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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Study of an auteur or group of auteurs, or of film genres, stylistic or historical questions not treated fully in Introduction to Film. Topics change from term to term and are announced in advance. May be repeated for credit if genre is different. IVW
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4.00 Credits
This course will address the complex question of genre in cinema, investigating the ways in which narrative forms are infused with and transmit culturally specific mythic and ideological meanings. It will examine what constitutes cinematic genre in general, and then consider the developing histories of such genres as the Western, the gangster film, horror, science fiction, etc., as reflected by particular texts. IV
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4.00 Credits
A study of the generic dimensions and directions of detective fiction from Poe to the present. It will investigate the hold detective fiction has had on the popular imagination and the genre's reinforcement or subversion of ideological assumptions. Writers and filmmakers may include Doyle, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Paretsky, Hillerman, Himes, Dmytryk, Huston, Polanski, and others. IV W
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4.00 Credits
A study of the gothic genre in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. The course will examine the influence of the 'insane' as social visionaries in short stories, poetry, novels, and film. Of special consideration: questions about how the concept of madness as insight functions in American culture, how it has come to shape our conception of mystical or religious experience, and how it is represented in popular culture. May include work by Poe, James, Dickinson, Whitman, Faulkner, O'Connor, Kesey, Piercy, Coppola, and others. IV
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4.00 Credits
A study of American literature in relation to the phenomenon of passing, exploring the complex connections among race, gender, class, and power. The primary readings will be supported by an examination of legal essays, ethnographic studies, and films that develop a context for understanding how Americans culturally and legally defined as black took on white identity and how passing now extends to class, ethnic, and sexual identities. Writiers may include James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, Americo Paredes, and Danzy Senna. IV
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4.00 Credits
Examines what Jane Austen's novels and their film adaptations reveal about both Regency England and the contemporary world. The course explores the novels in their original cultural contexts and asks how these novels speak to the interests, desires, and problems of today's culture. Students will read in detail four of Austen's novels and discuss the efforts of twentieth-century filmmakers to catpure, edit, and update Austen's humor and wit for today's audiences. Also listed as WS 2714. IV
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4.00 Credits
Designed to ready students for upper-level work in literary study, this course will develop students' understanding of the goals and methods of literary interpretation. Building on the training in formal analysis provided by introductory courses, it will guide students in considering literary texts in a variety of contexts. The course will also develop students' skill in writing interpretive essays based on sound analysis. Required of English majors at the end of the sophomore year. Prerequisite: ENG 1074, 1134 or 1144 and sophomore standing in the English major. IV
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4.00 Credits
Advanced study of an author, period, or topic not fully treated in other English courses. Topics change from term to term and are announced in advance. May be repeated for credit. Standard or CR/NC grading. Prerequisite: ENG 2904 or permission of instructor. IV
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4.00 Credits
A study of major writers focusing on the emergence of an American consciousness. Emphasis on Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Crane, Dickinson, Whitman, and James. Standard or CR/NC grading. Prerequisite: ENG 2904 or permission of instructor. IVW
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4.00 Credits
A study of major British writers from the Romantic period, with some attention to Continental developments of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Authors may include Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, Byron, Keats, and others. Standard or CR/NC grading. Prerequisite: ENG 2904 or permission of instructor. IVW
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