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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected literary, cultural, and political issues as they affect recent writing in diverse cultures and nations; offered variously as Postcolonial Literature, Resistance Literature, Literature of Exile, and the like. Note: Consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A study of significant literary works and developments in fiction in the modern period. Such writers as Flaubert, Joyce, Mann, Proust, and Kafka; or, in the last half of the 20th century, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Saramago, Walcott, Mahfouz, Soyinka, and Grass.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the major issues in world poetry of the late 20th century. Theories and practice of postmodernism; the relation of poetry to other arts; the cultural contexts in which poetry is produced.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
Recent Anglophone novels and short stories from India, Africa, Canada, Australia, and multicultural England. Memory and self-invention, new forms of narrative, the politics of language, and the forging of national and international conscience in work by such writers as Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Nuruddin Farah, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Carey, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ben Okri.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A study of European and American drama in the latter part of the 20th century, with equal attention to dramatic and theatrical values. May include Wilder, Miller, Williams, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, Brecht, Duerrenmatt, Shepard, and Mamet.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of important developments in late 20th century literature. May be offered as Post-Modernist literature (such figures as Barth, Pynchon, Borges, Robbe-Grillett, Butor, Duras, Gombrowicz, Kundera, Garcia Marquez, Coover, Winterson) or as Magic Realism (Garcia Marquez, Calvino, Okri, Rushdie). Note: Variable content; consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
This junior-level seminar takes a focused approach to the literature and cultural production of one or two regions of the formerly colonized world: Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia, and the Pacific. Specific concentrations may center around the emergence and future of the postcolonial literature in question, or on the evolution of a genre (novel, Bildungsroman, poetry, or theater) in light of a selected topic (gender, hybridity, exile, nationalism, or globalization, among others). Please consult individual course listings for specific topics.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
This is a research intensive junior-level class that examines postcolonial theory with a particular focus on the methods and approaches that postcolonial theory has made available to literary studies. The theoretical and historical readings will be drawn from a number of foundational texts in the field and are likely to include the work of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Eric Hobsbawm, Mary Louise Pratt, Ashis Nandy, among others. Topics of study vary by instructor and might include the politics of culture; the psychology of colonialism; imperialism and popular representation; refusing and resisting empire; narrating territories; aestheticizing empire; inventing the Other; imagining nationalism.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
In-depth study of particular issues and questions related to cinema history, culture, and theory. Focus may be on a specific period in film history (such as German Expressionist Cinema), an interdisciplinary topic (such as Women and Film), a film genre (such as American Documentary Film), or a textual problem (such as The Development of Film Narrative). Note: Consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of theories related to language use, both written and oral. This course introduces students to the field of rhetoric and composition. Will include projects that apply theories to classroom and non-academic literacy settings.
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