Spring 2025
ENGLISH 100 006 - SEM 006
The Seminar on Criticism
Metamorphoses into English
Kristin Hanson
Class #:25482
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
English
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
-2
Enrolled: 20
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 18
Waitlist Max: 4
Open Reserved Seats:0
Hours & Workload
3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.
Other classes by Kristin Hanson
Course Catalog Description
This seminar is designed to provide English majors with intensive and closely supervised work in critical reading and writing. Although sections of the course may address any literary question, period, or genre, they all provide an introduction to critical and methodological problems in literary studies.
Class Description
One of the most fundamental properties of literature, as noted by critic Northrop Frye (1957), is that every work of literature is connected to every other one. In English literature, many such connections lead back to Ovid's Metamorphoses, written in Latin, and its stories of transformations that animate and connect us to the natural world to which we belong -- its animals, plants, lands, waters and skies. This course will explore these literary connections across a variety of genres and periods in English literary history, including both direct translations and innovative adaptations. The course is a spin-off from the recent version of English 170 which explored adaptations of Metamorphoses into various art forms, but its focus is different, being just on literature and literary criticism, so having taken the one does not preclude taking the other.
Class Notes
This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major if the required papers are written about pre-1800 texts.
https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements
Book List:
Ovid; D. Raeburn (trans.), Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation
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https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements
Book List:
Ovid; D. Raeburn (trans.), Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation
<.. show more
This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major if the required papers are written about pre-1800 texts.
https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements
Book List:
Ovid; D. Raeburn (trans.), Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation
Hughes, T., Tales from Ovid
Additional texts will made available in a course reader, including works by:
Chaucer, Golding, Spenser, Shakespeare, Beaumont, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Swift, Gay, Congreve, Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Shaw, Wheatley, Mandelbaum, Heaney, Pinsky, Muldoon, Gunn, Fulton and our very own John Shoptaw, as well as some essays on literary criticism.
Also, if possible, the course will include screenings of filmed versions of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Tales from Ovid, and of our own Berkeley Rep's production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses. show less
https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements
Book List:
Ovid; D. Raeburn (trans.), Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation
Hughes, T., Tales from Ovid
Additional texts will made available in a course reader, including works by:
Chaucer, Golding, Spenser, Shakespeare, Beaumont, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Swift, Gay, Congreve, Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Shaw, Wheatley, Mandelbaum, Heaney, Pinsky, Muldoon, Gunn, Fulton and our very own John Shoptaw, as well as some essays on literary criticism.
Also, if possible, the course will include screenings of filmed versions of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Tales from Ovid, and of our own Berkeley Rep's production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses. show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
Guide to Open, Free, & Affordable Course Materials
Associated Sections
None