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The course will expose students to the large variety of quality adolescent literature available for reading and study in middle and high school classes. It will also examine the relevance of a variety of issues to the reading and teaching of adolescent literature, among them: reader response, theory and practice; multiculturalism; literacy; the relation of adolescent literature to "classic literature"; the role of adolescent literature in interdisciplinary studies; adolescent literature as an incentive to extracurricular reading.
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Prerequisite: ENGL 2320; ENGL 3090, may be taken concurrently. Surveys the history of the debate about the relations between literature and science, beginning with the exchange between Arnold and Huxley in the Victorian period, continuing through the debate between Leavis and Snow at mid-century, and concluding with current controversies and with current efforts at interdisciplinary synthesis.
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Prerequisite: ENGL 2320; ENGL 3090, prerequisite or co-requisite. Examines narrative theory in the light of recent research into cognitive organization and the structure of the emotions. Traditional and contemporary theories of narrative-of realism, symbolism, point of view, tone, and genre-are developed through recent findings in empirical science. A variety of stories and novels are used as test cases for theoretical propositions.
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Concentrates on the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, including the Canterbury Tales, early poetic works, and the Troilus and Criseyde. All readings are in the original Middle English.
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A survey of old and middle English literature from Beowulf to Malory's Morte d'Arthur, exclusive of Chaucer. All works are read in modern English translations.
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Spenser, Sidney, Wyatt, and other poets of the later sixteenth century. The origin and development of prose fiction.
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Donne, Jonson, Marvell, Bacon, and other poets and essayists of the Metaphysical, Cavalier, and Baroque schools, exclusive of Milton.
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All the minor poems and the three longer poems with some attention to the major prose; Milton and his relation to the politics, theology, and literature of the seventeenth century.
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A survey of the dramatic writings of the period from the interludes of John Heywood to the closing of the theaters in 1642, with particular attention to the plays of Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Ford. Though Shakespeare will not be studied in this course, connections between his works and those of his contemporaries will be discussed.
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The development of Shakespeare's concept of tragedy and tragicomedy from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest. The plays will be related to the social and literary milieu of the period.
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