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3.00 Credits
This course will study how literature disturbs the common notion that restraint and repression were over-arching Victorian qualities. How does Victorian literature define beauty How does it show flamboyance, dandyism, vulgarity, violence, and even nonsense as valid aesthetic choices Seeking Victorian definitions of masculinity and femininity, we will explore how literature relates beauty to sexuality, morality, and politics. We will also discuss the fluctuating definitions of beauty, normality, perversion, and abnormality that emerge through literary definitions of beauty. Writers may include Dickens, Barrett Browning, Ruskin, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Emily Bront , Wilde, Pater, and Swinburne.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Examining literature produced in Britain from the end of the Second World War to the present, this course will discuss the following main questions: How does a society read its transition from global dominance and manifestly controlled homogeneity, to one of reduced international power, but vibrant cultural and racial difference How do changes in attitudes to gender, minority issues, and popular culture shape this reading How does contemporary literature confirm or contradict Britain's self-proclaimed "coolness" Writers may include Wodehouse, Lessing, Larkin, the Amises, Stoppard, Ishiguro, Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Jean Binta Breeze, A. L. Kennedy, and David Mitchell
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of major authors in the American literary tradition from the Colonial period to the Civil War, with emphasis on the writers of the American Renaissance. Topics may include the development of a sense of "American" literature, the growing emphasis on the individual, the importance of nature, the individual's relation to society, ideas of freedom versus slavery, and changing notions of rights. Authors covered may include John Winthrop, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
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3.00 Credits
A study of major authors in the American literary tradition from the Civil War to World War I. Topics may include the reaction to "romanticism"; the development of "realism" and "naturalism"; the problem of using such labels; concerns about the effect of social change on the individual; and the emergence of diverse regional, racial, ethnic, and gendered voices. Authors covered may include Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Paul Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Zitkala a, Sui Sin Far, Abraham Cahan, E. A. Robinson, and Robert Fr
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major authors in the American literary tradition from World War I to the present. Topics may include modernism; postmodernism; the role of the writer in a changing society; tensions of race, class, and gender; and versions of community in contemporary American culture. Authors may include T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Adrienne Rich, Robert Lowell, Thomas Pynchon, and other contemporary writers.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 Reading, discussion, and lectures on The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and some of the minor poems. They will be read in the original Middle English. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Fall: DiPasquale ; Spring: Davidson Fall semester: A study of the major plays written before about 1601. Plays to be read and discussed will include The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Richard II; Henry IV, 1 and 2; The Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; and Twelfth Night. Spring semester: A study of the sonnets and the major plays written after about 1601. Plays to be read and discussed will include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, A Winter's Tale , an d The Tempest.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major poetry and selected prose of John Milton. Paradise Lost will receive primary emphasis. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive study of one significant author such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Ben Jonson, Henry James, Emily Dickinson.
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3.00 Credits
Differences in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson abound: male/female; accessible/cryptic; expansive/reclusive; Dionysian/Apollonian. What explains the dramatic differences in these two major 19th-century American poets This course will focus first on a careful reading of the poems with analysis of poetic styles, themes, and attitudes of each poet. To explore how these poets have influenced subsequent American poetry, we will consider critical responses to each and conclude with selections from a couple of major 20th-century American poets. A musical evening of settings of poems by Whitman and Dickinson will complement the course.
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