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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course begins with Milton's epic, Paradise Lost, and then turns to eighteenth-century mock epics and verse narratives. Poets shall include Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats. The course will also serve as an introduction to the Romantic era.
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the extraordinary rise of American literature from the nation's founding through the early twentieth century. Focusing on the "outsider," we examine how American literature gave definition to a culture that was distinct from Europe. Along the way we explore a number of themes: the dilemma of democratic ideals co-existing with slavery and oppression; women as symbols of America; and the relationship between domestic and national fictions. Authors include Irving, Douglass, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, James, Twain, Chesnutt, Wharton, others.
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4.00 Credits
Established by Goethe at the end of the eighteenth century, the bildungsroman (or novel of education) has since travelled around the world; this course will explore its appearance in Britain, the United States, and Nigeria, focusing on the new forms that the genre takes as it enters these new cultures and interacts with their existing literary traditions. Authors may include: Achebe, Adichie, Dickens, Ellison, Eliot, Emecheta, Ishiguro, Kunkel, Plath, and Roth.
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4.00 Credits
This is an introductory Shakespeare course.
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4.00 Credits
An in-depth look at drama by American playwrights who blended the "isms" of their European predecessors with the idioms of their native soil to create a mature drama deceptively known as "American Realism." Works by Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and several of their contemporaries. Focus is on the plays themselves -- their literary and dramatic innovations, their philosophical and cultural preoccupations, and the stylistic and interpretative challenges they posed.
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4.00 Credits
This course will cover American texts from the Puritan settlement through the present, with emphasis on the twentieth century. We will explore the rapid growth of Protestantism into a cultural logic which has been variously revised, conserved, caricatured, repudiated, and resurrected over the course of the American past. Authors include Jonathan Edwards, William Ellery Channing, Hawthorne, Emerson, Catherine Sedgewick, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, Flannery O'Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and James Baldwin.
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4.00 Credits
A course on the transformations of biblical ideas in King Lear, Paradise Lost and Moby Dick.
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4.00 Credits
Although the Romanticism has typically been overshadowed by definitions of masculine "genius," that time hosted a vibrant community of women poets. Felicia Hemans, for example, often outsold Lord Byron in the bookshops. This course will examine eighteenth-century women poets, particularly Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith; Romantic-era poets such as Joanna Baillie, Felicia Hemans, and L.E.L.; non-verse works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe and Dorothy Wordsworth; and finally the Victorians, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti.
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4.00 Credits
Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and Our Mutual Friend, read alongside nineteenth-century dramatic and twentieth-century filmic adaptations and Dickens's own scripts; and two later novels responding to Dickens (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953); Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip (2006)); and Victorian journalistic and ethnographic discussions of reading. Assignments both critical (a research paper) and creative (adapting a Dickens novel into a different medium).
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4.00 Credits
A study of satire in poetry, prose fiction, and drama. Authors covered are Blake, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gay, Voltaire, Orwell, Brecht, Vonnegut, and West.
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