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Characterized by subjectivity, emotion, imagination, and melody, the varied forms of lyric poetry are studied from among the best of Western literature. Particular attention is paid such fixed forms as the sonnet, the villanelle, and the sestina. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or equivalent*. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall, even years.
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A study of selected dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, with attention to their wisdom about mankind and gods. Close readings of these tragedies are supplemented by attention to the Ancient Greek context and to contemporary prose, including Aristotle's Poetics. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or equivalent*. Highly recommended: ENG 1310, ENG 2161, and ENG 2162. Spring, odd years.
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This genre course investigates prose fiction since Cervantes, asking how important writers have received and transformed the novel as an art object-and as a means of doing new kinds of philosophical and psychological work. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310, ENG 2161, and ENG 2162. Spring, even years.
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This course surveys important texts from the civilizations of India, China, and Japan, including Vedic literature; the family of texts in which Taoism and Confucianism resist and complement one another; the Japanese aristocratic literature of private life; and the responses to Buddhism. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring, even years.
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This course is an intensive study of predominantly Western myths: as tales, as narrative cosmologies and archetypes, as the contexts for later literature, as re-visioned in contemporary culture. Primary emphasis is on the ancient myths of Greek and Scandinavian-Germanic cultures, with some consideration given to myth's prehistoric base; a representative sampling of myths from around the world, as well as the Bible, is also included. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring.
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A detailed consideration of the King James version, a work which continues to have tremendous influence on English and American literature. Genres studied include drama, lyric poetry, short story, and essay. Students are also introduced to other noteworthy translations. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Periodically.
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Topics for this course may include literature from an historical period, a major author, or a theme or genre in world literature. The specific subject of the course will be announced at registration. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Fall, even years.
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A consideration of The New Life and The Divine Comedy in the context of European civilization in the late Middle Ages. This course attends to Dante's text and its impossible project: to explain divine justice, and so repair a broken world. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or equivalent*. Highly recommended: ENG 1310, ENG 2161, and ENG 2162. Spring, odd years.
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This examination of Shakespeare's early plays attends to his development as playwright and poet, the nature and growth of his comic vision, and the relationship of the plays to his age and ours. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall, odd years.
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The major tragedies are viewed with special attention to the characterization, the nature, and the growth of Shakespeare's tragic vision; and to the increasing sophistication of his dramatic poetry. The late comedies are viewed as growing out of and complementing the vision of the tragedies. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring, even years.
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