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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course will examine the impact, both positive and negative, of the muckraking trend in American journalism over the last century by considering work by journalists from Ida Tarbell to Michael Moore. In class discussions and short writing assignments, students will analyze primary documents by these journalists as well as legislation that resulted from their investigations. This course could serve as the capstone in the journalism minor. Prerequisite: ENG 2150, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above, with ENG 3050 particularly recommended) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits An exploration of the popular literature that developed in England between 1660 and 1775; topics, which may vary from semester to semester, include Restoration comedy, Augustan satire, and the emergence of new prose forms-journalism, biography, history, and the novel. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course will study the literature of the age of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution (1790-1830), a period that produced powerful imaginative works probing the recesses of the psyche and envisioning radical social transformation. The course will explore the era's celebration of emotional expression in lyric poetry, the mysteries of the gothic novel, and the challenges of politically engaged fiction. Authors to be studied include the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, and novelists such as William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Ann Radcliffe. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The novel was the most popular literary form in 19th-century England and continues to shape contemporary expectations of storytelling and character. Writers of the period used fiction to explore challenging issues of the day: poverty, industrialization, the growth of cities, the expansion of empires, changes in the family, and the relations between the sexes. This course will examine the representation of social and psychological experience in important novels of the period. Authors to be studied include Austen, the Bront s, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Wilde. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, and Samuel Beckett. This course will deal with, among other issues, Irish Nationalism, the Rising, the Civil War, the Border, and the Abbey Theatre. Appropriate films will be utilized. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits A multi-genre examination of works of literary, cultural, and historical significance, this course will discuss such move - ments as high modernism, post-war realism, and postmodernism, as well as recent literary developments on the British Isles. Poetry, drama, short fiction, and novels will be included, as may films and works of nonfiction. Their intellectual, ideo logical, and aesthetic contexts will be emphasized. Colonial and independence fiction from throughout the British Empire may be covered, as may Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English texts. Authors to be studied might include Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Rushdie, Heaney, and Ishiguro. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines remarkable innovations in the art of the modern English and American novel. Writers of the first half of the 20th century created dazzling and challenging techniques by which to explore the society, politics, and psychology of their era. Particular emphasis will be placed on representations of perception and consciousness in a variety of narrative forms. Authors to be studied might include Conrad, James, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Nabokov, and Ellison. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Significant short stories of the 20th century. Faulkner, Joyce, Cather, Mansfield, Kafka, and others will be studied, explicated, and discussed with emphasis on symbol, myth, and relationships to 19th-century forerunners in the short story art. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course analyzes short novels by writers such as James, Conrad, Lagerkvist, Camus, Gide, Mann, Wright, Bellow, Hesse, and Roth. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Including the Jewish-American school, the Beat Generation, poetry of "confession," and experimental fiction. Bellow,Malamud, Mailer, Ginsberg, Jones, Lowell, Roethke, Updike, and Nabokov are included. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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