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The class will examine medieval literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 15th century. All texts will be in translation or modernized. We will read Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Dante's Inferno as well as various shorter texts from the Old and Middle English periods. (Michael Drout)
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Students in this class will learn Anglo-Saxon, the earliest form of English. We will mix the study of language with the study of literature and by the end of the semester students will be able to translate Anglo-Saxon poetry. Readings will include famous and beloved poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer and The Seafarer as well as prose texts and less well known poems. The course uses King Alfred, an experimental computerized learning assistant. (Michael Drout) Connections: Conx 20056 Computing and Texts
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A survey of African American literature and its interplay with other modes of cultural production in African America. Students will examine representations of African American experiences in poetry, drama, autobiography, fiction and film/documentary. Individual projects and small-group work will enable students to engage in the contexts out of which the experiences detailed in the texts emerge. (Shawn Christian) Connections: Conx 23010 Black Aesthetics
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By introducing students to the poetry, prose, drama, and culture of the late 17th century and early 18th century, this course examines the enormous political, social and literary changes that occur with the advent of modern Great Britain. We will read more traditional authors such as Swift, Rochester, Dryden and Pope, as well as recently "discovered" authorslike Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anne Finch, and Aphra Behn. We will look at Pepys's accounts of England during fire, plague and political upheaval; explore the emergence of modern journalism in Addison, Steel and Haywood; and read travel narratives that will help bring into focus British encounters-and responses to encounters-withthe cultures and people of the Americas, the Near East, India and the Pacific Islands. (James Mulholland)
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What has the British Romantic legacy of writers like Wordsworth and Keats, Coleridge and Shelley left us How did they grapple with their revolutionary ideals as well as their own historical circumstances We will critically and culturally examine their poetic exploration of the mind in all its psychological complexities, the political dimensions of their lyric assertions and the images that still seem to affect our contemporary culture. (Samuel Coale)
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By the end of the 19th century, Britain had the most powerful colonial empire in the world. That empire was acquired during a key time in the formation of European and American ideas about race and we have inherited many of the Victorians' assumptions about race, ethnicity and relations between Western Europe, Africa, Asia and America. This course explores literature about the British Empire, the political, social and sometimes even sexual issues that underlay the acquisition of colonies and the scientific writings that helped to shape definitions of race. We will read poetry, nonfiction prose, novels, travel literature and plays, and we will share resources and some class time with Bio 11. (Paula M. Krebs) Connections: Conx 20019 The Darwin Connection: Evolution, Race and Culture
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Male and female Victorians were obsessed with "the Woman Question" in employment, educationand other public and private areas. Upper-, middleand working-class Victorians wondered about the effects that both industrialization and the abolition of slavery in British colonies would have on traditional relations among social classes and races. This course will examine Victorian literature that explores ideas about women's role and sexuality as well as literature that focuses on new kinds of work and the concerns about class that arose from the changes of industrialism. We will read poetry, nonfiction prose, novels, travel literature and plays. (Paula M. Krebs) Connections: Conx 23006 Sexuality, Conx 20019 The Darwin Connection: Evolution, Race and Culture
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Poets are male. Muses are female. But what happens when the conventions get reversed This course introduces you to the study of poetry by focusing on how gender gets associated with types of poetry and what individual poets do to subvert or refuse those associations. We will also ask what gender has to do with categories such as race, class and sexuality in the writing of poetry. You will read poems from different periods and cultures with an emphasis on the relationship between works that have come to exemplify a particular genre, such as Homer's epic poem The Illiad or sonnets by Shakespeare and later works that revise those models. (Claire Buck) Connections: Conx 23004 Gender
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Although it is impossible to read all the plays of the modern period in one semester, by reading the "blockbusters" alongside lesser- and little-knownavant garde plays, we will together build a foundation for taking up the important question of how the "canon" becomes encoded. Supplementalreadings of particular productions, manifestos, theoretical essays, biographical accounts and historical material will enrich individual and collective responses to the dramatic texts. In this way, all of us become active participants in keeping the "body" of modern drama alive. Authors will includeSamuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Büchner, Jean Genet, Lorraine Hansberry, Eugène Ionesco, Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, August Strindberg, Tennessee Williams and others. (Charlotte Meehan)
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This course is an examination of recent science fiction (mostly written after 1970) and the ways in which the genre fits into and shapes the wider culture. In most years the course will be linked to Math Thought and students will be required to take both courses in order to take either one. In those years the course will focus on the ways that mathematics and science fiction interact to describe the contemporary world and shape the future. When not linked to Math Thought, the course will examine the ways that science fiction creates worlds and offers salvation, and how gender, power and race are developed in a science fiction context. (Michael Drout) Connections: Conx 20031 Science FACTion
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