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3.00 Credits
What are the problematics of the term "Native American Renaissance " Who are major American Indian authors today, and how have their contributions redefined American literary history Often forgotten or marginalized, Native American literatures present images of America which challenge conventional biases and encourage alternative ways of seeing and telling. This course will explore some myths and realities of Native American life through literature. Using oral tales, early political documents, and autobiographies as well as short stories, poetry, and novels, we will study literature in its historical and cultural context in an attempt to understand better the contemporary texts in this course. Writers studied will include N. Scott Momaday, Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Linda Hogan, and Diane Glancy. Special attention will be given to such issues as racism, cultural invisibility, split consciousness, gender roles, spiritual realism, survival, and empowerment through connection with land, community, and humor. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course explores poems as they relate to the environment, and poems as created environments of their own. The reading consists of a broad selection of poems for background and range, and three books of poems for in-depth study. As the course title implies, the exploration occurs not only in the classroom, but out "in the field." This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A close-reading and writing-intensive course that focuses on how poets use rhetoric to shape meaning. We will examine how poets play with language in order to persuade and move audiences. Topics will include the allure of musical effects, the hidden arguments in figures of speech, the mystery of voice on the page, and the subversive roles that poets create for readers. Class will be interactive and participatory, with informal poetry exercises, short analyses, and presentations. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Spanning the decade of the 1920's, the Harlem Renaissance was a movement of profound African American creative expression. This course approaches the Harlem Renaissance through its contradictions and conflicts, examining the way that differing aesthetic, political, and generational perspectives shaped the movement as a whole. One project in this class will focus on the journals and magazines of the time-Crisis, Opportunity, and Fire!!, to name a few-to investigate the cultural contexts that shaped the literature we will read. Other texts may include James Weldon Johnson's BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY, Alain Locke's THE NEW NEGRO, poetry by Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset's PLUM BUN, Nella Larsen's PASSING, and Jean Toomer's CANE. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A survey of American fiction from the end of World War II, through the Cold War 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and concluding in the aftermath of the U.S.-Vietnam War. Included will be novels and short stories by Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, Robert Stone, and Joyce Carol Oates. Students should be prepared to read a novel a week, or its equivalent, as well as occasional secondary readings for historical context. Evaluation will be through a combination of quizzes, short papers, mid-term and final exam. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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0.00 Credits
Emphasizing the roots of literature's power to generate emotional and aesthetic responses, and exploring the relationship between literary work and dream work, this course examines how literature transforms fantasies toward meanings. Authors to be studied include Shakespeare, Kyd, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Shelley, Poe, Virginia Woolf, Freud, Erikson, Holland, Stoppard, Plath, and Hughes. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Since World War II lesbians and gays in the United States have struggled to gain recognition as an oppressed minority with their own distinct history and culture. Focusing on such practices as camp, the gay macho style, and butch-femme role playing, this course examines the cultural aspects of this struggle. How have lesbians and gays challenged the dominant representation of homosexuality in American culture How has American culture responded to this challenge Texts include the films "Laura," "All About Eve," "Marnie," "The Children's Hour," "The Boys in the Band," "Cruising," and "Philadelphia"; the plays Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Children's Hour, The Normal Heart, and Angels in America; the novels The City and the Pillar, Giovanni's Room, Rubyfruit Jungle, and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name; and selected short stories from Hard Candy. Supplemental readings include essays by Susan Sontag, Esther Newton, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis, and Leo Bersani. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the way written language works in the public sphere. Students will read and write about the following sorts of questions: In what ways can writing best promote public dialogue and deliberation How is the digital landscape changing our conception of writing Is the opinion essay as a form dying As books evolve, what happens to the habits of contemplation and reflection fostered by the sustained, quiet reading of traditional texts How do the changing ways that people acquire news affect the process by which public opinion is formed In addition to a focus on theories of the public sphere, the class will also be a workshop for student writing. Students will write, revise, and engage with classmates' writing in various genres aimed at asserting their views on public issues, from traditional essays and op-eds to blogs and multimedia forms. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
An advanced writing workshop intended to help students find their own subjects and styles as essayists. We will read and write personal essays that express authors' unique responses to ideas and experiences in deeply reflective ways. Our study will include essays by Seneca, Montaigne, Woolf, Dillard, and others from various historical periods that have explored their responses to the world in engaging and complex detail. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the different ways in which literature has been-and can be-interpreted and justified. Students will read critical theories from Platonism to feminism and queer theory, and will apply these theories to selected texts by Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Conrad, and others in order to define their own literary theory. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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