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3.00 Credits
Drama and Performance in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Every other year. Fall 2006. MARILYN REIZBAUM. Considers Irish writing from the late nineteenth century through the present: its contribution to modern literary movements and conflictual relation to the idea of a national Irish literature. Likely topics include linguistic and national dispossession; the supernatural or surreal, pastoral, and urban traditions; the Celtic Twilight versus Modernism; and the interaction of feminism and nationalism. Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department.
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Spring 2007. MARILYN REIZBAUM. A study of the modern impulse in the novel genre in English. Considers origins of the modern novel and developments such as modernism, postmodernism, realism, formalism, impressionism, the rise of short fiction. Focuses on individual or groups of authors and take into account theories of the novel, narrative theory, critical contexts. Topics shift and may include Philip Roth, Henry Roth, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Rebecca West, Dorothy Richardson, Lorrie Moore, Ford Madox Ford, J.M.Coetzee, W. G. Sebald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Banville, Ian Watt, Peter Brook, and Franco Moretti. Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. AARON KITCH.
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Fall 2006. PETER COVIELLO. A study of the writing produced in colonial, revolutionary, and post-revolutionary America. Prominent concerns are the Puritan covenant, nationalism, democracy and consensus, revolutionary rupture, and the evolving social meanings of gender and of race. Readings may include Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Brockden Brown, Irving, and Cooper. Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
The American Renaissance
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Fall 2007. CELESTE GOODRIDGE. A study of twentieth-century American literature. Topics vary. Prerequisite: One first year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. MARK FOSTER. (Same as Africana Studies 273 and Gender and Women's Studies 205.)
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Spring 2007. CELESTE GOODRIDGE. Readings in modern and contemporary poetry, with an emphasis on different modes of poetic influence, allusions to mass culture, and the use of narrative, biography, mythology, and performance in this work. Authors may include Williams, Levine, Doty, Collins, Gluck, Laurie Sheck, Margaret Holley, Clampitt, and Carson. Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Every year. Spring 2007. ELIZABETH MUTHER. Explorations of short fiction by African American writers from fugitive narratives to futurist science fiction. Focuses on strategies of cultural survival as mapped in narrative form - with special interest in trickster storytellers, alternative temporalities and double-voicing. Close attention paid to the exigencies of the short form, the experimental ground of the short story and its role for emerging writers, and notable anthologies and the role of stories in movement-making. (Same as Africana Studies 275.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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