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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. The develop- ment of English and American fiction from 1900 to 1950, with an emphasis on the evolution of an aesthetic that values poetic composition and experimentation with narrative methods above traditional concepts of narrative structure. Authors studied may include Conrad, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. An examina- tion of the reaction against modernism in fiction since 1950, this course studies a range of books as both repudiations of certain attitudes of modern fiction and developments of the possibilities of the experimental novel. Authors studied may include Bellow, DeLillo, Elkin, Heller, Pynchon, and Updike.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. An inten- sive study of a coherent revolution in taste that chal- lenged almost every traditional concept of style, theme, attitude, and structure in poetry. Extensive attention to Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Williams, and Stevens. Other authors are studied as well.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. Charts the two major streams of naturalism and absurdism in twentieth century drama. Also examines significant developments in contemporary theater. With the excep- tion of works by such influential playwrights as Chekhov and Brecht, the course focuses on modern and contem- porary plays by British, Irish, and American authors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. Exam- ines the Irish literary tradition since 1900, with special152 English attention paid to political, social, historical, and reli- gious contexts and their effect on Irish literature dur- ing times of violence and revolution. Intensive study of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett, with readings in other authors, often including George Moore, Synge, O'Casey, O'Brien,Kavanagh, and Heaney.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. An intro- duction to writing about the colonized world, from the perspectives of colonized peoples, in order to locate the sources and discuss the conditions of post-colonial thought.
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3.00 Credits
Literature (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. An inten- sive study of an author, theme, or movement in twentieth century literature. Topic announced each time the course is offered. May be repeated once for credit with different topic.
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3.00 Credits
in American Literature (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. An examina- tion of the impact of race and ethnicity in the formation of American literature from the colonial period to the present. Selections include autobiography, poetry, and fiction by authors from a variety of racial and ethic backgrounds. Special attention is given to the impact of slavery, immigration, and the civil rights movement on literary expression. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. A study of the representation of gender in American litera- ture. Authors studied may include Fern, Hawthorne, Melville, Warner, James, Gilman, Crane, Barnes, Hemingway, Morrison, and Hwang. Literary readings are supplemented by foundation readings in literary and cultural theory. Counts toward American Studies and Gender Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN101, one EN200-level core course. An explora- tion of the origins and development of narrative film, covering the technology of the moving image from sixteenth century flipbooks to contemporary digital media. Focus is on cinema's importance as a storytelling medium and includes investigation of narrative genres, national film movements, the influence of the classi- cal Hollywood style, and related topics. Counts toward Film Studies minor.
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