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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces the discipline of writing the short story. Reading of some classic and contemporary short fiction, and discussion of student drafts in a supportive workshop setting. Pei, Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Targets the eager and curious writer of poems seeking structure, feedback, and models of excellence in a workshop setting. Assumes that those who want to write are those who have been deeply moved by the writing of others. Includes extensive reading and attendance at poetry readings in the Boston area. Weaver, Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Teaches the art and skill of reading fiction, poetry, and plays for pleasure and understanding. Designed for those who love to read but are not necessarily intending to major in literature. Includes seminar-style discussions and frequent writing. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines myths about the principal gods, goddesses, and heroes of ancient Greece, and the influence of Greek mythology on later literature, language, and the visual arts. Includes readings from Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Ovid, and Greek dramatists. Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Closely studies the Old and New Testaments, with attention to the problem of strategies of interpretation. Considers themes including the use of metaphor; shifting attitudes toward sex; time and typology; and theological versus cultural perspectives. Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Analyzes major plays with commentary on the theater of Shakespeare's London. Includes films and attendance at live performances of Shakespeare's plays when possible. Gullette, Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Studies major American poets and the process by which the creation of a self precedes the creation of one's poetry. Attends to such figures as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Lowell. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines cross-cultural influences in 20th-century poetry, such as the case of the negritude poets, Harlem Renaissance poets, and the French surrealists. Emphasis on American poets such as Langston Hughes, H.D., and William Carlos Williams. Attention will be given to fundamental approaches to the criticism of poetry. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Studies American literature from its beginnings to the Civil War; from its pre-literature - recording the encounters among the Native Americans, English, Spanish, French, and Africans - to the first emergence of America's literature of diversity, exemplified by such writers as Douglass, Jacobs, Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Melville. Bergland.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Focuses on the responses of American writers to the change from a predominantly rural small-town society to an urban industrialized one and the accompanying challenges to previous racial and gender stereotypes. Texts include poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson; fiction by Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Edith Wharton; and W.E.B. DuBois's Souls of Black Folk. George.
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