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1.50 Credits
Faggen This course focuses on intensive reading in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, with special attention to the complexities of interpreting a sacred text. The problems of authorship, historical and religious context, canon formation, and translation will be considered in light of the history of interpretation from midrash, St. Augustine, and Origen through modern literary criticism, especially Robert Lowth, Eric Auerbach, Northrop Frye, and Robert Alter. Special attention will be given to the use of the Bible by modern writers. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lobis, Meyer This course will treat the development of Shakespeare's tragic dramas and explore the nature of tragedy. We will read seven works by Shakespeare and three by his contemporaries Marlowe, Tourneur, and Webster. Shakespeare's contribution to tragedy will be studied partly in the context of ancient and medieval as well as Renaissance conceptions of tragedy. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course introduces students to the major works of the 14th-century English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. We read seven of the major tales from The Canterbury Tales; two of the longer dream vision poems, The House of Fame and The Book of Duchess, and Chaucer's epic poem, Troilus and Criseyde. Students will learn to read all Chaucerian works in their original Middle English. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lobis Some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were neither tragedies nor comedies, but in some sense both. This course will be devoted to the dramatic hybrids that we now call histories and romances. We will read selected history plays and romances, roughly spanning Shakespeare's career, and will explore a range of topics, including language, genre, gender history, political theory, metatheatricality, the family, and the natural world. We will also consider the history of our plays on state and screen. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Farrell The ages agree that love is among the most powerful and significant human experiences. Love is the most urgent of poetic messages, and has inspired the greatest variety of expressive forms. This course will explore the depiction of love in English poetry from the early 16th to the late 17th centuries, in courtly sonnets, erotic narratives, marriage poems, devotional meditations, metaphysical lyrics and satire. Authors will include Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, and Swift. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Shakespeare's comedies have entertained audiences for four centuries; they are also complex works of art which reward detailed study. In this course we will read eight of Shakespeare's comedies, and supplement our readings with film. We will discuss topics such as love; sex; marriage; gender roles; parents and children; figurative language; jokes; scansion; performance in Shakespeare's time and ours; the nature of comedy; happy endings and those excluded from them. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lobis This course will examine Milton's major epic poems - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes - as well as his great early poems Lycidas, and Comus, in the context of biblical and classical literary traditions as well as the religious and political crises of his time. Milton's controversial prose writings on education, kingship, marriage, and freedom of the press will also be considered. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Bilger This course will examine the rise of Restoration comedy and the debates that arose in the early 1700's about morality and the stage. We will pay attention to the historical particularities of the Restoration and 18thcentury theatre and also consider, among other themes comedy as a vehicle for social criticism and political satire. Readings will include plays by Aphra Behn, Susanna Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, William Congreve, John Dryden, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Inchbald, and William Wycherley. Offered occasionally. 71. 19th-Century British Novel. Bilger The novel is the crowning achievement of 19th-century British literature, a form which fully retains its immense popularity and critical interest today. The accomplishment of such masters as Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot and Hardy will be seen through a close reading of major works. Discussions and lectures will focus both on concerns and issues of the period as well as on ways in which Victorian masterworks like Vanity Fair, David Copperfield, and Jude the Obscure reflect the growth and change of the novel form itself. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Bilger One of the greatest and most beloved English writers, Jane Austen played a major role in the development of the novel as genre. This course will cover the six published novels, her letters, and unpublished works. We will study Austen's role within a tradition of women'swriting, with attention both to her predecessors and successors. We will examine her works in relation to the cultural context of the late 18th and early 19th century and will also survey the growing body of scholarship on Austen. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This class will trace the origin of the Gothic from the literature of sensation and feeling of the late eighteenth-century, through its Romantic and Victorian embodiments. It will focus upon versions of Victorian subjectivism and conclude with literary decadence, and the genres of detective and ghost stories. We will read the following authors: Matthew Lewis; Mary Shelley; Jane Austin; John Keats; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Browning; Emily Bronte; John Ruskin; various Pre-Raphaelite poets; Walter Pater; Oscar Wilde; Wilkie Collins; Arthur Conan Doyle; Charles Dickens; Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Offered occasionally
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