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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course considers theatre in the context of literature, music, visual arts, and theories of acting.
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4.00 Credits
We will study the depth and breadth of Vladimir Nabokov's English novels. Special attention will be paid to the riddling and the ribald elements in Nabokov's work and the way that they have scandalized readers. Special attention will be given to Nabokov's irreverent and idiosyncratic opinions on the nature of art and the task of the critic.
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4.00 Credits
During the last 50 years, the United States has received immigrants from many Latin American, Caribbean, African and Asian countries in contrast to previous waves of immigration which were primarily from northern or eastern Europe. This course will focus on the Latina/o experience, which includes but also challenges immigrant discourses. It will also insist on a comparative approach and is also rooted in a historicized exploration of immigrant narratives in American literature.
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4.00 Credits
The rise of the nineteenth-century American novel from its origins (Irving, Cooper), through the American Renaissance (Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville), to realism (James, Howells, Twain) and naturalism (Dreiser, Wharton). This course will attend to the historical and cultural contexts in which these novels were written, but it will focus equally on novelistic form.
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4.00 Credits
William Faulkner may be the greatest American novelist of the 20th Century. This course examines his fiction in the contexts of modernism, Southern Gothic, naturalism, race relations, and religion. Texts will include The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, Go Down Moses, and the Snopes Trilogy.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Wharton, Age of Innocence; Cather, My Antonia; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night; Ellison, Invisible Man; Nabokov, Lolita; Bellow, Herzog; Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and stories; Ha Jin, Waiting. Stories by James, London, Anderson, Gaitskill, Wallace, Beattie, Lahiri and Ford.
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4.00 Credits
We will cover American crime narratives, emphasizing the hard-boiled and noir fiction that flourished between the Jazz Age and the Cold War as well as the police procedural and the true crime novel. Popular texts will be approached as examples of craft art which have provided paradigms for major American authors, including Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Sources will include films such as The Godfather, Blade Runner, and The Dark Knight.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the fiction and travel literature produced by American writers living in Europe, from Henry James to the present.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the literature of Australia through key works of modern and contemporary fiction. Authors include Christina Stead, Patrick White, David Malouf, Helen Garner, Peter Carey and Alexis Wright. We'll consider their distinctive approaches and concerns, the way they reinvent the novel in response to particular conditions and commitments-national, expatriate, feminist, indigenous, and the changing local and international contexts of their work.
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4.00 Credits
Recent writing from or about Asia and the Pacific that engages creatively with questions of freedom and exile, self-transformation and social critique, indigeneity and the right to speak and be heard. Authors-from India, Sri Lanka, China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, New Zealand and Australia-include Ko Un, Michelle de Kretser, Gao Xingjian, Patricia Grace, Ha Jin, Rohinton Mistry, Haruki Murakami, Les Murray and Nam Le. How does dialogue with their work change our understanding of the potential of literature in the contemporary world? Students are asked to respond critically, with options for creative responses to the set texts.
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