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Examines Toni Morrison's oeuvre and aesthetic in the context of the last 30 years of African American literary criticism and cultural studies. Literary critical movements to be discussed include: black feminist criticism, literary black nationalism, gender studies and queer theory, post-colonialism and the writing of the black diaspora, "racial" writing and the literature of witness, trauma, memory and forgetting. - M. Miller Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to seniors. Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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SPRING, 2009: This course will consider American narratives of disability at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on works by Stephen Crane, Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Pearl Buck, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Carson McCullers, the seminar will examine the relationship between disability and language, technology, race, gender, popular culture and law. SPRING, 2010: section 3 will be a seminar in American Literature taught by M. Vandenburg. Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to seniors. 4 points
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What was funny in the Renaissance We will look at various ways writers sought to be dryly witty, harshly satirical, subtly ironic, amusingly parodic, or broadly comic. Texts will include background materials by Lucian and other classical satirists and Renaissance works by Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Tom Nashe, Sir John Harington, and Joseph Hall as well as extracts from jestbooks and several parodic almanacs. Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to seniors. Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and Department Chair. 4 points
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Interpretive strategies for reading the Bible as a work with literary dimensions. Considerations of poetic and rhetorical structures, narrative techniques, and feminist exegesis will be included. Topics for investigation include the influence of the Bible on literature, combined with the more formal disciplines of biblical studies. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 4 points
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K. Biers 4 points
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4.00 Credits
The dramatic text as theatrical event. Differing performance spaces, production practices, and cultural conventions promote differing modes of engagement with dramatic texts. Explores Shakespeare's plays in the context of actual and possible performances from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Performance conventions, dramatic techniques, and cultural contexts from 1660 to 1800. Playwrights include Wycherley, Etherege, Behn, Trotter, Centlivre, Dryden, Congreve, Gay, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. 4 points
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Modern American drama in the context of theatrical exploration and cultural contestation.Playwrights include Glaspell, O'Neill, Odets, Johnson, Hurston, Hansberry, Williams, Hellman, Stein, Miller, and Fornes. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Lab fee $60. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of the impact of women in theatre history-with special emphasis on American theatre history-including how dramatic texts and theatre practice have reflected the ever-changing roles of women in society. Playwrights include Glaspell, Crothers, Hellman, Finley, Hughes, and Smith. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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