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4.00 Credits
This course encourages diverse responses to important works of British-U.S. and World Literature. It fosters the skills of close reading and develops the confidence necessary for independent interpretation of literary texts. While studying each text, students read critical articles about them reflecting the approaches of "new criticism," biographical and psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, feminism,queer theory, and other current methodologies. Small group discussions of study questions, oral reports, and writing assignments encourage students to read the texts specifically and respond to them independently. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
A broad survey oif the literary tradition of Europe and its diaspora. Selections will vary by semester, but recently the courses included works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante, Moliere, Montaigne, Tlstoy, Ibsen, Kafka, and Camus. It is recommended that students take these two courses sequentially. Offered annually. Prerequisite: ECII placement or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
A broad survey of the literary tradition of Europe and its diaspora. Selections will vary by semester, but recently the courses included works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante, Moliere, Montaigne, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Kafka and Camus. It is recommended that the students take these two courses sequentially. Offered annually. Prerequisite: ECII placement or equivalent
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4.00 Credits
Poetry, fiction, essay, and memoir from the colonial period to the U.S. Civil War. Examines significant works represen- tative of Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the "American Renaissance," Transcendentalism, the voices of Native Americans and women, and the literature of Abo- litionism as examples of a developing literary nationalism and as expressions of a multicultural society's developments and struggles. Authors may include William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheat- ley, James Fenimore Cooper, Richard Allen, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frances E.W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, John G. Whittier, Walt Whitman, William Wells Brown, and others. Offered every year. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Poetry, fiction, drama, essay, and memoir from the U.S Civil War to the present. Examines significant works representing realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism in lite- rary technique and responding to the evolution and tensions of a multicultural society, including the labor, immigra- tion, civil rights, feminist, and lesbian-gay experiences. Authors may include Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Ten- nessee Williams, Ralph Ellison, Gary Soto, August Wilson, Oscar Hijuelos, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Auidre Lorde, Thorn Gunn, and others. Offered every year. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Examines the development of African American literature in the 20th century. Special emphasis is given to the development of literary movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the BlackTheater, and the emergence of cultural nationalsim in the 1960's. This course is cross - listed with the American Studies Program. Offered periodically. Prerequisite EMS.
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative works of world literature from Antiquity to the Modern. The course emphasizes the study and consideration of the literacy, cultural and human sign- ificance of selected masterpieces of the Western and non- Western literary traditions. An important objective of the course is to promote an understanding of the literary works in their cultural/historical contexts and of the enduring - human values which unite the different literary traditions of the world. This course complements EL3560¿61, Literatures of Europe Parts I and II, and so focuses largely on literat- tures of the non-Western world. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
A survey course examining the works of major English writers from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th century, including the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Swift. Attention paid to their influence on later writers. Offered every Fall. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
A survey course studying major English writers of the 19th and 20th centuries from the romantic and Victorian periods to contemporary times. Among the writers examined will be Wordsworth, Keats, G. Eliot, R. Browning, Joyce, Shaw, and Yeats. Attention paid to their influence on later writers. Offered every Spring. Prerequisite: EMS.
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