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5.00 Credits
An examination of John Donne's poetry and prose and the development of Donne criticism during the last 100 years. Students will acquire enough exposure to Donne and his critics to learn the practices of modern literary scholarship and write their own criticism of Donne's texts. EM.
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A study of the complexity, depth, richness, and significance of John Milton's poetry and prose that situates these works within the literary, cultural, and critical contexts informing them. The course investigates the major interpretive cruxes within Milton's texts and the ways in which scholars have addressed these difficulties. EM.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the history and development of the Female Gothic genre, from the 18th century to the present, focusing on the depiction of women as well as of the men in Gothic narratives who inevitably either marry these women or try to kill them, or possibly both. Film, art and music will supplement the discussion of literary texts. BE.
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A study of major texts of the Irish Renaissance and their cultural background in the late 19th century. Writers will include Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, and Synge. BE.
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An interdisciplinary study-abroad course that traces the rise of Modernism in its sociohistorical- scientific and cultural contexts, from its roots in impressionist and post-impressionist art to its flowering in the literary and artistic life of Paris in the period just before and after WWI. Phase I begins on campus spring quarter and focuses on Hemingway, Stein, Lawrence, Picasso, and other expatriates. Phase II unfolds in late summer in Paris, and may include excursions to Giverny and the south of France. Cross-numbered with ENGL 480 to satisfy the core Interdisciplinary requirement. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the literature of the first settlers in the New World up to the American Revolution, focusing on writers in English and highlighting the major controversies that erupted during this period. Topics may include European attitudes towards and fantasies about the New World, how the settlers imagined masculinity and femininity, and the representation of indigenous and enslaved peoples. Authors may include John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray. A.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the three forms of slave narratives: 18th century (Equiano), 19th century fugitive narratives (Douglass, Jacobs), and the 20th century WPA narratives, and how each type of narrative reflects the political stance toward slavery in the nation and the world. NW.
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5.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of the politics of work in America, both forced and free, and the literary and film treatments of these issues. Slave narratives, slave owner narratives, and labor texts, such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle will be considered, along with films such as Amistad, Matewan, and Wall Street. NW.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the development of the major Japanese theatrical forms, together with a comparative examination of Greek and Elizabethan tragedy. NW.
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5.00 Credits
A study of several American writers of Asian descent. The course will explore the dominant themes of Asian American literature, the politics of identity, and the tension between the literary issues and social justice. NW.
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