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The Indian subcontinent has in recent years yielded a number of writers, expatriate or otherwise, whose works articulate the postcolonial experience in the "foreign" English tongue. This course is designed as an introductory survey of such writing, drawing on select subcontinental writers. Covering both fiction and nonfiction by several authors, including R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Sara Suleri, Micheal Ondaatjie, and Romesh Gunesekera, we discuss such issues as the nature of the colonial legacy, the status of the English language, problems of translation (linguistic and cultural), the politics of religion, the expatriate identity, and the constraints of gender roles.
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The chain of islands immediately to the south of the United States exists in the social imaginary of this country largely as a place of sun, rum, and fun. Despite this reputation, the Caribbean has a long history of colonial exploitation, anticolonial rebellion, radical politics, cosmopolitan ethnic mixture, and innovative cultural movements. This course surveys the literature from the English-speaking islands of the region, gaining an overall picture of its birth and development over the past century and examining the ways it informs, critiques, and helps constitute the international body of literature that has come to be called "postcolonial." The course involves readings from several literary genres as well as some basic secondary sources.
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Topics vary from semester to semester.
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An inquiry into new forms of screen art beginning with traditional printed poetry to varieties of virtual poetry emergent on the computer screen; the stream of programming code as a level of writerly activity.
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The primary focus in this writing-intensive course is to look at every possible kind of electronic poetry we can come up with in order to evaluate it as poetry.
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Topics: themes, formal problems, literary genres, special subjects (e.g., English and American Romanticisms, science and literature, the modern short story). Consult Course Listings for offerings in any given semester.
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The romance grows out of the epic: how we get from the fall of Troy to the fall of Troilus. Readings from Vergil's Aeneid to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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We read Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The Mabinogion, The Tain, Margery Kempe, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
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This course explores the theme of consolation in medieval poetry. We read narratives that represent the consolation of a variety of melancholy figures-philosophers in exile, lovers in mourning, citizens in plague-ridden cities, and women disturbed by misogynous writing. We examine the connection between representations of consolation and the act of reading, and think about literature itself (along with other art forms) as a contested site of entertainment, moral guidance, self-fashioning, and redemption. Authors may include Boccaccio, Boethius, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Abelard and Heloise, and the Pearl-poet. As a writing-intensive class, we spend time writing and talking about writing in the classroom. We read our literary texts as "arguments" about literature in addition to other topics, and we read secondary articles as examples of scholarly writing that we may or may not want to adopt as models.
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