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3.00 Credits
3 credits This survey examines the major works and authors of the Restoration, Eighteenth Century, and Romantic period, including the historical, political, and social contexts of these works.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The years between 1785 and 1830 constitute a crucial period in British history. Witnessing two major revolutions, writers from this era participated in watersheds in many areas of cultural, political, and intellectual life, from the rise of Romanticism and Republicanism to nation building, to the beginnings of modern feminism. They dealt with these cultural experiences in new as well as traditional literary forms, from the historical novel to lyric and narrative poetry to essays and journals. This course will examine the lives and works of a selection of major literary figures from this period and assess their contributions to the literary tradition in English.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course focuses on a representative group of Shakespeare's sonnets, comedies, histories, and tragedies. Emphasis will be placed on close reading of the plays, with the intention of exploring some of Shakespeare's most pressing issues, including love, nature, death, dreams, relationships between parents and children, gender roles, freedom of the will, and reality itself. The course will also address the cultural milieu out of which the texts were generated; the meaning of the terms "comedy", "history?nd "tragedy"; and the relationship of the written plays to modern film adaptations.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will explore the primary characteristics of British Modernism by studying authors writing before, during and after the high point of the movement in the early twentieth century. By studying Victorian, Modern and Postmodern British writers, the course will consider the creation of modernism and its aesthetic aftermath and simultaneously question the legitimacy of modernism as a distinct aesthetic category. Special attention will be given to aesthetic, theological and philosophical questions and how these are reflected or addressed in literary works. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Peter Carey.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course studies British Literature from the Victorian Age into the postmodern period by looking at it from the "outside." By studying works of literature from those writing on or about the peripheryof the central literary tradition of the British empire, students will gain a sense of post-1830 British literature and its relationship to the cultural conditions in which it was produced. Topics could include such areas as Colonial Literature, the Irish Literary Renaissance, and Women's Literature and consider writers such as Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, and Seamus Heaney.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines contemporary literature in English by writers from around the world. The course aims to convey a sense of the stylistic and thematic tendencies that continue to evolve in the literatures of our world by exposing students to intensive study of the representation of a particular theme or strain (e.g., imperialism, desire) in works by authors from a variety of backgrounds and social/political situations. Topics include identity, postmodernity, hybridity, power relations, race, religion, decolonization, and politics. Writers studied may include Rushdie, Fowles, Kincaid, Pynchon, Morrison, Swift, Winterson, or Smith. Prerequisite: E175 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will focus on literature in English that addresses the processes and complications of colonization and decolonization. At issue throughout the course will be a number of questions: How does postcolonial literature demonstrate the legacy of imperialism and the conflicts and possibilities of decolonization? How do contemporary postcolonial writers inscribe their perspectives, politics, and lived experiences in literature? What common themes, problems, or values does postcolonial literature explore? What strategies do postcolonial writers employ to cope with the destabilization of previously accepted epistemological and ontological systems? How do various fictional accounts (of origin, of colonization, of identity, of nationality) contribute to a contemporary understanding of community, history, and narrative? Authors studied may include Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Anita and/or Kiran Desai, Jamaica Kincaid, J. M. Coetzee, or V. S. Naipaul. Prerequisite: E175 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A study of selected works in translation from non-Anglo-American cultural traditions. Students in this course examine how geographical and cultural differences contribute to varying literary representations of "universal" themes. Taking as our point of departure the notion of the artist figure,we will examine ancient and modern ideas of creativity, authorship, and the role of the writer in society in cultures around the world.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A study of selected works in translation from non-Anglo-American cultural traditions. Students in this course will explore literature from around the world with a focus on how identities, perspectives, and values are shaped by geographical and cultural circumstances. We will look particularly at literary dialogues and confrontations between the Western European tradition and writers from other cultures from the 19th century to today. Writers may include Goethe, Balzac, Rilke, Kafka, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Anna Akhmatova, Milan Kundera, Nabokov, Borges, Walcott, Neruda, Nadine Gordimer, Ngi?)?wa Thiong
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will focus on narrative strategies that are distinctive in literature by and/or about women and examine themes and issues that are common to women from a variety of social, historical, and/or political situations. At issue throughout the course will be a number of questions: How does literature by women differ from literature by men? Is there a definite difference at all? How do women writers inscribe their perspectives, politics, and lived experiences in literature? What common themes, problems, or values does literature by or about women explore? What strategies do women writers employ to cope with changing epistemological and ontological systems? How do such strategies contribute to a contemporary understanding of identity, experience, community, history, and narrative? Authors studied may include Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Anita and/or Kiran Desai, Barbara Kingsolver, Ntozake Shange, Jamaica Kincaid, Jeanette Winterson, or Zadie Smith.
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