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  • LIT 234: Brit Romantic/Victorian Wrtrs

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    Nineteenth-century Britain experienced tremendous change in politics, economics, philosophy, art and literature. It was a century of industrialization, empire-building, new discoveries and social revolution. This course studies representative selections from the major poets and prose writers and explores the social, political and intellectual changes reflected in the literature. British romanticism, including the gothic, the beginnings of realism and the emergence of women writers will be covered. Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, Austen, Dickens and Wilde are just a few of the writers who will be studied. Not available every semester.
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  • LIT 245: Modern European Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This course will trace the development of European literature during the nineteenth and twentieth century. We will discuss aspects such as genre, narrative, technique, time, characterization, as well as cultural and political implications of its development on the European consciousness. This course will pay particular attention to close contextual and thematic readings of several representative works of European literature during the modern age. Global marker.
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  • LIT 300: Literary Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This course is an introduction to the major schools of contemporary critical theory, and an examination of principal exponents of these theories. The student will become familiar with the most important features of psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism and feminism and examine the meaning of structuralism and post-structuralism. In addition, the course affords an opportunity to practice applying the theories to specific literary texts. Not available every semester.
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  • LIT 301: World Mythology

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This is a course in world mythology with special emphasis on the "hero's quest" and other mythical figures as they are manifested in various cultures. Students explore the meanings of mythological figures, motifs and references from a variety of perspectives. Global marker.
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  • LIT 305: Popular Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This course will analyze today's popular fiction in America. What makes a book a "best seller"? What makes "literature" sell (in the millions of copies)? Writers who strike it rich generaly write books that are fast-faced and easy to read, follow a set of conventions that readers recognize, and touch a nerve within their society. This course will introduce students to a variety of literary sub-genres (such as true crime, memoir, road novel, detective fiction, western, and mystery) and to the media culture that hypes and sells these books.
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  • LIT 316: Modern Drama

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    LIT 316 is a consideration of modern plays from 20th-century literature. The American, British, Russian, Scandinavian and Irish theatres are among those studied. Not available every semester.
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  • LIT 319: Shakespeare

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    Students in LIT 319 study selected Shakespearian comedies, tragedies and chronicle plays. The course also provides the students with a general overview of the Elizabethan era and the world in which Shakespeare lived and worked. Not available every semester.
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  • LIT 330: Gender and Text

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This course explores a variety of texts written since 1945 by women, including authors such as Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansberry, Marilyn Robinson and Adrienne Rich. Students will analyze how race, sexuality, class, nationality, motherhood and other factors influence writers' notions of gender. In addition to immersing students in contemporary women's literature, this course aims to provide students with a window into the history, politics and culture of post- 1945 America, a period which saw the Cold War, the "second-wave" and the "third-wave" of American feminism, as well as the intellectual theories that helped illuminate literature about gender past and present. Offered as needed.
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  • LIT 350: The Black Literary Tradition

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This course offers an overview of African-American literature, with glimpses into African and Caribbean literature. Beginning around 1845 with Frederick Douglass' Narrative, students will read from various literary genres, including slave narratives, poetry, short stories, fiction and plays that illuminate both the history of African America and changing ideas of race. Students will conduct ongoing independent research, which they will present to the class, on the major literacy and historical periods we cover, including the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, the civil rights movement(s), the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and early 1970s and the decades following. Reading works by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Thurston, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed, among others, will enable us to analyze how sexuality, gender, class and nationality influence various writers' definitions of race and ethnicity. Offered as needed.
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  • LIT 370: Studies in American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Southern New Hampshire University

    This course explores novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and non-fiction by American writers, spanning at least two literary periods or historical eras (American Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism) or focusing on one theme (violence, race, war, business, law, love and marriage, identity). The topic of the course will vary, depending on the instructor. Readings, films, and lectures on cultural and historical contexts may supplement the literary material.
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