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Perm. Req’d. The course builds on the information and techniques encountered in Poetic Forms I, and uses them in reading and imitating a range of contemporary poets.
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Permission required Prereq: 220.201 The capstone course in poetry writing. Consideration of various poetic models in discussion, primarily workshop of student poems. Students will usually complete a “collection” of up to 15 poems.
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Registration Restrictions: Permission required. The capstone course in writing fiction, primarily devoted to workshop of student stories. Some assignments, some discussion of literary models, two or three completed student stories with revisions. Completion of Intermediate Fiction is required.
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3.00 Credits
Registration Restrictions: Permission required. Readings in Contemporary Poetry. Confession, place, myth and image are the four compass points of American poetry best embodied in the work of James Wright. With the work of Wright at the center of the compass, we will read the Selected Poems of four major living poets and discover how these directions and forces play out over the course of a career.
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3.00 Credits
A readings course in the novel studying works by Jane Austen, Honore de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad and Elsa Morante. Students keep a notebook of critical responses to the novels and write a final paper.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the fiction of three American modernist masters in the context of the early 20th century movement in the verbal and visual arts. Not a workshop course.
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3.00 Credits
We will examine five American writers who were emerging or thriving in the middle of the 20th century: John Cheever, Flannery O’Connor, Peter Taylor, John Updike, and Vladimir Nabokov. We will read short stories by all five, as well as the following novels: O’Connor’s Wise Blood, Updike’s Of the Farm, Nabokov’s Lolita.
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3.00 Credits
Instructor permission required Classes will be devoted to writing and collective editing of factual work of significant length and ambition, including essays, journalistic reports, histories, and biographies.
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3.00 Credits
A study of modern war poetry, especially of the two World Wars, including work by W.B. Yeats, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Randall Jarrell, Henry Reed, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht. Some poetry concerning other conflicts, from the Trojan War to the war in Iraq, will also be addressed. What is the role of poetry in responding to political events? Students will write critical papers as well as poems.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the performing arts, including an overview of theatre history, acting styles and the interaction of art and society. A personal view from inside.
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