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3.00 Credits
A study of Victorian literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction prose, the course explores the work of authors such as Tennyson, Hopkins, Arnold, the Brownings, Rossetti, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde, Shaw, Carlyle, Mill, and Newman. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of American literature from its beginning to the Civil War, with emphasis upon Edward Taylor, Franklin, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman as representatives of the colonial, neoclassical and romantic periods. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of the survey begun in EN 3600. Covers from post-Civil War to the 1940's. Chief stress is on Whitman, Twain, Howells, Dickinson, James, Crane, Frost, Eliot, Pound, W. C. Williams, Wallace Stevens, Hemingway, Faulkner and ethnic dimensions. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into how novelists manage such formal elements as character, world, plot and point of view as well as thematic and stylistic patterns. Intensive analysis of Melville, James, Dreiser, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, Bellow and others. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
This course studies 1) plays that have contributed to the development of American theater and 2) drama theory - from Aristotle to the present day - relating to tragedy and comedy, to realism, naturalism, expressionism, and surrealism, to theater of social protest, theater of the absurd, etc. Readings include plays of Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Gibson, Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Mark Medoff, August Wilson, etc. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII
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3.00 Credits
A study of contemporary English, considering various approaches including traditional, structural and transformational grammars. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the history of English, its relationships with other languages, its linguistic changes, structure and dialects. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students explore environmental issues as they are expressed both explicitly and implicitly in literary texts. In this two-fold strategy, the primary approach is to study texts that establish environment as their principal focus, works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction broadly classed as "nature writing." The second approach is to examine the implicit treatment of environment within literary works whose focus is not primarily environmental. Both approaches expose students to writers from diverse cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis on the many speculations as to what life in the future might be like, both hopes and fears. Readings include Plato's The Republic, More's Utopia, Canticle for Leibowitz, Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange. Prerequisite: EN 1110/ 1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary seminar format course studies the presentation of experience in literature and in the visual arts. With the aim of exploring questions about civilization and culture, the quality of progress, the nature of the world and of the human person, the focus is on works conveying such themes as man in the wilderness, the individual vs. society, the hero and the antihero and the quest for meaning and transcendence. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150, and honors status or instructor approval.
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