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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines myths about the principal gods, goddesses, and heroes of ancient Greece and the influence of Greek mythology on later literature, language, and the visual arts. Includes readings from Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Ovid, and Greek dramatists. Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
Closely studies the Old and New Testaments, with attention to the problem of strategies of interpretation. Considers themes including the use of metaphor; shifting attitudes toward sex; time and typology; and theological versus cultural perspectives. Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes major plays with commentary on the theater of Shakespeares London. Includes films and attendance at live performances of Shakespeares plays when possible. Gullette.
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4.00 Credits
Studies major American poets and the process by which the creation of a self precedes the creation of one's poetry. Attends to such figures as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Lowell. Staff
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4.00 Credits
Examines cross-cultural influences in 20th century poetry, such as the case of the negritude poets, Harlem Renaissance poets, and the French surrealists. Emphasis on American poets such as Langston Hughes, H.D., and William Carlos Williams. Attention will be given to fundamental approaches to the criticism of poetry. Weaver.
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4.00 Credits
Studies American literature from its beginnings to the Civil War; from its pre-literature recording the encounters among the Native Americans, English, Spanish, French, and Africans to the first emergence of America's literature of diversity, exemplified by such writers as Douglass, Jacobs, Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Melville. Bergland.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the responses of American writers to the change from a predominantly rural small-town society to an urban industrialized one and the accompanying challenges to previous racial and gender stereotypes. Texts include poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson; fiction by Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Edith Wharton; and W.E.B. DuBois's Souls of Black Folk. George.
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4.00 Credits
Presents the contextual and equitable aspects of African-American literature as an integral part of American literature, in the hope that strategies of racial and gender dominance will give way to a wider appreciation of literary art. Weaver.
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4.00 Credits
Discusses the novels of major American writers of the last 60 years, including such authors as William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, William Styron, John Gardner, and Anne Tyler. Perry.
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4.00 Credits
Explores thematic concerns and literary conventions that characterize African-American fiction. Covers literature by ex-slaves like Douglass, Wilson, Brown and Gronniosaw, postbellum writers like Harris, Chesnutt and Washington, Harlem Renaissance figures like Toomer, Du. Bois and Hurston, and more contemporary writers like Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Griffin, Walker and Reed.
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