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3.00 Credits
This course will explore various topics in African- American literature and culture. Specific courses may focus on literary traditions, genres, and themes; literary and cultural periods or movements; theoretical issues in the development or study of African- American literature; or the work of a single author. Possible topics include the slave narrative, African- American non-fiction prose, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, African- American women's writing, African-American literary and cultural theory, Black popular culture. Because reading materials and areas of inquiry will be determined by the instructor, this course may also satisfy the Literatures Since 1900 requirement. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for specific descriptions. Every year. Cr 3.
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This course covers the historical period associated with the rise of realism and naturalism in American literature that is traditionally marked by the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. While the course's focus may vary, it will explore the definitions of realism and naturalism with regard to both historical context and aesthetic agendas. In testing definitions of American realism and naturalism, the course may ask questions about whose reality, whose America, and whose intellectual and cultural traditions have shaped our understanding of the literary movements that arose in response to major changes in American society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 2-year cycle, spring. Cr 3. The Great Awakening and women's public life, and colonial autobiography before Franklin. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Specific themes, works, or writers prominent in nineteenth-century American literature and culture. The course may focus on a particular literary tradition, genre, or theme; a literary and cultural movement; a theoretical issue in the development or study of nineteenth-century American literature; or the work of a single author. Possible topics include slavery and abolition in American literature, nineteenth- century popular culture, the domestic novel, American Renaissance, and Whitman and Dickinson. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3. British Literature
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the diverse concerns of modern and contemporary women writers. It could be organized around a thematic, theoretical, or historical question or could be devoted to two or three figures. It may include writers from First and Third world countries, immigrant writers, and writers of the African Diaspora. Every year, spring. Cr 3. American Literature Since 1900
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on poetry written in Britain since 1900, with emphases on such questions as the development of modernism, poetic forms and strategies, links to political and cultural developments, and new forms and strategies after modernism. The course will usually focus on three or four specific poets read against a broader poetic and historical context. Poets may include T. S. Eliot, Hugh MacDiarmid, D. H. Lawrence, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, Maeve McGuckian, or writers associated with the "New British Poetries." 3-year cycle. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on American poetry written since 1900. While primary texts and historical or theoretical emphases will vary with the semester, the course will consider poetic forms and strategies, and relations to literary modernism and to American thematics and traditions. In most semesters, the course will focus on three or four major poets, examining their poetry against a broader poetic and historical context. 2-year cycle, spring. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus primarily on novels written with reference to the British literary tradition of the twentieth century, exhibiting the stylistic and thematic concerns associated with literary impression- British Literature Since 1900 ism, and early and late modernism, by such writers as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Christina Stead, William Trevor, Jessie Kesson, and Lewis Grassic-Gibbon. 3-year cycle. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study various types of novels (such as the realist novel, the social protest novel, the modernist novel, the Gothic novel, and the autobiographical novel) with attention to social and historical contexts and to thematic connections between texts. It is not purely a survey of "Great American Novels," butmay include both canonical and non-canonical writers. Critical and theoretical texts may accompany literary readings. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course will be organized around different literary periods, geographical regions, fields of study, and intellectual and cultural movements. Possible topics include the Harlem Renaissance, literature and the left, literature of new social movements (Black power, feminism, lesbian and gay rights), youth cultures, the Vietnam era, immigrant writers, American Indian writers, southern writers, Caribbean writers in the USA, and Maine writers. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Irish literature in English and Irish culture will be studied in relation to three phases in the political and cultural development of Ireland as a nation: 1) the period of Irish nationalism prior to independence in 1922; 2) the formative years of nation building and its myth-making from independence to 1960; 3) 1960 to the present. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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