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This course will explore issues of concern to Shakespeare's audiences from his time to ours--love, war, race, sex, good and evil--through a representative selection of plays. Lectures will discuss historical contexts, theatrical conditions, and critical strategies. Designed for students beginning college-level study of Shakespeare. Two lectures and one discussion meeting weekly. Students should register for ENGL 0400A S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. LILE WRIT
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Narratives (1100-1500) of men, women, and elves seeking identity on the road, in bed, and at court. Readings (in modern English) include Arthurian romances, Havelok, lais by Marie de France, and Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale." Primarily for freshmen and sophomores. Students should register for ENGL 0400C S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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This course will introduce students to medieval prose and poetry that centralize the problematic nature of violent conflict and its attendant horrors. We will study literature from medieval England, Wales, Ireland, and Iceland, including Beowulf, two Old Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry, Irish and Welsh texts, and part of Malory's Morte Darthur. Topics will include sacrifice, religion, chivalry, horror, and contemporary critical approaches. Open to undergraduates only.
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These introductory general topics courses are designed to give students a coherent sense of the literary history and the major critical developments during a substantial period covered by the department's Area II research field: The Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures and Cultures. English concentrators are encouraged to take at least one of these courses to apply to the Area II English concentration requirements.
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Considers the changing ways Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, and late-19th-century authors incorporate non-realistic and fantastic themes and elements in literature. Special attention to the relationship between realism and fantasy in different genres. Readings include stories (gothic, ghost, and adventure), fairy tales, short novels, plays, and poems. Shakespeare, Swift, Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Henry James. Two lectures and one discussion meeting weekly. Students will be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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An exploration of "Romanticism" in literature written and read on both sides of the Atlantic between 1775 and 1865. Poetry, fiction, and essays by writers such as Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne.
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Even before there was a United States, American authors argued over just what distinguished "America" from other communities. For what, they wondered, did or should America stand? Examines the rhetorical battles waged in some key pre-Civil War American literary texts over the meaning and/or meanings of America. Authors studied may include Bradstreet, Franklin, Douglass, and Melville.
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Introduces students to the first stages of novel writing in England and to historical and theoretical issues relating to the novel's "rise" to the dominant genre of the modern era. Eighteenth-century works of fiction are long; however, texts selected for this course are less long. They include Defoe's Moll Flanders, Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Who hasn't struggled with the problem of good and evil? Who hasn't wondered what lurks in the dark recesses of the soul? We will investigate how Milton, Mary Shelley, Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne, among others, grapple with these fundamental questions of judgment. Students should register for ENGL 0400F S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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