.tau.ac.il Office Hours: By Appointment Class Hours: Sunday-Wednesday 12:00-14:00 How did social-political concerns affect the development of the African American literary tradition? What connections were formed between politics, identity and literary aesthetics? In what ways did fluctuating perceptions of racism impact writing and reception? Can literature create social change, and should it? These are some of the central questions we will address in this seminar, which will focus on seminal texts of African American literary tradition from the Harlem Renaissance (1920s), and through the twentieth century till the present. Texts (tentative list): Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston Inter-War: Ann Petry, Richard Wright Postwar: Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin Civil Rights & Black Arts: Malcolm X, Etheridge Knight, Kali Grosvenor Post-Civil Rights: Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman Present: Ta Nahisi Coates, Colson Whitehead, Nafissa Thompson-Spires The primary texts will be read alongside the ever-expanding body of African American literary theory. Course Requirements: Active student participation (students will be required to present close textual readings and analyses of the critical material) = 50% Seminar paper = 50%
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0626-3810	Theories of Love Theories of Love
האהבה היt אחד הנושאים הנפוצים ביותר ביצירות ספרותיות מאז ימי קדם. ובכל זאת ,על מה בדיוק אנו מדברים כשאנו מדברים על אהבה? כיצד יכולות תיאוריות האהבה שהועברו על ידי הפילסופיה והפסיכואנליזה להעשיר את קריאתנו בטקסטים ספרותיים? הסמינר יציע מסע דרך תיאוריות של אהבה מימי קדם ועד ימינו, החל מה"משתה" של אפלטון וקריאותיו הניאו-פלטוניות של פיצ'ינו בו, ועד השקפות עכשוויות יותר כמו ספרו של רולנד בארת "שיח של אוהב" ו"השבח לאהבה" של אלן באדיו , ותרומותיו של פרויד לתורת האהבה. נסיים בקריאתו הרדיקלית של לאקאן ב:"משתה" בסמינר 8, ובתיאוריית האהבה הרדיקלית לא פחות שהוא מציע בסמינר 20, שם האהבה החדשה נמצאתת כפתרון למה שלא הולך ביחס המיני. Love has been one of the most ubiquitous themes of literary works since antiquity. Yet what exactly are we talking about when we talk about love? How can the theories of love proffered by philophy and psychoanalysis enrich our readings of literary texts? his seminar will offer a journey through theories of love from antiquity to the present, starting from Plato?s Symposium and its readings by Ficino, to more contemporary views such as Roland Barthes?s in A Lover?s Discourse and Alain Badiou?s Eloge a l?amour, via Freud?s contributions to the theory of love. The Seminar will culminate in Lacan?s radical rereading of the Symposium in Seminar 8, and in the even most radical Seminar 20 where love becomes a response to what inevitably does not work in the sexual relation.
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0626-3812	Whiteness & the Study of American Literature Whiteness & the Study of American Literature
How does twentieth-century and contemporary American literature represent and critique whiteness, as both a social identity and hegemonic structure? And how might recent contributions to critical race theory assist us in answering this literary question? Since the early 1990s, a cohort of race scholars has taken whiteness as its object of study, arguing that doing so opens a singular perspective on racial formation in the United States. This course will explore what new understandings of American literature emerge through the analysis of whiteness and what literature itself has contributed to this critical project. In particular, what do we gain from considering the operations of whiteness from the position of both ethnic-minority and white writers? We will begin with theories of whiteness proposed in early- to mid-twentieth-century African-American literature and thought. As bell hooks has written, ?black folks have, from slavery on, shared in conversations with one another ?special? knowledge of whiteness ? deemed special because it was not a way of knowing that has been fully recorded in written material.? In reading black protest novelists and critics, we will ask if African-American fiction might be one place where this collective ethnographic encounter is ?recorded? and, if so, what theory of whiteness it might offer. Next, we will move to historical accounts of twentieth-century European immigrants? assimilation to whiteness, and read fictional representations of their post-assimilation identities. How might such fiction both instantiate and disrupt the hegemonic notion of white universality or neutrality? Likewise, what historical role has Christianity played in consolidating white identity, especially during the postwar period, and how has contemporary fiction participated in this consolidation or sought to challenge it? Finally, we will look at the two main analytics of whiteness of the past twenty years ? privilege and supremacy ? and their presence in contemporary theory, literature, and film, asking what kind of knowledge, and which representational forms, each has enabled. Moreover, we will discuss how these understandings and forms have translated in scenes of racial formation outside the United States.
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0626-3813	Women's Rights in America, 1920-2020 Women's Rights in America, 1920-2020
לכבוד ציון מאה שנה לתיקון ה-19 לחוקת ארה?ב, הקורס יבחן את המאבק של נשים לזכויות ולשיוויון, ממחצית המאה התשע עשרה ועד היום, וההיסטוריה והמורשת של המאבק לזכות ההצבעה. על ידי ניתוח של מקורות ראשוניים ומשניים, הקורס יחקור את ההגדרות השונות ל?זכויות נשים? בארה?ב וההיבטים השונים של מאבקים אלו, מעבר למאבקים של זכות הצבעה, תוך שימת דגש על התפתחות המושג והתנועה הפמיניסטית לאורך המאה העשרים והדרכים בהן נשים ביקשו ליצור לעצמן עמדות של השפעה וכוח. הקורס ישים דגש על ההצטלבויות השונות של מעמד, גזע, מגדר ומיניות, וכיצד הן השפיעו על המאבק, ההישגים, והאתגרים שעמדו בפני נשים, תנועות וארגונים שונים בארה?ב. In commemoration of the centennial for the passing of the 19th Amendment, the course will explore the history and legacies of women's rights struggles in the U.S., from the mid nineteenth century to the present, looking beyond suffrage and voting rights to examine the multifaceted issues that define ?Women?s Rights.? Using primary and secondary sources we will analyze the development of feminism throughout the twentieth century and the ongoing efforts of women to gain influence and power. The course will pay attention to the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, and how they impacted women?s achievements and challenges, looking at actors, movements, and organizations.
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0626-4247	Poetry in Theory Poetry in Theory
What is poetry? What is the poetic? In this seminar we will seek after these ever-elusive definitions while recognizing that, according to at least some theorizations, this very search stands opposed to its object. We will divide our time between reading theoretical texts, mostly from the twentieth century, and reading poems, both old and new, mainstream and experimental. The interaction between the theoretical texts and the poetic texts will itself become a focus. Because we will be grappling with questions about the ethical value of poetry, the limits of language, and the significance of form, my hope is that the seminar will be of interest even to people who are not directly working on poetry. Note: Attendance is mandatory for this course.