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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Patricia Deery Kurtz, Adjunct Tutor in English Language and Literature A study of various genres of medieval literature (allegory, drama, dream vision, elegy, epic, lyric, romance, satire) and of relevant aspects of the history of the period and how it influenced the subject matter and tone of representative works. Students will understand this literary period as a continuum which encompasses language, imagery, motifs,symbolism, themes and structure.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Laurie Accardi, Adjunct Tutor in English Language and Literature A reading, analysis and synthesis of the major prose works of the three Bront? sisters. Addresses the important scholarly issues, both biographical and critical, related to the Bront? sisters and their novels. Students will discuss the extent to which and the manner in which the Bront?s both collaborated with each other and revised each others' novels in their own works.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Staff. Analysis of important works of John Donne and John Milton in the context of 17th-century life and thought, applying the historical/biographical critical approach to understand how individual works form the pattern of each poet's works as a whole and to see why even in this time of contentious revision of the canon, these men retain their status as major poets.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Ian Munro,Professor of English A study of the literary and theoretical texts of contemporary writers belonging to formerly colonized societies, examining such concepts as irony,allegory and magical realism and the uses that postcolonial writers have made of concepts like authenticity, identity, mimicry and hybridity. Students completing the tutorial should be able to show understanding of the critical debates surrounding the term"post-colonialism"in literature.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Patricia Deery Kurtz, Adjunct Tutor in English Language and Literature Medieval devotional literature from the Old English "Dream of the Rood" to the late Middle Englishmorality play Everyman. Analysis of devotional poetry, prose, and drama in terms of subjects, themes, images, and purpose; emphasis on English literature, but some consideration of works by continental writers; comparison and contrast of various types of piety; discussion of the social framework; some sessions devoted to the study of paleography.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Mark Walters,Professor of English An analysis of various theological perspectives of fiction (how, for instance, certain readings of pre and post-lapsarian human nature lead to a range of critical assumptions about the story-making impulse and process), followed by an examination of the ways in which Christian doctrine has informed canonical American fiction, specifically that of Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, O'Connor, and Updike.
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2.00 Credits
Tutor: Staff The thesis tutorial allows a student to pursue research into a literary topic of particular interest and to complete either a substantial research paper on that topic or two drafts of an honors project paper. It helps the student become familiar with the materials, methods, and conventions of literary research and writing.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Tutors: Staff Revisions for the comprehensive examinations. Intensive reading and rereading, writing of examination-style essays.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Fredrick M.Spletstoser,Professor of History A detailed survey of antebellum American history (1787-1860), concentrating on government, politics and economics.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Fredrick M.Spletstoser,Professor of History A detailed survey of antebellum American history (1787-1860), concentrating on American society, culture and thought.
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