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Course Criteria
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course focuses mainly on the major work of Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain poet. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: Any first year writing seminar GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) A study of literature written during the reigns of the Tudors and the early Stuart monarchs when England began to develop a distinct cultural identity. Emphasis is on poetry and prose. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A survey of English literature and culture from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to around 1800. Covering a wide range of literary genres, such as Restoration drama, satiric poetry, the travel narrative, the periodical essay, and the novel. The course examines the historical, social, political, and intellectual backgrounds for these texts, such as the declining influence of court culture, the construction of a colonial market economy, discourses of slavery and abolition, and the reevaluation of traditional class and gender hierarchies. Authors studied include Rochester, Wycherley, Behn, Haywood, Aubin, Defoe, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Equiano, and others. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A study of the major writers and some less well-known figures from the period 1790-1830: the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P. B. Shelley, and Keats; the novelists Austen and Scott; the essayists Hazlitt, Lamb, and De Quincey; and others, such as Mary Shelley, Godwin, and Clare. Students will also engage the critical writing of the period as well as relevant current critical and theoretical issues. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of Victorian fiction, poetry, and prose with an emphasis on major social, cultural, and political concerns and debates in nineteenth-century Britain: industrialization and modernization, ideologies of class and gender, evolutionary theory and religious ambivalence, new developments in aesthetic theory and literary form. Authors studied include Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Browning, Tennyson, Pater, Morris, and Wilde. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course explores the differences between the way medieval people read - their experience of reading and their training as interpreters of texts - and the way we read today, as well as the complexity and variance of texts created in a pre-print world. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The nature and purpose of the epic in the European Renaissance through a close study of Dante's Divine Comedy, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Spenser' s Faerie Queene , andMilton's Paradise Lost. Renaissance theories of allegory and genre and the cultural work of these epics are explored. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of American literature from the colonial period through Cooper, focusing on major works by Franklin, Brown, and Cooper, and considering such forms as the sermon, diary, captivity narrative, and spiritual biography. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of American literature from Emerson through Dickinson, focusing on such writers as Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Stowe, Whitman. Topics include the possibility of living well, relationships to creation, to God, to evil, and to an expanding, divided federation compromised by a constitution that allows slavery and disenfranchises women. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Theoretical statements by poets and major critics in the British and American tradition, in conjunction with study of poems presumably written according to the principles articulated in those theoretical statements. Special attention to major recurring issues in poetic theory and practice. 4 credits.
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