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3.00 Credits
Examples of possible topics include slave and captivity narratives, Native American fiction, women's writings, the American Renaissance, literatures of the frontier, fin-de-siecle America, the Depression novel, literatures of immigration, Hemingway and Faulkner, and modern poetry. A description of the topic offered will be posted prior to the registration period.
Spring 2010: Contemporary American Poetry: This course explores American poetry from WWII to the present. We look at major poets who extend the romantic tradition and belief in man in nature, the value of self-reflection and the sense of self, and those modern and post-modern poets who sought a break from tradition and questioned cultural, ethnic and gender notions of selfhood. Our readings carry us back to poets from Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath up through the lyrics of contemporary poets, including Bob Dylan and other recording artists. Our readings emphasize the elements of form and craft that poets use to express their American experiences.
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3.00 Credits
While the exact readings may change, this course will reflect the seminal tradition of the British novel from its origins in the early 18th century up to the present. Emphasis will usually be on central authors such as Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Scott, Dickens, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Greene, and Ballard.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Through the interplay of literary theory and marine science, this course charts the varied social and environmental contexts converging in literatures of the sea. Functioning variously as physical setting, character, as well as psychological environment, the sea provides a common focus for writers around the world from ancient times through the present. A wide range of historical and regional literatures will inform our investigations of the ways in which early maritime works influence contemporary representations of the sea. And, by comparing canonical and popular texts, the course will explore not only how authors represent the history of life by, on, and in the sea but also how such representations play an active role in shaping present and future marine ecologies. Readings may include texts by Rachael Carson, Daniel Defoe, Julie Dash, Linda Greenlaw, Homer, Sarah Orne Jewett, Herman Melville, Yukio Mishima, Derek Walcott, and Virginia Woolf. Some versions of this course will have a component related to the Marine Science Education and Research Center.
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
In 1877, Queen Victoria was crowned Empress of India, making the subcontinent the "jewel" in her expansive crown. Twenty years later, she celebrated 60 years on the throne by gathering troops from England's many colonies. In the context of such imperial theatrics, this course will focus on the role played in particular by India in England's cultural and literary imagination. How was the "Orient" depicted as an object of study? How did the English novel support the colonial project and how did it serve as critique? How have contemporary writers re-imagined India and rendered England? Writers may include E. Hamilton, S. Owenson, Collins, Steele, Meadows Taylor, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Forster, Orwell, Rushdie, Desai, Kunzru, Suri.
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3.00 Credits
Reading across a wide range of national and regional literatures, this class will highlight the struggles of the non-Western peoples to express their complex postcolonial experiences in the age of globalism. The quest for freedom and authenticity that unites many of the world's non-European poor will be examined in the modern literary traditions of Arabs, Africans, Muslims, and the indigenous peoples of North and Latin America. The course examines the legacies of the slave trade, imperialism, and late capitalism as backdrops against which such writing takes place.
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3.00 Credits
Considering utopia as both a desirable place and one that is nowhere, as Thomas More indicated, we will trace some of the ways in which humanity tries to order itself and explain that order. The utopic vision, which is often based on a valuation of a freedom that is lacking or missing in the historical context of the work, yearns for a new order, a way out of chaos. In contrast, dystopias describe and explore the realm of chaos. They frequently examine the struggles of individuals who cannot or will not fit into the structures their cultures offer as normative. The position of the individual in relation to the group-a question frequently encountered in our ways of thinking about freedom is central to a consideration of utopia and dystopia. Specifically, we'll discuss how successfully the individual can maintain an integrated sense of self in spite of social prescriptions (gender, class, faith, race). Reading includes Plato-The Republic; More-Utopia; Huxley-Brave New World; Atwood-The Handmaid's Tale; and Ellison-Invisible Man.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the role of slavery in the American imagination from the late 18th century through the present day, examining the issue from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Students will read an array of African American slave narratives--autobiographies written during a time in which laws not only forbade slave literacy but also denied slaves fully human status. They will also examine portrayals of slavery in a contemporary novel, a film, and the visual arts. Interpreting these sources in conversation with readings in Enlightenment philosophy and U.S. and African American history, students will explore how slavery was defined, debated, represented, and resisted in American culture. The course will be taught as a seminar, meeting once a week for a discussion of the assigned material. It is open to all majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course address topics dealing with specific historical periods (like "1950s Hollywood" or "Recent European Cinema") or thematic groupings (as in "Vietnam Combat Films" or "Hollywood Courtroom Dramas"). So-called "star studies," in which the work of an important performer like Jack Nicholson, Katharine Hepburn or Charlie Chaplin is also systematically analyzed. Normally restricted to advanced undergraduates and/or those students with a significant background in the film studies curriculum.
THE GLOBAL TWENTIETH CENTURY IN FILM: This course examines a few themes--such a love, immigration, and the general human condition--through different national cinemas. The focus will be on how different cultures deal with the same issues. Many Films will be subtitled.
AMERICAN CULTURE IN FILM: Using the medium of film, this course examines the tensions between the American dream and American reality. Prompt class attendance required. Good writing skills expected.
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