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3.00 Credits
This course traces the American novel from its imitative beginnings to its development as a unique literary form, examining representative novels by Hawthorne, Melville, James, Faulkner, Bellow, and others.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Called the "People of the Book" by Mohammed, the founder of Islam, written narrative has been central to Jewish identity and the Jewish search for meaning since with the story of God giving the law to Moses on Mt.Sinai was first told.This course surveys Jewish literature (sacred and secular) from Torah (the Hebrew Bible) to the modern day, concentrating on modern writings, and focuses on the ethical, historical, imaginative, philosophical, and humorous richness of Judaism.Authors include Maimonides, Sholom Aleichem, Franz Kafka, I.D.Singer, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Aharon Appelfield, and other American, European, and Israeli writers.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the relationship of literature to religion in the history of American letters.Beginning with the moral didacticism of early Puritan literature, American writers have manifested a persistent concern with religio-ethical matters and the impact religious institutions have in shaping our social and cultural environments.Using literary texts by major American writers, the course evaluates the critical perspective and relevance of the imaginative writer's treatment of religious questions.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Students read Yeats, Hopkins, Eliot, Frost, and Stevens.These poets - important in themselves - adopt various strategies in confronting the modern industrial and technological world.Their individual beliefs offer a momentary stay against confusion and provide striking contrasts.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores literary evocations of the city, focusing on different material each semester, from an interdisciplinary perspective.In many ways, a city is as much a mental landscape as a physical one; books on the city refer to it as image, idea, metaphor, vision, myth, and catalyst.The course considers how these terms apply to a representation of a metropolis, as well as how the city can be viewed as artifact, fiction, construct.The course examines the traditional dichotomy of country versus city, the relationship between gender and urban representation, and the connections between literature and other fields.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes and interprets James Joyce's comic novel, Ulysses, emphasizing intensive reading of the text and extensive reading of related criticism and scholarship.(Prerequisites: Reading of Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on readings that depict the lives of adolescents from an array of culturally diverse perspectives.In examining salient issues characteristic of this period of emerging adulthood, this course explores how differences in class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and physical appearance further complicate the already difficult "coming of age" process.Readings include works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, Lucy Grealy, Khaled Hosseini, Marjane Satrapi, and Ishmael Beah.Students are encouraged to analyze works from interdisciplinary perspectives rooted in psychology and mythology as well as in race, gender, gay/lesbian, and disability studie s.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the writing of women from a range of locations throughout the Caribbean, focusing primarily on contemporary fiction.Setting the novels in a context that begins with the Middle Passage or comparable forced migration to the Americas, a history marked by colonialism and enslavement, we examine the inter-connections between those traumatic experiences and the arrangements of relation established and demanded by imperialism.Topics for discussion include the following: spaces and languages of resistance; genealogies, family trees, roots, and other ways to excavate the past and forge relationships; memory and exile; political activism and its consequences; forms of labor and socioeconomics; the role of education in colonialism and in immigrant life; and challenges to conventional categories of identity (such as those based on "race," gender, and sexuality).(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The comparative study of the period from roughly 1885 to 1940 focuses on fiction but also includes poetry and developments in the other arts (painting, architecture, music, film).The course considers various concepts of modernism and the avant garde, beginning with Baudelaire.Authors include Hamsun, Kafka, Proust, Gide, Woolf, Stein, Olesha, Barnes, Bulgakov, Beckett, Hurston, Pirandello, Nabokov, Ellison, Garcia Marquez, and Morrison.Discussion topics include changing views of time and space, experiments with narrative development and presentation of character, the role of technology in 20th-century culture, and new theories of language and the psyche.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This comparative study of fictional works by women begins with a discussion of issues raised in Woolf's A Room of One's Own before focusing on 20th-century writers from a range of national literatures and cultural backgrounds.Authors may include Aleramo, Djebar, al-Shaykh, Aidoo, Maraire, Roy, Truong, Valenzuela, and Menéndez.Topics include women's creativity and their strategies in fiction, their roles in the family, love and/or marriage, work - whether domestic or public, women's relationship to the polis - community, city, state - and their contribution to its culture.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three cr
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