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A study of writings by medieval women, which may Marie de France's Lais, Heloise's correspondencewith Abelard, The Book of Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich's Showings, or Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies. Literary, political, and religious texts will be analyzed from a theoretical perspective, focusing on feminist theories. Feminist readings may include works by Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Theresa de Lauretis, or EveSedgwick. PM.
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A study of contemporary feminist writing from around the world, as well as transnational feminist theory. The course will include different genres-memoirs, fiction, poetry-andwill explore women's public and private lives through a transnational lens. NW.
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A study of the history of storytelling and narrative from primary oral cultures (using Homer), through the high literate period (using novels and poetry), to the electronic present (using hypertext and computer mediated arts).
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A study of innovative American fiction that introduces the reader to new and diverse narrative forms. Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Silko, Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, and Ralph Ellison are authors likely to be included in this course. A.
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An examination of Woolf's contributions to feminist thought through her fiction and nonfiction as well as feminist literary criticism of her work. BE.
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A study the development of colonial discourse theory and postcolonial literary theory in the writings of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young and others. These theories will be applied to selected literary works, such as Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, and Nadine Gordimer' s Burgher's Daughte r. NW
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A study of 20th century novels concerned with issues that both unify and divide the early part of the century and the later, such as the problem of subjectivity, life in the metropolis, and the movement of history. This course may examine works of Woolf, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Nabokov, Pynchon, and DeLillo. BE.
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Directed reading for students in the English department honors major. Prerequisite: approval of honors project coordinator.
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This course normally focuses on one author writing after 1800. A, BE, NW.
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Thesis supervision for students in the English department honors major. Prerequisite: approval of honors project coordinator.
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