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3.00 Credits
An examination of the literature that reflects the movement from American romanticism to realism and through realism to literary naturalism, approximately 1865-1910.
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3.00 Credits
Readings from both traditional and contemporary folktales, including modern adaptations of traditional stories. Emphasis on similirarities in different tales, and the differences in similar ones, with the aim of learning how the same elements pervade the archetypical stories and how variations in detail bespeak different ethnic and cultural interests and concerns.
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3.00 Credits
Literature by or about women; includes writing by women, portrayals of female characters, attitudes toward women and women's roles; other thematic concerns.
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3.00 Credits
Comprehensive study of texts and contexts of women's writing in the US during the nineteenth century, including the origins of its feminist tradition. Texts include a variety of genres (novel, short story, lecture, travel narrative) and traditions (sentimental, romantic, realist, political, utopian). Special emphasis on the social, political, economic and legal forces bearing upon women as professional writers along with the ways women's fiction articulates the realities of nineteenth-century women's lives. Assignments include close reading of individual texts and a more comprehensive final project involving primary research.
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3.00 Credits
Yiddish literature from its beginning to the present from Eastern European and West Germany to the East Side and West Roosevelt Road.
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3.00 Credits
This class considers the larger theoretical debates important to composition studies todau and the practical aspects of writing tutorials. Students will read contemporary writing theory and apply this knowledge in work with small groups of undergraduate writers, helping them to create ideas, draft and revise essays, and edit their work. To succeed in this class, students need to be strong writers and collaboratos and to have an interest in the practice and politics of writing.
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3.00 Credits
Interdependence of rhetoric, grammar, logic, semantics, psychology, and criticism in communication of ideas; practice in various types of writing with focus on students' interest; designed for future teachers of composition.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course in which students will learn to write argumentative essays on a wide range of subjects, using as models for dicussion the argumentative prose of professional writers. The course will cover many aspects of argumentative writing, including the study of inductive and deductive reasoning and logical fallacies and the analysis of organizational and stylistic techniques.
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3.00 Credits
Development of the modern novel from Conrad to writers of the 1930s and 1940s agaisnt a background of historical and literacy movements; emphasis on Conrad, James, Joyce, Lawrence, Faulkner and Hemingway.
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3.00 Credits
Development fo the novel in English in recent decades against a background of historical and literary movements; includes work or West, Green, Lowry, Durrell, Bellow, Nabokov, Burgess, Barth, Lessing, Murdoch, Mailer, Updike and Pynchon.
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