English

The course reviews the main historical-cultural scenarios that have marked the development of the English language. 

This course teaches literary prose fiction for adults, but writers are also given the chance to opt for non-fiction, drama, or poetry. Neither fiction for children nor genre fiction feature in the course. This course stresses process writing, rewriting and editing as essential to the crafting and sculpting of fine sentences and paragraphs. To this end students read their prose, poetry and drama in writers’ workshops. Students explore issues of lexis, syntax, character, setting, and point of view before embarking on fully-fledged prose excursions. The instructor helps to shape and polish that prose works with students to develop their talents.

Hugh Kenner described Faulkner as "the last novelist," because in spite of his complex and challenging modernist narratives he maintained a 19th century-rooted belief in fiction’s humanist power and social relevance, and that the writer’s job is "to bring news of the world." This course is an opportunity to read and reflect on Faulkner in a sustained way, where students read and discuss Faulkner’s most significant and influential fiction and consider his iterative stylized representation of the American South. 

This course is a continuation of the survey of European literature from the cusp of Romanticism through Modernism, focusing on key literary texts, supplemented with other cultural material (from philosophy, the sister arts, etc.). The aim of this course is to familiarize DFLL students with key non-Anglophone European literary texts from the "long" 19th century as crucial to an understanding of the contemporary British and American texts in their other courses, and as recent prehistory of the present.