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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 4937. This course traces the parallel arcs of feminism reflected in similarly-themed Irish and Irish-American women's novels from 1950 to the present. Authors range from Edna O'Brien and Mary McCarthy, the first contemporary feminist novelist in Ireland and America, through Emma Donoghue and Eileen Myles, whose lesbian protagonists bring feminist perspectives into the 21st century.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST4938. Introduction to American women poets since 1900: anarchists, Imagists, Harlem formalists, white lyricists, modernists (Ridge, H.D., Dunbar-Nelson, Millay, Stein); mid-century giants (Rukeyser, Brooks) and Confessionals (Sexton, Plath); feminists and multiculturalists (Rich, Lorde, Giovanni, Hogan), poets of witness and the play of language and the mind (Klepfisz, Olds, Mullen, Perillo).
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3.00 Credits
Intensive readings, critical discussion, and writing on topics relating to Jewish literature. Topics to be announced. This course may be repeated for credit if the topics are substantially different.
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3.00 Credits
Special topics in literature that are not covered in other 4000-level English courses. Since the topics of ENGL 4950 may change each semester, the courses may be repeated for credit if the topics are substantially different.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 3100 or for English Major, ENGL 2320, ENGL 2720, and ENGL 3090, or permission of instructor.? This course will examine the literary work of Ethnic Writing with a special focus on the function of identity in literature. Students will read work arranged either as a collection of various ethnic writers or as subject-specific groups, such as Women Writers of Color, Irish/Irish American Writers, West Indian Writers in the US, South African Writers, etc.? Students will come to understand the socio-historic relevance of literary movements as well as significant events such as the Great Northern Migration, Eugenics, World Wars I and II, etc. in order to understand how representative American and World Literature has become more culturally diverse and inclusive in the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to prepare students for the professional study of English. The course will both familiarize students with basic bibliographic tools and scholarly methods and introduce them to issues that are of current critical interest to those engaged in the advanced study of literature. These issues include gender, textuality, reader-response, multiculturalism, feminism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, literary history and the relationship of literature to philosophy, history and science. Must be taken within the first twelve hours of graduate study.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of selected theories of literature.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 5040. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. A consideration of feminist critical theory as a means of reassessing literary texts and our cultural heritage. After exploring the roots of feminist criticism, the seminar will examine Anglo-American and continental debates on theories of language, writing and representation. In providing an interdisciplinary context the course will consider studies in psychology, anthropology, history, and philosophy/theology which have influenced and enriched feminist approaches to literature.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Open to student in the MFA Program and other graduate students with consent of instructor.? Half of this course will be a study of the classic texts of magical realism and the other half will be a fiction workshop in which the members of the class will write in this imaginative and symbolic genre.? Non-MFA students will write a critical study of magical realism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Open to students in the MFA Program and other graduate students with consent of instructor.? This course explores various aspects of traditional and contemporary poetry.? The student will gain an understanding of formal poetry-rhyme and meter-as well as of traditional types of poetry, for example, the lyric and the narrative.? Throughout the course, an emphasis will be maintained on free verse and a greater understanding of its practice.? Students will read selectively in the poetry, theory, and critical approaches of various periods, for example, the romantic and the modern, and within various movements, such as the symbolist or confessional.
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