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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Development of the drama from 1935 to the present. Plays by such authors as Brecht, Durrenmatt,Weiss; Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, Genet, Ghelderode, Beckett, Ionesco, Arrabal; Betti; Lagerkvist; Mrozek. Contemporary theater theory and practice in the work of such writers as Brecht, Artaud, and Grotowski and by such groups as the Living Theater. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 71.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Western literature illustrating developments in the epic genre from the Middle Ages to the present. Adjustment of the epic tradition to differing cultural values through a continual process of translation, imitation, adaptation, and transformation of epic form and content which has led to expressions of the modern "epic vision." This course is thesame as English 50.7. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 55.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3 hours; 3 credits The tragic mode in dramatic and nondramatic forms of literature. Aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological theories of tragedy. This course is the same as English 50.5. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 56.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The comic mode in dramatic and nondramatic forms of literature. Aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological theories of comedy. This course is the same as English 50.2. (Not open to students who have completed English 58.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3 hours; 3 credits An examination of romance as a literary genre: the historical development of its conventions, narrative formulas, and characteristic themes; its relationships with and contributions to other forms of literature.This course is the same as English 50.9. (Not open to students who completed English 59 or Comparative Literature 40.2 in spring, 1991, or spring, 1993.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Pastoral, a powerful mode of mythic imagination, studied in its roots and transformations: plots and themes (herdsmen as lovers, rulers, and poets; kings as herdsmen and poets [David]) originating in ancient Mediterranean cultures and still at work in imagination today. Return and change of basic mythemes to meet the challenges of new times and worlds. This course is the same as Classics 44 and English 50.91. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Fantasy and its many modes, including the gothic tale, the literary fairy tale, the animal tale, surrealism and the absurd, time and space travel, and futuristic fiction. This course is the same as English 50.6. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Readings from (a) medieval epic: The Song of Roland, The Cid, the Nibelungenlied and (b) Arthurian literature: the Welsh Mabinogion, Geoffrey's History of the Kings of Britain, the narratives of Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, Gottfried's Tristan, and Wolfram' s Parzival . Summaryaccounts of the literary histories of Iceland, Ireland,Wales, and Provence. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Such topics as the beginnings of humanism; Petrarch and Boccaccio, Florentine Platonism; the High Renaissance: Machiavelli, Ariosto,Tasso; the northern Renaissance: Erasmus, Rabelais, Ronsard and The Pléiade, Montaigne. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 25.) Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Survey of the main currents of European literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 31.) Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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