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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. Students will be introduced to the academic discipline of folklore and to a range of cultural traditions found in the United States. Folklore includes traditions that are informally propagated, adaptable to individual innovation and common to cultures around the world. Emphasis will be on verbal forms-i.e. oral traditions studied through textual analysis as a form of literature. L, C, IDIS Prerequisite: COMM 2800.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course is an upper-level writing workshop that investigates the linguistic, social, persuasive and literary dimensions of creative nonfiction. Students read and gain experience writing its various sub-genres, which may include memoir, cultural criticism and literary analysis. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr This rotating course explores in depth the works and career of a major author who has made significant contributions to literary tradition. Students gain a unique understanding of literature by tracing out a variety of themes and genres within the author's major and minor works. Through close attention to a single author students also learn first-hand how biographical, historical and literary contexts come to shape artistic output; the course also includes research and readings in literary criticism on the author.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course on the "father of modern English poetry" focusesprimarily on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, in a context of the history and culture of medieval England. Students will learn to read Chaucer's 14th-century Middle English, the London dialect that evolves into today's English, with the assistance of audiotapes. The tales are studied both in the framework of the interrelated stories told by the pilgrim characters on the way to Canterbury, and in themselves, as they present various medieval genres and issues of concern and interest to Chaucer's audience and to us today. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course studies several of Shakespeare's dramas with a focus on the thematic issues raised by the plays in the texts and in performance. Examination involves not only reading and critical interpretation, but also attention to performance traditions and recent interpretations/adaptation of these works on stage and screen. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course will study selected poems and plays from Shakespeare's canon, examining particularly his treatment of power, love, gender, and the other. We will consider: Who and what is Shakespeare? Why is Shakespeare considered the world's greatest author? To what purposes have Shakespeare and Shakespeare's texts been put in literary, historical, ideological, education and cultural terms? How do contemporary readings, films, and production of Shakespeare (re) present Shakespeare? L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course will survey one or more genres, for example, the dramas of Jonson, Webster, Behn and Congreve; the poetry of Milton, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, Dryden, Wroth and Phillips; and prose work by Browne, Fell, Astell and Pepys. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course introduces students to some of the rich critical and theoretical traditions surrounding one of the truly great modern literary forms, the novel. Our discussions will move between crucial works of English literatures and influential theoretical texts as we explore the social conditions that led to the emergence of the novel. We will also discuss issues of class, gender, and imperial power in major works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Johnson, Austen, Edgeworth, Heywood, and others. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr This course examines Early Modern British women writers? works in relation to gender study, proto-feminism, society, literacy, creativity and female authorship and authority. Key issues covered include the evaluation of women?s writing in relation to canonicity, the integration of women?s voices into literary history, and consideration of the genres women writers used relative to their social roles.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course explores the revolution in manners, philosophy, science and gender as reflected in literature, art and music from the late 18th century. Major genres include drama, poetry, fiction, prose, paintings and engravings. L
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