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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major poets and prose writers of the Victorian age in England, with particular attention to Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Hopkins. Selected works from the pre-Raphaelites and from the aesthetic and decadent movements of the 1880s and 90s will also be read. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the development of the novel from the 1720s to the 1880s with special emphasis on Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and other selected writers. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
The origin, growth, and impact of the Romantic movement in American literature as revealed by an examination of the major writers of the period such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the movement in American literature from Romanticism to Realism with its accompanying emphasis on pragmatic, realistic, or naturalistic interpretations. Major consideration will be given to such writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Howells, and Crane. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the development of the American novel from its beginnings to the early twentieth century to show how the American novel has become both uniquely American and a major form of American letters. Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, James, Dreiser, and others will be studied. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
A study of southern literature from the antebellum period to the end of World War II. The course includes such writers as the Frontier Humorists, Twain, Ransom, Tate, Faulkner, Warren, Wolfe, and Toomer. Topics such as tradition, change, and race relations are considered. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
A study of southern literature in the contemporary period. The course includes such writers as O'Connor, Welty, Percy, Ellison, Walker, and Dickey and selected contemporary southern poets and dramatists. Topics such as tradition, change, and race relations are considered. (Every two years)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as AFR 359) A survey of classic writings in African American literature presented in their historical contexts. The course includes essays analyzing the political and social status of African Americans at various points during the period and representative works by major poets and fiction writers. Reading lists vary from year to year. but generally include such authors as Brown, Chestnut, Harper, the Grimkes, Larsen, Bontemps, DuBois, Washington, Harlem Renaissance writers, Ellison, and writers of the early Civil Rights era. (Every year)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as AFR 360) A chronological study of the development of African American literature since 1965. The course attempts to place African American literature in the context of world and American literature by examining prevalent themes and traditions as presented in fiction, poetry, and drama. Reading lists vary from year to year, but generally include such authors as Wright, Baldwin, Morrison, Angelou, Sanchez, Baraka, McMillan, Walker, and Wideman. (Every year)
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3.00 Credits
A study of major English and American Poets and aesthetic movements from 1900-65. Topics include aestheticism, Celtic Renaissance, imagism, vorticism, and objectivism. Poets usually include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Frost, and Stevens as well as others. (Every two years)
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