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3.00 Credits
TR 1:00-2:15 Flanzbaum Women in American Poetry This course will focus on major women poets of the last three centuries. Reading list includes Ann Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ann Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Open to juniors and seniors.
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7.00 - 21.00 Credits
August 7 - August 21 Studies in Drama: Shakespeare, U/G, 3 TBA Walsh Travel to England to see six Shakespeare plays in performance. Students meet before and after each performance to discuss issues of theatrical production and its impact on interpretation. Students must write a review for each play. Tour to include several days in Stratford, a stop in Bath, and several days in London. Price includes airfare, hotel, breakfasts, play tickets, British Heritage pass, and tour bus. Estimated price $3,150. Enrollment limited to 20. August 7-21. Course registration is in summer II but tuition is included in the above cost. For information contact Dr. William Walsh, JH302B, (317) 940-9545 or see website: http://blue.butler.edu/~wwalsh
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3.00 Credits
TR 4:15-5:30 Gregory Studies the important voices and positions in the history of literary criticism (until midterm); then studies the important voices and issues in contemporary criticism. Emphasizes analysis of underlying assumptions and connects the criticism of literature and art to both aesthetic and political issues. Open to juniors and seniors.
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TR 9:35-10:50 Reeves Focusing on a single text, or a set of texts by a single author, this course is designed to equip students with the research and writing skills necessary for advanced work in English. This course is required of all English majors, and should be taken during the junior year. Prerequisite: EN185 and two of the following: EN245, EN246, En265 and EN266.
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3.00 Credits
TBA TBA Directed experience in a career setting.
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3.00 Credits
TBA TBA Directed experience in a career setting.
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3.00 Credits
W 7:15-9:45 Forhan Students will participate in an advanced poetry writing workshop in which they critique others' work and develop their own chapbook-sized (e.g., 20-30 page) collection of poems. They will also attend Butler Visiting Writers Series events and study the work of one or more of the visiting poets. Prerequisites: Senior standing and pre-approval of course project by Director of Creative Writing.
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T 7:15-9:45 Watts This course will examine the development of the dream vision as a distinct genre of literature in the Middle Ages. We will begin with Cicero's Latin work, "The Dream of Scipio," and then follow the development of the form in the Old English "Dream of the Rood," and the works of such writers as Macrobius, Dante, Jean de Meun, Chaucer and the Pearl-poet. We will also relate the development of the dream vision to theories of dreaming and dream interpretation, and to medieval and contemporary literary theory. Open to juniors and senio
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3.00 Credits
M 7:15-9:45 Flanzbaum In the United States, we see the Holocaust represented in many different genres: in books, movies, poetry, television, in newspapers and architecture. Each time one of these representations appears, cultural critics engage in debate about the appropriateness of the artifact: does it tell the "truth" about what happened? Does it adequately portray the suffering of the victims? Are readers or viewers getting a sanitized version of the event? Do American artists tend to "sugarcoat" the Holocaust? In this course, we will look at watershed moments in the representing the Holocaust in order to investigate the significance of these debates, and their impact -both on representing this event, but also on the larger question of how fully art renders history. Among others, artifacts to be examined include The Diary of Ann Frank, in text and in performance; local memorials; Oprah's List and Elie Wiesel's Night and Philip Roth's The Ghostwriter. Open to juniors and se
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3.00 Credits
W 7:15-9:45 A seminar focusing on independent projects in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writing.
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