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3.00 Credits
This class provides an overview of western drama, looking at plays which are both brand-new as well as plays which are thousands of years old. Dramatic texts are paired - one classical with one modern - and the history of drama is considered as the classical plays are treated in chronological order.
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3.00 Credits
Considers adaptation of 19th century literature into film. Offers introduction to literary and filmic techniques. Possible course content: Dracula's cinematic afterlives, Dickens and silent film, Wilde and screwball comedy, unconventional pairing of 19th century literature with films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Black Narcissus.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the development of contemporary American poetry and its influence on rock music after Dylan went electric in the mid-60s. Movements and concepts considered include Beat, Confessional, Deep Image, Southern Narrative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, the Rock Opera, the San Francisco Renaissance, Southern Rock, Heavy Metal, and Punk.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of non-fiction travel literature from the Bible and classical antiquity to the present day, including Viking sagas, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, slave narratives, pioneer journals, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, William Least Heat-Moon, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of major literary works composed for younger readers, including narratives by the Brothers Grimm, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.A. Rey, Jean de Brunhoff, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive reading of major authors in English, e.g., Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Rhys, Mary Lavin.
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3.00 Credits
A study of literature on the family in the twentieth century, focusing on contemporary works.
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3.00 Credits
Major authors from the British Isles and former Empire, e.g., Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Edna O'Brien, Buchi Emecheta, Arundhati Roy. .
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3.00 Credits
A study of major women authors from North America, e.g., Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Julia Alvarez, Louise Erdrich.
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