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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of literature written in Britain during the 16th and 17th centuries, which accompanied the spread of humanism, an emergent nationalism, and the civil strife of the latter period. Principle genres include drama and poetry. Representative authors include Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Amelia Lanier, the Metaphysical and Cavalier poets, Lady Mary Wroth, and John Milton. Prerequisite: ENWR 102 and ENLE 200. Fall semester odd-numbered years
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3.00 Credits
Critical and comparative study of selected representative literary works from African, Arabic, Latin American, and Oriental literature. Fall semster, even-numbered years. May fulfill global diversity requirement.
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3.00 Credits
A study of literature written in Britain from the late 17th to the late 18th century, emerging in conjunction with the rise of rationalist philosophy, experimental science, industrialization, and empire. Primary emphasis is on the rise of the British novel and on the emergence of satire as a key literary mode of the period. Other principal genres include drama, poetry, and nonfiction prose. Representative authors include William Congreve, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Fanny Burney, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, and Samuel Johnson. Prerequisite: ENWR 102 and ENLE 200. Fall semester odd numbered years
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3.00 Credits
A study of literature written in Britain from 1780 to 1830, which variously celebrated and challenged the social, political and economic changes that accompanied industrialization and ignited the American and French revolutions. Principal genres of the period include poetry, the novel, and the essay. Representative authors include Romantic poets such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; novelists such as Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott and Mary Shelley; and prose writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas DeQuincey, and William Hazlitt. Prerequisite: ENWR 102 and ENLE 200. Spring semester, even-numbered years
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3.00 Credits
A study of British literature written from 1830-1900, which registers the hopes and anxieties prompted by industrialization, urbanization and the growth of individualism. Principal genres include poetry, the novel and nonfiction prose, all of which were being created for and read by a larger and more diverse audience. Representative works include the novels of Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; the prose of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill; and the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Prerequisite: ENWR 102 and ENLE 200. Fall semester, even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major currents of nineteenth-century literature of the United States, from the antebellum period, through the Civil War, to the very beginnings of the twentieth century. The course may explore any of the following literary movements: the Romantic movement, including Transcendentalist writers and philosophers (e.g., Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau), as well as the writers of the Romance fiction (such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville); mid-century domestic fiction (including such writers as Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe); slave narratives (Harriet Jacobs and Fredrick Douglas, among others); and American Realism, including major proponents of realism at the end of the century, such as mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, so-called "local color writers," such as Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman, and turn-of-the-century naturalist writers such as Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser. Prerequisite: EN 102. Spring odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of British literature written in the 20th century, shaped by the critical shifts in thought and literary technique associated with modernism and postmodernism. Each movement, developing in the wake of a World War, is characterized by a major break with literary tradition. Principal genres include poetry, drama, novels, short fiction and the essay. Representative authors include William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, Iris Murdoch, Tom Stoppard, and Caryl Churchill. Prerequisite: ENWR 102 and ENLE 200. Spring semester, even-numbered years. Fulfills writing intensive requirement.
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3.00 Credits
A study of early twentieth-century American literature (called "modernism"),from World War I through the 1930s. The course explores the work of white modernist writers (many of whom were part of the expatriate community in Paris during the period) alongside that of the African American writers of the same period who lived in the United States and participated in the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Among the writers studied may be Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, H.D. William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Nella Larson, and W.E.B Du Bois. Prerequisite: EN 102. Fall odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American literature from the beginning of the Second World War (1939) to the present. Particular focus is given to anti-establishment literature protesting the cultural conformity of the 1950s, the counterculture writers of the 1960s and early 70s and the post-modern writers of the 1980s and 90s. Includes representative literary movements such as the Agrarian writers, Beat writers, the confessional poets, the Vietnam writers, and a wide variety of ethnic writers producing literature in traditional and experimental forms. Representative authors include Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Eudora Welty, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell, Tennessee Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Arthur Miller, Tim O'Brien, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Edward Albee, David Mamet and Maria Irene Fornes. Prerequisite: ENWR 102 and ENLE 200. Spring semester, odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of literature written by women, exploring what it means when women become the center of their own stories. The subtitle of the course will help define the focus: The course may focus on writings by British women, American women, women from any ethnic and/or national group, or a combination of any of the above. The course may span historical periods or focus on one century or specific period. Feminist literary and cultural theory may be an added focus. Writers may include: Jane Austin, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich. Prerequisite: ENWR 102. Offered spring even-numbered years.
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