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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on Anglophone and Postcolonial literatures produced in former or current countries of the British Commonwealth, in addition to literature produced in English by authors in transnational contexts. May include or focus on postcolonial theory with or without literary texts, by choice of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Scholars of American literature are increasingly looking at the ways in which literary production and reception in the U.S. transcend the conventional boundaries of the nation-state. This course will look at a number of issues central to transnational American literature, including the creation of literature in border zones (lands with joint Mexican-U.S. or U.S.-Canadian allegiances), travel narratives, diasporic fiction, and globalization and its effects on American literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the origins and development of modern poetry in its international context. The course starts with the work of the French Symbolist poets. Students go on to examine some major movements of 20th century poetry, including surrealism, imagism and Negritude. Texts are read in translation, with originals available. Modern Poetry is an introduction to the topic; no previous knowledge of the poets' work or the original languages is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines works of fiction written or published from around the middle to the end of the 19th century and firmly situated in the dominant mode of mimetic fiction such as short stories from Giovanni Verga's Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories; short novels by Anton Chekhov (Peasants, A Woman's Kingdom, and Ward Number Six), and Guy de Maupassant (Pierre and Jean); and a play by Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House). Texts will provide a sample of the literature of realism and naturalism across the European literary landscape during this period.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines works of world fiction associated with the literary critical terms of modernism and postmodernism. The first part of the course focuses on texts written or published from the very beginning of the twentieth century to the years preceding WWII, focusing on texts that clearly depart from the conventions of mimetic fiction that had dominated in the 19th century and revealing the emergence of new cultural and ideological perspectives. Students read from writers such as Knut Hamsun, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, and Virginia Woolf. The second part of this course examines how the trends that had characterized the modernist period are transformed by new epistemological and ontological questions and concerns. The course will cover some novels as well as other works that are harder to identify with a particular genre, as well as some theoretical works on postmodernism. Typical authors who may be included: A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Patrick Chamoiseau, Roddy Doyle, Gunter Grass, Julio Cortazar, and Salman Rushdie.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, and/or other literary and cultural documents central to the study of Modernism as a movement or field of study, from 1900 to 1945. The course may focus on British, American, European, or other relevant international authors, and it may offer a cross-cultural and/or multi-generic selection of texts, or it may focus on a specific genre or national tradition.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the literatures and cultures of early Ireland and Wales, surveying myth, saga, epic, romance and lyric, and considering the contributions from early Celtic cultures to the European literary tradition. Texts will be considered in their English translations.
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3.00 Credits
Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are still living languages. This course reads some of the best recent Celtic authors in translation, such as the poetry of Sorley Maclean and Saunders Lewis, and fiction by Liam O'Flatherty and Kate Roberts.
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3.00 Credits
Students with a 3.3. GPA or higher and 21 or more major hours completed are invited to take this course as a trailer or annex to another major-level course they have completed. The starting place is generally a paper produced for that earlier course, whose professor becomes a project director and first reader, while another faculty member of the student's choosing serves as a second reader. The final product of this Honors Project is a 30 to 50 page document as guided and assessed by the two readers.
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3.00 Credits
This course develops a transnational survey of the history of filmmaking, including technological developments, the important genres of film, major directors and actors, and theories of film.
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