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3.00 Credits
A course that studies the oral basis of modern writing beginning with oral epics and continuing through Greek chirographic drama into the modern typographic novel. Works that present rhetorical backgrounds (Aristotle, Horace, Longinus) are reviewed to synthesize the rhetorical forms with the literature. Recent work on literacy theory is also examined along with the implications of this work for the written and spoken word. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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A survey of the principal figures and major developments in 20th century British and American poetry from Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stevens and Williams to contemporary poets. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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This course studies major works by major African American writers by addressing one or two selected themes developed in a variety of genres. The authors studied, predominantly of the 20th century, spans several literary movements, beginning with pre-Civil War writings and moving through the post-1960's avant garde period. The primary aims of the course include deepening students' awareness of the social and literary contributions of African Americans to the larger body of American literature and exploring the ways African Americans define themselves and their unique culture in their literature. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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Study of the themes in Faulkner's novels. Readings include The Unvanquished, Intruder in the Dust, The Bear, Spotted Horses, Old Man, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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In this course students examine poetry and fiction of American writers who found community and artistic inspiration in the City of Light during the early decades of the 20th century, especially in the entourage of Gertrude Stein. She labeled them "A Lost Generation." While such writers as T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, may have felt alienated and dispossessed, they gave American Literature its modern vision. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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The course begins with a survey of Greek and Roman mythology and considers its influence on literature along with definitions of mythology. Selected authors are read to familiarize students with the use of myth in literary works. Selected myths from west to east are examined according to modern classifications of mythic themes. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
An intensive upper-division seminar that focuses on techniques derived from historical as well as mid- and late-20th century literary criticism to examine literary texts and the role that literary theory has played in our understanding of the concept of literature, per se. Applying a variety of theory-based methodologies to selected poems, short stories, and novels, the course introduces the student to both the literature and the theoretical constructs that have helped form what has become the modern institutions of literary culture. The impact of such approaches as diverse as traditional, authorial intensions; text-centered analyses; and the more intense, linguistic focus of recent history will be combined with applied textual analysis techniques that reveal different, yet not altogether opposing, insights into a representative sample of texts as diverse as Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress," William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use", to name a few. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150; and junior standing or above
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3.00 Credits
While comparing views of Neoclassical and Romantic British literature, e.g., regarding human nature, social and political change, truth, imagination, objectivity and subjectivity, the course focuses on major writers of the respective periods: poets like Dryden and Keats; novelists like Defoe and the Bront s; dramatists like Sheridan and Shelley; literary theorists like Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. In addition, the course takes up issues and events (e.g., the Bloodless Revolution and the French Revolution) which comprise the intellectual contexts of both periods. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150, and honors status or instructor approval. (LTII)
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This is an intensive upper-division seminar that focuses on metaphor in the fictional prose works (as opposed to the poetry) of the nineteenth century, both in America and on the Continent. Highlighting foundation texts that have contributed significantly to the development of prose, this course will explore a wide range of writers that were attempting to broaden the concept of literature, per se, during this time period. The purpose here is to apply metaphorical theory and methodologies, from Aristotle to the present, to the fiction of authors such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Guy de Maupassant. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to many of the major works in the modern theatre, starting with Henrik Ibsen and ending with David Mamet. Response papers approach the problems of casting, directing, or interpreting a play based on the student's knowledge of the author's intent. Longer papers explore in more depth with the use of secondary sources some problem in one or more plays that is a theme of twentieth-century drama. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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