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This course is designed to provide an introduction to the literatures of the African continent. Over the course of the semester, we will read and discuss works from several different African nations, including Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, and others. These works will represent different literary genres: essays, a play, poetry, short stories, and novels. They will also include, albeit in written form, works from the oral literatures fundamental to the African canon. Of course, in a single semester, we cannot possibly do justice to the rich literary tradition of all of Africa. However, I hope that this course will give you a sense of some of Africa's most noteworthy authors, literary forms, and concerns. 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-Area Studies-Africa, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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This course focuses on the craft and production of student fiction and on the problems of craft and aesthetics as they apply to the writing of short stories. The class will be devoted to student work and critiquing skills as well as to the analysis of literary and craft texts. 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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A study of the development of the thematic, symbolic, and mythical strains in African American literature since 1940. The importance of literature as an art form to the African American writer and as a reflection of the Black experience in America will be stressed. 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- African-Amer Studies, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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This course is a survey of Chinese literature with its focus on the 20th century works. The course begins with a brief introduction to the most prominent literature works in each dynasty (from 500 BC), represented by quotations of Confucius, prose by Zhuang Zi, poems by Li Bo and Du Fu, dramas by Guan Hanging, novels by Chao Xuegin, with the intention to provide the students with the basic understanding of Chinese philosophy and religion, and an overall picture of Chinese classic literature. The course then attaches greater emphasis to the 20th century writers such as Lu Xun, Lao She, and Liang Shiqiu. The course will concentrate on what Chinese writers wrote about themselves and how we should interpret these texts, with the purpose to give the students the opportunity to explore their own ideas of the development of the 20th century Chinese literature and inform them of some aspects of modern Chinese culture and the people of the most populous world, therefore, to foster a better awareness of the human nature as a whole. 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 Compare- Non-West, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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A workshop in magazine production. This course will produce the College literary magazine, Trillium, from start to finish. Areas covered include: soliciting stories, poems, and art work; evaluating the material; the lay-out of the magazine; proofreading for the printer; and distribution. Critical and professional skills will be emphasized. 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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The course is aimed at showing the students the history of Russian story development as the reflection of Russian history and culture. Russian story compared to a novel has always been a very quick reaction and respond to the current events of the time, it is a sort of a flashback to the events without a detailed and panoramic study of life. Story is usually confined to some episodes in the life of a character that are of a decisive importance, having a consquent affect upon his life. 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-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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An analysis of the theories and visions of modern poetry. 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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This class will examine the treatment of narrative as practiced in both literature and film. Students will explore the relationship between the two forms and consider which narrative devices and techniques are common to both and which are exclusive to one form or the other. Students will develop a range of critical skills to enable them to examine and discuss narrative as practiced in both literature and film. The specific topic of this course (which genres, regions, periods, etc. covered) as well as which readings and screenings will be considered will change from semester-to-semester, as well as from instructor-to-instructor. 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-Int'l Litr Selec-Am.Li
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A survey of the modern American novel as it developed over the past century. Once considered a frivolous form of entertainment, the novel has supplanted poetry as perhaps the premier literary form of the 20th Century. At the same time, some say the novel is dying. How can both be true Is either What is it about long prose works of fiction that speaks to us How have the various literary, philosophical, intellectual, social, and political events of the century changed this durable genre The course will consider a variety of novels, but will focus on how the novelists created and responded to literary movements over the 20th century, from the Progressive age to Modernism, Postmodernism, and beyond. While the reading list will frequently change, students will encounter a variety of writers, including William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon, and Toni Morrison. 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-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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Colonial American Literature focuses on major Puritan and Colonial writers including Bradford, Winthrop, Williams, Wigglesworth, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Mather, Edwards, Crevecoeur, Paine, Franklin, Jefferson, Wheatley, Native American writers, and others. We may think of Colonial literature as uniform and staid; however, these writers work in a variety of genres, including poems, sermons, histories, and narrative accounts. Nor do these writers speak with one voice. Perspectives range from Puritan patriarchs to dissenters to entrepreneurs to revolutionaries. Our writers include slaves and kidnap victims as well as wealthy Virginia landowners. From this medley, we hope to understand the tensions and paradoxes that produce our contemporary understanding of who we are as Americans and where it is we came from. From discovery to conquest to Puritanism to Revolution, we will chart the early evolution of American literary expression. 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-LITR-Litr Prior To 1800
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