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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Intensive reading, critical discussion, and writing on topics to be announced each semester. Since the topics of ENGL 4900 may change each semester, the course may be repeated for credit if the topics are substantially different. Enrollment limited to twelve students.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: (Majors) ENGL 3090, (Non-majors) ENGL 3100 or consent of Instructor. This course focuses on the study of select topics of African and African American Literature and Criticism and Black Diaspora texts.? Topics from semester to semester may vary and include such concentration areas as the Literature of Civil Rights, African American Memoir, Trans-Atlantic Black Literature, Captivity and Freedom Narratives, Diaspora Studies, The African American Folk Aesthetic, Poetry of the Black Aesthetes, Theories of Race and Class, and Black Feminist Writing, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two college courses in literature. The development of the European novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Representative works of writers such as Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, and Proust, read in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4930. The course examines the role of gender in literature, including the transformation of literary genres by women writers, writings by women during a particular historical period, and gender relations in literature, Specific topics vary from semester to semester. The course may be repeated for credit with departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4931. Works will be read ranging in scope from closet drama and romance to lyrics to personal, political, and religious writings by women, such as Margery Kempe, Mary Sidney, and Amelia Lanyer, who wrote during a period when reading and writing were not the female norm.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4932. This course examines the historical development of the female gothic, a genre which employs narrative strategies for expressing fears and desires associated with female experience. From the late 18th century to the present, we will trace the persistence of the gothic vision in fiction and film.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4933. The course covers the development of the female Bildungsroman from the late 18th century to the present. We will consider how contemporary and current theories of female development help us read these novels within their particular cultural contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4934. This course covers the novels of the major 19th century British writers Jane Austen and the three Bront? sisters, Anne, Emily, and Charlotte. The course will be devoted to Austen's romantic comedies and the historical/cultural contexts that inform the novels, as well as the darker romanticism of the Bront?s, along with the biographical, cultural, philosophical, and religious contexts of their work.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4935. Women as epic and romantic heroes in British and transatlantic writing 1790s-1850s: reformers and rulers in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; a runaway slave and an epic poet in works by Mary Price and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; erotic and political adventures in Robinson, Dacre, Hemans; American icons "Pocahontas" and "Evangeline" in Sigourney and Longfello
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST4936. Adventure, gender, and power in British and post-colonial writing: Lady Montague on Turkey, Gibbon on Islam, Byron and Hemans on harems and heroes, Disraeli on the Jewish Caliph of Baghdad, T.E. Lawrence on Arabia, and el Saadawi and Rushdie on (post) modern gender and the Islamic East.
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