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4.00 Credits
An examination of representative poets in the major movements in American poetry from 1956 to the present (including close readings and cultural contexts): Ginsberg and Snyder of the Beats, Sylvia Plath and the Confessional Poets, Elizabeth Bishop and the Formalist poets, Charles Simic and the Neo-Surrealist movement, Frank O'Hara and the New York School, Yusef Komunyakaa and Tyehimba Jess (Vietnam poetry and the Spoken Word movement), John Ashbery and Alice Notley and the Postmodernists. Four credit hours. L. SADOFF
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A historical, cultural, and analytic look at the American short story from its origins to the current day, including the slave narratives of Bibb and Douglass and works by Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, O'Connor, Updike, Cheever, Baldwin, O'Brien, Robert Olen Butler, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, John Barth, and Donald Barthelme. Four credit hours. L. SADOFF
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Examines the signal intersections between mass culture, literary production, and the American car--the "machine in the garden" that as symbol and substance, myth and reality, metaphorizes modernism and postmodernism in the 20th century. An eclectic combination of "texts," including fiction by Flannery O'Connor, Stephen King, and F. Scott Fitzgerald; music by the Eagles, Bob Seger, Tracy Chapman, and Patti Griffin; films by Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme; and deconstruction theory are some of the required readings. Prerequisite: English 115. Four credit hours. L, U. BRYANT
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Non-Western religions have affected American poets as far back as Emerson and Whitman. By the beginning of the 20th century, East Asian poetry's emphasis upon unelaborated image had sparked the revolutionary poetics of Pound and William Carlos Williams. Since World War II, the rise of Zen practice in North America has prompted many poets to explore the kinship between poetry and Buddhism's non-dualistic world view. Emphasis will be on readings in Zen and in contemporary American poetry. Four credit hours. L.
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3.00 Credits
Practice in the writing of short stories, with major emphasis on student manuscripts. Admission is by manuscript submission only; consult instructor for deadlines and format for manuscript submission. Prerequisite: English 278. Four credit hours. BOYLAN
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Practice in the writing of poetry, with major emphasis on student manuscripts. Admission is by manuscript submission only; consult instructor for deadlines and format for manuscript submission. Prerequisite: English 279. Four credit hours. BLEVINS
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Creative nonfiction includes renderings of personal experience, presentations of opinion and passion, profiles of people, and evocations of time and place. Based upon "fact," it uses elements of fiction. A writing workshop with weekly assignments designed to help students find their best material and their strongest voices. Also, reading and discussion of the work of published essayists. Formerly listed as English 277. Prerequisite: English 115 (or exemption). Four credit hours. A. N. HARRIS
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3.00 Credits
A selected genre of literature. Works in progress will be examined and performed in a workshop setting. Prerequisite: English 115. Four credit hours.
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4.00 Credits
Adventure narratives occupy an odd place in literature. Often they are written by nonprofessional writers, and the chief (some would say only) concern is the unfolding adventure. However, adventure narratives are among the most compelling literary works, and many elements (not just physical risks) can constitute the adventure of the work. Examples of full-length adventure narratives and the tools of both nonfiction and adventure writing will be reviewed. Then students will work on their own adventures, either in essay or extended form. Narratives will be reviewed by the entire class in a workshop setting. Four credit hours. A.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the representation of poverty, the elite, and the middling classes in relation to the era's seeming promise of social mobility via participation in global capitalism. Attends to the roles of "taste"--the differentiation of popular from elite forms of print--and new models of childhood in the legitimation of middling class identity. 18th-century authors, including Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Mary Wollstonecraft, will be read in relation to selected recent theorists of class; also Liza Picard's 2002 social history of mid-18th-century London and Emma Donoghue's 2001 novel, Slammerkin. Prerequisite: English 172, 255, 256, or 266 (may be taken concurrently). Four credit hours. THORN
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