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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
For experienced writers. Focus on understanding and practicing the rhetorical and stylistic choices available to writers of creative nonfiction, especially decisions about structure, pacing, language, style, tone, detail, description, and narrative voice.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of Dickens' novels, with attention to historical contexts and to some critical studies of his work. Engl 3142. 18th-Century British Fiction. ( Hum; 4 cr; prereq 1131, two from 2201, 2202, 2211, 2212; offered when feasible; spring) The origins of the British novel: experiments with the new form, influence of earlier genres, evolution of formal realism. Authors may include Austen, Burney, Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne.
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3.00 Credits
Literary analysis of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama that promoted, commented on, or responded to the American Revolution. Writers include Jefferson, Franklin, de Crevecoeur, Paine, Tyler, Freneau, Wheatley, Equiano, Rowson, Brown, Irving, and Child. Focus on the literary construction of national identity and debates about human rights, individualism, and westward colonization. Engl 3152. 19th-Century British Poetry. ( Hum; 4 cr; prereq 1131, two from 2201, 2202, 2211, 2212; spring) Studies of the Romantic poets and their Victorian inheritors; their momentous influence is read in the context of political and industrial revolutions, crises of faith, and the redefinition of culture.
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3.00 Credits
The cultural origins of gothic literature in tension with the neoclassical values of 18th-century Britain and its persistent influence over the next two centuries (including its relationship to modern horror fiction and film). Emphasis on the ways gothic tales encode cultural anxieties about gender, class, and power.
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3.00 Credits
The poetry, fiction, and drama of Irish writers from 1890-1927, with attention to the ways that literature shaped a national identity.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with a sense of the literary, historical, and imaginative contexts surrounding Early Modern Theatre. Students read Medieval, Elizabethan, and Jacobean dramas, with special attention to the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries (e.g. Marlowe, Jonson, Cary, Middleton, Webster).
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3.00 Credits
A careful reading of a representative selection of Shakespeare's plays, with attention to their historical context, the poetic and dramatic aspects of Shakespeare's art, and a variety of approaches to his work.
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3.00 Credits
Early and later medieval prose, poetry, and drama produced and/or widely read in England from about 700-1500.
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3.00 Credits
Concentrating on the Canterbury Tales and also some of Chaucer's shorter poetry. Students study the writing of this influential poet-especially his range of genres and language-and explore his 14th century context (e.g., politics, plague, antifeminism, anticlericalism, peasant rebellions).
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3.00 Credits
Travel to York, England, to study the literature and history of the city from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the Middle Ages. Focus on the role that York played as the second city of medieval England, emphasizing the diverse cultural influences on the city. Day trips to historically significant sites in the vicinity of York. [Continuing Education course]
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