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1.00 Credits
A survey of the rich traditions of oral and written literature created by North American Indians. We will begin with some classic texts of story, song, and autobiography, and move to contemporary fiction and poetry. We will also listen to recordings and view films of oral literature, chant, and the storytelling tradition. Course requirements include written responses to texts, an oral report, a midterm, and a final project. Participants must review a history of Native Americans before the class begins. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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In the most general terms, a "renaissance" refers to a flowering of creative activity, a revival and revision of "classical" texts and themes, and a period of optimism regarding human potential. This course will focus on the 19th century "American Renaissance" and the "Harlem" or "New Negro" Renaissance of the 20th century, as well as several larger aesthetic, cultural, and political questions. These include: how, why and by whom is the definition of "classical" applied By what means and to what ends are "old" artistic forms made "new" What social, political, and artistic conditions define the cultural climate before, during and after a renaissance Texts will include prose, poetry, and short fiction by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Chesnutt, DuBois, Schomburg, Locke, McKay, Toomer, Cullen, Hughes, and Hurston. We will also use the collections of The Wadsworth Atheneum to view key examples in the visual arts. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will introduce students to a cast of writers from a variety of backgrounds who have used the form of the short story to project dramatic experiences and convey sometimes unique cultural ethos. In addition to examining thematic concerns and stylistic choices, we will explore how different writers have adapted the conventions of the short story and incorporated elements of other traditions to suit their narrative purpose. We will read some North American and European writers, but the emphasis will fall on writers from traditionally underrepresented parts of the world. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will examine the modes of romance and romanticism within 19th-century British literature. We will look at the popular forms of poetry, the novel, and the essay in order to examine gothic, fantastic, and psychologically interior elements that in Victorian literature sometimes work beyond a so-called "realistic"-exterior, that is, an explainable, socio-economically circumscribed kind of writing. We will look at characters that may not fit into our current notions about Victorian "respectability"; we will discuss the gothic and romantic structures that shape their sensibilities and subjectivities; and we will examine the relation between the visible and invisible, the canny and uncanny, and the tangible as well as the ghostly. Readings will include works by Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Wordsworth, G. G. Lord Byron, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Bront , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Alfred Tennyson. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contex 1.00 units, Lecture
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An account of Irish writing from the Irish Revival to the modernism of Joyce, from the realism of the 1930s and 1940s to the postmodernism of the Eoin McNamee. Rather than attempt to define a single Irish literature, this course will investigate the many versions of Ireland and Irish identity in writings by canonical figures such as Yeats and Joyce to contemporary writers such as Jennifer Johnston and Roddy Doyle. We will also consider the role of Irish film in the 1980s and 1990s. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will look at evolving notions of literary heroines and heroes in British literature from the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries (1850-1925). During the time of industrialization, increasing urbanization, changing laws, growing Empire, and new ways of imagining social organization and personal subjectivity, there is a corresponding change in the types of characters, heroines and heroes included, in literature. Through our readings, we will explore various modes in novel writing, including verse novels, big novels, and humorous novels. We will also address formal innovation in poetry and fiction and consider the relationship between major trends in contemporary literary theory and Victorian literature. Readings will include works by such authors as Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Anthony Trollope, Charles Swinburne, Grant Allen, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
A close listening course which foregrounds poetry's sound text by means of reading aloud, audio and videotapes, live poetry readings and Slams, and live class performance. We will explore: today's audio-text in relation to early oral tradition; sound text and written text as two different texts generated by any given poem; sound as artistic medium; the place of the spoken poem in our current U.S.A. culture(s). The class community will do some writing, but the focus is on sound--speech, hearing, listening as embodiment of text. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the work of United States poets laureate from 1986 to present. We will discuss the history of laureateship, investigate the process by which a U.S. laureate is selected, what the laureate's duties are, and how a U.S. laureateship compares with the official functioning of poets in other parts of the world. Finally, we will explore the relationship between the official voice of poetry as embodied by the laureate, and the multiple voices of poetry in our diverse culture. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
How do writers talk about what we do for a living, what we buy and what race we give ourselves Does our skin color, our job or our Jeep Cherokee define us We seek to understand how these factors influence our perceptions of who we are and how we fit into society. Race, gender and the market economy -- and the ways these concepts change throughout American history -- will become key issues for us to consider. Our reading will cover a broad swath of time, from Crevecoeur and Equiano in the 18th century to Thoreau, and Frederick Douglass in the 19th century and Sui Sin Far and "Rivethead" in the 20th century. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Through selected readings of exiled poets living in the U.S., and of U.S. poets living in exile, this course explores the dynamic of forced, or voluntary absence from one's own country as it relates to the poet and the poem. We will discuss "exile" as not only a matter of citizenship, but also a matter of language. We will use the work of Czeslaw Milosz as a grounding force for our exploration. This is a reading intensive/writing intensive course. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context 1.00 units, Lecture
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