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3.00 Credits
Now the focus of grave concerns over global warming, the Arctic generated a different set of anxieties in the nineteenth century. Perceived as strange and terrifying, and deadly to those who tried to chart and conquer it, the region was a source of the sublime; its inhuman greatness both inspired and appalled. Drawing on various genres, students examine the "Arctic sublime," considering its artistic and ideological purposes for Romantics and Victorians. Works include Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as well as works of visual art and selections from nineteenth-century theorists of the sublime. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course. Not open to students who have received credit for First-Year Seminars 350. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (Critical thinking.) [W2] L. Nayder.
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3.00 Credits
Tristram Shandy, an eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne, opens perplexing questions about narration as its experimental digressions strain the idea of what belongs to a novel. Was it at birth born unto another time, the modernism of the twentieth century This course investigates narratological strategy and digression in particular as it places Sterne in the idiom of Swift ( Tale of a Tub), Carlyle ( Sartor Resartus), and Proust ( Swann's Way). The films, Tristram Shandy ( Winterbottom), Passion ( Godard), and Night Watching ( Greenaway), offer additional artistic commentary on the workings of digression. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (Critical thinking.) (Pre-1800.) [W2] S. Freedman.
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3.00 Credits
Premised on William Carlos Williams's definition of culture as the relation of a place to the lives lived within it, this course begins with a brief exploration of Western conceptions of the pastoral, then focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century visions of nature's relation to the poetic imagination, where nature is understood to include ideas of wilderness, cultivated landscape, and even urban space. Psychological, political, philosophical, and prophetic preoccupations come to startling focus in poetries specifically responsive to the earth and locale. From several traditions a number of poets is considered from among Virgil, Horace, Marvell, Bash , Wordsworth, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Hardy, Frost, E. Thomas, W. C. Williams, Jeffers, Neruda, Kavanagh, Bishop, Snyder, Heaney, Momaday, Ammons, Berry, Walcott, Oliver, and Haines. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. [W2] R. Farnsworth.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the relationship between literature and visual culture, examining how poets construct visual works of art through language as well as the narratives that images silently weave. Topics include medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic ekphrasis; medieval dream vision poetry; idolatry and iconoclasm; Elizabethan iconography; Pre-Raphaelite portraiture; and the connections among narrative, cinema, and photography in the modern novel. Authors may include Chaucer, the Gawain Poet, Shakespeare, Webster, Blake, Keats, Browning, Hardy, and W.G. Sebald. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (Pre-1800.) [W2] K. Bowen.
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3.00 Credits
The seminar examines diverse efforts to define "postmodernism." Students read novels by Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace, Eco, and Rushdie. Contemporary reviews, secondary criticism, narrative theory, issues of socially constructed reality, and some problems in the philosophy of language mark out its concerns. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level English course. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (Critical thinking.) [W2] S. Freedman.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major Victorian poets, including Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti. Poems are read in conjunction with various problems in literary research. Weekly assignments involve working with scholarly bibliography, reading in Victorian periodicals and newspapers, examining microfilm, and using the many available electronic resources. Many of these research methods are useful for carrying out thesis work in any literary period. A main goal of the course is to see what it might mean to read a poem "in context." Prerequisite(s): one English course. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. [W2] S. Dillon.
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3.00 Credits
Ancient Greek philosophers, in their efforts to explain their world, drew readily from literature. The same has not been the case for the most influential philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition. Literary commentary appears stinted in Wittgenstein's writings, hardly flourishes in Davidson, Putnam, Goodman, and Rorty. When we investigate European voices, such as Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida, do we come away thinking differently about the fit between philosophy and literature How does philosophical method apply to literature Do varying accounts of metaphor, reference, or truth concern literary explanation Concepts, such as Gricean maxims, Davidsonian intention, Cavellian presence, and Derridean markers form a ground to judge their aptness in reading literature. We, then, seek answers to Moth's query in Love's Labors Lost, " I pretty, and my saying apt Or I apt, and my saying pretty " Recommended background: Philosophy 234 and 241 and English 295. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (Critical thinking.) [W2] Normally offered every year. S. Freedman.
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3.00 Credits
The course considers the simultaneous development of "high" literature during the age of Shakespeare and colonial settlement in Ireland and the Americas, as well as British trade and exploration in Africa and Asia. Particular attention is paid to early versions of "race," the role of gender in representing "New World" encounters, and the relationship between travel narratives and scientific discourse. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level English class. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (Pre-1800.) [W2] C. Malcolmson.
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3.00 Credits
Students register for English 457 in the fall semester and for English 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both English 457 and 458. [W3] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Students register for English 457 in the fall semester and for English 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both English 457 and 458. [W3] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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