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3.00 Credits
3 credits Especially because of its emphasis on the individual and individualism, there has always existed in American culture a dynamic tension between the individual and society. This course will explore how major American authors have chosen to present and interpret this tension by tracing it from its roots in early Puritan culture to its most sophisticated expression in the latter half of the 19th and first part of the 20th century.
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3 credits This course studies the major American authors who were writing before 1900 and the veiled speech in which they (or their characters) were engaged. We will examine a variety of poetry and fiction to identify the "slant" (to use Emily Dickinson's term) in the stories told by people constrained by a religiouculture and by assumptions about race and gender. This course examines the ways in which authors use their art both to illuminate social problems, including slavery, sexism, and religious hypocrisy, and to conceal their aims from disapproving critics. Their texts will also invite us to consider the effects of secrecy and shame on individuals and the moral freedom of speaking the truth.
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3 credits When Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species appeared in 1856, his argument about the origin of man had a sweeping effect on literary artists worldwide. In fine, Darwin's book, along with books by Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx, would lay the groundwork for an increasingly skeptical attitude about God and religion, both on the continent and in America. This course will examine those American literary texts that take up the topic God and/or religious belief. More specifically, it aims to trace the debate over God within literary naturalism, modernism, and, to a certain extent, postmodernism.
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3 credits American Modernism studies the major American authors who were writing between the two world wars and the Modernist literary movement of which they were a part. We will examine a variety of poetry and fiction to identify the changes in form that emerged around the time of World War I; we will make connections between the content and form of literature and what was happening in world history and in the world of art; and we will consider the individual innovations of writers within the broad aesthetic movement known as Modernism.
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3 credits In this course, students will explore the advent and establishment of Christianity as the dominant mode of discourse in the Medieval and Early Modern periods of British Literature. This investigation will hinge upon exposure to countercurrents which Christianity operated against as it established its primacy (such as paganism, Judaism, Islam), as well as to tensions within Christianity itself (heresies, humanism, patriarchy v. feminism, and the division between Catholicism and Protestantism). While the course will thus be historical and cultural in its overall theme, the emphasis will be upon close reading and discussion of literary texts.
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3 credits In this course students will explore the development of medieval British Romance especially from its Celtic and French origins, then proceed to examine Spenser's fusion of romance with epic in the context of the rising vogue of the epic in the Early Modern period, and conclude in a sustained engagement with Milton's Paradise Lost. The course will focus on the development of these two genres, but with attention to the cultural context in which the texts to be explored were produced.
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3 credits In this course, students produce a variety of essays that cover a range of rhetorical situations. Emphasis is placed on strategies for developing and organizing essays as well as on rhetorical concerns, such as audience, purpose, voice, and style. Attention will also be paid to integrating research, both formal and informal, into students' work. Prerequisite: E120 or equivalent.
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3 credits Through the reading of short stories, guided instruction and writing workshops, students in Short Fiction Writing study the genre of the short story and produce several examples of their own short fiction. In addition to composing original works that reveal their own artistic vision, students are expected to become informed of the literary tradition of the short story and provide critical and theoretical reflections on their work as well as the writing of other students and of published authors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An introduction to professional communication, this course teaches students how to write documents commonly generated in the work world, such as memos, resumes, letters, manuals, reports, and proposals. Students are invited to write documents for different audiences, especially those in a student's major field of study. Attention may be given to incorporating visuals as well. Finally, general principles of the composing process, of grammar and mechanics, and of style are reviewed as needed. Prerequisite: E120 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course aims to help students produce inspired and technically informed literary poetry intended for an audience. In addition to writing and discussing their own poetry, students will become informed of both the techniques and the traditions of poetry writing. Course work will include the study of published poets and poems, essays and research papers on theoretical issues related to poetry, and the production of original poems by the students.
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