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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Chronological study of the development of Faulkner's art from Flags in the Dust to Go Down, Moses. Attention paid to the concept of Yoknapatawpha County and to the various innovative narrative techniques Faulkner employed. 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 works written by major authors in the reigns of the Tudors and the Stuarts. Authors include Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Marlowe, Jonson, Milton, or the major lyric poets. Focus on major works in their entirety written by single authors except in the case of the lyric poets. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course examines literature that evokes terror and horror, explores the possibility of supernatural forces, portrays mental disintegration, transgresses social, political, and moral norms, and exposes cultural anxieties and oppression. Topics and texts may vary. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Selected religious poets writing in English in the Christian tradition, from the seventeenth century to the present. Special attention to the function of metaphor in rendering religious experience. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Readings in satirical literature of all genres and many periods, with an emphasis on satire of the early eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. Some attention to satire in forms other than literature. Focus on function, method, characteristics, and problems of the satirical mode. 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 Topics include spiritual and moral concerns contrast with other forms, such as biography and memoir, and specific subgenres. Film adaptation or autobiographical film may also be considered. Alternating versions will include either an American emphasis or a global emphasis. 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 A detailed study of several poets and/or fiction writers. Some or all of the authors will meet with the class as part of the Meta Eppler Gilpatrick Writers at Furman Series. 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 Seminal theoretical texts for structuralism, deconstruction, and semiotics. Application of theoretical principles to lyric poems written in English. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Readings in American literature from 1950 to the present, with emphasis on what might make this recent writing different from what came before, or "postmodern" in termsof aesthetics and cultural context. May address fiction, drama and poetry or concentrate on a single genre. 4 credits.
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GER: NE(Humans and the Natural Environment) and TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Focus on works commonly considered major examples of environmental writing and an examination of the theoretical/critical considerations involved in reading these works. Writers to be discussed include James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Barry Lopez. Theoretical problems such as the relation of writing to lived experience and the justice of emphasizing all life over human life will help focus discussions. 4 credits.
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