Spring 2025
ENGLISH 179 001 - LEC 001
Literature and Linguistics
Kristin Hanson
Class #:31181
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
English
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
8
Enrolled: 37
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 45
Waitlist Max: 5
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.
Final Exam
FRI, MAY 16TH
03:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Wheeler 204
Other classes by Kristin Hanson
Course Catalog Description
Study of the English language as a medium for literature. Topics may include rhyme, alliteration, meter, poetic syntax, metaphor, irony, the language of point of view, narrative tense, orality, literacy, etc.
Class Description
Literature is art made of language. This course will explore this connection through literary forms which are defined in terms of linguistic forms. These include meter; rhyme and alliteration; syntactic parallelism; and free indirect style. The emphasis will be on literature in English, but comparisons with literature in other languages will also be drawn. No knowledge of linguistics will be presupposed, but linguistic concepts and formalism will be introduced and used.
Class Notes
Book List:
Heaney, S.: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition). (Norton, 2001)
Woolf, V: Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, 1990)
Other required readings will be made available in a course reader, including literary works of Shakespeare, Yeats, Thomas, Dylan.. show more
Heaney, S.: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition). (Norton, 2001)
Woolf, V: Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, 1990)
Other required readings will be made available in a course reader, including literary works of Shakespeare, Yeats, Thomas, Dylan.. show more
Book List:
Heaney, S.: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition). (Norton, 2001)
Woolf, V: Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, 1990)
Other required readings will be made available in a course reader, including literary works of Shakespeare, Yeats, Thomas, Dylan, Blake and Mansfield, as well as theoretical articles by Jakobson, Kiparsky, Banfield, Sperber and Wilson and possibly others. show less
Heaney, S.: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition). (Norton, 2001)
Woolf, V: Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, 1990)
Other required readings will be made available in a course reader, including literary works of Shakespeare, Yeats, Thomas, Dylan, Blake and Mansfield, as well as theoretical articles by Jakobson, Kiparsky, Banfield, Sperber and Wilson and possibly others. show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
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