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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the profession of literary studies for students new to graduate study in English. This course offers a review of current critical theories and methodologies, research techniques, bibliographic methods, and issues in literary criticism.
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3.00 Credits
Studies of a variety of Middle English writing serve as a focus for special topics, including mysticism and historical prose from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Selected studies of the poetry, drama, and prose of the English Renaissance, especially the works of Spenser and Shakespeare.
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An intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme, or body of work in the neo-classical and pre-romantic periods of English literature and the Colonial Period of American literature. Studies might include such writers as the Cavalier and metaphysical poets, Milton, Pepys, Restoration dramatists, Boswell and Johnson, Bradstreet, and Taylor.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the major British and American writers of the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the intellectual, social, and political backgrounds of the period.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of a particular genre (such as lyric poetry), theme (such as "romantic agony"), body of work (e.g., the "Lakpoets"), or other feature of the romantic literature of England and America.
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3.00 Credits
Selected studies of representative American and British writers of the twentieth century. The emphasis will be on modernism and postmodernism, including such genre studies as the long poem or such historical studies as the literature of exiles.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed study of the major and minor writings of one author, plus an examination of the most influential critical and scholarly treatments of the author's work. The particular author studied will be determined by a combination of student and instructor interest.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced study of the types, artistic traditions, history, techniques, and critical analyses of classical, continental, English, and American drama. Different conceptions of the theater are examined in connection with representative plays.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced study of the genre of narrative fiction and its historical origins, typically treating specific works of fiction and related prefaces and essays concerned with theory and technique. Readings might include examples of such early types as the epistolary and picaresque novel and such recent types as experimental and post-modernist narratives.
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