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Combines the creation of poetry with presentation in printed form. Intended for writers and visual artists alike, this course teaches the fundamentals of writing poetry and letterpress printing. Using movable type and hand-operated printing presses, participants write, set and print their own broadsides and artists' books. Same as Art 356. Mesa, McCauley.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. An examination of the problem of black/white racial conflict in important American texts. The course examines representations of blackness and whiteness, and situates them within historical moments that have defined surges in writing about race: the coming of the Civil War, the failure of Reconstruction and the establishment of the color line, and the rise of Pan-Africanism as a matrix for the development of an autonomous African-American cultural consciousness. Offered in alternate years. Lockyer.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. A study of key theoretical concepts (like "intention'' and "discourse'') and theoretical orientations (for example, new criticism, deconstruction, feminist criticism, and the new historicism). Assignments range from applying a theoretical approach to developing a response to a theoretical question. Collar.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. Examines selected non-Arthurian romances and challenges the validity of stereotypical views of the genre. Also considers how chivalric tropes influence gender relations today. Readings include chivalric conduct books, poetry and historical works from late medieval France and England. Bethune.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. Examines the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in its theatrical, social and political contexts. Offered in alternate years. Crupi.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. A study of Shakespeare's plays before 1600, including at least two tragedies, five comedies and four history plays. The plays are examined individually as particular theatrical events in their own context and in subsequent ages, and conditions of production in Shakespeare's theater are considered. Major attention is given to the representation of gender in the plays, and other topics include the history of critical response, the variety of theoretical approaches currently available, and the many political and social agendas which the plays may have been made to serve. Same as Theatre 375. Crupi.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. A study of Shakespeare's plays after 1600, with special attention to the major tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The plays are examined individually, but attention is also given to social and political contexts. Major attention is given to the representation of gender in the plays, and other topics include the history of critical response, the variety of theoretical approaches currently available, and the many uses to which the plays have been put. (English 375 is not a prerequisite.) Same as Theatre 376. Crupi.
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Prerequisite: English 322, 323 or permission of instructor. A workshop for advanced fiction writers. Student writers typically produce about 10,000 words and present selections of their in-progress work an average of three times by the end of the semester. To become familiar with current trends in fiction, students develop a personal reading list of current writers and fiction magazines. Stories will be submitted for publication. Students may emphasize creative nonfiction writing with the instructor's permission. Brown.
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Prerequisite: English 321. A workshop for advanced poets focusing on producing and critiquing student writing. Students produce a body of polished poems, several of which are critiqued by the entire class. Students should have a thorough understanding of poetic forms and devices. Students are expected to develop their own style and interests, and to revise their work significantly. Includes discussion of publishing and of contemporary literary trends. Mesa.
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