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3.00 Credits
Exploratory survey of American literature from Colonial times to the mid-19th century. Coverage through the eighteenth century is broad. After that it is narrower and deeper with particular focus on Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.
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Exploratory survey of major American authors from the mid-19th century to contemporary times with particular attention paid to Dickinson, Twain, Chopin, James, Frost, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison, as well as other representative contemporary writers.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how animals define the crossroads of literary representations and cultural formations. Writers have always turned to animal life to find moving symbols of human conditions and, with the insights of animal science research, more recently to gain a broader understanding of social development. By investigating this history of literary animal studies, this course aims to account for why species differences, especially between humans and animals, remain among the most enduring markers of social difference. In telling stories of dogs, for instance, as variously gods, pets, meat, or pests, humans mark irreconcilable cultural differences among themselves as well as set the limits of what (and who) counts as natural object and cultural subject. As we consider how species boundaries also intersect with historical constructions of gender, race, class, sex, and ethnicity, our readings and discussions will also illuminate how animal literatures model emerging forms of identity and society.
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This course introduces students to the traditions of critical interpretation with particular attention devoted to more recent developments in the field of literary interpretation. The courses examines the extent to which the meaning of texts is determined by structuralist, post-structuralist, feminist, New Historicist, Marxist and other theoretical approaches.
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3.00 Credits
In the last two decades, under the growing influence of Cultural Studies, the notion of literature has been expanded to include all forms of public expression as equally valid "texts" to be studied within and against their dominant social context. Thus, a novel by Pynchon, a play by Shakespeare, a television show, an urban landscape, a horror film, or a Marlboro ad emerge--through semiotic and political readings, for instance-- as statements about the social and the place of the individual in it. Having developed out of a form of literary studies called Leavisism (named after the literary critic F.R. Leavis) in Great Britain in the 1950s, Cultural Studies has been globalized in the 1970s and broadened to make use of a variety of traditional disciplines. In this course, we will survey a variety of methods in approaching texts.
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3.00 Credits
Why is the same type of fruit called "apple" in English, "pomme" in French and "bilasaanaa" in Navajo? "The cat chases the mouse" "The cat mouse chases." "The legless cat chases the non-existent mouse." Which of those are possible sentences? How do you know? How was human language invented and why do humans speak by manipulating the airstream from their lungs instead of making sounds with some other part of their anatomy? Human language is so ubiquitous, so much a part of our daily lives and our identity, that we rarely stop to reflect on what an astonishingly complex phenomenon comes into play each time we use words to communicate. This course will help students appreciate the miracle of language through an exploration of topics such as the sounds and structures of human language, the origin of language, differences between animal and human languages, and language and the brain.
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3.00 Credits
This is a survey course designed to provide a critical philosophy and working repertoire of literature for adolescents. The focus is placed upon the ways this genre represents adolescence as a distinctive psychological social and moral state. We give particular attention to character development and the ways in which "young adult" narratives deal with sensitive issues like gender equity, sexual identity, and cultural differences.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the art of the l9th and 20th century short story as best exemplified by masters of the genre in American and European literature. Readings will range from such early practitioners as Poe to such contemporary masters as Borges.
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3.00 Credits
We focus on four main themes: personal authority, social authority, political authority, and religious authority. The overarching theme of all of these topics could be posed as a question: How does the individual relate to the group? Nearly all academic disciplines have something to say about this question, and in the course of the semester we will investigate and discuss a variety of texts drawn from different intellectual traditions. Reading includes selections from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and such authors or philosophers as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Thiong'o, Saadawi, James Carroll, Freud, Jung, Fanon, Foucault, and Berlin.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students the opportunity to explore a variety of introductory topics in law and literature. A description of the specific topic varies.
Criminals, Idiots and Minors: In ?A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women? (1854), Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon famously declared ?women, more than any other members of the community, suffer from over-legislation.? In this course we will read articles such as Bodichon?s that discuss the Victorian woman?s legal identity in conjunction with legislation on divorce, marriage, inheritance, and education in order to examine how legal narratives shaped the way women were conceived of and the way women defined themselves in the nineteenth century. Together these readings will provide a context and counterpoint to novels of the period (especially after 1851) that plot the practical consequences of this legislation on women?s lives and which imaginatively projected alternatives to the ?legal fictions? about women. Novels by Anne Bronte and Wilkie Collins included.
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