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4.00 Credits
This course looks at traditions of satire from ancient times through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to the late 19th century. Writers studied include Aristophanes, Horace, Juvenal, Petronius, Machiavelli, Molière, Voltaire, Swift, Pope, Wilde, and Beerbohm. Students have the option of experimenting with satiric forms in two of their three papers.
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4.00 Credits
Medieval Studies Students examine the unities, contrasts, pleasures, and meanings of this rich collection. A study of Chaucer's language is conducted using background reading (for example, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy), but the course is primarily an examination of a great poem.
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4.00 Credits
GSS During the 1960s and 1970s, a "second wave" offeminism emerged, a movement with many divergent voices and many ideals of feminism. This course is concerned with how women writers, poets, and artists fashioned new ways of selfrepresentation in an ever-changing social and political scene. Students begin by examining Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. It was this book that inspired feminists such as Betty Friedan, Erica Jong, and Germaine Greer. Students also read Audre Lorde, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, and other writers and poets.
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4.00 Credits
The modern period has been characterized as a time of unimaginable freedom, as well as existential angst, exile, and loss. It is a time when barriers of all sorts began to crumble-barriers between past and present, foreground and background, high and low culture, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. This class examines the response of writers from America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. In their fantastic parallel worlds, machines take on lives of their own, grotesque transformations violate the laws of science, and inversions of normality become the norm. Readings include The Marvelous Land of Oz ( L. Frank Baum), "The Metamorphosis"(Kafka), R.U.R. ( Capek), War with the Newts (Capek), The Street of Crocodiles ( Schulz), Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass ( Schulz), Envy ( Olesha), and "The Bedbug" (Mayakovsky).
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, Theology What does it mean to say "I believe," as opposedto "I think"? Is it possible to be both a rationalperson and a believer in God? Why have so many people throughout history felt there to be a conflict between reason and faith? Why have so many other people denied that such a conflict exists? What common ground exists between reason- and faith-based discourses? Why has this common ground become increasingly contested in recent years? Students in this course attempt to answer these questions through close readings of several classic texts, primarily from the Christian and post-Christian traditions, including works by Augustine, Anselm, Peter Abelard, Averro?s, Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Desiderius Erasmus, Michel de Montaigne, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell, Benedict XVI, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, GSS, Human Rights, SRE The dramatic emergence, midway through the 20th century, of modern African literature was amplified, within a decade, by the distinct voices of a remarkable band of women writers whose work is now established as a significant part of Africa's revolutionary literature. Students in this course study novels and short stories by some of the leading women writers from the 1960s to the present. Readings are done in English originals or translations from French and Arabic. Among the writers considered are Flora Nwapa, Mariama Ba, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Alifa Rifaat, Bessie Head, and Ama Ata Aidoo.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Human Rights The experience of suffering is at the heart of many of the world's great stories and yet absent, in a fundamental way, from every story. Because intense suffering takes language away, retrospective narration can seem futile, even falsifying. Moreover, it often raises more questions than it answers. (Who or what is responsible for suffering? Is it merited? How can it be made commensurable with the rest of one's life?) Readings include the book of Job, King Lear, Moby-Dick, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Sound and the Fury, Beloved, Maus, and The Road.
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4.00 Credits
Medieval Studies This course examines the variety of concerns, meanings, and pleasures in medieval narratives of King Arthur and his knights. Texts include the Mabinogion, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Layamon's Brut, Chrétiende Troyes's Lancelot, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan, the vulgate Quest of the Holy Grail, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Tale of the Death of King Arthur, and Spenser's Faerie Queene.
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4.00 Credits
Major writers, genres, and issues in the history of English literature are explored, from the medieval period through the mid-20th century, in a regularly offered sequence of three independent but related units. In general, Literature 250 includes medieval and 16th-century poetry and drama, with some attention to prose. Writers include Shakespeare, Chaucer, the Gawain poet, Sidney, More, Marlowe, and Ben Jonson. Literature 251 includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism of the 17th and 18th centuries by Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Wroth, Milton, Congreve, Fielding, Pope, and Swift. Literature 252 concentrates primarily on the novel and poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries, with some attention to criticism and drama; writers include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, Dickens, the Bront?s, Hardy, Arnold, Joyce, Shaw, Lawrence, and Woolf. Any course in the sequence may be taken independently, but all students interested in English literature, especially those considering graduate studies, are encouraged to take two or more parts.
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4.00 Credits
Students engage in an intensive exploration of a range of Shakespeare's plays, including Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, and The Tempest. Although students sometimes watch a Shakespeare film, or work with a play as performers, this is primarily a literature course. Topics discussed include contemporary issues such as race and ethnicity, gender, the body, and ethical conflicts.
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