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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the culture and literature of the medieval world through translations of diverse texts written in Latin, French, German, Italian, Icelandic, and other vernacular languages. Texts are selected according to the theme or focus chosen by the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the Old English language and literature as well as the culture of England before the Norman Conquest of 1066. Students learn the grammar and vocabulary of this earliest surviving form Department of English of English, while being introduced to topics such as the heroic code; conversion and cultural syncretism; the rise of English national identity; monasticism and spirituality; the law and customs of the Anglo-Saxons; the Viking invasions and the Norman Conquest; and hybridity and multilingualism. The course ends with reading excerpts from Beowulf in the original and orally performing scenes from the poem.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer's major poetry, with particular attention to The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's language and versification are studied briefly but intensively so that students are able to read his 14th-century London dialect with comprehension and pleasure. Special critical attention is given to his narrative skills, methods of characterization, wide range of styles and forms, and other rhetorical strategies. Students are also encouraged to explore Chaucer's artistry as a reflection of late medieval social and cultural history.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the major writers of the 16th century. Such representative works as More's Utopia, Sidney's Defense of Poetry, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and works of the lyric poets from Wyatt to Sidney are studied as unique artistic achievements within the cultural crosscurrents of humanism and the Reformation.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the reading of Shakespeare. Examines approximately 10 plays each term. The first term covers the early comedies, tragedies, and histories up to Hamlet. The second term covers the later tragedies, the problem plays, and the romances, concluding with The Tempest.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive reading of six to eight plays of Shakespeare chosen from among the comedies, tragedies, and histories, with attention to formal, historical, and performance questions.
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4.00 Credits
Reading of major non-Shakespearean drama, including plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and others, with attention to both formal and historical questions. Among issues to be addressed are genre, gender and sexuality, status, degree, and nation.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the prose and poetry of the 17th century-an age of spiritual, scientific, and political crisis. Readings in Jonson, Donne, Bacon, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Browne, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Topic varies each term. Consult the department's undergraduate website for further information.
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4.00 Credits
Emphasis on the major poems-Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes-with some attention to the early poems and the prose. Traces the poet's sense of vocation, analyzes the gradual development of the Miltonic style, and assesses Milton's position in the history of English literature, politics, and theology.
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