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3.00 Credits
This course surveys major works of world literature from ancient times to the present.Because the works are chosen from a broad span of cultures and periods, the course focuses on the function of literature: What kinds of stories do people tell about their societies What are their major concerns, and how are these represented in fiction How can we compare stories from one culture or period with those from another The course discusses genre and style as well as content.Books include The Epic of Gilgamesh, Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Madame de Lafayette, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.( Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This comparative study of major Russian authors of the 19th century and their contemporaries in France, Germany, England, and America begins with short fiction and moves to novels such as Père Goriot, Crime and Punishment, A Hero of Our Time, and Madame Bovary .Russian writers include Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy.Topics include the role of marriage and attitudes towards the family, urban versus rural existence - especially the role of the city - the fantastic in literature, narrative technique, and the development of 19th-century fiction.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits
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3.00 Credits
Students study Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf - writers who profoundly changed the shape of the novel, a change also reflected in the writings of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Irish short story, stressing its development from 1903, with the creation of a national literature in English, to the present.The course focuses on the deeply rooted oral tradition, the Anglo-Irish tradition, and the native Irish tradition.Topics include the Irish literary revival, Irish family life, and the Irish revolution as treated in the short story.Authors include George Moore, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, Daniel Corkery, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, and William Trevor.Students view several films includ ing Man of Aran, The De ad, and Michael Colli ns.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credit
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3.00 Credits
This introductory survey course in 20th-century Irish drama includes the plays of Sean O'Casey, J.M.Synge, W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Theresa Deevey, Frank McGuiness, and Sebastian Barry.The course considers the work of Irish repertory theatre groups from the Abbey and Gate theatres of Dublin, the Lyric of Belfast, and the Irish Language Theatre of Galway.Students view videos from the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library with renowned Irish performers such as Siobhan McKenna, Barrie Fitzgerald, and Jack McGowan and attend Irish plays performed at the Irish Arts Center and the Irish Repertory Theater in New York City.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with a survey of the Puritan background to American literature and the writings of the early republic.The course emphasizes the early national period and the romantic phase in American literature leading up to the Civil War.Writers studied include Irving, Cooper, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Whitman.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
For the last five centuries, the frontier - understood as the place where humanity comes into contact with its apparent absence in the shape of alien beings and landscapes - has been the subject of some of the most lasting and powerful American stories.In this course, students concentrate on some of the major representations of the frontier produced between the 1820s and the present to learn how to recognize and talk about the position that the American western has occupied in our culture.Authors include Cooper, Twain, Cather, and McCarthy; filmmakers include Ford, Peckinpagh, and Eastwood.Formerly EN 385.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of the American short story from its emergence in the literary-historical context of 19th-century America to its maturity in the 20th century.It explores most intensively the writings of Poe, Hawthorne, James, and Hemingway, but considers, as well, the contributions to the genre of Irving, Crane, and numerous other writers.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Irish voice in American literature during the past 200 years.Rooted in the 18th century, proliferating in the 19th, and flourishing in the 20th century, Irish-American literature is one of the oldest and largest bodies of ethnic writing produced by a single American immigrant group.The course focuses mainly on Irish-American writing of the 20th century, although a sampling of earlier works is also studied.The authors include Finley Peter Dunne, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, John O'Hara, James T.Farrell, J.F.Powers, Edwin O'Connor, Maureen Howard, J.P.Donleavy, Peter Hamill, William Kennedy, Mary Gordon, Frank McCourt, Alice McDermott, and Dennis Smith.Formerly EN 373.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to explore the ways in which ideas about the physical, "natural" environment have been shaped in American literature.The course will survey a variety of important texts in this tradition and introduce students to the scholarly perspective known as "Ecocriticism." Texts may include those by Austin, Cather, Leopold, Muir, Silko, Thoreau.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credit
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