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1.50 Credits
Faggen A study of the origins and impact of nihilism in modern literature. Beginning with Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and James, the course will look at major 20th-century authors as a battleground between scientific realism and faith. T. S. Eliot, Frost, Hardy, Auden, Camus, Mann, Milosz, and Simone Weil will be among the major authors considered against the background of biology, psychology, and physical science. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Warner Scholars are paying increasing attention to leadership in the framework of national, ethnic, and cultural identity. Using both literary texts and studies of ethnic and cultural diversity in leadership, the course explores (1) the ways that leadership changes in relation to ethnic/cultural context, and (2) the challenges involved in leading followers of widely different backgrounds. Readings include Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain, Edwin O'Connor' s The Last Hurrah , ChinuaAchebe's Arrow of God and The Trouble with Nigeria, Mariano Azuelo's The Underdogs, Martin Guzman' s TheEagle and the Serpent, and selected studies of diversity issues in leadership. We will also study several films relevant to the topic, such as Lawrence of Arabia, Cabeza de Vaca, and Glory. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
An exploration of the relationship between literature and art, especially painting, from the mid-18th to the early 20th centuries. Major writers and artists to be covered are Hogarth, Fielding, Blake, Constable, Byron, Turner, Keats, the Pre-Raphaelites, James, Wilde, Ruskin, Yeats, and the early Modernists. In different years, the course will occasionally shift in emphasis between British and American figures. No prior experience with art history is assumed. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
This course examines different aspects of the leadership theme in literature, with special attention to such topics as ethical dilemmas confronting leaders, different styles and models of leadership, the competing loyalties and pressures felt by leaders, as well as the questions that literature raises about the very nature and validity of leadership's various forms. Authors to be studied include Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Additional readings by Carlyle, Byron and Emerson may be assigned as needed. We will also study several films dealing with the leadership theme. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
In this course we will trace the fortunes of British feminism from the late 17th century to the early 20th century, beginning with early polemics (Judith Dreake and Mary Astell). After studying key Enlightenment feminist texts, we will look at writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, 19th century feminists, and the modernists, including Virginia Woolf. In order to do justice to the many voices of this wide-ranging tradition, our readings will encompass a variety of genres: dramatics works, poetry, novels, autobiographies, and essays. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
We will study works by three of the major influences on literary criticism and the intellectual culture of advanced modernity, beginning with Enlightenment precursors like Voltaire and Rousseau, looking at important contemporaries like Darwin, and ending with postmodernist disciples like Thomas Pynchon and Michel Foucault. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
This course will focus on a selection of theoretical perspectives that have informed feminist thought and movement. We will examine how various feminist "frameworks" have sought to explain oppressive socialrelations and have laid the groundwork for social change. We will begin with foundational texts from the history of Western feminism and will address the variety of approaches that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. Attention will be paid to ethnic, minority, international, and queer perspectives on feminism and gender theory. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
This course examines the role of gay and lesbian writers in shaping important currents of 20th-century culture. We will study early definitions of homosexuality in its relation to cultural issues, shifting conceptions of gay and lesbian identity in literature of the 20th century, competing claims of "positive" versus "negative" images, ahow literary and aesthetic issues influence the cultural understanding of identity. Authors will include Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Edmund White, Leslie Feinberg, and Cherrie Moraga. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course will examine the question of postmodernism through the lens of its fictions, giving particular attention to relationship between literary form and such postmodern conditions as cyberspace, multiculturalism, globalization, and the end of history. Our texts will include short stories and novels-from Borges, Barth, Pynchon, Delillo, Morrison, Hong Kingston, Carter, Gibson, Rushdie, and others-as well as films, visual arts, hypertext, and theory. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
A study of women's comic writing in poetry, prose, drama, and fiction. We will begin with the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, and read British and American authors from the 17th century to the present, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, "Fanny Fern,"Emily Dickinson, Marietta Holley, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, and Fay Weldon. We will conclude with a segment on stand-up comedy. Special attention will be given to feminist theories of comedy and to a consideration of comedy as a vehicle for social criticism. Offered every other year.
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