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Joseph Roach F Justin Neuman Sp and staff. 3htba For sections see www.yale.edu/courseinfo WR, Hu (63) engl 131a, Versification. Penelope Laurans. mw1-2.15 Hu (0) A historical study of the evolving technical aspects of English verse from Anglo-Saxon through modern times. Regular exercises in writing meters and stanza forms and regular readings in poetry. Intended principally for aspiring poets who wish to learn the history of their craft, but open also to students of poetry who wish to have a firmer command of historical and technical poetic matters. Enrollment limited to sophomores.
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Janice Carlisle. tth 2.30-3.45 Hu (0) Charles Dickens's novels viewed both as examples of Victorian narrative art and as popular culture. A number of Dickens's works-principally Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations-from so-called high and low perspectives in their status as literary art and in their role as sources of popular entertainment, including that offered by comic books and movies. Enrollment limited to sophomores
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140a: m 3.30-5.20 (0) Leslie Woodard 140b: m 1.30-3.20 (0) John Crowley An intensive introduction to the craft of fiction, designed for aspiring creative writers. Focus on the fundamentals of narrative technique and peer review. In the fall term, open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors; in the spring term, open to all students. Prerequisite: a previous course in English or in another literature.
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Louise Glück. t 1.30-3.20 Meets RP (0) A seminar workshop for freshmen and sophomores who are beginning to write poetry. Interested students should have a solid grasp of nonfiction prose writing.
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Roberta Frank. mw 2.30-3.45 Hu (37) Pre-1800 An introduction to the literature and culture of earliest England. A selection of prose and verse, including riddles, heroic poetry, meditations on loss, a dream vision, and excerpts from Beowulf read in the original old English.
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Roberta Frank. mw 2.30-3.45 Hu (0) Pre-1800 An introduction to the language and literature of earliest Norway and Iceland. Texts (to be read in the original) include runic inscriptions left behind by the Vikings, verse of their official skalds, the sometimes irreverent mythological poetry of the Edda, and the sagas telling of the Norse discovery of America.
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AlastairMinnis.
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Ian Cornelius. tth1-2.15 WR,Hu (0) Readings in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century literature, religious writing, and accounts of current events. Issues of language choice, translation, authority, and literary culture. Focus on the poetry of Langland, Chaucer, and Hoccleve, devotional writing of their contemporaries, and early translations of the Bible. The emergence of English as a dominant world language.
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Alastair Minnis. mw 10.30-11.20, 1 htba Hu (33) Pre-1800 A reading of selected Canterbury Tales, with reference to the work as a whole. The significance of the tales within medieval culture, including issues of pilgrimage, chivalry, tolerance and intolerance for non-Christian peoples, courtly love, discourses of class and gender, the balance of tragedy and comedy, beast fable and moral truth, and the purpose and ends of literature.
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