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3.00 Credits
Drawing on a combination of classic literary texts and modern meditations on the practice of medicine, this course explores the intersection of medicine and literature and seeks to understand our perceptions of disease as a cultural phenomenon. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300 .
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Exploration of American literature from a cultural perspective, particularly its fascination with characters who transgress, manipulate and confront the boundaries that demark American culture. We will focus on a variety of figures who are both powerful and marginal: writers, criminals, clowns and lovers. We will compare America’s painted and tainted ladies with its masked lone rangers to see what difference gender makes in the terms and consequences of their isolation. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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A close look at several major Catholic writers of the twentieth century, all of whom bring to their art a specifically Catholic perspective: “a conviction of the open-ended mystery of matter,” an appreciation of ritual, an understanding of paradox and a way of looking at the world that takes seriously the implications of believing in the Incarnation, ie. that God has joined the human struggle. The course combines literary and theological methods with a broad cultural perspective to understand better what Catholicism means in the last half of the twentieth century. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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This core course will trace the development of film noir and the femme fatale through the original cycle of noir films of the ’40s and ’50s to later noir and neo-noir films. We will look at the socio-historical contexts of these films in order to generate questions not only about the cultural origins and revisions of the genre, but also about the effectiveness and viability of contemporary representations of the femme fatale. Students will present submissions each week in response to films and assigned readings. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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A socio-historical study of the works of six exceptional American film directors of the twentieth century. We will approach the films of Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorcese and Woody Allen through the perspective of: 1) socio-historical context, 2) genre study, and 3) auteurism (film director as author/artist). The course will focus on the theme of viewing and being viewed, and the larger issues of performance raised by this theme, including the process of becoming a public image and the representation of the artist—figure and actor. Significant attention will be paid to the representation of women as objects of vision. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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Examination of the cultural climates of various written texts and the films that are based on them. We will explore the social circumstances that have given rise to revisions of particular texts as we discuss the way in which the films studied are true or untrue to the earlier works on which they are based. We will also examine the literary nature of all the works, asking how we read film differently from the way we read written texts. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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This interdisciplinary course focuses on the medieval origins and later developments of the Arthurian legend in its varying forms, especially in English literature. Questioning why revitalizations of interest in Arthurian ideals occur when they do, class members will consider cultural and political contexts as well as the moral and psychological issues that writers such as Malory and Tennyson raise. Given the multiple translations and transformation involved, students will further challenge themselves to understand the nature of literary and other imitations. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary seminar explores a variety of interactions between literary texts and their socio political contexts, especially during periods of revolutionary turbulence. Focus is on the immediate historical settings in which particular creative works were written, the events by which they were affected and the events that they, in turn, helped to shape. Roughly equal attention is devoted to the aesthetic and the historical dimension. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary core seminar will explore the major writers of post-Civil War Irish literature, focusing on the novelists, poets and playwrights who have responded to and helped shape an Ireland very different from that of the 1916 Rising. We shall read selectively in the fiction, poetry and drama of the period, with special attention to the intersection of politics and imagination in contemporary Irish culture. Prerequisites or corequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218, ENG 300.
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3.00 Credits
See course description for HST 420.
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