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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Studies in the modern drama of England and Ireland, always focusing on a specific period, a specific group of playwrights, a specific dramatic movement of theatre, or a specific topic. Among playwrights covered at different times are Shaw, Synge, O'Casey, Behan, Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Bond, Friel, Storey, Hare, Adgar, Brenton, Gems, Churchill, and Daniels.
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4.00 Credits
Seeks to understand the extraordinary achievements of Irish writers in the last decade of the 19th and Department of English the first third of the 20th century. Wide readings in different genres-poetry, polemic, short story, novel, drama-that were remade by Irish writers during the tumultuous period from the fall of Charles Stuart Parnell into the early years of national government of the 1930s. Authors read include Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Augusta Gregory, John Synge, Sean O'Casey, Elizabeth Bowen, and Flann O'Brien. Also considers the social and historical contexts of Ireland under the Union with Britain and after that Union was partially broken. In attempting to refine the proper lens through which to view this literature, addresses a number of salient issues, including the nature and cultural forms of Irish cultural nationalism, the violence of civil war, the social position of literature and of intellectuals in projects of national reconciliation and national identity, and the clash between revolutionary anti-imperialism and conservative Roman Catholicism, between rural and urban identities, and between provincialism and cosmopolitanism as strategies for literary self-fashioning.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Irish American literature from the 19th century to the present, considering the literary responses of generations of Irish immigrants as they strove to understand and contribute to the American experience. The works of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Flannery O'Connor, John O'Hara, and William Kennedy are explored, as are the connections between ethnic and literary cultures.
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4.00 Credits
An in-depth consideration of the major works of James Joyce, from the early short stories of Dubliners to the late experimental prose/poetry of Finnegan's Wake, concentrating on a detailed and systematic reading of Ulysses. The biographical and social/ historical contexts of Joyce's work are investigated alongside consideration of his pathbreaking formal experiments and his relations with the many currents of literary and artistic modernism. Discussion of Ulysses is complemented by consideration of the many forms of literary and critical theory that have been fashioned around readings of the book.
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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
Survey of the development of 20th-century American poetry.
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4.00 Credits
Close reading of fictional works by Dreiser, Anderson, Stein, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, West, Wright, Hurston, Faulkner, and others. Studies the texts in light of traditional critical approaches and recent developments in literary theory. Some of the perspectives that enter into discussion of the texts are the cultural and aesthetic background, the writer's biography, and the articulation of distinctly American themes.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of representative works by contemporary novelists. Authors generally include Barthelme, Bellow, Ellison, Gaddis, Hawkes, Mailer, Malamud, Morrison, Nabokov, Oates, Pynchon, Roth, Updike, and Walker.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the drama and theatre of America since 1900, including Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, the Group Theatre, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irene Fornes, and David Henry Hwang.
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4.00 Credits
The development of the film as a major art form and its relationship to other art forms. Particular attention to the language of cinema, the director and screenwriter as authors, and the problems of translating literature into film, with extensive discussion of the potentials and limitations of each art form. Milestone films are viewed and analyzed.
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