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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The novel and short story as these have evolved in multiple national literatures during the 19th and especially the 20th Century, exploring in particular the fictional perspectives of writers during the age of empire and their post-colonial successors. Readings will be drawn from such authors as Forster, Bronte, Conrad, Rhys, Narayan, Naipaul, Achebe, Cortazar, and others.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons (c. 600-1200), based mainly on texts in translation, with a glance at the neighboring and related literatures of Ireland and Scandinavia.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction (through texts and images) to early medieval England from the 5th century to Norman Conquest, with a brief survey of Anglo-Saxon history, Old English language and literature, insular art, archeology, religion, and manuscript studies.
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3.00 Credits
A linguistic and cultural survey of the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the 21st century, exploring the language (and reconstructed pronunciation) of the Anglo-Saxons, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, and discussing, among others, the origin and development of different writing systems, the reasons for the discrepancy of spelling and pronunciation in Modern English, differences between British and American English, and the historical origin of American dialects.
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3.00 Credits
After examining the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Virgil's response to them in his Aeneid, the course traces the continuation of this epic tradition through Dante's Divine Comedy, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Joyce's Ulysses.
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3.00 Credits
This course will follow a few major threads of Christian literature from the first century A.D. up to the present day, with special attention to the interplay of cultural forms and literary form, the relationship between hermeneutics and literary criticism, and the fruitful tensions and intersections between theology and literature. Texts to be studied may include foundational texts from Greece and Rome, Jewish and Christian Scripture, St. Augustine, Other early Patristic writings, Hagiography, Medieval English Religious drama and poetry, Arthurian Legends, Dante, Petrarch, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, de Vega, Milton, Metaphysical Poets, Bunyan, Swift, Hopkins, Chesterton, Lewis, Eliot, Joyce, Claudel, O¿Connor, Faulkner, Waugh, Greene, Hurston, Levertov, Endo, Milosz, Heaney, Berry, Walcott, etc.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the theory and practice of American cinema in the larger social and political context of American culture. Gives students a critical vocabulary for analyzing films and introduces the classical Hollywood style, the star system, and film genres including the western, the screwball comedy, film noir, the combat film, and the musical. Same as MDIA 350.
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3.00 Credits
First semester: a study of the major genres of medieval literature based on selections from the Canterbury Tales and other works; second semester, the major forms and tradition of Middle English literature, with special attention to Chaucer's minor poems, the Troilus, and/or selected religious plays and popular lyrics. Either course may be used by undergraduate English concentrators to fulfill their requirement for a semester of Chaucer.
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3.00 Credits
See ENG 351 for description.
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