Research-oriented and designed for upper-division English majors. Intensive examination of critical approaches, literary theory, or a special topic in literary and cultural studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.

This year marks the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses, widely considered the most important novel of the twentieth century. We will consider the book at a variety of scales: word, sentence, narrative strategy, and organizational structure. We will also consider it from a variety of perspectives: as an expression of the historical and political context of 1904 and of the years leading up to its publication in 1922, as a primary force in the ruptures and inventions of literary modernism, as a mirror and a harbinger of transformations in the social understanding of gender, sex, and the individual, and as the focus of evolving literary critical responses over the past hundred years, Please go here for more information about enrollment in English 190: https://english.berkeley.edu/course_semesters/117/seminars Also see https://english.berkeley.edu/courses/7705

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