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3.00 Credits
Selected writings from Asia, Greece, Rome and medieval Europe form the basis for study in this course. Students read and interpret different forms of poetry, drama and prose; relate the literature to the culture and age in which it was produced; and discuss trends in world literature through various time periods. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the writings of Henry James, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Through readings, discussions and written assignments, students identify and describe specific structural characteristics used in psychological realism. Students are also expected to identify and describe the usage of these characteristics through literary analysis. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the philosophy and technique embraced by the European school of Romanticism. Students study classical literary works from England, France, Germany and Italy. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the works of women writers from diverse backgrounds and cultures and analyzes the influences on their lives. Traditional women's roles are explored and compared to more contemporary roles. Writers include Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Amy Tan, Eudora Welty and Alice Walker. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
Through the study of Modern and Contemporary poetics students experience the various offerings of American poetry, from the first inklings of modern experiment in Whitman through to the contemporary poems of Collins. Students gain an understanding of the legacy of the poetics, politics, and social conscience of the past and how it influences contemporary poetry and social culture. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to African-American literature and culture through autobiographies, novels, short stories, poetry, plays and supplementary audiovisual materials. Students are expected to use their analytical skills to write short critical response papers and discuss the assigned texts. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines writers' responses to nature, urbanization and the Industrial Revolution by analyzing the changing view of human nature during these years. The study of Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson introduces students to the great American fiction writers, poets and essayists of the second half of the 19th century. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the wealth of creativity in American letters during the early 20th century. Authors may include Kate Chopin, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Djuna Barnes and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the powerful array of great writing in the latter part of the 20th century. Authors may include Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, John Hawkes, John Barth, E.L. Doctorow, Anne Tyler, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Berger, Thomas Pynchon, John Updike, Eudora Welty, James Dickey, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, Donald Barthelme, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Walker Percy, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller and Bernard Malamud. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
From Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal in 1729 to the present, writers have employed satire as the weapon of choice in making social statements. This course examines writers such as Swift, Alexander Pope, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, George Orwell, James Thurber, Flannery O'Connor, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Wolfe, T.R. Pearson, Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett. In addition, satirists such as cartoonists from The New Yorker and sequential artists such as Garry Trudeau may be discussed. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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