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3.00 Credits
MWF 10:00-10:50 Staff The Value of Literature: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism In this course we will trace the history of American literature through the realist, naturalist, and modern periods. Whether responding to the development of mass production in the publishing industry, documenting the emergence of the notion of the writer as worker, or intervening to depict and condemn inhumane working conditions in mills and factories, American literature after the Civil War has persistently grappled with economic questions. Accordingly, our class will explore themes of work, value, and alienation in both the art and business of American Literature, emphasizing the way that literature not only documented the conditions of emergent industrial America, but also played a crucial role in shaping that America. Authors will include William Dean Howells, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. This course is cross-listed with CC211P Texts and Ideas.
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3.00 Credits
TR 9:35-10:50 Goldsmith
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3.00 Credits
TR 11:00-12:15 Goldsmith Literature and Movement: Britain, Empire, & Identity From the French and the Industrial Revolutions to the Reform bills and suffrage, the nineteenth century was marked by vast and radical change, change variously promoted and resisted. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to new configurations and movements of labor. The uncoupling of capital from property increased social mobility. Geological discoveries by Hutton and Lyell showing the earth to be a process of gradual change culminated in Darwin's theory of evolution. New technologies of travel made possible the expansion of empire under Queen Victoria, and commerce swept the globe. How do these various notions of movement, of change, and of circulation shape the writings of this new world, and how do they continue to inform poems, plays, and novels over a century later? Considering the role and representation of progress, of travel, and of change, this class will investigate how notions of the past, the present, and the future might configure the spaces of individual and national consciousness. This course is cross-listed with CC211P Texts and Ideas
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3.00 Credits
TR 11:00-12:15 Reeves Magazine Writing on Nature and Science Learn how to research and write about nature and science. You need not be a science major if you wish to learn the skills of the professional writer. Creative writing about nature and environmental issues are welcome. Science majors can learn how to write about the topics they are studying for non-science readers. Everyone gets to add some technical skills (editing, using Quark, layout) that will open up career opportunities. In this class, you will research and write one piece. Then we will publish the magazine, Butler Enquirer. Open to juniors and seniors or by permission of instructor. Writing concentrators can count this course towards their EN310 requirement.
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15.00 Credits
TR 2:35-3:50 Barden Fiction Students will have the opportunity to work on their own writing in a workshop setting, which includes the participation and critique of all other students in the course. Students will read extensively in the specific genre and attend Visiting Writer's Series events. Prerequisites: EN218 and EN219 or permission of the Director of Creative Writing.
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3.00 Credits
MW 4:00-5:15 Watts Studies changes in our language from Indo-European and Old English through Middle English to modern American and British English. Open to juniors and seniors.
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1.00 Credits
MWF 2:00-2:50 Staff Literary Responses to the Two World Wars Our investigation of British, German, French, Italian, and Russian literature will be structured around the two world wars, arguably the most defining catastrophes to befall modern Europe. We will consider how writers such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Paul Celan, Heinrich B?ll, Günter Grass, and Vladimir Nabokov responded to the violence of the wars as well as to the far-reaching social and political changes they brought about.
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10.00 Credits
TR 1:00-2:15 Saffire Surveys major periods and texts in Western world literature. Cross-listed with CLA303--Drama on the Ancient Stage
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3.00 Credits
MWF 11:00-11:50 Walsh Studies representative comedies, tragedies and histories in both their historical and intellectual contexts and their adaptations to modern performance. Open to juniors and seniors.
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3.00 Credits
Specific courses focusing on extensive study of one or two major writers, their lives, their art and their development. Open to juniors and seniors.
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