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3.00 Credits
This course examines the poetry and theories of poetry posited by Victorian men and women who explored concepts of identity vis-Ã -vis Victorian notions of culture, religion, science, politics, and sexuality.Beginning with Arnold and ending with Wilde, the course covers both poetry and literary movements such as Pre-Raphaelitism, Decadence, aestheticism, and symbolism.Formerly EN 367.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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What was it like to live in eighteenth-century London This course will explore daily life in London from the Great Fire to the French Revolution, using novels alongside other forms of popular literature - pamphlets, ballads, broadsides, cookbooks, and newspapers - to trace what ordinary people talked about and cared about in their workaday world.Popular art such as Hogarth's engravings will show us what London and its people looked like.The course will investigate how to evaluate and discuss all forms of popular print culture within the larger context of literature.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits
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A study of Irish women writers, both Anglo and Gaelic, from 19th-century fiction to 20th-century poetry.The course focuses on the cross-cultural differences between these two groups, one privileged, the other marginalized, and perhaps who share only a common language.Besides women's issues - education, emigration, marriage, motherhood, and equality - the themes include the Big House, colonization, the Literary Revival, folklore, mythology, the tradition of the storyteller, and the roles of religion and politics in the society.Among the authors to be explored are Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Lady Gregory, Marina Carr, Peig Sayers, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Eavan Boland, Nula Ni Dhomhnaill, and Medbh McGuckian.A contemporary film is shown as well.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credit
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This course surveys Irish literature, including drama, poetry, and prose, from the eighth century to the present.The course includes a study of the Irish Literary Renaissance (Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, the Abbey Theatre) as well as the work of more recent Irish writers (Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien) and some study of contemporary Irish film.Formerly EN 369.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course introduces students to a variety of German literature and genres (novel, short story, and poem) written in the 20th century.All works are heavily influenced by the two world wars.The literary canon includes a text by Kafka, portraying hope and despair, an Anna Seghers novel written in exile, poems and short stories portraying the various social and political changes in West Germany, and essays by the East German writer Christa Wolf that deal with loyalty and dissidence.The course also addresses narrative strategies and the challenges faced by the translator.Furthermore, we talk about the different roles literature can play, including its influence and value in furthering the understanding of one's own culture.The instructor provides background material to contextualize the readings.Particular interest is paid to the portrayal of social and political issues.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course explores the Italian short story, focusing on the major writers of the 20th century.The course emphasizes neorealism, a term applied to a group of writers and filmmakers who emerged in 1945 and dealt in a forthright manner with everyday life.Topics include World War II, Mussolini, fascism, and the Italian family.The works of Italo Calvino, one of Italy's most imaginative storytellers, receive special attention.Other writers include Pirandello, Svevo, Parvese, Moravia, Ginzburg, Vittorini, and Soldati.Students view two neorealist films: Rossilini' s Open Cit y and De Sica ? The Bicycle Thie f.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the phenomenon of the explosion of Asian fiction/cinema in the west, particularly in the United States, in an effort to understand the concepts of diaspora, colonial histories, border identities, and cultural and ethnic representations.Students read novels, see films, and view artworks that deal with the interpellation, for example, of contemporary Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Japanese, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese, and Sri Lankan writers/artists into western culture to analyze the burdens of traditions and the arbitrariness of modernity. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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Students study important works of short fiction from around the world written during the last century.The degree to which - and the specific manners in which - these works contribute to a characteristically modern sense of human existence and the function of narrative art forms the basis for text selection.Through textual analysis, students compare and contrast various versions of the modern experience as produced by such authors as Gogol, Melville, Mansfield, Joyce, Lawrence, Cather, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Kafka, Hemingway, Lessing, Borges, Barth, Boll, Mishima, Achebe, Erdrich, and Atwood.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Asian American writers, artists, and filmmakers are complicating the notion of identity to explore new ideas and critical questions around citizenship.This is a notable shift that broadens the concept of both political and cultural belonging for the second-largest immigrant minority.The course will examine how Asian American filmmakers are adapting genre categories such as realism (documentary), romance (musicals), and comedy (animated/silent film) to both stress their historical presence in the U.S., to claim American citizenship, and to challenge racist stereotypes of "aliens" as outsiders and foreigner s.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course will teach students how globalization is defined by major theorists, and to interpret the effects of its massive and random forces.Students will grasp the differences between economic, political, and cultural explanations and actual impact of globalization.The theories will be tested against new literatures to see how novelists manipulate the forces of globalization-such as explaining the feminization of poverty, ethnic cleansing, human rights violations, access to natural resources like water and land, terrorisms and proliferation of nuclear arms, religious fundamentalisms-through their characters.One of the crucial and consistent foci of class discussions will be on exploring ethical ways to deal with globalization, the potential for civic engagement, and the responsibility we all share in creating a global civil societ y.This course meets the world diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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