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1.50 Credits
Walsh British fiction in the modern era has followed a raucous and fascinating trajectory. This course approaches the period since 1945 through cultural contexts including the sexual revolution, the dismantling of empire, the Thatcher years, the transformation of British society through immigration, and the re-examination of "Englishness" at the Millennium. We will read worksby Alan Sillitoe, Iris Murdoch, John Fowles, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Pat Barker, Martin Amis, Hanif Kureishi, Jeanette Winterson, Julian Barnes, Sarah Waters, Alan Hollinghurst, and Caryl Phillips. Students will also encounter short critical readings on subjects including narrative theory, gender, the post-colonial novel, magic realism, postmodernism, and literary prizes. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
A. Bradley This course considers the conflicting aesthetics of two prominent black American writers of the mid-20th century. Through close readings of their major works (both fiction and non-fiction, novel and short form) and consideration of their shifting critical reception, we shall seek a clearer sense of how Wright and Hurston differ, what they share, and where they fit in the broader scope of American literature. Offered every other year. 80. 19th-Century American Fiction. A. Bradley A study of the short stories and novels of selected authors, including Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Melville, and James. Particular attention will be given to the tension in these works between domesticity and the adventure far from home. We will also explore the various ways in which the past intrudes upon characters' new worlds. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Faggen This seminar will examine the work and life of Herman Melville, one of the most complex and influential of American writers. In addition to his prose, Melville's poetry, including the epic pilgrimage Clarel, will be considered in depth in the context of the Civil War and in relation to is ongoing spiritual occupations. Literary, religious, scientific, and political contexts will structure readings and discussions. Students are encouraged, though not required, to have taken a course in Shakespeare, the Bible, or Milton prior to enrollment. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Farrell The great innovations of American literature in the early 20th century were accomplished in large part by a rebellious group of young writers in European exile, determined to free themselves from the limited outlook of American culture and achieve the renewal of life in art. This course will examine the theory and practice of Modernism or "making it new," and some of the "LosGeneration" which followed in its wake. Authors will include Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Offered occasionally. 83. 20th-Century American Short Story. Faggen Reading "a national art form" as a record of literaryand social development. Authors include Hemingway, Faulkner, Anderson, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, Porter, Williams, Welty, Schwartz, Salinger, and Pancake. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course will explore the literary, cultural, and social landscape of this pivotal and exciting period, focusing in particular on how authors shaped and were shaped by historical occurrences such as urbanization, industrialization, immigration, class conflict, and women's suffrage. Though the emphasis will be on literary writers, the course will also look at other types of historical and cultural material, including paintings, photographs, and sociological studies. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
A. Bradley This course explores the major writers, works, and movements in black American literature after the Harlem Renaissance. Particular focus will be given to emerging and diverging traditions of writing and the changing nature of racial representation in the United States. Works may include those of Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
A. Bradley This course examines the historical connection between black politics and black expressive culture. Particular consideration shall be given to the role of prophetic religious leadership, the nature of political rhetoric, and the tensions between artistic creation and political action. Readings shall include works by Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Ida B.Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, June Jordan, Barak Obama, and others. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Faggen An introduction to major American poets including Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Lowell, and others. Emphasis will be on basic concepts of metaphor, prosody, and myth and their relation to American thought. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Warner This course explores the ways that literary depictions of alcohol and drugs raise important questions about human consciousness, behavior, and perception, and examines changing attitudes toward intoxicant use and abuse, temperance, addiction, and intoxication's supposed links to creativity. Texts will generally include works by Thomas DeQuincey, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, Malcolm Lowry, and the Beats, as well as supplementary readings in medical and social history. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Farrell In this course we will examine ancient Greek literature in the context of its culture, starting with the traditional foundations of Greek religion and heroic ideals embodied in epic, lyric, comedy, and tragedy. Then we will progress to the great period of questioning that followed, exemplified by the figure of Socrates, and expressed in the writings of philosophers and historians. Authors will include Homer, Simonides, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle. Offered occasionally.
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