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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Studies major English novelists, such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bront?, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and at least one noncanonical novelist. Hager.
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Focuses on the literature, music and culture that emerge after WWI in places like Harlem. Examines the period?s atmosphere of creativity and experimentation through the works of both major white writers like Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Eliot, and major African-American writers like Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Du Bois and Toomer.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 105 or equivalent, consent of the instructor, or graduate standing. Concentrates on the writing of personal narratives and essays. Encourages structural and stylistic experimentation, imitation of models, and testing of ones limits as a writer. Requires short critical exercises to sharpen consciousness of form and technique in non-fiction. Pei.
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Prereq.: ENGL 210. Surveys British poets, prose writers, and novelists from the 1840s to the turn of the century. Studies writers that may include Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Matthew Arnold, Florence Nightingale, Queen Victoria, Darwin, Ruskin, Mill, Newman, and Carlyle. Hager.
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Prereq.: ENGL 210. Studies the two major English women novelists of the 19th and 20th centuries in relation to their major works and current critical debates. Bromberg.
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Prereq.: ENGL 210. Studies the novels of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipul, Nadine Gordimer, Tayeb Salih, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and Anita Desai in the context of contemporary post-colonial theory. Bromberg.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 108, ENGL 109 or consent of the instructor. Serves as an advanced-level workshop for poets seeking a space in which to concentrate on their craft and participate in sophisticated discussions of poetry. Requires completion of a manuscript of 20 poems worthy of being submitted for publication as a chapbook, and an essay on poetics. Weaver, Wollman.
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Prereq.: ENGL 210. Examines the wide variety of Victorian literature written for children, from fairy tales and nonsense verse to didactic fiction and classic examples of the Victorian bildungsroman. Authors studied may include Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dinah Mulock Craik, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Mary Yonge, and Rudyard Kipling. Hager.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210. Studies in depth, with critical readings, the major 19th century writers Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Melville, with attention to their contributions to the development of a distinctively American literature. Perry.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq.: Sophomore standing. Provides a broad overview of the field of childrens and young adult literature, including historical and contemporary considerations, criticism, and representative works from major genres. Bloom, Mercier.
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