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3.00 Credits
Students will engage with advanced critical theories of race, racial performativity, and racial representation in drama and performance. The course brings together ideas from a range of disciplines, including critical race theory and ethnic studies, to shed light on drama and performance. Sometimes the texts that are highlighted will bear directly on issues of race but the course will also look at how these approaches help us study materials where race is a subtext. The reading will generally highlight texts and performances by authors and artists of color.
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3.00 Credits
Virtually every culture has produced a body of drama and with it, evolving bodies of theory that speculate about such things as what drama does and doesn't show, how a culture represents itself to its audience, what are the relationships between performance, illusion, and sympathy. Some theories focus on the theater as an institution while others focus on the nature of performance in constituting the individual self; some theory thinks about the cultural work that drama does. This course will focus on and explore a problem or topic from the vast body of theory about drama, performance, and performativity.
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3.00 Credits
The Ropes course explores some of the wealth of texts, ideas, and trends that can be considered as contexts for the study of modern literature. With a new topic selected each year, the course studies a selection of primary, secondary, and theoretical texts focusing on some significant issue in contemporary culture from the perspective of English Studies. The course will highlight the urgency of some question, body of material, or methodology, prompted by questions raised by the humanities or creative arts about the culture surrounding us all. The course typically includes seminar meetings and lectures by guest speakers. Participants in the Ropes course end up producing a significant project exploring some topic relevant to the central concerns of the course that year.
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3.00 Credits
An examination in depth of either the concerns of a particular literary theorist's approach, the development of a particular school of literary theory, or a specific problem which cuts across different literary theories. Students are advised to take at least a general survey of literary theory in advance of this course.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we read many of Freud's major papers, ground-breaking and innovative studies in relational theory, and the most important essays of Lacan's Ecrits. In this way, we investigate the three major schools of psychoanalysis, namely, classical Freudianism, Object Relations Theory, and French psychoanalysis. We also read works that interpret important dimensions of human experience and contemporary culture by the light of these same psychoanalytic perspectives. Students are responsible for oral presentations that discuss a theoretical concept or set of concepts and that apply a given psychoanalytic perspective to a literary text or a cultural issue. Students also write a seminar paper in which they develop a sustained critical psychoanalytic reading of a topic (literary or cultural) of their own choice.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies Literary Modernism as an international movement, with specific attention to American, English, French and German writers-essayists, poets, and novelists. We also study self-reflections (by the writers themselves) on what it means to be a "Modernist," and subsequent (contemporary) theories about the Modernist moment, inclusive of modernism's relation to postmodernism and modernist politics.
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3.00 Credits
A careful examination of one or two of the issues around which criticism of the last fifty years has revolved. The contexts and evolution of the debates will be highlighted. Students are advised to have previously taken at least a general survey of literary theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores specific problems in the field of diasporic studies, such as intersections of transnational media and diasporic culture and/or the impact of gender, race, sexuality, or class on diasporic literatures.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on problems in Caribbean literatures, examining key themes addressed within literary texts written by authors from the archipelago: European colonial settlement, slavery, abolition, the post-emancipation legacies of slavery, plantation economic structures, postcolonialism, diasporas or migrations in the region, and environmental issues related to the Caribbean, such as beach erosion, tourism, and land use, as well as theoretical approaches to Antillean cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on particular sets of texts, concerns, and issues raised by the study of the wealth of literature produced across the global English-speaking world. The course may concentrate on the literature of particular places or literature concerned with a set of issues or an-depth exploration of individuals or groups of authors. It is likely to explore in some depth the current conversations in critical or theoretical approaches to this material.
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