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4.00 Credits
Conducted in a seminar format. Introduces students to the demands and pleasures of university-level investigation of English literature. Students develop the tools necessary for advanced criticism, including close-reading skills, knowledge of generic conventions, mastery of critical terminology, and skill at a variety of modes of analysis, from the formal to the historical. Also emphasizes the writing process, with the production of four to five formal papers.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of English literature from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon epic through Milton. Close reading of representative works, with attention to the historical, intellectual, and social contexts of the period.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of English literature from the Restoration to the 20th century. Close reading of representative works with attention to the historical, intellectual, and social contexts of the period.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of American literature and literary history, from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War. The goal is to acquire a grasp of the expanding canon of American literature by reading both established, canonical masterpieces and texts traditionally considered marginal. Topics include the relation between history and cultural mythology, the rise of "literature" as a discipline unto itself, the meaning of American individualism, the mythology of American exceptionalism, the dialectic of freedom and slavery in American rhetoric, the American obsession with race, the ideology of domesticity and its link to the sentimental, and the nature of the "American Renaissance."
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4.00 Credits
Department of English Survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Close reading of representative works, with attention to the historical, intellectual, and social contexts of the period. Courses in Literature for Majors and Minors Open to All Undergraduates The following courses are open to all undergraduates who have fulfilled the College's expository writing requirement. Some courses carry additional prerequisites (noted below).
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4.00 Credits
Study of theme and technique in the American short story through readings in Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, James, Hemingway, Faulkner, Porter, and others, including representative regional writers.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of major autobiographies, fiction, and poetry from the early national period to the eve of the new Negro renaissance. Writers considered generally include Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Frances E. W. Harper, and Harriet Wilson.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of major texts-fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama-from Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903) to contemporaries such as Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Discussion of the Harlem Renaissance and its key figures, including Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on major novels by African American writers from Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) to the present. Readings generally include novels by Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Chester Himes, as well as more recent fiction by Ernest Gaines, John Widerman, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of a variety of medieval dream visions. Beginning with the great prophetic visions of the Bible (Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Apocalypse), students then read a number of early visions of journeys to heaven and hell, versions of earthly paradise, and other visionary texts.
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