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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course surveys British literature from the Romantic Age to the present, including the Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern periods. A primary emphasis will be on important literary circles and movements, and how 19th-century literature influenced 20th-century literature. The readings will include poetry and novels. Students will be asked to read a novel on their own for presentation to the class. Possible authors include Wordsworth, Tennyson, Arnold, George Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, Lessing, Walcott, O'Brien.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: ENG230 and 240. This course enables students to experiment and develop techniques that will allow them to express their own poetic style and voice. Particular attention will be paid to the nuances of language in the creation of poetry. In this workshop setting, students actively engage in generating ideas, sharing drafts, offering critiques, discussing audience, as well as revising and assessing their own works.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: ENG110, 130 and 230. This course enables students to experiment and develop fiction writing techniques that will allow them to express their own fictional style and voice. Particular attention will be paid to the nuances of language on the development of narratives. In this workshop setting, students actively engage in generating ideas, sharing drafts, offering critiques, discussing audience, as well as revising and assessing their own works.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course explores the novel's many traditions, with considerable emphasis on the diversity of styles and voices. Students read several novels, each governed by assumptions quite different from the others, such as the Kunstleroman, stream-of-consciousness novels, and novels based on non-western concepts of time. The novel course is designed to give the students confidence in their own critical judgment and an appreciation of the novel as a dynamic literary form.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course engages the student in intensive textual analysis of plays and a critical study of the artistic and dramatic techniques of Shakespeare. Students read at least six representative plays from the comedies, tragedies, histories, and problem plays/tales. Students will thus be exposed to the richness of Shakespeare's imagery, the depth of his imagination, and the profundity of his examination of human nature. Students also become acquainted with the Elizabethan mind as reflected in the works of Shakespeare.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours The central focus of this course will be the idea of gender as a major literary theme in works throughout history and its effect on point of view within various literary contexts. Related to this will be some discussion of gay and lesbian writing and literary theory. We will also examine gender in the business of publishing and in artists' personal lives. Special emphasis will be placed upon the history of feminism and feminist/gender studies in the interpretation of literature. Possible authors include Sappho, Ono no Komachi, Wollstonecraft, Fuller, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Richardson, Defoe, Junichiro Tanizaki, Coventry Patmore, Nightingale, Gaskell, Forster, H.D., Radclyffe Hall, Cather, Lawrence.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours See course description under English. Substitutes for PHI 280 by Religion departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Perquisites: Permission of the instructor. All coursework for the BFA must be completed before applying for this capstone experience. Completion of a BFA requires that students submit a body of work, fifty to seventy pages in length, for review by a committee of faculty. The faculty can ask for revisions from the candidate. The body of work may consist of poetry, fiction, dramatic monologue, or a hybrid genre. The successful applicant will demonstrate aesthetic mastery in a given genre of creative writing or in a hybrid genre. All successful candidates will then read their work at a public reading to the Midland Lutheran College community. All BFA candidates must petition the English Department for permission to engage in the Portfolio Review and Reading one semester prior to participation in the process. All candidates must submit a sample of creative work with this application.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission by application.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: ENG 220. Completion of an English major requires that students complete a senior thesis. All students 1) define an area of inquiry, formulate a thesis, gather and arrange materials to demonstrate the validity of the thesis, 2) meet frequently with the approved faculty readers; and 3) formally present their findings to the Department of English. The senior thesis is "independent," and thestudent determines its exact course. Students have the option of choosing either a critical or a creative track. All students must petition the department for permission in the spring of their junior year.
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