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ENG, LIT 323: 18th Century English Literature

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

Dryden to the Pre-Romantics. Prerequisite: LIT 112 or permission of instructor. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 324: Jane Austen

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Writing Intensive. This study of the works of Jane Austen situates the six major novels in the context of early nineteenth-century culture, introducing the comedy of manners as an important contribution to the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century. Readings include excerpts from Austen's letters as well as the juvenilia and fragments. Prerequisite: LIT 112 or permission of instructor. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 330: The Scottish Renaissance and Scottish National Identity

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Writing Intensive. This course examines the major works of fiction of the second Scottish Renaissance (1982? ) as they both reflect and contribute to the preservation/ formation of a distinctive but highly contested and increasingly fragmented sense of Scottish national identity. It examines this fiction as a primary means for reinvigorating Scottish national identity while at the same time challenging it by critically examining the past rather than nostalgically reproducing it is light of past and present forces that have altered and in many cases eroded both community and identity. Alisdair Gray's Lanark, Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar, Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing are some of the required readings. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 334: British Women Writers

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Writing Intensive. This course presents selections from the work of British women writers from the fifteenth century to the present, with emphasis on the nineteenth century, when female authors came into their own through the popularity of prose fiction. We place these literary works in their social context, learning about historical, legal, and scientific influences on the condition of women in Britain. Prerequisite: LIT 112 or permission of instructor. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 337: Contemporary American Novel

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

In this course contemporary novels will be presented as additions to, and variations on, the novel form. The study will include the theory of the novel and the development, and the connections between contemporary themes and those of earlier American literature. Prerequisite: LIT 112 or permission of instructor. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 338: The Short Story

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

This course will focus on the development of the short story as a literary genre, or on a specific aspect or period of that development, e.g. the contemporary American (or British, or Irish) short story. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 339: Contemporary British Novel

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

This course introduces students to a representative sampling of some of the most interesting, important and influential British novels and novelists of the past two decades, while situating these works in the larger context of contemporary British literary, cultural, socio-economic and political life. In addition, the course uses these works to hone students' reading, writing, research and critical thinking skills. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 401: Contemporary American Poetry

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

An investigation of the particular concept of American poetics developed from Whitman through Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, the influence of which is evident in work of poets belonging to all of the major schools of American poetry since the 1930's. Prerequisite: LIT 112. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 403: Myth and the Invention of Self

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Writing Intensive. Through a series of readings and discussions of primal myths, urban legends, and folk tales, the course first examines the dynamics of the storytelling process and then how the story becomes elevated by repetition and ritual into myth. After further research into mythopoesis, we investigate how the individual's concept of the self is developed with reference to myths, or stories of belief. Offered As Needed.

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ENG, LIT 410: Shakespeare

3.00 Credits

Daemen University

Fulfills core competency: Communication Skills. Writing Intensive. An intensive study of the major plays considered in the light of philosophical, political, and social ideas of the time. An examination of Shakespeare's thought and of his achievement as dramatist and poet. Offered Each Year.

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