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3.00 Credits
A study of selected major prose and poetry of the English Renaissance, with attention to continental influences and relevant contexts. This course will variously focus on the works of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare (the sonnets), More, Erasmus, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, Herbert and/or Marvell. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218. Suggested prior course: ENG 250.
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A study of selected works by Shakespeare toward developing a critical appreciation of his plays in particular. The course emphasizes close readings of Shakespeare’s texts and analyses of the relationship between playscript and performance, in addition to providing instruction in conducting library research on literary topics. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
See course description for THR 319.
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3.00 Credits
Modern Irish Drama begins with a brief look at the drama and history of the Irish stage before the twentieth century but focuses primarily on the Irish Literary Revival and on postwar dramatists. In addition to reading plays by some prominent Irish playwrights – texts by such authors as Yeats, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Synge, Wilde, O’Casey, Colum, Deevy, Carr, Beckett, Johnston, Fallon, Friel, Murphy, McDonagh and McPherson – readings will include select secondary essays on Irish history and the political and social resonances of Irish drama, towards an understanding of how the drama takes part in and later problematizes constructions of national identity, or “Irishness.” In some semesters,the course may include optional travel to Dublin, along with overnight trips to visit theaters and/or festivals in Belfast or Galway. Prerequisites: ENG 200/ENG 218.
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This course will survey the rich history of American journalists who have either produced creative works or who have relied upon literary techniques in their journalistic endeavors. Beginning with Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, the course will move through the revolutionary period of essayists and pamphleteers, proceed to the nineteenth century and the romantic writings of political activists like Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau, and the realist and naturalist fictions of writers like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The course will end by surveying the works of black and white writers of the early twentieth century – W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemmingway and H.LO. Menken, who negotiate their critiques of modern American culture and political life both as journalists and creative writers. Throughout the course, we will be exploring the relationship between the world of the American hournalist and his or her subsequent influences upon American literature. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG200/ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
A study of John Milton’s poetry and prose, with attention to its historical and biographical contexts. Though the main focus will be on his writings themselves, reading them in relation to his life and times will help us understand how and why, form his lyric poems to polemical prose to “Paradise Lost,” Milton regarded writing as both apolitical and spiritual “calling.” Prerequisites: ENG 100, ENG 218.
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Selected works of Restoration and eighteenth century literature, including works by Congreve, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray, Collins, Burke and Burns. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of themes and styles in significant novels by major authors (e.g. Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne and Austen) with selected critical readings. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to theories of colonialism through the study of world literatures. What is the impact of colonization on a culture How do questions of language, race, class and gender impact the experience of colonialism Students will read novels and short works from a variety of formerly subject nations, including India, Nigeria, Egypt and Ireland. Short segments of theory will guide and accompany these readings. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
The works of the Romantic Period, with emphasis on the major poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Two themes interwoven with the poetic texts will also be important: the socio-political and imaginative responses to the energies unleashed by the French Revolution (Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft will be briefly discussed in this context) and the tension between the real and the ideal. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218. Suggested prior course: ENG 250.
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