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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210. Studies the novels of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipul, Nadine Gordimer, Tayeb Salih, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and Anita Desai in the context of contemporary postcolonial theory. Bromberg.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 109 or consent of the instructor. Serves as an advanced-level workshop for poets seeking a space in which to concentrate on their craft and participate in sophisticated discussions of poetry. Requires completion of a manuscript of 20 poems worthy of being submitted for publication as a chapbook, and an essay on poetics. Weaver, Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210. Studies in depth, with critical readings, the major 19th-century writers Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Melville, with attention to their contributions to the development of a distinctively American literature. Perry.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Sophomore standing. Provides a broad overview of the field of children's and young adult literature, including historical and contemporary considerations, criticism, and representative works from major genres. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210. Looks at Americans as authors of themselves and creators of their own personae in the modern American novel. Examines both the literary and societal implications of such self-fabrications in works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. Perry.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210. Considers sermons, memoirs, poetry, short stories, and novels by Samson Occom, William Apess, Jane Johnston, Schoollcraft, Ella Deloria, N. Scott Momaday, Leslis Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and others in the context of Native American history and particular tribal and familial oral cultures. Also covers critical essays and studies by Native and non-Native scholars including Paula Gunn Allen, David Moore, Elaine Jahner, Arnold Krupat, Karl Kroeber, David Murray, and Phil Deloria. Bergland.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210. Studies most of the novels and short works of Toni Morrison, viewing them both as involved in thematic conversations with other writers of the American literary canon and as presenting critical evaluations of the racial history that Morrison believes continually haunts this canon. George.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210. Focuses on 20th-century American plays by writers like Susan Glaspell, Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, and August Wilson. Reads plays as literature and enacts them in class - as far as possible - as theater. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: ENGL 210. Focuses on Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich alongside their influences and inheritors, from Anne Bradstreet to Joy Harjo. Uses frameworks of textual, intertextual, and cultural analysis within a seminar format. Bergland.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 210 and ENGL 121 or consent of the department. Closely analyzes a few major plays and varied critical approaches to them. Wollman.
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