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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how the great writers of fourteenth-century Italy (Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch) inspired the poetic imagination of one of the greatest of English storytellers, Geoffrey Chaucer. Italian texts are read in English translations. No prerequisite
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3.00 Credits
Traces the development of tales of King Arthur and his knights, from their origins in Celtic myth and legend, to the medieval romances of England and France, to modern novels and films.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Milton's poetry, with emphasis on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary American Poetry. A study of important trends and authors in American poetry since 1960, including representative poets from these movements: "Confessional" Poetry, New Formalism, Language Poetry, Black Arts Movement, Beat Poetry, Deep Imagists, and Neo-Romantics.
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3.00 Credits
A study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry, including selections from Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, Greville, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Lovelace, and Marvell.
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3.00 Credits
Treats works by Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Collins, Gray and Goldsmith, studied with a literary and political overview of the history of the period 1700-1800.
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3.00 Credits
A study of 120 years of theatrical innovation, including heroic drama, "affective," bourgeois, and French-influenced tragedy, comedy of wit, late eighteenth century comedy of "good nature," parodies, and burlesques.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of artistic and cultural developments of the 19th Century in England, including Romantic poetry, the realist novel, pre-Raphaelite art and late-century drama. Writers considered may include Wordsworth, Coleridge, George Eliot, Dickens, Browning, Carroll, Wilde, Hopkins.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of artistic, political, and cultural developments of the 20th century in terms of four main areas: the Modernist Bildungsroman, war and marriage, religion and belief, politics and language. Writers considered will include: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Lawrence, and West.
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3.00 Credits
After one week of intensive study, the class travels by van for approximately two weeks, visiting writers, musicians, and sites central to the development of the South's contemporary cultural landscape. Students visit offices of high quality literary publications, tour various recording studios, and speak to musicians and producers. After the trip, class meets for two more weeks, focusing on developing essays from journals of the trip. Enrollment limited, subject to instructors' approval; in addition to regular tuition, a fee of approximately $500 covers travel and lodging. Students are responsible for all other personal expenses. Summer Sessions only.
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