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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An intermediate workshop in poetry writing, intended to expand knowledge of fundamental techniques, and to familiarize students with many important writers in the genre. Students will have the opportunity to write and revise poems based on prompts as well as on their own. There will be weekly reading and journal exercises, and extensive analysis of peer work and established models to develop critical and creative faculties. Final portfolio of creative and critical work. Prerequisite: English 150 or 220 or consent of instructor. Distribution area: fine arts.
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4.00 Credits
Fall: J. C. Masteller, DiPasquale Spring: Alker, Majumdar A course in practical criticism designed to introduce students to some of the possible approaches that can be used in literary analysis. This course is required for those graduating in English. Not open to first-semester first-year students.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced expository writing course for students serious about developing an effective, personal style and the insights necessary to analyze and evaluate it. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Staff An intensive advanced workshop in fiction. Students will continue to develop their proficiency in fiction writing by reading deeply and analyzing established models, completing exercises, producing drafts of original stories and revisions, participating in discussions of peer work, and giving presentations based on close readings. Final portfolio of creative and critical work which may include some consideration of where the student's work fits into a fiction-writing tradition. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and English 250 or equivalent. Distribution area: fine arts.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive advanced workshop in poetry. Students will have the opportunity to develop proficiency in poetry writing by completing exercises, producing drafts and revisions of poems for peer discussions, reading deeply and analyzing established models, and actively participating in rigorous and constructively critical discussions. Weekly poem assignments, as well as reading and journal exercises. Final portfolio of creative and critical work. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and English 251 or equivalent. Distribution area: fine arts.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 An intensive advanced workshop in "the fourth genre," creative nonfiction. Students will have the opportunity to experiment with form, to address a range of subjects in weekly creative nonfiction pieces, and to read deeply and analyze established models as well as peer work to develop important critical faculties. Students will be expected to participate actively in rigorous, constructively critical discussions. Weekly exercises, as well as reading and journal assignments. Final portfolio of creative and critical work . Prerequisite : Consent of instructor and English 250, 251, or equivalent. Distribution area: fine arts.
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4.00 Credits
Courses designed to introduce students to the literature and culture of England in each of six literary periods: the Middle Ages (English 336), the Renaissance (English 337), the Restoration and 18th Century (English 338), the Romantic Period (English 339), the Victorian Period (English 340) and 1900-Present (English 341). The specific focus of each course will vary from year to year. Topics in a particular literary period may be taken a total of two times, but only one may count toward the fulfillment of the period course requirement. A second topic taken in a particular literary period may count toward the elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
For an author's work to have survived until the present, at least one of two factors was needed: luck, or popularity, or both. In the period before printing presses, the larger the number of manuscripts in which a work was copied, the greater its chance of survival. "Best sellers" included the medieval equivalents of the action/adventure story, the trashy novel, satire and humor, self-help texts, long-running plays, and serious scientific and philosophical discussions. This course will examine popular works of the time, as well as the concept of popularity in literature - what causes it, and how increased literacy and the printing press brought about changes in its definition. Texts will incl ude Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, The Corpus Christi Cyc le, and Sir Thomas Malor y's Morte Darth
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Seventeenth-century poems, plays, masques, and essays pulsate with the energies of an emerging modernity. English writers of the period employ a wide variety of genres to navigate their ever-expanding world and the smaller worlds within it; to anatomize human flesh and fleshliness; to seize upon spiritual, ethical and material good(s); and to battle a frightening array of evils. We will explore these endeavors as they are carried out in the works of such writers as Donne, Jonson, Lanyer, Herbert, Webster, Marvell, Browne, and Milton.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The 18th century has long been acknowledged as the era in which socio-cultural shifts, such as increasing class fluidity and urbanization, led to the crystallization of many of the key literary techniques and narrative strategies of the modern novel. Birth, however, is a chaotic process, and this course will trace its disordered emergence from, and incorporation of, a variety of different genres, including the romance, journalism, poetry, the epistle, and short prose fiction. Authors may include: Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Walpole, and Burney.
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