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3.00 Credits
Close reading of complete text of Paradise Lost and other works. Analysis will give attention both to the religio-political environment of the English Civil War and Commonwealth and to Milton's special place as a Renaissance and Reformation man who belongs to the small circle of great epic writers.
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A literary and linguistical study of Chaucer's work, including The Canterbury Tales (read in Middle English). Focuses on Chaucer's themes, era, and style, and on the semantics, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Middle English.
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Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Examples: a study in Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, or Charles Dickens. Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis. May be repeated under different authors.
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Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Examples: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, or World War I poets.
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A study of "firsts"--reading in Colonial writings, including voyage and travel logs, polemical works, sermons, histories, biographies, diaries, journals, almanacs, and poetry, followed by study of the independence documents and the beginnings of belles letters: Romantic poetry, essay, short story, drama, and novel.
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Intensive study of Melville's work from Typee to Mardi to Moby Dick to Billy Budd. His milieu, his friendship with Hawthorne, his aesthetics, his life revealed in The Melville Log, are considered in relation to his work, but the emphasis is on critical reading of five novels.
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Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Offered as a study in Mark Twain, a study in Henry James, a study in Longfellow/Lowell/Holmes. May be repeated under different topics.
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Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Offered as a study in Robert Frost, modern novelists, and postmodern retellings. May be repeated under different topics.
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3.00 Credits
Leads English majors in a culminating experience of literary analysis. Through class discussion, reading, research, writing, and portfolio development, students will review explorations and connections made in their IWU coursework and then cast a vision for how they might implement what they have learned into constructive life skills.
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3.00 Credits
Close reading and critical study of selected works of major American poetry and prose of the twentieth century. Special attention to the characteristics and implications of realism, modernism, and postmodernism.
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