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4.00 Credits
The history and practice of travel writing since the 18th century, for students interested in learning how the genre developed and, perhaps, how to begin publishing in it. We will read a broad range of representative travel texts, from the Romantics and beyond, with an eye toward exploring theories of narrative and autobiography, especially in postcolonial contexts. Also covers some of the basic elements of travel writing for publication, making this a writing-intensive course and one particularly well-suited to anyone considering careers in editing, publishing, or the academy. Four credit hours. MAZZEO
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Analysis of the struggle between romance and realism, not just as competing literary modes in 19th-century Britain but as a moral predicament in the period's major narratives. How a spectrum of British novelists (1794-1894) dealt with family, class, race, women's rights, sexuality, and revolution, with a focus on relationships among gender, genre, history, and political ideology. Three novels from the Romantic period (M. Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Emma, Sir Walter Scott's Waverly) and two late-Victorian responses to the Romantics' creed in cautionary tales, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Four credit hours. CARMAN
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Considers different styles of films popular during the film musical's heyday and beyond (the "backstage" musical, the family musical, etc.), along with a range of questions that the genre invites, such as how the "numbers" relate to the narratives and the role of excess typical to the genre. Four credit hours. KELLER
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A comprehensive investigation of the Arthurian tradition from its origins in Celtic legendary materials to its development and perfection in Chrétien de Troyes's French Arthurian romances, the emergence of an English Arthurian tradition in the Middle Ages, and the reinterpretations of the Arthurian myths produced in the Renaissance, Victorian, and modern periods. Issues include the historicity of Arthur and foundational myths, political and cultural appropriation of Arthurian materials, gender and the ideals of quest literature. Works range from Chrétien de Troyes t o The Mists of Avalon. Four credit hours. L.
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An exploration of Shakespeare's recuperative and subversive representations of early modern social structures and the family, including sibling relationships, extended households, amity, and patriarchal hierarchies. Significant writing and research required. Four credit hours. L. OSBORNE
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An exploration of various competing, material forms in which Shakespeare's plays circulate, established at one extreme as canonical literary texts and realized at the other as only authentic in performance. Materials will include film and theatrical performances as well as interactions of text and performance within the plays. Four credit hours. L. OSBORNE
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The Comedy of the Abyss: Beckett faces the emptiness of modernity and finds humor in it. His absurd plays, in which nothing happens, parody the absurd ideals of a Western culture where "everything waits to be called off to the dump" but life goes on as normal. As the "comedian of the impasse," Beckett makes meaningless language speak, in a world that can't go on, but must. The central text of one of the hardest and most rewarding modern writers. Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and prose. Four credit hours. L. SUCHOFF
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An in-depth study of the novels of Chilean author Isabel Allende, supplemented by secondary criticism and cultural and historical context. Considers key themes in her works, including colonization, third-world feminism, machismo, diaspora, and transnationalism. Four credit hours. L, U. SZEGHI
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3.00 Credits
Often considered the most English of all English writers, Jane Austen produced novels that remain remarkably popular, in part because readers are often enchanted by her ironic descriptions of life in Regency Britain. Political, social, economic, literary, and cultural implications of Austen's "mass-market" appeal will be considered and a broad selection of her novels will be read. Readings supplemented by extensive 18th-century contextual and historical materials. A civic engagement course; contact instructor for details. Three credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
The "romantic" sensibilities of the 19th century's most famous literary couple: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley. Using new historicism, psychoanalysis, gender and queer theory, we will study P. Shelley's poetic innovations ( Julian and Maddalo, The Cenci, and England in 1819) and defenses of poetry, vegetarianism, and Greek love. Also, the science-fiction novels of M. Shelley ( Frankenstein and The Last Man) in the context of such parent texts as Godwin's Caleb Williams and Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Maria. What unites or divides England's literary first family What political positions and literary practices do they share Four credit hours. L. CARMAN
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