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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the contributions of women literary artists from a variety of cultures and ethnic groups. It examines how some writers have both reflected the prevailing female stereotypes of their age and background, and also imagined the "New Woman." Enrollment is open to both women and men.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the literature of urban America since 1950 and in particular on how contemporary writers use the images and themes of the city.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
Italian American literature surveys fiction, poetry, and drama throughout the history of Italian Americans in the United States beginning in the first half of the twentieth century and continuing into contemporary America. This literature will be considered in the context of recurring themes in the artistically framed experiences of Italian Americans beginning in the first half of the twentieth century and continuing into contemporary America: cultural-national identity conflict, anti-colonization by church and state, religion, gender relations, generational differences and relations, class conflict, for example working class vs. the bourgeois, or working class immigrant and sons and daughters vs. the dominant American culture, the problem of education in early Italian American history, the dilemma of cultural and linguistic loss, intercultural conflict, intracultural conflict, family values, oppression, social dysfunction, and assimilation.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys works of English literature from its origins in pre-Norman England to the eighteenth century. The objectives are threefold: (1) to develop the student’s appreciation for literature and an acquaintance with literary masterpieces written in English during the years of this survey; (2) to introduce the student to the major political and cultural events and ideals that shaped England during these years; (3) to illustrate how cultural and political ideals shape human thought and are reflected in literature. Selections may include "Beowulf", "Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales", Shakespeare’s plays, and Swift’s writings.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
This survey course is independent of English 371, which is not a prerequisite. It covers the principal figures, styles, themes and philosophies represented during three literary periods: the Romantic Era, the Victorian Age, and the Twentieth Century. It exposes students to major works of literature including poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and essays. It enables students to appreciate the thoughts and contributions of outstanding writers such as Keats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, and Eliot, as well as Dickens, Joyce, and Lawrence.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
This course provides careful, in-depth readings from Shakespeare’s tragedies, histories, and comedies. The course examines some of the main characteristics of his work, including his major themes, the development of character and plot, and the special worlds that he creates through his poetic language.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys American literature from its colonial beginnings to the American Renaissance of the nineteenth century-from Anne Bradstreet and Cotton Mather to Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. Students learn about the cultural milieu that influenced writers, read major and representative works, and sharpen their critical abilities.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
Though English 381 is not a prerequisite, this course begins where 381 leaves off and covers select fiction and poetry from the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century to the present. Students study major writers and literary movements; and an effort is made to place literature in its cultural context. Works by such writers as Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Toni Morrison may be included.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the gradual emergence of the American novel both as a literary form and as a reflection and reinforcement of patterns in the fabric of American life. Representative authors may include Hawthorne, Melville and Stowe from the 19th century; Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck from the 1920’s to the 1950’s; and Wright and Mailer of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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3.00 Credits
The development of the American theatre since the rise of realism is traced through 1920’s dramas by O’Neill, Howard, and Rice; comedies of manners by Barry and Behrman; socially conscious plays of the 1930’s by Odets, Sherwood, and Hellman; and post-war dramas by Williams and Miller.
Prerequisite:
ENG 101 and 201, or ENG 121
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