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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the FW requirement. This class is an immersion in the work of Shakespeare, engaging four of his most prominent plays as literary works but primarily as dramatic performances. We study the tools of stagecraft and performance available to Shakespeare, in an effort to understand how the plays dramatize – that is, present in a live form – the issues and questions within their words. We also attend closely to Shakespeare’s uses of language and poetic form, to bring into relief the ways his form interweaves with his content to produce the drama. Projects include: a set design assignment; the study of a number of film versions of the plays and written reviews of the films; attending as a class three performances at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, with interpretive papers on these performances; two interpretive essays; and a concluding performance of the whole of Hamlet as a live production incorporating all the concepts and materials studied in the course. Conner.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Studying literature in relation to history and culture from Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to the struggles between republicans and monarchists, this course explores how influential kinds of literature are created in order to meet cultural demands (social, economic, political, religious) and how, in turn, these kinds shape their cultures and later forms of writing. We practice multiple approaches to critical reading, and students develop analytical writing skills in a series of short papers. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A study of British literature in relation to key historical developments from the restoration of the monarchy through the period of the French revolution, emphasizing the emergence of Britain’s consumer culture, colonial ventures, and participation in the slave trade. The course explores how influential kinds of literature interact with other cultural dynamics (economic, political, religious) and with social categories including gender, class, and race. We practice multiple approaches to critical reading, and students develop analytical writing skills in a series of short papers. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A study of the major genres of Shakespeare’s plays, employing analysis shaped by formal, historical, and performance-based questions. Emphasis is given to tracing how Shakespeare’s work engages early modern cultural concerns, such as the nature of political rule, gender, religion, and sexuality. A variety of skills are developed in order to assist students with interpretation, which may include verse analysis, study of early modern dramatic forms, performance workshops, two medium-length papers, reviews of live play productions, and a final, student-directed performance of a selected play Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A study of selected fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction by Southern writers in their historical and literary contexts. We practice multiple approaches to critical reading, and students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A study of Jane Austen’s writing as well as her popularity. We study four major novels (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion), read scholarship on the history of “Janeites” (a name variously claimed by and applied with opprobrium to her devotees), and receive lessons on aspects of culture (such as English Country Dancing) frequently cited in Austen’s works. Students contribute to a reading blog, work in a group to produce a project about contemporary Austen fans, and write a longer analytical essay. Braunschneider.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the development of the superhero character, genre and form, focusing especially on pulp novels published before the first appearance of Superman in 1938. The cultural context, including Nietzsche’s “Superman” philosophy and the larger eugenics movement, is also central. Students read, analyze, and interpret literary and cultural texts to produce their own analytical and creative writing. Likely works include: Superman Chronicles, Vol. 1, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster; Batman Chronicles, Vol. 1, Bob Kane, Bill Finger; The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy; Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs; The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, Frank L. Packard; Gladiator, Philip Wylie; Doc Savage: Man of Bronze, Lester Dent; Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1; Essential The Punisher, Vol. 1.; The Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons; and The Dark Knight, Frank Miller. Gavaler.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. An in-depth study of selected southern women writers, mostly from the 20th century, in order to understand the motifs and themes woven into their texts and their individual and collective contributions to southern literature. From Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God to Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, the course explores how women writers negotiate with and often subvert prominent southern types, including the belle, the mammy, and the steel magnolia. We consider the individual writer’s experience of cultural and historical context, her innovations in style/genre, and her possible thematic treatment of family, domesticity, marriage, region, race, class, sexual identity, religion, and coming-of-age in the South. While analyzing works by Alice Walker, Flannery O’Connor, and Dorothy Allison, students also consider their own complex relationships to and identities within the South. Requirements: two analytical papers, entries in a reading log, a personal narrative or profile of a local southern woman, and a group presentation involving research and follow-up discussion leadership. Wall.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Examines literary responses to the experience of poverty, imaginative representations of human life in straitened circumstances, and arguments about the causes and consequences of poverty that appear in literature. Critical consideration of dominant paradigms (“the country and the city,” “the deserving poor,” “the two nations,” “from rags to riches,” “the fallen woman,” “the abyss”) augments reading based in cultural contexts. Historical focus will vary according to professor’s areas of interest and expertise. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A course on using gender as a tool of literary analysis. We study the ways ideas about masculinity and femininity inform and are informed by poetry, short stories, novels, plays, films, and/or pop culture productions. Also includes readings in feminist theory about literary interpretation and about the ways gender intersects with other social categories, including race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. Historical focus will vary according to professor’s areas of interest and expertise. Staff.
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