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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of the ways in which literature and history interplay between 1340 and 1400. Literary texts include writings by Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl Poet, and anonymous composers of songs, dream visions, romances, satires, debates, and low stories; attempts to move from these to theoretical and over into historical texts, alienating where necessary and translating where possible.
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3.00 Credits
Major texts of the European Renaissance examined to set English literary achievement in a continental context. Among authors studied: Petrarch, Castiglione, Erasmus, More, Luther, Wyatt, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, Milton. Prerequisite: 6 units of literature, junior standing, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Topics course in Renaissance Literature.
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3.00 Credits
Writing-intensive course on the representation of pain at every level, from private suffering to public policy. Course reader consists of examples of or extracts from a diversity of materials: the Bible and Ovid, medieval religious lyric, saints' lives, visions of hell and damnation, descriptions of visionary illness, Freud's Anna O, Kafka's In the Penal Colony, Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose, Woolf's On Being Ill, Artaud and the theater of cruelty; autobiographical and other writings by Susan Sontag and Inga Clendinnen; theory by Bataille, Deleuze, Dollimore, and Elizabeth Grosz; work on pain by Leder, Morris, Rey, and others; poetry by Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Gwen Harwood, Alan Jenkins and others. We also read Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain and two recent novels: Andrew Miller's Ingenious Pain and Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu.
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3.00 Credits
In this writing-intensive course, we examine the attraction the letter held for authors and readers alike, taking into consideration the advantages and the disadvantages of the form, its role in the development of the early novel, and current theories of epistolary writing.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Comp Lit 3778
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3.00 Credits
Why would anyone want to burn a book? Under what circumstances would you support censorship? Several years ago a Russian student was exiled to Siberia for possessing a copy of Emerson's Essays; today, school boards in the United States regularly call for the removal of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye from classrooms and library shelves. Actions like these dramatize the complex interconnections of literature and society, and they raise questions about what we read and the way we read. The course explores these issues by looking closely at several American and translated European texts that have been challenged on moral, sociopolitical, or religious grounds to determine what some readers have found so threatening about these works. Possible authors: Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Defoe, Hawthorne, Flaubert, Twain, Chopin, Brecht, Salinger, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury. Brief daily writing assignments.
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