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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes song and tale, fable, epic and tragedy. Discussion of the evolution of narrative and verse forms, and oral (story-teller/poet) techniques, and the power of image and symbol. Topics occur in the context of a survey of the classical Greek, Hebrew and North American experience. Study will include reference to other cultures and ideas from theorists such as Freud, Jung, Hamilton, Graves, and Campbell.
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3.00 Credits
Traces the idea of tragedy as it develops and changes over time and place, beginning in ancient Greece, moving through Renaissance England, and ending in twentieth-century America. Literary forms may include drama, poetry, short fiction, and the novel. Literary theories may include Aristotle (a.k.a. classical theory) and new historicism.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the changing conventions within gothic literature. Forms include prose, verse, and film. Looks at the influences of history, art and architecture in the development of the genre. Historical focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the contemporary period. Literary theories may include psychoanalytic theory and feminism.
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3.00 Credits
Examines key moments in the making and remaking of the national identity of the United States, from the Puritans to the American Renaissance, from the Harlem Renaissance to multiculturalism. Literary forms may include verse, prose, and film. Genres may include the jeremiad, epic, pastoral, and satire. Literary theories may include historicism, Marxism, new historicism, and cultural studies.
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3.00 Credits
Looks at the works of Catholic writers in English from the middle ages to the present. This course explores how Catholicism has influenced the fiction and poetry of these writers. It also looks at how changes in the Church have affected the authors and their works over history. Genres may include tragedy, sonnet, free verse, and drama. The theory component draws on New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Explores various themes in Irish literature from ancient times to the present century, including nature, mythology, religion, oppression and conflict, family unity, and national identity. The course looks at how the use of these themes in early literature continues to influence Irish literature today. The course explores Irish poetry, drama, and short fiction, using such theories as New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Examines literature of Britain from the Renaissance through the present. It looks at major works of each period as well as the major characteristics and influences of literature during these periods. The course explores poetry, prose, and drama and uses various literary theories to explore the literature.
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3.00 Credits
Examines novels written by British and American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how their writing reflects their experiences as women in society. Writers may include Shelley, Austen, Woolf, Chopin, Wharton, and Morrison as well as feminist critics such as Gilbert, Gubar, and Jardine. Genres may include satire, tragedy, realism, and romance.
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3.00 Credits
Examines American literature by writers of various races and ethnicities using Cultural Studies/Multiculturalism (theories of race, racism, and nationalism as well as sociological theories of identity and group behavior and how these influence writers). Literary forms may include verse, prose, and film. Genres may include comedy, tragedy, and satire. Historical periods may include European colonization, the Jim Crow era, the civil rights movement, and today.
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3.00 Credits
Explores how psychology has been used to examine both characters in literature and authors of literature. Students study how critics have used psychology to come to a better understanding of literature drawing upon such theories as those of Freud, Jung, Lacan and others. Further, the course looks at the psychological impact of literature on the reader-why we react the way we do to works of literature. The course will cover fiction, drama, poetry as well as comedy, tragedy and other genres.
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