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4.00 Credits
Listed as Theater and Dance 228. Four credit hours. L. BOX
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some of the mythologies, sagas, romances, tales, and other writings that are echoed in the stories of Middle Earth. Not an introduction to Tolkien's fantasy literature; a knowledge of The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings is assumed. Topics include the role of myth and fantasy in society and the events of Tolkien's life as they relate to the world he created. Three credit hours. L. PUKKILA
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4.00 Credits
The history, terminology, and major theoretical issues involved in studying film as a genre. Involves film analysis as well as writing assignments on both film and theory. While emphasis is put on questions of film form and style, also considers the notion of the cinema as an institution that comprises an industrial system of production, distribution, and exhibition; social and aesthetic norms and codes; as well as particular modes of reception. Four credit hours. A. KELLER
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4.00 Credits
Introduces English majors to key movements in American literature and works written by American writers of different cultural backgrounds. Attends to themes that run throughout American literature prior to 1865 and considers how and why they are adapted and transformed. Explores the role of literature in shaping conceptions of the American self and how it has been used as a form of social protest. Traces the development of the American literary tradition, with particular attention to relationships between generic traditions, contexts surrounding the birth of certain genres, and how genre relates to a work's cultural and historical context. Four credit hours. L. BRYANT
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4.00 Credits
American literature from the Civil War to the present. Examines literary works in all genres in their relationship to the times they both reflect and shaped and explores their significance for readers in later and different worlds. Four credit hours. L. BRYANT
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4.00 Credits
A survey of British literature from early modernity through the Industrial Revolution. Focuses in depth on writers whose influential works resonate with the historical shockwaves caused by the rise of the middling classes with their new ideology of domesticity, by the challenges posed to established religion by secularism and science, and by the industrialization and urbanization of England within a Great Britain newly conscious of its global power: Aprhra Behn; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Daniel Defoe; Jonathan Swift; Mary Shelley; Thomas de Quincey; Elizabeth Gaskell; and Charles Dickens. Concludes with Peter Carey's recent postcolonial retelling of Great Expectations, Jack Maggs. Four credit hours. L, I. THORN
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3.00 Credits
Listed as Music 267. Three credit hours. A, I. TEAM
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3.00 Credits
The study of selected texts through close reading and detailed analysis, and the consideration of various critical approaches, methods of inquiry, and strategies of interpretation. English majors should take this course in the sophomore year. Prerequisite: English 172 (may be taken concurrently.) Four credit hours. L. SUCHOFF
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the writing of fiction, with emphasis on student manuscripts. Prerequisite: English 115. Four credit hours. A. BLEVINS, BOYLAN, SPARK
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the writing of poetry, with emphasis on student manuscripts. Prerequisite: English 115. Four credit hours. A. BLEVINS, DONNELLY
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