|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210. Looks at Americans as authors of themselves and creators of their own personae in the modern American novel. Examines both the literary and societal implications of such self-fabrications in works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, and Toni Morrison. Perry.
-
4.00 Credits
Considers sermons, memoirs, poetry, short stories, and novels by Samson Occom, William Apess, Jane Johnston, Schoollcraft, Ella Deloria, N. Scott Momaday, Leslis Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and others in the context of Native American history and particular tribal and familial oral cultures. Also covers critical essays and studies by Native and non-Native scholars including Paula Gunn Allen, David Moore, Elaine Jahner, Arnold Krupat, Karl Kroeber, David Murray, and Phil Deloria. Bergland.
-
4.00 Credits
Studies most of the novels and short works of Toni Morrison, viewing them both as involved in thematic conversations with other writers of the American literary canon and as presenting critical evaluations of the racial history that Morrison believes continually haunts this canon. George.
-
4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210. Focuses on 20th century American plays by writers like Susan Glaspell, Eugene ONeill, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, and August Wilson. Reads plays as literature and enacts them in classas far as possibleas theater. Weaver.
-
4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210. Focuses on Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich alongside their influences and inheritors, from Anne Bradstreet to Joy Harjo. Uses frameworks of textual, intertextual, and cultural analysis within a seminar format. Bergland.
-
4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210 and ENGL 121 or consent of the department. Closely analyzes a few major plays and varied critical approaches to them. Wollman, Gullette.
-
4.00 Credits
From metafiction to novels that parody a classic, function as conduct books, and proclaim the dangers of fiction, the novel is concerned with what it is and what it does to and for its readers. Focusing on Don Quixote and Madame Bovary, we will explore one of the novel's favorite themes: reading itself.
-
4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210. Examines Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and selections from Finnegans Wake. Considers Joyces transformation from fin-de-si?cle ironist to high modernist comedian, as well as a broad selection of Joyce criticism, including the French feminists who have adopted him as one of their own. Gullette.
-
4.00 Credits
Prereq.: ENGL 210. Considers major works in verse, fiction, and drama by William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Sean OCasey, and some of the newer voices in Irish writing, such as Seamus Heaney and others whose work has been influenced by the recent sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Gullette.
-
4.00 Credits
Investigates psychoanalysis as a theoretical discourse that has been forced continually to rewrite itself as it rethinks and makes room for the concepts of race and gender. Focuses upon Freud, Lacan, and more recent scholars and theorists who have used race and gender to redefine psychoanalysis. George.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|