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4.00 Credits
A study of Henry James's ghost stories, tales of writers and artists, and novels of the major phase. Readings will include The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove. J. Rivkin
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4.00 Credits
A study of Charlotte Bront'? noveland Emily Jane Bront'? novel and poems, with particular attention to theireccentric relation to the dominant literary tradition and the social context within which mid-19th-century women writers worked. This is the same course as Gender and Women's Studies 416. J. Gezari
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4.00 Credits
A few plays which illustrate specific themes, problems or critical issues in the Shakespearean text. Course content may change from time to time. A. Bradford
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4.00 Credits
Development through the poet's career; literary and social contexts; tension between experiment and tradition; the special bearing of the study of contemporary poetry on the formation of a literary canon. Poets may include: Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Theodore Roethke, Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser or others. C. Hartman
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4.00 Credits
A close reading of work by one of America's greatest writers. Novels (Beloved, Paradise, Song of Solomon), selections of Morrison's critical writing (e.g., Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination) and other texts ( e.g., her libretto for the opera Margaret Garner) are included. This is the same course as Gender and Women's Studies 418. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. C. Baker
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4.00 Credits
A study of James Joyce's most ambitious and demanding work. Classes will concentrate on close readings of selected passages. J. Gordon
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4.00 Credits
A study of narratives of the Atlantic, from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. Conceptualizing the Atlantic world means thinking about the ways that human bodies, commodities, cultures, and ideas connect Europe, Africa and the Americas through social processes like the rise of the novel, industrial capitalism, and the modern slave trade. How does this Atlantic world get represented, in literature What kinds of histories are shared by the peoples of the Atlantic, and what kinds of identities The course will read works by Defoe, Behn, Pychon, Coetzee, D'Aguiar, Walcott, Amis, and Swift; view films by Julien and Jarman; and also include a selection of theoretical and historical readings. Open to juniors and seniors. S. Hay
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4.00 Credits
A study of two great multilingual novelists writing in exile, with attention to shared elements of their ambition and vision, their experiments with language and narrative, and their ethical and aesthetic projects. Emphasis on Nabokov's Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada, and Rushdie's Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sig h, a nd The GrounBeneath Her Feet. Some attention to their short fiction and essays. Open to juniors and seniors. J. Gezari
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4.00 Credits
A seminar covering the full range of Dickens's works. Novels read will include Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend. J. Gordon
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4.00 Credits
A comparative study of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. Topics include the Gothic, male-male and male-female relations, sexuality and the body, the family, and the construction of race and otherness. D. Greven
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