2025 Fall

ENGLISH 190 001 - SEM 001

Research Seminar

Faulkner

Bryan Wagner

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025

Tu, Th

05:00 pm - 06:29 pm

Wheeler 301

Class #:16356

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through English

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 17

Enrolled: 0

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 17

Waitlist Max: 3

Open Reserved Seats:

17 reserved for English Majors with 5 or more Terms in Attendance

Hours & Workload

9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

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.

Class Description

This course will focus on William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936)—three extraordinary and experimental novels, all set in the same fictional location of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi. Our seminar discussions will consider topics including narration and the representation of consciousness; modernism and the mythical method; and tragedy and the legacy of slavery. Student writing will be staged in a series of assignments in research and analysis, culminating in a long essay.

Class Notes

Satisfies the Literatures in English major requirement
https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements

Book List:

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (Vintage); William Faulkner, Light in August (Vintage); William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage).