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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Drawing on a diverse selection of poems, novels, short stories, drama, and essays, this course uses the paradigm of the nation as a haunting home to introduce students to classic and emerging themes within Anglophone literary studies. Themes include, but are not limited to: civilization and barbarism; revolution and nation-building; orientalism and hybridity; gender and sexuality; migration and memory; globalization and environmentalism. Authors: Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Brian Friel, Michael Ondaatje, among others.
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4.00 Credits
This course approaches the novel as a world genre formally responsive to the conflicts of empire, decolonization, and globalization. Taking "the personal as political" as our starting point, we will examine how boundary-crossing intimacies, long-distance connections, and cultural curiosity become part of the novel's transnational development. Major authors from the modernist to contemporary eras, including Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Tayeb Salih, Amitav Ghosh, W.G. Sebald, Arundhati Roy.
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4.00 Credits
How have migration and ethnicity been imagined and represented? And how have aesthetic representations of melting pot or multiculturalism affected laws governing migration, the real lives of migrants and indigenous populations, and the changing self-conception of the United States? Such questions, complemented by ethnic theory, inform discussions of books ranging from The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans and Israel Zangwill's The Melting-Pot to contemporary literature.
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4.00 Credits
This experimental course offers a case study on the musical Porgy & Bess. Students will examine the multiple iterations of "P&B" (novel, play, film, etc.), perform archival research, critically engage with the history and culture of the American musical, and ask the question what would it mean to adapt Porgy & Bess today. Topics to include: adaptation theory and practice; performance studies; gender, race, class, and identity; and media studies.
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4.00 Credits
How is expertise produced, disseminated, controlled, challenged? What evidence demonstrates expertise? What part of expertise is knowledge, common-sense, analytics, lifestyle, character? How is expertise written into power or submission? What is the work of disciplines or professions in reproducing practices of criticism and professional judgment? What functions as expertise in law, economics, the humanities, the arts, or literary studies? How is an expert different from a pundit, a scholar, or a critic?
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to major works in English literature from Beowulf through the seventeenth century, the course will explore various ways that new identities are created through the cultural forces that shape poets, genres, and group identity. We will hone close reading skills and introduce rhetorical tropes. Our study of the language will culminate in a new text of a Middle English play, which the class will produce and perform.
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4.00 Credits
Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate the principal cultural forces (e.g. religious, political, social) that shaped England in particular. We will look to the ways in which those vibrant yet opposed forces find expression in the shape, or form, of literary works.
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4.00 Credits
A study of central genres of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern literature in tandem with the development of ideas of nation and community, with a special emphasis on poetic narratives. Key texts include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and The Pilgrim's Progress.
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4.00 Credits
This course will study a range of ballads and sonnets from the Fourteenth to the Twenty-First Century. We will explore questions of poetic form and literary history within two of the most enduring yet continuously evolving kinds of poetry in English and in other languages.
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4.00 Credits
This is an introductory course in modern poetry.
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