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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course allows sustained concentration on a single text. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Paradise Lost or Finnegan's Wake). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory). Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, and 21B. Offered alternate fall semesters.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
All writers conceive of themselves as writing inside of a genre. If writing inside of a genre involved only the imposition of constraint, writers surely would not choose to do it. What is genre? How does it open possibilities for writing? How do genres change over time and across cultures? What is the relationship between literary genre and the way humans frame their emotional, intellectual, and social experience? The focus will be on a single genre (e.g., novel, lyric poem, tragedy, comedy, epic, ballad, gothic novel, graphic novel, etc.) Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: 20A, 20B, 21A, and 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
How much can we read into a work based on our knowledge of a writer's life? In this course we will look at literary texts in relation to letters and diaries. We will then look at how biographers and literary critics used those same letters and diaries to say something about the author's life or writings. After reading some essays by biographers about the challenges that they have faced in their work, students will attempt to compose an argument of their own by drawing on letters, diaries, or other primary sources. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A and 20B and ENGL 21A and 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores the various ways that texts "answer" each other or imbricate each other. Writers often compose a text in response to another work (sometimes contemporaneous, sometimes distant). Writers also develop rivalries, write for each other as audience, feel especially influenced by or even possessed by another writer. In some eras, all literature is considered to be "part" of a larger project or in response to a "big" text (e.g., the Bible). Some literary works are written in the shadow of another language. Different theories of intertextuality will be covered. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
How do critics work on the relationship between literary texts and other cultural materials (such as, popular culture, legal and religious discourse, social history, political history)? This course will look at literary texts in the context of extra-literary materials. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers' responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers' exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of literature in English by authors residing in or originating from English speaking nations other than Britain and America. The course may focus on literature from any one region, such as the Caribbean or South Asia; one nation, such as South Africa, Australia, or India; or a continent, such as Africa. It may explore the literature of those who emigrate from those regions, connections between the literature of those who remain at home and those who leave, the effects of colonialism on the nation, or the development of national literatures after colonialism. The course may also focus on specific historical moments, such as apartheid South Africa or Indian partition; or problems, such as the definition of "postcolonial," hybridity and identity, or the development of global Englishes. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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4.00 Credits
Examines works by women writers in the Anglo-American and Anglophone tradition through the historical and theoretical approaches that have emerged from recent feminist criticism and theory. May focus on a particular genre, period, author or authors, the literature of a particular region, or on literature in particular social or cultural contexts. Such topics as: Women Writers and World War I; Female Bildungsroman; African American Women Writers; Victorian Women Poets. Cross listed with Women's Studies. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
In continuing the study of and moving beyond English 33, this class examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). Emphasis on queer theory and critical thinking on sexuality. We will read such authors as Sappho, Wilde, Gilbert and Gubar, Whitman, Ginsberg, Winterson, Doty, White, Bishop and Hart Crane. The course may focus on a specific theme or sub-genre such as speculative Utopic narratives or Race, Ethnicity & Sexuality. Offered spring semester in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study in American ethnic literatures: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, American Indian, Jewish, and Caribbean literatures, among others. Instructors may select particular emphases for these areas of study, which can include a focus on chronological or thematic approaches or on the development of a particular genre, such as poetry, novel, short fiction, autobiography, or drama. Central to the study of these literatures is a consideration of the unique aspects of ethnic cultures in the United States that inform various American ethic literary traditions. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in alternate spring semester.
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