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1.00 Credits
This workshop explores the form of writing that combines the craft of fiction writing with the skills and practices of the journalist. We will read some of the foremost 20th-century and contemporary practitioners of this form of writing (V.S. Naipual, Joseph Mitchell, Joan Didion, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Rory Stewart, Alma Guillermoprieto, Susan Orleans, Jon Lee Anderson, etc., and selections from some of their important precursors: Stephen Crane, Jose Marti) and discuss, often, the form's complex relation to literary fiction, the tensions and difference between journalism and imaginative works, and so on. The workshop will begin with practical writing assignments: first paragraphs, setting, character, how to develop meaning, short pieces, etc., with the final goal being to produce a New Yorker magazine-like (in length and craft) piece using some aspect of the city of Hartford. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Students will do in-class exercises, and write and revise their own poems. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An introduction to the craft of screenwriting with a strong emphasis on story selection and development. Students will complete a full-length screenplay over the course of the semester. We will read and analyze scripts that have been made into films, and we will workshop student work through the semester. Writing experience recommended. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the film studies minor. Not open to first-year students. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
George Orwell called political language "the defense of the indefensible," and yet democracies need a lively public culture of argument and debate in order to come to terms with complex issues, define values, make decisions, and solve problems. This course will explore the contemporary state of our political rhetoric in the United States, with a focus on the dynamic interactions of television, radio, print, and cyberspace. Students will participate in electronic discussions with peers across the country as they debate current issues generated by national election campaigns. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will examine ways in which performance is in many cultures linked to the festivals of many different kinds. More basically, it will examine the ethos of what can be called "the festival world" in contrast to the "workaday world." We will consider ways of regulating time (festival time vs. clock time), the demands of vocation vs. leisure, play vs. work. In addition to studying festival drama, we will examine the idea of festivity and play as establishing an alternative to the "public" world of politics and vocation in selected works of literature. Specific works to be studied will include Euripedes' Antigone in the context of Greek festivals, German faschtnachspiele, or carnival plays by Han Sachs, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, and Dickens' Hard Times. Particular attention will be paid to Caribbean Carnival as street theater, evolving from emancipation festivals in the 19th century. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a literary theory 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Hailed by some as America's most significant cultural contribution, jazz has occupied a place of tremendous importance in the cultural life of the 20th century. This course examines representations of jazz in American literature in order to understand a few of the many ways American writers have drawn on jazz to enrich their themes and enliven their style. In addition to familiarizing themselves with the music of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, students will read works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Frank O'Hara, Norman Mailer, Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Michael Harper, and Toni Morrison. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will examine how British literature represents mystical life in relation to concepts of the British social body in the 19th century. Gothic works, loss-of-faith novels, spiritualist fiction, and literature with mystical amalgams of distinct belief systems (such as spiritualist Buddhism) will be covered. Central questions we will ask include how do expressions of mystical life relate to national identity and how does an increase in faith perspectives in the late 19th century relate to the expansion of the British Empire The readings include works by Charlotte Bront , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sheridan LeFanu, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Marie Corelli, and Cora Linn Daniels. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Through close reading works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Racine, Pirandello, and Tom Stoppard, and by examining commentaries by Aristotle, Freud, Frye, Winnicott, and Girard, this course analyzes violence and the sacred, role-playing, and the relationship between play-watching and dreaming. This course satisfies the requirement of course emphasizing literature written before 1800. This course may be used to fulfill literature and psychology minor requirements. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course examines women's involvement in British imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. What part did ideologies of femininity play in pro-imperialist discourse In what ways did women writers attempt to "feminize" the imperialist project What was the relationship between the emerging feminist movement and imperialism at the turn of the 20th century How have women writers in both centuries resisted imperialist axiomatics How do women authors from once colonized countries write about the past How are post-colonial women represented by contemporary writers Authors to be studied include Charlotte Bront , Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Alexander McCall Smith. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Lecture
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How did encounters with the indigenous cultures of the Americas shape the literary, religious, scientific, and political imaginations of European writers This course will focus in particular on the works of early modern English writers from More to Behn; English works will also be juxtaposed against selected Incan, Aztec, Spanish, and French texts (read in translation) that illuminate the broader contexts within which writers were shaping a distinctly English imagination of the nature and significance of colonial conquest. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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