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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Students will work to develop their own poetry, and consider and discuss their own ideas on aesthetics, as they read and discuss theories of poetry. Study of selected essays, excerpts and letters by writers such as Aristotle, Berryman, Brooks, Coleridge, Eliot, Hass, Keats, Lawrence, Lowell, Olson, Pound, Rilke, Shelley, Stevens, Williams, and Wordsworth. Readings of selected poems in translation and in English, across cultures and periods. Prerequisites: English 200 and permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Practice in the craft of fiction with an emphasis on narrative theory and the historical development of the short story. Students will develop their own fiction while examining short fiction from all periods of the preceding century, thereby placing their own art within its historical context. Includes study of literary movements and narrative theory. Prerequisites: English 201 and permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. A survey of the historical development of English from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present, including a consideration of the concept of language, the Indo-European system, lexicography, and issues of American English. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of representative works of medieval literature which may include works from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 15th century. Possible topics include: The Anglo-Saxons: Language, Literature, and Culture; The Arthurian World; Medieval Visionary Literature; Dante in Translation; the Pearl Poet; Langland and Chaucer; Women and Medieval Literature; and others. May be repeated once with different topic. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of 16th and 17th century poetry and prose. Possible authors: Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Raleigh, Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Herrick, More, Bacon, Browne. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of non-Shakespearean drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. Possible dramatists: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Ford, Tourneur, Marston, Beaumont, Fletcher, Massinger. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.) Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. Chaucer's major works. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. Focused exploration of a critical problem in Shakespeare studies. The focus of the class will vary from semester to semester, but it will regularly include the study of six to eight works by Shakespeare as well as critical and historical texts. Sample subjects: Gender and its Representation; Shakespearean Historicism; Bad Shakespeare. Repeatable for credit with different subject. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Majors only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. Milton's major poetry and prose. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.) Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. This course investigates two closely related subjects: English literature's response to changing ideas of nature and the landscape; and the response of designers of English landscapes and gardens to literature. Material studied will range from Shakespeare to Wordsworth, including both the acknowledged literary greats and lesser-known writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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