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3.00 Credits
Irish writers have made a remarkable contribution to 20th century literature; three Nobel Prize winners hail from Ireland, a country of fewer than four million inhabitants. Presents elements of a literary and oral tradition in Ireland that extends from the pre-Christian mythological stories to the modern novels of Joyce and Beckett. We will attempt to understand the concerns of writers and storytellers in a social and historical context and to explore the contribution of Irish authors to a variety of literary forms. Writers studied include Swift, Maria Edgeworth, Wilde, Shaw, and Frank O'Connor. Modern works may include George Moore's novel The Lake, James Joyce's story collection Dubliners, Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, and J. M. Synge's The Aran Islands. C I
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Introduces students to the literature of the Caribbean. Texts will be selected from the offerings of several islands and from various genres: novel, poetry and short fiction. Emphasis will be placed on the shaping influences of the island's rich mystical heritage and on questions of personal identity. The effects of slavery, African cultural survivals, and the role played by the English, French, Spanish colonials, white creoles, mulattoes, and blacks in forming the cultural mosaic of the island will be studied. Students will read the works of such authors as V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Jacques Roumain, Derek Waltcott and Esmeralda Santiago among others. D I
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From Hammurabi's code to the most recent novel on The New York Times best seller list, reference to business in literature has abounded. Presents a selection of fiction, poetry, and essays reflective of attitudes positive, negative, and instructive toward business. The readings may include the Bible, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Thoreau, Ibsen, Gish Jen, and Arthur Miller.
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Chaucer's century, the 14th, saw major changes in society and culture, some caused by the Black Death, which often killed up to one-third of a country's population. Centers on Chaucer and his great work, TheCanterbury Tales, and the various genres that make up medieval literature such as debates, beast fables, romance, dream visions, and allegory. Other works, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight may be included.
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Using Beowulf as its central text, this course examines the figures of the monster and the madman in literature and film. It explores our cultural fascination with such figures and investigates what role they play in culture. How does the monster as outsider or other help us to establish a sense of cultural identity, or what Benedict Anderson called imagined community How does a notion of the deviant or abnormal serve to create boundaries for conduct as well as for identity Who gets marked as a madman How is the trope of madness culturally constructed, and what price might we pay for such a category Texts may include Beowulf, Civilization and its Discontents, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Silence of the Lambs.
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Referring to the hero of an early Shakespearean play, Elizabeth I is reputed to have said, "I am Richard II, know you not that " Explores some of the history plays and comedies written in the earlier part of Shakespeare's career, to discover why so many readers and playgoers then and today have identified with characters such as Richard II, Prince Hal, and Falstaff from the histories or Viola, Bottom, and Touchstone from the comedies. Emphasis varies from year to year, but may include such themes as romantic love, gender identity, kingship, and the formation of a national consciousness. Attention is given to the historical context of the plays as well as to their dramatic and poetic form.
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It is said that the sun never sets on productions of Hamlet; it is always being performed somewhere in the world. The saying is only slightly less plausible if applied to Shakespeare's other tragedies and romances or final comedies. Explores these masterworks of the English Renaissance and their continuing appeal not only to later generations of English speakers, but to cultures and nations around the world. Emphasis varies from year to year, but may include the representation of cultural others, gender, parent-child relations, or the nature of power.
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Introduces students to the literature of England in the 18th century, the period known as the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. Examines the ways in which writers expressed views of themselves and the world. In addition to reading writers of satire and the essay - such as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson - students will consider the rise of the novel and new developments in drama.
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In the decades following the American and French Revolutions, a revolutionary cultural and literary movement had a powerful impact on intellectual and social life in England and the rest of Europe. The imagination, the subjective experience of individuals (no matter how humble), and sentiment or emotion were extolled as superior to (or at least as important as) the rational and "scientific" ideals of the Age of Reason. Considers what was (and wasn't) revolutionary in the work of romantic writers such as poets William Blake and John Keats, essayist William Hazlitt, and novelists Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen.
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3.00 Credits
British literature of the 19th century reveals the excitement - and the struggle - of learning to live in a world of rapid technological advances. During this period, England led the world in industrial development, in urbanization, and in the possibilities and disruptions brought on by these changes. Writers of the Victorian period - novelists like Charles Dickens and George Eliot, poets like Tennyson and Browning - eagerly examined and portrayed the great new world. They investigated the changes in city and country life, political and religious upheavals (particularly the clash of religion and science), and the development of a Victorian "attitude" about respectability and values. Presents some of the great authors and works that mark this remarkable period.
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