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4.00 Credits
The study and writing of fiction. Emphasis will be on the short story, although qualified students may write portions of novels. Prerequisite: Course 217 and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12 students. B. Boyd
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4.00 Credits
An examination of Tudor and Elizabethan non-dramatic poetry in its social, political and aesthetic contexts. Poetry, patronage and power; images of love; expressions of the pastoral vision; music and poetry; poetry as self-fashioning. Authors includeWyatt, Elizabeth I, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Offered alternately with Course 334. K. Bleeth
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4.00 Credits
Various personal responses to chaos in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Vaughan and Traherne. Special attention will be given to the quest for values in response to the impact of the scientific and political revolutions and of the new skepticism about man's place in nature. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. A. Bradford
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4.00 Credits
This course examines fatal women-Medusa, Pandora, Judith, Eve, Salomé-in literature, art, and film. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Freud, Marjorie Garber, and Hélène Cixous, this course explores the tension between demonization and empathyin the construction of female sexuality and misogyny in the Western tradition. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. D. Greven
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the British novel from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. Attention to how the novel registers the problems raised by urban and print culture, increasing social instability, and the changing status of women. Authors may include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Austen, Thackeray, and Charlotte BrontOpen to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Gezari
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the British novel from the middle of the 19th century to the late 20th century. The contexts provided by empire and its aftermath, the development of modern institutional structures, and relations between the sexes. Authors may include Dickens, Collins, George Eliot, James, Conrad, Woolf, Forster, Beckett, and Rushdie. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Gezari
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4.00 Credits
An intensive study of eight or nine plays, including comedies, tragedies, histories and romances, with an emphasis on the representations of the familial. We will spend some time as well with sets of plays which seem themselves to be in a kind of sibling relationship, thematically and ideationally, as for example, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night and Othello. We will attend to the texts, to performance and performance history, and to filmed versions of the plays. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Staff
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the impulse to repeat and revise that most totemic and "relevant" of playwrights,William Shakespeare. Drawing on the terminology of performance theory, we will read A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Hamlet, and the Tempest alongside various "performances": films, stage performances, parodies, postcolonial appropriations,operas, quotations, and allusions to the plays. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. L. Wilder
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4.00 Credits
An examination of Chaucer's major concerns as a writer, his language and his place in the medieval period. Readings will include: about two-thirds of The Canterbury Tales; selected readings in sources and analogues. Special attention to contemporary critical approaches to the Tales. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. K. Bleeth
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4.00 Credits
A study of two medieval narrative modes in their cultural settings. Special attention to the development of the hero, the Arthurian tradition, representations of the Other, and courtly love. Works to be read include Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Chrétien de Troyes Yvain , th e lai s ofMarie de France, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer's Franklin'sTale, Mandeville's Travels and Malory' s Morte D'Arthur Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Offered alternately with Course 323. K. Bleeth
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