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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
A study of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures with emphasis on their status as texts that engage and shape a reader's response. Possible works to be studied include: Genesis, Exodus, 1 and 2, Samuel, Job, Isaiah, one of the Gospels, Romans, and Revelation. PM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the literature of the classical world of Greece and Rome. Texts may include such works as The Odyssey, The Oresteia, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, The Trojan Women, and Lysistrata, The Aeneid, a comedy of Plautus, the essays of Cicero, and the satires of Juvenal for the Romans. PM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, with emphasis on its peculiarly medieval synthesis of thought and its contemporary appeal as a literary classic. PM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of British and continental Arthurian works written in the Middle Ages. Two to three weeks will also be devoted to later interpretations of the Arthurian story. Readings may include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Thomas Malory's Morte d 'Arthur , Chrétiede Troyes' romances, or Gottfried von Strassburg' s Tristan . Later works influenced by medievalromance may include Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King, or Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. PM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other works, such as his short poems or the Troilus. The emphasis is on understanding and appreciating Chaucer's works in the context of 14th century English culture, history and politics. PM.
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5.00 Credits
An examination of conflicting visions of heroism in Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton in light of the political, cultural, and social history of 16th and 17th century England. Students will examine selected plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare, as well as Milton's Paradise Lost, from the perspective of new historicism and other critical theories. EM
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5.00 Credits
A study of Shakespeare's works with attention to dramaturgy, language, and themes, as well as to the political, religious, and cultural contexts of Shakespeare's time. Focusing on close reading of selected plays, the course examines such interpretive controversies as concepts of self, sexuality, family, power, and cosmic meaning. The course may also include selected sonnets or narrative poems. EM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of Shakespeare's plays through live theater and video performances, to discover the problems and opportunities of each script as well as those aspects of the plays that reveal themselves only in performance. EM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of Renaissance playwrights, excluding Shakespeare, who contributed significantly to the development of English theater. The course may emphasize a subgenre (such as tragedy or comedy), time period (such as the reign of Queen Elizabeth), or theme (such as "Rewritings of Shakespeare"). EM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the literature of a turbulent period marked by cultural shifts in English politics, economics, and education that affected the development of English literature in many ways. Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Herrick, Crashaw, Milton, and other poets expanded English poetry in form and subject; Dryden, Congreve, Davenant, and other playwrights experimented with new dramatic forms, such as heroic drama, comedy of manners, and opera; and writers such as Bacon, Walton, Dryden and Sprat helped to establish the "rules " formodern English prose. EM.
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