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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This survey course focuses on non-English language Drama across the ages. The works of the Golden Age of Greece, Moliere, Pirandello, Dario Fo, Brecht, great Spanish writers like Calderon, Lope de Vega and Lorca, Japanese masters like Chicamatzu and Kanimi, might be studied in this course. L, C
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This is a survey of American Dramatic Literature from its beginnings in the prerevolutionary British Colonies to the present. The course involves critical reading of dramatic texts. Students will attend productions of plays on and off campus studied in the class. Students will engage in active discussion and analysis of these plays and will be required to write papers on particular authors. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course surveys the dramatic Literature and theatre movement from roughly 180 to the present. Students will read and analyze works of Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht and Beckett among others. The class covers such movements as Realism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Absurdist Drama and the Dada movement. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. An introduction to primary texts of the medieval period, c. 500-1500, primarily from the British Isles and France, from the earliest extant Old English epic, Beowulf, to Malory's Morte d'Arthu r and Christine dePizan. Selections from Chaucer and the drama are read in Middle English; other texts in translation. Genres covered may include epic, lyric and narrative poetry, mysticism, romance, fable, and drama. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course examines fiction, drama and poetry written in Britain and its former Commonwealth since World War II. Special emphasis is placed on the role imperialism and decolonization has had in literature. Authors examined include A.S. Byatt, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and Michael Ondaatje. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. Students will examine poetry and prose from the entire century of Irish writing in this course. Special emphasis is placed on Joyce and Yeats as major writers whose influence continues to shape Irish writers and thinkers. Other authors covered include Roddy Doyle, Lady Gregory, and Sebastian Barry. L, C
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. Chief modern poets of America and England are introduced and close reading is encouraged in the lyric form of writers such as Eliot through Lowell, Plath and other end-of-century writers. Emphasis is on these creators as precursors in a tradition. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This class will provide a selective survey of European Literature from the Medieval period to 1800, at time period which lays the foundation for many poetic, prose, dramatic genres of Western literature and which spans many political, social, cultural developments. Special emphasis is given to the development of the novel, women's writing and the development of a "European" literature and tradition.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. In this course we examine some of the most important recent European works from the past three hundred years. Works read cover not only the different cultures that constitute Europe, but also reflect the changing political landscape that has shaped the landmass that is identified as "Europe."
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. The course investigates significant novels such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina representing various countries and periods, as well as stages in the development of this literary form. L, C
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