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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. ELIZABETH PRITCHARD. Focuses on the emergence of and continuing elaborations of transcendent monotheism in the Abrahamic traditions. Of particular interest is the relationship between portrayals of the divine and assumptions about gender, class, and race. Other topics include whether it is possible or permissible to obtain knowledge of the divine (and perhaps be able to see or depict the divine); the relationship between transcendent monotheism, cultural identity, and violence; and the ways in which monotheism informs various renderings of morality and politics. Readings include selections from the Bible, Augustine, Maimonides, Aquinas, Ibn-Arabi, and Luther. (Same as Religion 249.)
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Every other year. Spring 2008. AVIVA BRIEFEL. Investigates the literary and cultural construction of gender in Victorian England. Of central concern are fantasies of "ideal" femininity and masculinity, representations ofunconventional gender roles and sexualities, and the dynamic relationship between literary genres and gender ideologies of the period. Authors may include Charlotte Bront , Freud, Gissing, Hardy, Rider Haggard, Christina Rossetti, Ruskin, Schreiner, Tennyson, and Wilde. (Same as English 243.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or Gender and Women's Studies. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Fall 2006. DAVID COLLINGS. Examines the rise of and reactions to the literature of radical sensibility in the wake of the French Revolution. Focuses upon such topics as apocalyptic lyricism, anarchism, non-violent revolution, and the critique of marriage, family, male privilege, and patriarchal religious belief, as well as the defense of tradition, attacks on radical thinking, and the depiction of revolution as monstrosity. Discusses poetic experimentation, innovations in the English novel, and the intersections between political writing and the Gothic. Authors may include Burke, Paine, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Opie, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley. (Same as English 240.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or Gender and Women's Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Fall 2007. DAVID COLLINGS. Investigates constructions of sexuality in English romantic writing. Examines tales of seduction by supernatural or demonic figures; the sexualized world of the Gothic; the Byronic hero; the yearning for an eroticized muse or goddess; and same-sex desire in travel writing, orientalist fantasy, diary, and realist fiction. Discusses the place of such writing in the history of sexuality, repression, the unconscious, and the sublime. Authors may include Austen, Beckford, Emily Bront , Burke, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Lister, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley, alongside secondary, theoretical, and historical works. (Same as English 241.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or Gender and Women's Studies. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Every other fall. Fall 2006. JANE KNOXVOINA. Examination of little-known Central Asian peoples of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, and the unique challenges facing them at the start of the twenty-first century. Studies the history and culture of this transitional zone, which links West and East, Christianity and Islam, Europe and Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, and Mongolia). Includes examples of Central Asian literature and cinema. Special focus on changes in the socio-economic status of women in the region, and the spirituality (shamanism) and cultural traditions of these groups, as well as the environmental and sociopolitical issues facing them. Addresses questions such as how politicization and industrialization affect the belief systems of the indigenous ethnic groups, their rural or subsistence economies, and their attitude toward the environment; and the present and future international significance of this vast, oil-rich area. (Same as Russian 251.)
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Spring 2007. AVIVA BRIEFEL. Investigates literary representations of criminality in Victorian England. Of central concern is the construction of social deviancy and criminal types; images of disciplinary figures, structures, and institutions; and the relationship between generic categories (the detective story, the Gothic tale, the sensation novel) and the period's preoccupation with transgressive behavior and crime. Authors may include Braddon, Collins, Dickens, Doyle, Stevenson, and Wells. (Same as English 244.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or Gender and Women's Studies. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2008. JENNIFER SCANLON. Women of color are often ignored or pushed to the margins. There is a cost to that absence, obviously, for women of color. As Zora Neale Hurston put it, "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you." There is also a cost to those who are not women of color, as women of color are encountered as objects, rather than subjects. Addresses the gaps and explores the histories and contemporary issues affecting women of color and their ethnic/racial communities in the United States. (Same as Africana Studies 245 and History 245.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. SARA DICKEY. Examines contemporary social and political activism in India. Focuses on film, essays, and fiction to investigate the ways that political messages are constructed through different media and for specific audiences. Case studies include activism concerning religious conflict, gender inequalities, gay and lesbian identities, and environmental issues. (Same as Asian Studies 248 and Anthropology 248.) Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or Sociology 101, and one previous course on contemporary South Asian societies (Anthropology 232, 243; History 259, 260, 263, 280; or Religion 12, 221, or 224) or permission of the instructor. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. SARAH MCMAHON. Seminar. Examines women's voices in America from 1650 to the twentieth century, as these emerged in private letters, journals, and autobiographies; poetry, short stories, and novels; essays, addresses, and prescriptive literature. Readings from the secondary literature provide a historical framework for examining women's writings. Research projects focus on the form and content of women's literature and the ways that it illuminates women'sunderstandings, reactions, and responses to their historical situation. (Same as History 249.) Prerequisite: Previous course in history.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. ANN KIBBIE. (Same as English 24.)
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