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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 Chinese poetry, drama, and fiction since the beginning of the 20th century. Studying writings from both mainland China and Taiwan. Knowledge of premodern Chinese literature is not required.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 Japanese prose and poetry from the eighth through the 19th centuries. Works include The Manyoshu, Japan's earliest poetic anthology; The Tale of Genji, the first novel in the world to be written by a woman; The Tale of the Heike, describing the rise of the samurai ethic; the poems of Saigyo and Ryokan; and the haiku of Basho and Buson.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Selected novels, short stories, film scripts, and poems representative of styles and themes which characterize 20th century Japanese literature. Film scripts discussed in conjunction with a viewing of the films themselves.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A critical examination of literary and cultural production by self-identified Chicana authors, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, art, film, and performance. Themes discussed will include identity construction, gender and sexuality, performativity, literary criticism and theory. Authors studied may include Sandra Cisneros, Helena MarÃa Viramontes, Cherrie Moraga, Josie Mendez-Negrete, Lourdes Portillo, and Ana Castillo. Evaluation will be based on class participation, presentations, a group performative project, and a final research paper tailored to students' majors and interests. This course satisfies the U.S. Latino and Latina Literature and Culture requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Course is taught in English with stress on oral discussion. May be elected as Spanish 447. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voices.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar addresses different aspects of nature and the environment as represented in fictional and nonfictional texts from the different regions of this Hemisphere. The seminar seeks to address environmental issues in literature in a comparative manner and therefore will examine texts from a variety of literary traditions. Topics to be discussed include: construction and decay, border issues, urban and rural spaces, utopia and dystopia, and natural history and narration. Writers to be studied may include: Borges, Mike Davis, DeLillo, Faulkner, GarcÃa Márquez, Hemingway, Sonia Nazario, Mary Oliver, Rulfo, Saer, and Sam Witt. This course satisfies the U.S. Latino and Latina Literature and Culture requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Taught in English. May be elected as Spanish 437. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 The French language and culture were imposed to varying degrees on populations across the globe over the course of France's 17th-19th century imperial expansion. This course is designed to permit the study of individual literary movements, genres, authors, and critical approaches pertinent to the Francophone literary traditions that emerged from this contact between cultures. May be taken for credit toward the French major.
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4.00 Credits
A course designed to permit the study of individual significant authors in world literature.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 A course in the history and development of Western drama from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Dramatists to be studied may include the Wakefield Master, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Lope de Vega, Molière, Racine, Congreve, Beaumarchais, and Sheridan. May be elected as English 371 or Theatre 371. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 A study of the directions modern drama has taken from the 19th century to the present. Dramatists to be studied may include Büchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, and Pinter. May be elected as English 372 or Theatre 372. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
The origin and development of ancient theatre, especially of Greek tragedy, through a close reading of ancient plays in English translation. In addition to ancient plays, we will read modern critical responses to those plays. May be elected as Classics 377 or Theatre 377. Open to all students. Offered in alternate years.
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