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3.00 Credits
Literatures in English are produced all over the world. This course explores some of the literature written in English from the Commonwealth including Africa, India, Asia, Australia and the Caribbean. Using appropriate scholarship and theoretical approaches, cross-cultural issues and themes may be explored, including connections to cultural production in Britain and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course may focus on issues such as exile, sovereignty, gender, race and nationality as it works to understand literary relationships across cultures. Theoretical approaches may include cultural studies and postcolonial theory, among others.
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3.00 Credits
A course focusing on the fiction, poetry, drama, film, and/or critical writings produced by women of the African Diaspora. The particular issues focused on will vary from year to year, but are likely to highlight their engagement with such themes as exile, gender, race, eco-sustainability, sovereignty, mobility, and postcolonialilty. The course may focus on women's literary traditions within separate regions of the African Diaspora (African, African American, or Caribbean) or may work comparatively. Theoretical paradigms produced by or about Black women, including race theory, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalytic theory (among others) will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers contemporary topics in the study of the Bible and its reception from a literary and theoretical point of view.
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3.00 Credits
Approaches to Haitian and Haitian Diasporic Literatures Theory and contemporary issues in Haitian and Haitian Diasporic literatures from colonial era through contemporary movements.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of poetic, fictional, autobiographical, and critical texts central to issues in literary Modernism from 1900-1945. Individual versions of the course may focus specifically on either British or American Modernism, or may offer a cross-cultural selection of texts from both American and British authors.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the origins and development of modern poetry in its international context. The course includes the work of the French Symbolist poets. Students also examine some major movements of 20th century poetry, including surrealism, imagism and the poetics of Negritude. Texts are read in translation, with originals available. Modern Poetry is an introductory graduate course; no previous knowledge of the poets' work or the original languages is required.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of major works of the early literatures of Ireland and Wales, including myths, epics, sagas, secular and religious lyrics.
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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 poetry by Sorley Maclean and Saunders Lewis, and fiction by Kate Roberts and Liam O'Flatherly. This graduate course has an equivalent undergraduate course taught in conjunction with the graduate version; specific graduate student concerns will be addressed and developed in a supplemental pro-seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Drama and performance are as old as any form of artistic expression in our culture whose shape, functions, traditions, and value are continually renewed and revised from generation to generation. The drama of today is a vital aspect of contemporary cultural production. Like certain kinds of fiction, drama and performance are in the forefront of contemporary cultural experimentation. This course will typically pick some aspect of modern and contemporary drama and performance from a wide range of possible sources and focus on expressive issues and traditions, aesthetic values, and the sorts of cultural work drama enacts.
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