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This course studies contemporary fiction, offering a mix of now-canonical authors such as Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and John Edgar Wideman, along with emerging writers such as Helen Elaine Lee and Paul Beatty, and includes a number of first novels by award-winning writers.The course begins with a neo-slave narrative paired with a novel that illustrates how the legacies of enslavement persisted into the twentieth century.The course explores both urban and rural experience in primarily African American towns and neighborhoods, and analyzes the consequences of desegregation in different locales.Gay and lesbian lives have become more prominent in Black fiction over the past two decades, as depicted in several of the novels.Narrative techniques also offer a main thread of discussion throughout the course. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Pre-requisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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Students undertake individual tutorials in writing and can obtain credit for writing for The Mirror, The Sound, or for other projects of personal interest.Only one independent writing project can be counted toward fulfilling the five field electives required to complete an English major.The department will consider exceptions only if multiple Independent Writing Project courses cover different subject areas and approval in advance is obtained.(Prerequisites: EN 12 or equivalent and permission of instructor) Three credits.
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This course offers a perspective on American literature that continues and challenges its multi-voiced tradition.The course focuses on works by Native, Asian American, African American, and Latina women writers from the 1980s to the present, considering issues of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, especially as these contribute to concepts of identity - for the individual and the community.Authors may include Sandra Cisneros, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich, Sky Lee, Lan Cao, Nora Okja Keller, Esmeralda Santiago, Cristina Garcia, Sandra Cisneros, and Danzy Senna .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This interdisciplinary course examines the concept of culture as it is constructed, sustained, and contested within the United States and the United Kingdom.Readings focus on the history, theory, and practice of culture (high and mass) in the two countries.Class discussions focus on the interactive impact of our understanding of the term "culture" upon contemporary societies as it factors into nationhood, race, gender, class, and media.As a way of understanding the various theories that undergird the experience of culture, students read critical/cultural theory, attend a play in New York City, and view films and art slide s.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course is an umbrella under which a variety of courses can be taken on an experimental or temporary basis, exploring different writing styles and approaches.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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The course introduces students to Middle English language and literature through a close study of the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, focusing on his Canterbury Tales. Students analyze the stylistic forms and representations of 14th-century society through tales, selected for their generic and stylistic variety, that include the tragic and the comic, the sacred and the profane.(Prerequisites: EN 11, EN 12) Three credits.
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Traditionally conceived as a collection of great names - Shakespeare, Rabelais, Cervantes, Machiavelli, Thomas More - early modern literature of England and the Continent includes recently recovered and rediscovered works by women such as Anna Hoyers, Madeleine and Catherine des Roches, Gaspara Stampa, and St.Theresa.Using current knowledge of gender constructs, students re-examine familiar Western values established by the traditional texts: the individual, social tolerance, religious pursuit of the ideal, and sense of humor.In the context of the new texts and theories, the course asks: Are these Western values universally true or culturally constructed (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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"True Love," invented in the late Middle Ages, was a widespread topic in Renaissance literature.The descendant of True Love, or "romantic love," is assumed today to be heteronormative (positing a heterosexual prince-and-princess love as "normal").Yet the True Love of Renaissance texts is not so confined.Written centuries before Western society, in the late 1800s, began identifying individuals by their sexual desires, Renaissance texts have a more fluid conception of love and sexuality than our contemporary "definitions." The poems of Shakespeare, Katherine Philips.Spenser, Michelangelo, Mary Wroth, Donne, Aphra Behn, and others, along with Plato's Symposium, provide a fertile ground to critique and problematize, or "queer" (as a verb), today's supposedly simple concept of "straight," orthodox, or heteronormative love.Renaissance texts reveal a wide range of non-heteronormative representa-tions of love.Genuine or "true" love, still an ideal for many, is today assumed to be individually chosen and nuanced.Renaissance love texts help us understand our complex choices, as do classical texts and recent scholarly theory.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent)
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Participants study Shakespeare's earlier comedies and history plays.Works include The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III , an d Henry IV, Part I.Students also stud y Romeo and Julie t as an early tragedy.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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Participants study Shakespeare's later comedies and the tragedies.Plays include romantic comedies (As You Like It, Twelfth Night), tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear), problem comedies (Measure for Measure), and romances (The Tempest). (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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