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4.00 Credits
Discussion of the novel under categories such as the English novel, Continental novel, and the postcolonial novel as represented in selected novels. Genre discusion and back- ground on the novel as literary/artistic creation is included. Offered periodically.
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4.00 Credits
This course involves the reading and discussion of several writers in English such as Conrad, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence, Woolf who have greatly influenced the literature and the thought of the twentieth century. Offered periodically.
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Critical theory is perhaps the fastest-growing field of English study since 1980; students entering graduate programs in English now need to have knowledge of the subject. This course will include such classical theorists as Plato and Aristotle, but will focus mainly on 20th Century theory, from the "new" criticism of the 1950s through structuralism, deconstructionism, new historicism, and feminist historicism to current postcolonislist theory. Offered annually. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Western civilization has often treated sin and sexuality as synonymous. Through selected readings in Western literature, the course will examine whether the attitudes toward sexuality have changed over the centuries. Readings from some non Western traditions also will be included to provide different perspectives from the classical period to the twentieth century. Offered once every two years.
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4.00 Credits
Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean, from oral song and James' Minty Alley to Naipaul, Walcott, and writers of the Carribbean diaspora. The complexities of the relationship between colonizer and colonized, the transformation of that relationship by "the unmasking of imperial fictions," and evolution of new forms of discourse will govern the selec- tion of texts. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS
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This course gives in-depth knowledge of particular periods and genres of literature; topics are offered on a rotating basis. They include 19th Century British fiction; American literature to the Civil War; 17th & 18th Century British literature; women writers 1760-1840, and others. (Offered periodically) Prerequisite: EMS
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Reading and viewing critically and analytically plays dealing with important themes, issues, and questions of the twentieth century. Acquaints students with the theater as a social institution, a form of communication, and a means of consciousness raising. Plays may include works by Brecht, Shaw, O'Neill, Ionesco, writers from the Black Theater and the Latin American stage as well as contemporary women playwrights. Offered periodically.
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
A comparative understanding of the epic in its thematic, structural, and cultural aspects. Some of the major epics of India (Mahabharatha and Ramayana), as well as the Persian Book of Kings and Turkish oral epics, are studied in detail alongside the major epics of the Western tradition--Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. Offered once every two years. Prerequisitie: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Selected works of several writers in English such as Conrad, Shaw,Yeats,Joyce,Eliot,Lawrence,Woolf,O'Casey,and others, who greatly influenced the literature and the thought of the twentieth century. Offered periodically. Prerequisite:EMS
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