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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The Victorian novel viewed through the lens of both nineteenth-century and modern theories of the novel. Works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy and others will be examined from the perspective of Victorian literary culture. The work of critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Ian Watt, Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti will also be studied. 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 Study of the novel in the British Isles and Empire from 1900 to 1960. Focus on realism, modernism, colonialism, war, and social change. Major writers studied include Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Durrell, Greene, and Lessing. Readings will include literary history, criticism, and theory of the modern novel. 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 The contemporary novel from the British Isles, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, South Asia, and Africa. Focus on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and transnationalism from 1960 to the present. The writers studied include Naipaul, Rushdie, Ondaatje, Emecheta, Gordimer, McEwan, Atwood, Carey, and Kincaid. Readings will include theory and criticism. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The role of women -- as dramatists, actresses, and theater managers -- in the development of Restoration drama, including Restoration discussions of sexual and social identities, theories of performance, and the debates about the unseemliness and "wickedness" of women's participation in the theater. Authors studied will include Behn, Centlivre, Cavendish, Pix, Manley, and others. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Examination of the development of the American novel through its adaptations of such sub-genres as the Gothic novel, the historical romance, the social protest novel, the picaresque novel, the realistic novel of manners, and the naturalistic novel. Authors include Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, James, Twain, Norris, Chopin, and Cather. 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 Examination of modern and post-modern novels, emphasizing how these works reflect cultural assumptions about social class, race, ethnicity gender roles, politics, technology, religion, art and entertainment. Authors include Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, Malamud, Kesey, Walker, and Tan. 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 Major works from the golden age of English drama. Shakespeare along with work by his contemporaries, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and others. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of major works of English drama, with appropriate attention to relevant critical concepts and problems of staging. Medieval English drama may be read, as well as works by Shakespeare, Jonson, and their contemporaries. May also include authors from the Restoration as well as from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of some of the powerful and varied work of recent dramatists, with attention to the conditions of the theatre of their time. Dramatists studied might include Shaw, Eliot, O'Neill, Miller, Wilder, Osborne, Arden, Pinter, Shaffer, Bolt, Orton, and Shepard. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Offered only as part of the Fall Term in England program. Study of the drama being performed in London and Stratford by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and others. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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