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This course surveys the literary and artistic representation of the legendary first woman of the Judeo-Christian tradition from Genesis to the present.The course centers on a reading of Milton's Paradise Lost .Others authors include Christine de Pizan, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ursula Le Guin.Students find and interpret depictions of Eve in contemporary popular culture during this course, which emphasizes a variety of possible interpretations of Eve, including feminist and anti-feminist traditions.Non-English sources are read in English translation.(Prerequisites: EN 11, EN 12) Three credits.
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This study of medieval dramatic literature and the history and theory of its performance, focuses on the Corpus Christi cycles and the miracle and morality plays of late medieval England.The course examines critical issues such as civic and commercial contexts, intermingling of the sacred and the profane, unique symbolic language of medieval drama, orality and literacy, and the dramatization of contemporary social conditions.The course includes a performance component that takes the form of a research paper on performance history or a historically and theoretically informed stage production of a medieval dramatic text.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This selective survey of 18th-century English literature includes authors such as Pope, Swift, Gray, Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Burns, and Montague.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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Autobiography holds a special fascination in its presentation of the writer's self to the reader.The author's revelation draws the reader into a unique partnership: the reader's belief joined to the author's "confession" creates the autobiographical self.This course examines autobiographical writings from St.Augustine to the 20th century and considers their purpose: What do the authors reveal about themselves and why How much is convention, how much the t ruth This course meets the U.S. diversity requirem ent. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three cred
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An intensive study of the novel as a developing literary form over the first 150 years of its existence, this course considers stylistic and thematic aspects of this earliest or traditional phase of the novel with regard to their historical evolution.Authors include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, and Charles Dickens.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course concentrates on the greatest poems and shorter lyrics by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.Infused with high emotion, reverence for nature, imaginative symbols, and innovative forms of expression, these poems are among the richest treasures of English literature.The course also includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a hauntingly provocative novel.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course assumes some knowledge of 19th-century Russian writers.Students read works by Russian and Soviet authors while studying parallel texts by Western and East European novelists.The course begins with the Silver Age and moves to post-Revolutionary fiction and versions of dystopias before considering problems of exile and dual identity - including the effects of the Stalin years - and ending with contemporary fiction from the post-Soviet era.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course examines the tenor and temper of some British novels that are also tales of colonization, measuring the tales against the responses from peoples in those colonized nations.Specifically, the course focuses on theoretical questions that address colonized subjectivities by raising questions on issues of nation/narration, minority discourse/ canonical injunctions, imperial/colonial subjectivity, identity, home, and location/dislocation.The foundational and over-arching premise of "orientalism" (as a gaze turned upon the colonized) undergirds most of the class discussion.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course forges a sense of continuity from the emergence of the novel in the 18th century to the development of the modern novel in the 20th century.By examining the various narrative strategies employed by writers during the 19th century, it re-addresses central Victorian concerns such as tensions between the classes and contentions between the sexes.This course also helps situate the origins of ideological, psychological, and social issues that come to dominate the modern novel by deconstructing the discourses of self, woman, sexuality, and family/marriage.Authors include Sand, Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, Pater, Hardy, and Michel Foucault.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course offers a comprehensive study of writing by African American women from the mid-19th century to the present, focusing on autobiography and fiction.Beginning with a narrative of enslavement, the course moves to the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.Later writers may include Hurston, Petry, Lorde, Marshall, Walker, Morrison, Naylor, Sapphire, and Youngblood. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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