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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. An introduction to Renaissance women's studies and to literature written by English women in the early modern period (1500-1700). The readings combine literature and non-fiction of the period with modern critical works on women in the Renaissance. Examines the ways in which authorship was defined in the period and the ways such definitions either excluded or restricted female authors. Particular attention is given to larger issues of Renaissance studies such as the status and role of women, the gendering of subjectivity and the relationship between gender and sexuality. MacInnes.
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England in the seventeenth century was a country torn apart by deep divisions, political, social and religious. From this turmoil, from civil war and political revolution, arose a host of new ideas and new ways of seeing the world. This course explores the poetry and prose of this period, with special emphasis on John Milton and Paradise Lost. Discussions range from cavalier love poetry to grand topics such as good and evil, free will and divine Providence. Offered in alternate years. MacInnes.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. Studies the satirical literature of the eighteenth century, including works by Dryden, Rochester, Finch, Pope, Swift, Montagu, Fielding, Gay, Hogarth, Johnson and Austen. Examines the goals and qualities of satire. In considering why this period is so prone to satire, the course examines social and historical factors such as the rise of capitalism, changing gender roles, contests over class status, the spectacle of capital punishment, the new literary marketplace, and the ideal of companionate marriage. Generally offered in alternate years. Jordan.
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Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. History, structure and usage of the oral and written English language. Required of students obtaining elementary teacher certification. Bethune, Hendrix.
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Considers the novel as both a traditional and experimental genre in American letters. Examines novels as American writers' artistic expressions of national crises such as war, as well as works of art born out of America's continuing struggle between stated ideals of democracy and individual rights. Texts include Herman Melville's Moby Dick and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and five-seven additional novels selected to provide students with varied opportunities to do advanced work in American literary studies. Lockyer, Roberts.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. A study of the poetry of four major American poets, particularly as discourse about such topics as the idea of America, its history and the role of poetry in its culture. Offered in alternate years. Lockyer.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. Examines the literature of the American Civil War and considers how the Civil War has lived in American letters from the early days of the Republic well into the post-civil rights world in which we live today. Texts will include Abraham Lincoln's speeches, Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, popular short stories and poems, Herman Melville's Battle Pieces and Aspects of War, Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and others. Roberts.
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Introduces students to a lively and important body of English medieval drama beginning with tenth-century dramatic representations of biblical narrative in the liturgy and carrying through to sixteenth-century humanist drama from the English schools. Emphasizes reading the works as texts intended to be dramatized or performed and includes the production and performance of a short work. Study of the means of production and dissemination of the texts helps students understand manuscript culture and the position of medieval drama in its wider European aesthetic and dramatic context.
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Explores the relationship between the imagination and the natural world in the works of six American writers. Draws on the creative and critical tools of multiple disciplines--including literary studies, creative writing and natural history--to investigate how ecology provides a model for thinking and writing about the imaginative and creates capacities of the human mind and spirit. Christensen.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. A comprehensive study of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer with emphasis on the minor poems, the dream visions and the Canterbury Tales. Examines the dissemination of works of medieval literature, manuscript production, the early printing of Chaucer's works and the changing nature of Chaucer criticism through successive centuries. Offered in alternate years. Bethune.
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