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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course introduces the major genres of children's literature from both the oral and written traditions: folk tales, fairy tales, myths, legends, prose fiction (realistic and fantastic), verse, and picture books. The course aims at developing techniques for a close reading of representative texts. In addition, it may examine the influence of gender, class, cultural assumptions, and literary fashion on the writing, reading, and criticism of books for children. Although this course is designed specifically for perspective teachers of elementary and secondary schools, all literature majors are urged to enroll. 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 Selec-Am.Li
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We will read a series of comic novels written in the United States, mostly in the 20th century. We will examine the varieties of comic expression. We will begin with Twain s Huckleberry Finn. This class will be an examination of the comic spirit as seen in selected American novels. Sometimes these books will not seem funny. They feature murder, slavery, child abuse, drug addiction, and war. So how can we call them comic But there will certainly be some laughs along the way. We will try to come to a deeper understanding of the term comic by the time the class is done. During the course not only do many of the characters reveal themselves, but American society itself: We will try to answer the question: What do we laugh at when we laugh at ourselves 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 Artistic Express, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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The 19th century is often seen as the era in which the novel established itself, taking on a certain form and a certain prominence. While its importance as a genre only continued to increase over the 20th and 21st centuries, that genre has changed in many important ways. This course is designed to explore some of the novel's most striking changes in form and in content over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. Such changes are best studied from a comparative perspective; accordingly, we will examine how writers from several countries manipulate the structure of the novel to accommodate their thematic concerns and their artistic visions. We will acquaint ourselves with some of the important literary movements of the 20th century as they are exemplified in the works listed in the syllabus. And we will consider how these novels reflect the cultural concerns of their times. (The book list will be subject to change; we may study other, equally important and/or representative works in other semesters.) This course will help students to further develop their critical and close reading skills, and their research skills. By participating in class discussions, preparing and giving presentations, and writing papers, students will also learn to express themselves more clearly and precisely. 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-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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The play's the thing, not the story. This course studies how ancient and modern authors have used the same plots to dramatize different problems or to express different attitudes toward the same universal human problems. The class will analyze and discuss in depth ancient Greek and modern French plays based on the same ancient myths and legends. 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-Litr Prior To 1800
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce you to the study of grammar and to provide you with an overview and detailed analysis of the structure of the English language. It is also designed to introduce you to concepts of language change, regional and social dialects--both standard and nonstandard, and the makeup of Standard American English. We will distinguish between descriptive and prescriptive grammars and examine their implications for the teaching of grammar and usage. Throughout this course, we will use the tools of linguists to critically approach and analyze the structure of Standard American English. Topics covered will include a brief examination of varieties of English; constituent structure and syntax; the morphology of English, both derivational and inflectional; the major parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and qualifiers, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, etc.) We will also study ways that clauses can be combined into sentences using coordination and subordination. 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 will establish the theoretical background of Existentialism; survey existentialist themes in the Bible and Greek tragedy; study in-depth, selected works of French Existentialists, such as Andre Malraux, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the "dramatists of the absurd"; and analyze how form and techniques reflect philosophical assumptions. 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 Selection
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3.00 Credits
Each section focuses on one or two individual authors whose work has had a sustained impact on literary culture. Authors studied vary from semester-to-semester, as well as from intructor-to-instructor. Students should expect to engage in sophisticated discussion of literary topics ranging from contemporary criticism to literary biography. The course requires substantial writing and research. Recent topics include (among others): Jane Austen, Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, Geoffrey Chaucer, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, and J.R.R. Tolkien. For this semester's course sections, please see the Literature Major Webpage (http://phobos.ramapo.edu/majors/literature/) or contact the Literature Convener. Prerequisites: varies with the topic offered. 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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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course will examine literary and critical writings of the African Diaspora. We will study major writers of Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aime Cesaire, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates, Maryse Conde, Adrienne Kennedy, and others, representative of the literary movements and critical concepts of Negritude, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. While offering crucial insights into the dynamics of modern and contemporary criticism, the post-colonial vision of these writers traces a quest for new identities. 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: MN-AFR AMR STD-Hum & Culture, GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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An exploration of the sources, theories, and language of modern American poetry. Through a cross-section of poems representing the multi-ethnic vision in modern American poetry, major themes and the poetic voice 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 Artistic Express, MJ-AMER-Advanced Cat Elective
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Through historical, sociological, religious and cultural approaches, this course analyzes some of the best literary works of the 16th and 17th centuries produced in Spain. Selections "in translation," from Garcilaso de la Vega, San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de Leon, El lazarillo, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Quevedo and Gongora will provide the students with a clear understanding of the ideology and Renaissance Spain's literature. Besides critical discussions of texts, this course includes development of research topics for a term paper. 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-Litr Prior To 1800, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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