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This course will provide students with an introduction to Brazilian literary production within the context of major historical periods. They will also explore the diverse social and political movements and cultural practices that coincide with them. Ideally, students will identify, despite the diversity and transnational character of many of its people, the search for and development of a distinctly Brazilian national identity. Selected major literary works in translation will be studied alongside other Brazilian cultural products, such as film, music, visual and plastic arts, architecture, historical documents and non-fiction writing in order to gain a critical understanding of this Latin American "invisible giant" and its people. A central objective here is to interpret cultural products and practices with a critical awareness of identity, economy and power. This advanced course fulfills the international focus requirement for the Literature Major. As the only course that focuses entirely on Brazil, it is an excellent option for the Latin American Studies Minor. 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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In American Romanticism we read the literture of a key period in American history and American literary history: the early to mid 19th century, an era often called the American Renaissance. During a very short time, a people who had previously cared little for literary expression suddenly produced a series of literary masterpieces and landmarks: Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and The Raven. What happened Why such an unprecedented burst of 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. Regionalism, MJ-AMER-Amer Artistic Express, MJ-AMER-Advanced Cat Elective, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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This course will examine the rich diversity of literature by writers of the American south from the 1800s to the present in prose, short and long fiction, poetry, and drama. Themes such as racial conflict, attitudes towards women, nature as a defining force, and others will form a basis for exploring such authors as Faulkner, Welty, Warren, Gaines, Hurston, O'Connor, and others. 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. Regionalism, MJ-AMER-Amer Artistic Express, MJ-AMER-Advanced Cat Elective
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This course will explore the writings of 20th century African American women, also including African women of the Diaspora. Through a critical examination of a range of styles and genres, students will gain an understanding not only of the stylistic influences from the American canon that they employ to tell their own unique and self-defined stories but also of the issues these women faced and created into art, including such thematic concerns as caste/color privilege, sexuality, and role and relationship in the community and the dominant culture. 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, MJ-AMER-Amer Artistic Express, MJ-AMER-Advanced Cat Elective
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The 14th century in England is generally regarded as the summit of Middle English literature. In particular, the last quarter of this century is dominated by three great poets who were contemporaries of one another: the poet of Sir Gawain; William Langland; and the greatest of all these poets, Geoffrey Chaucer. This course revolves around Chaucer whose writings embody the best of the middle ages, but whose canon is now recognized as one of the greatest poetic achievements in English. English literature provides no better portraits of the late medieval man or woman than this poet. After Chaucer, one looks ahead 200 years to Shakespeare as the next great English poet. The Gawain poet produced the single most popular work combining religion with romance. Its deep religious convictions, but also its profound concern with social issues and social equality also characterize Langland's work. Margery Kempe's work, considered by some to be an expression of religious mysticism, is regarded as an early example of (poetic) autobiography. This course will see what religious, social, historical and poetic elements produced this unique literature. 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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The 19th century is generally considered as the era during which the novel became a dominant literary genre. In this course, we will examine the development of the novel in an international context. We will explore how different literary movements (such as romanticism, realism, and sentimentalism) were articulated in different geographic and cultural contexts, and how these movements interacted with and were influenced by political and social concerns of the day. The primary objective of this course is thus to better understand both the novel as genre, and its development over this crucial time 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: MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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This course surveys the earliest literature of England, from its beginnings in the Anglo-Saxon past through the medieval period. In it, we will examine some canonical texts (Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer) as well as some less well-known works. While the specific thematic emphasis may vary, we will be reading a wide variety of genres (epic, elegy, lyric, chronicle, riddle, romance, etc.) and authors. We will trace developments of significant ideas and consider the relationship of the texts to the social, cultural, and historical environments that produce them. Some of the earliest works will be read in translation, but the majority of the later material will be read in the original Middle English. 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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The course offers an in-depth study of some outstanding fiction and non-fiction works of the extensive Latino literature written in English in the U.S.A. This course will focus on the importance of understanding Latino culture; the choice of language, themes, and style of writing; cultural differences; literary techniques as well as the social and political aspects reproduced in these creations. Fiction and non-fiction works have been chosen representing the Cuban-, Colombian-, Dominican-, Chicano- and Puerto Rican-American 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 Artistic Express, MJ-AMER-Advanced Cat Elective, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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Britain under Queen Victoria (1837-1901), transformed itself into the first urban, industrial, technological, democratic, and imperial modern state. Writers -- men and women alike -- understood the revolutionary character of the times and confronted newly the full range of social realities that continue to beset us now: the alienated workplace, the degraded environment, mass culture, changing sex roles, race, colonialism, and the endangered child. This course will explore the achievement of such writers in all its variety of form, content, and self-expression, from poetry to fiction to journalism to autobiography, to see it not only as a literature but, in its own terms, as a "culture." 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 course traces the development of the English language from its Indo-European roots through the major stages of English, including Old English (the language of Beowulf), Middle English (Chaucer s English), and early modern English (Shakespeare s English), through present day English. We will begin by establishing grammatical and linguistic categories and examining some principles of historical linguistics, focusing on the mechanisms and causes of language change. Our study will include etymology (particularly work with the OED) and developments in American English, including dialectical variety. The course seeks to make students aware of the structure of their language and help them become sensitive to linguistic change and difference. 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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