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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Literature that focuses on the pursuit of money as an expression of desire and passion in pre-World War II capitalist America, particularly as expressed in novels of the crime genre and other relevant cultural modes. Authors may include Crane, Norris, Sinclair, Dreiser, O'Neill, Hammett, West, Chandler, Cain, and McCoy. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
Study of American Indian origin stories, accounts of early encounters with Europeans and American Indian colonial experiences, and works by contemporary American Indian authors of various tribal and regional backgrounds. Attention to such themes as adaptations of oral tradition into written forms and the sociopolitical purposes of these adaptations. Literary study will be supplemented by some film and visual media. Four credit hours. L, U. SZEGHI
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4.00 Credits
Particular attention to the much-neglected contributions of African-American women writers such as Jessie Fauset, Nella Larson, and Zora Neale Hurston, leading to a critical understanding of the ways African-American writers in the 19th and 20th centuries have responded artistically to problems inherent in American democracy concerning race, identity, marginality, gender, and class. Interpretive methods that will inform readings by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Chester Himes include formalism, historicism, feminist criticism, and myth criticism. Four credit hours. L, U.
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3.00 Credits
Concentrates on the poetries of Dickinson and Whitman, but also examines Emerson, Dunbar, and a few of the so-called Sentimental poets. These poets all wrote during a period of growing American expansionism and liberalism, and they had a concomitant faith in the transformative powers of art, thereby altering the texture and dynamic of poetry itself. Dickinson and Whitman both explore the boundaries of gender and sexuality, selfhood and identity, spirituality and death, as well as their place in their cultural moment. Prerequisite: English 172 or any 200-level English course. Four credit hours. L.
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3.00 Credits
Concentrates on the poetries of Dickinson and Whitman. These poets wrote during a period of growing American expansionism and liberalism, and they had a concomitant faith in the transformative powers of art, thereby altering the texture and dynamic of poetry itself. Dickinson and Whitman both explore the boundaries of gender and sexuality, selfhood and identity, spirituality and death, as well as their place in their cultural moment. Prerequisite: English 172 and one of 255, 256, 266, or 271, and sophomore or higher standing. Three credit hours. L. SADOFF
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4.00 Credits
Major works of American fiction since 1920--by Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bellow, O'Connor, Alice Walker, and others--will be analyzed, emphasizing the pattern of experience of the protagonist in conflict with the modern world. Four credit hours. L. BRYANT
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4.00 Credits
In a cold, New England dormitory, a northern student asks his southern roommate to "tell about the South." The effort to do so engenders not just one narrative about what it means to grow up amid the palpable shadows of the Civil War and institutional slavery, but a whole tradition of imaginative fiction demarcated by elusive terms like "regionalism," "grotesque," "realism," and "modernism." Because so many of our writers are Southerners by birth, experience, and disposition, the South, as myth and reality, has become a trope for what is essentially and problematically "American"--and what isn't--in our literature and cultural history. Four credit hours. L.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the Modernist movement in American poetry: the aesthetics, manifestos and historicity of high and low Modernism. Analysis of work by various figures from the period, including Pound and Eliot, Stevens and W.C. Williams, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes. Prerequisite: English 172 or 271. Three credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the emergent postcolonial literatures in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent, specifically addressing ways in which: postcolonial literature challenges, modifies, or radically alters the inherited legacy of colonialism by adopting and working on the master metropolitan language, English; re-imagines the dominant narratives of colonial expansion as a way to interrogate and unravel the dominant ideologies of the Empire; and evokes alternate histories of the nation as a way to question the cultural politics of neo-imperialism and the continuing legacies of the Empire in our times. Four credit hours. L, I.
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4.00 Credits
How did the ancient, ritual language of a European minority, no longer a spoken tongue, arise to become one of the most vibrant and creative literatures of the postmodern world In English translation, an introduction to the literature of modern Israel, Zionist programs and their conflicts, and the roots of the modern Hebrew novel in the diaspora, Yiddish-speaking world of Sholom Aleichem and the shtetl. Four credit hours. L, I. SUCHOFF
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