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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Fiction from 1945 to the present addresses the key themes of recent American culture: the psychological toll of modern global warfare, America as a multi-ethnic nation, assimilation and disillusionment with the American dream, shifting gender roles, the effects of the Civil Rights movement, postmodern dislocation and meaninglessness, suburban malaise, the spread of consumer capitalism and a relaxation of the boundaries between high and low culture. Authors studied might include Flannery O’Connor, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo and Sherman Alexie.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 The era from 1800-1865 was filled with calls for distinctly American literature, and the responses were as varied and ambitious as the new nation itself. Writers celebrated the frontier and developed transcendentalism; wrote sentimental best sellers, twisted gothic tales and fery abolitionist tracts; brought the novel to unparalleled philosophical depth and invented modern poetry. Authors studied might include James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Alan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 The later part of the nineteenth century saw a nation shattered by civil war become one of the great powers in the world. American literature of this era is shaped by – and helped shape – this process. Short stories, novels, poetry and, eventually, film provided a crucial forum for Americans to forge a new national consensus after the Civil War, to negotiate the role race, class, ethnicity and gender would play in their culture, and to define their identity as an industrial power with a worldwide empire. Authors studied might include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane and Henry James.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 At the turn of the century, American literature reflects the decline of rural life and the rise of the city. The growth of industry and mechanization led to questions about human nature and democratic values. The consequent human experiences of displacement, alienation and injustice can be seen in the literature from Howells to Wright.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This course involves reading and discussion of a number of plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare such as Johnson, Marlowe and Webster with attention to contemporary social developments as well as to the historical development of the English play.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Focusing on literature and culture produced in the United States between 1890 and 1945, this course explores the cultural sensibility of “modernism”. This course will examine the shared aesthetic and thematic concerns of producers of fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction manifestos, art and film in this period, as they presented their work as a break from 19th century values and artistic modes. The course will pay particular attention to the historical contexts that catalyzed the modernist movement and key recurring themes in modernist culture. Figures studied may include Hemingway, Gilman, Eliot, Larsen, O’Neill, Anderson, Faulkner, Williams, Stevens, Cather, Hopper and Stein.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and consent of the department This tutorial involves special topics in English. It is open to Commonwealth and Departmental Honors students. Three hourly meetings weekly.
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0.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This course examines the non-dramatic literature of the Age of Shakespeare including the works of Sidney, Spenser, Nashe, Marlowe and Drayton. Textual analysis is emphasized, but the historical, social and cultural background of this period is also considered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This course surveys representative works of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Erasmus, Castiglione, Rabelais, Cellini, Montaigne, Cervantes and Ronsard representing prevailing literary themes and techniques.
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