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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
F. A study of the British novel from its origins through its proliferation of experimental forms in the early twentieth century. This course emphasizes the art and thought of the major novelists, the growth of major strains such as epic, romantic, realistic, and symbolic fiction, and the history of ideas that influenced the growth of novelistic fiction. Not offered 2008-2009.
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F. A chronological study of the major novels of the American literary tradition, with reference to the historical and cultural frame in which each work rests. Not offered 2008-2009.
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S. A historical survey of significant works of literature from a non-Western region of the world. The focus of the course will alternate between the literature of Africa and South Asia. Not offered 2008-2009.
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Intensive reading of selected works of major twentieth-century British and American poets. Not offered 2008-2009.
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The readings include fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose of twentieth-century British literature. Special attention is given to the emergence of high Modernism in the 1920's and 1930's, as well as its eventual permutation into Post-Modernism and to the effects of the two World Wars and the demise of the British Empire on the development of the literary tradition. Selected writers include James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott. Not offered 2008-2009.
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S. A study of major British, American, and Continental playwrights of the twentieth century. Playwrights to be read may include, but are not limited to, Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, Williams, Miller, O'Neill, Beckett, Pinter, Shaffer, Fugard, and Norman. Emphasis is placed on the significant movements in modern drama and questions of gender-based criticism.
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F and S. A study of children's literature, including intensive reading of the best of this literature and the application of literary standards to what is read.
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F. A study and critical evaluation of the nature and content of adolescent literature, including intensive reading, application of literary standards, and discussion of issues in the field of young adult literature: censorship, selection criteria, reader-response theories, ethnicity, and gender-based criticism.
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S. A survey and evaluation of children's and young adult literature, with emphasis on the more recent literature; consideration of criteria for selecting such literature in the classroom; examination of reference tools; recent and historical trends; issues and approaches to understanding children's and young adult literature; and study of several representative works. Prerequisite: English 325 or English 326.
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F and S. A study of some of the more interesting and important characteristics of language, with particular attention given to the processes of language acquisition; to patterns and effects of linguistic change through time; to variations in language from region to region, social class to social class, and gender to gender; and to the assumptions informing the nomenclature, methodology, and scope of traditional, structural, transformational, generative-semantic, and text grammars. The course incidentally considers the relationship of these grammars to the study of reading and composition. Not offered Fall 2008.
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