Course Descriptions

Term:

Atlantic Rim

Spring Quarter (S18)

Dept/Description Course No., Title  Instructor
ENGLISH (S18)102D  LITERATURE & MEDIAHARRIES, M.
Emphasis/Category: Atlantic Rim

In 1900, residents of large cities in Europe and North America learned what was happening in the world, and among their friends, through newspapers, letters, the occasional telegram, and talk.  Books were printed; theater and music were live.  The twentieth century saw the explosion of cinema, the development of broadcast communication including radio and TV, the widespread adoption of the telephone, and the development of the Internet.  Nevertheless, novelists, playwrights, and poets continued to write.  This course will track the way novels, plays, and poems register the new media surround by representing it, adapting to it, and resisting it.

Texts will include:

Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House (1919)
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts (1941)
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre of the Air, The War of the Worlds (October 30, 1938)
Renata Adler, Speedboat (1976)
Caryl Churchill, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (1976) and The Skriker (1994)

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Vol. II (Contemporary)
Days: TU TH  12:30-01:50 PM

Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI

Atlantic Rim

Spring Quarter (S18)

Dept Course No., Title   Instructor