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Course Criteria
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Literature and film in the Modernist tradition. Artistic innovation and its relation to adversarial social representation. Art as the subject of art and as special mode of understanding. Selected readings drawn from a stable of major artists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Yeats, Shaw, Conrad, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Eliot, Stevens, Woolf, Pirandello, Proust, Faulkner, Beckett, Williams, Bernhard, Fellini, and Scorsese. Instructor: Lentricchia
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An exploration of the concept of secularization as the key-concept driving European modernity, with focus on the period from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century; readings to be selected from literary, sociological, philosophical, political, and theological writings; authors may include some of the following: Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Blake, Goethe, Coleridge, Kierkegaard, J. H. Newman, Flaubert, G. Eliot, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, M. Weber, Durkheim. Original research projects to explore with primary and secondary materials. Instructor: Pfau
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Course examines language as a social practice, focusing on different aspects of its role in social life. Topics addressed include: language and social identity, such as ethnicity, social class, age, and gender; variation in language, including dialects, accents, and registers; multilingualism and language contact; new languages such as pidgins and creoles; language, culture, and intercultural communication; language and ideology; language in education and in the media. Through the discussion of these topics and homework including reading and small research projects, students are introduced to key concepts, theories, and methods in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Instructor: staff
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Literature in the digital age. Continuities, convergences, and confrontations between digital and textual cultures, literatures, and practices. Instructor: Matt Cohen
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Works by authors of the colonial period and the early Republic. Satisfies Area II requirement for English majors. Instructors: Staff
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Prose and poetry by such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Whitman. Satisfies the Area II requirement for English majors. Instructor: Staff
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Prose and poetry by such authors as Cather, Chesnutt, Chopin, Crane, Dickinson, DuBois, Freeman, Gilman, James, Jewett, Twain, Washington, Wharton. Satisfies Area III requirement for English majors. Instructor: C. Davidson, Jones, Wald, or Wallace
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Prose and poetry by such authors as Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and others. Satisfies the Area III requirement for English majors. Instructor: Staff
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Novelists and poets prominent since 1960. Satisfies the Area III requirement for English majors. Instructor: Staff
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Asian American theatre and performance traditions, including major dramatic texts and canon formation. Critical framework for discussing race, ethnicity, gender, and sexualtiy. Satisfies Area III requirement for English majors. Instructor: Staff
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