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The Victorian era was a time of firsts (first photograph, mystery novel, mass-produced illustration) as well as great social change. This course examines the representations of these social and cultural phenomena through discussion of writers including Ruskin, Tennyson, Eliot and Kipling. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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Students examine Irish drama during the 20th century, a defining era that has significantly shaped the modern-day island nation. Emphasis is placed on an engagement with Irish culture and a range of historical, social and political issues in the works of dramatists such as W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Brendan Behan, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Anne Devlin, Marina Carr and Brian Friel. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
The vital tradition of Anglo-American sea literature provides unique and varied access to crucial imaginative, cultural and political crosscurrents that shape British-American studies. In this course, students analyze and discuss noteworthy texts by British and American writers from the Age ofExploration to the present day. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
From Edith Wharton and The Age of Innocence (1905) to Mary Gordon and her not-so-innocent Spending (1998), writers have recognized New York City as a center of civilization and a Mecca of modern culture. The literary wealth of the period surrounding the wars includes the emergence of Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table and Langston Hughes and The Harlem Renaissance; one of the hallmarks of American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, was also produced during this time. Students explore the writings and haunts of these and other notable authors inspired by New York, including Wallace Stevens, J.D. Salinger and Philip Roth. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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This course examines traditional forms of poetry: the sonnet, villanelle, sestina and elegy; contemporary practice with traditional forms; and modern forms, including prose poems and free verse. Within a workshop setting, the course explores rhyme patterns and subject material associated with specific forms. Prerequisite: CREA 157.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines all genres of imagined writing, including the short story, the novel and drama. Students explore the purpose of fiction, the classification of various works and structured possibilities. The course includes an introductory discussion of theory, as well. Prerequisite: ENGL 124.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the work of continental and expatriot writers and dramatists whose work challenges accepted conventions. Writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Donald Bernhard and Donald Barthelme together with dramatists in the convention of the Theater of the Absurd (such as Eugene Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard) are studied. Students are encouraged to make connections between artists of the written word and painters in the Dadaist and Surrealist traditions. Prerequisite: ARTH 207.
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3.00 Credits
From Shakespeare's history plays to Thomas Wolf's Executioner's Song, students explore creative nonfiction from a fresh perspective, while developing a criteria from which to understand this genre's development to today's current bestseller status. Prerequisite: ENGL 124.
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3.00 Credits
Students read and analyze the works of major Beat writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, along with other significant contributors. In addition, students explore how the Beats integrated influences from the visual arts, Buddhism, and jazz into their writings. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to some of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon written in English. Accessing multiple genres, students explore the various representations of Caribbean people and places in terms of ethnicity, race, gender, and social, political, and economic histories. The fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction works of Caribbean writers enable students to experience the means by which writers from the Caribbean participate in shaping not only their worldview(s) but also the perceptions of those looking into the Caribbean space. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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