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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this class we will examine American literature from the late 19th century to the present. Beginning roughly from the Realistic and Naturalistic writers of the post-civil war period up through the Modern and Post-modern eras, we will try to consider what kinds of stories Americans wrote about themselves and how we should interpret these texts. We will read one novel, one drama, poetry, short fiction, and perhaps some non-fiction. We want to consider these texts in their own right and as products of a grander American literary tradition that we can trace back to the 19th century and beyond. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-INTL-Intl Comparative 'West
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An explanation of Biblical literature, its metaphors and literary forms, its theological constructions, and religious insights. The meaning of the Bible as a literary and religious document will be examined through a series of readings and discussions. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-LITR-Litr Prior To 1800, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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An explanation of Biblical literature, its metaphors and literary forms, its theological constructions, and religious insights. The meaning of the Bible as a literary and religious document will be examined through a series of readings and discussions. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-LITR-Litr Prior To 1800, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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A survey of American poetry from Colonial to contemporary times. We will consider the range of ideologies and styles that have determined the history of poetry in American culture, as well as the sociocultural circumstances that inform this history. Students will be expected to develop a critical understanding of how to interpret a poem and write a lucid analysis of its significance. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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If you want to get serious about your writing, this course is a great place to begin. We will be concentrating on personal essays, memoir, and literary journalism. Through a variety of exercises, writing assignments, reading assignments--and through participating in the workshop aspect of the course, as an editor/critic and as a recipient of writing suggestions--your writing is bound to improve. Keep in mind that the purpose of this class is to give you the structure to work creatively on your writing and be productive. How much your writing ultimately blossoms will depend on the time and commitment you put into the course. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department
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An overview of the main periods and movements of Western European literature from the Middle Ages to modern times, stressing the concept of genres, the development of ideas, and the relationship of literature to the development of Western culture. The class will hold in-depth discussions on representative works selected from the masterpieces of each period. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-INTL-Intl Comparative 'West, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course offers a reading of fiction (the novel and short story), poetry, and drama as practiced in the United States since 1900. From the 20th century to the 21st century, American literary expression has reflected changing attitudes about art as well as social turmoil, confusion, and (perhaps) progress. From the works of the Progressive Era to the experiments of Modernists and Postmodernists, American literature has helped form a national identity. While the reading list will frequently change, students will encounter a variety of writers, among the writers studied, one may find Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, and Eugene O'Neill early in the century and Kurt Vonnegut, Adrienne Rich, Louise Erdrich, and Edward Albee from later in the century. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women" were gifted writers whose work is appealing to modern readers. We will study well known 19th century authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Sarah Orne Jewett; and lesser known women such as Harriet Jacobs, Susan Warner, and Rebecca Harding Davis. During the semester students will read poetry, short stories, and novels by these and other writers. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, MJ-AMER-Gender Issues
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0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, MJ-INTL-Intl Compare- Non-West, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selec-Am.Li
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course offers a reading of fiction (the novel and short story), poetry, and drama as it was practiced in the United States in the 19th century. This century saw not only the birth of an American literary identity with Romantic fiction by James Fennimore Cooper and Washington Irving, but a later explosion of literary talent with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. This is also the century when civil war threatened the new nation s identity and survival. Slave narratives by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobson, fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and non-fiction by Margaret Fuller and Henry Thoreau challenged Americans fundamental notions of freedom and identity. Later, responding to a rapidly changing world, writers like Mark Twain, Paul Dunbar, Stephen Crane, and Kate Chopin turned to Realism and Naturalism. While the reading list will frequently change, students will encounter a wide variety of literary voices of the era. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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