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Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to different kinds of British and American poetries and poetics of the twentieth century: some that reaffirm the well-known persona-centered lyric in various guises, and others that question the notions of expressivity and authenticity to redefine the lyric through a relatively more pronounced linguistic experimentation. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study (in translation) of some of the writers from the classical and continental European traditions who helped shape the minds and influence the literary forms of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English dramatists and writers. Authors include Ariosto, Erasmus, Dante, Boccaccio, Pico, Petrarch, Machiavelli, De Lille, Montaigne, Ovid, and Plautus among others. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of the earliest manifestations of the Arthurian stories in the literature of Western Europe in the Middle Ages, The versions of Chrétien De Troyes, von Eschenbach, the Gawain poet, and others will 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 The dialogue about race, class, and gender that takes place between writers such as Faulkner, Warren, Gaines, Welty, O'Connor, Walker, and Alison. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The remarkable literary flowering contemporary with the late nineteenth-century movements in Ireland that led to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1921, and with the difficult historical circumstances faced by the new nation in the first years of its existence. The major figures studied include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and O'Casey. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A study of works such as Plato's Republic, Thomas More's Utopia, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, William Morris's News from Nowhere, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars,. The starting premise will be that the utopian/dystopian text responds to an ethical demand, an obligation to imagine another time or another place, and that acting upon this demand requires a leap of the literary imagination. In utopian and dystopian texts, ethics and aesthetics intersect to make specific demands on the reader, but also to demand each other's cooperation (no aesthetics without ethics, no ethics without aesthetics in the utopian/dystopian text). 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of eighteenth-century narratives of travel and exploration as they relate to the development of English national, social, and political character. Considers the literal and metaphorical representations of travel by examining travel journals and diaries, adventure novels, humanist tracts, and trade pamphlets. Special attention paid to the ethnographic and geographic representations of extra-English territories, in addition to examining the encounter between the British traveler and the people and cultures with whom he or she comes into contact. Authors studied include Behn, Equiano, Aubin, Defoe, Johnson, Montagu, Smollett, and others. 4 credits.
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GER: WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the field of Postcolonial Studies through the study of literary, filmic, and theoretical texts focusing on the historical and ongoing interactions of European and non- European cultures from the perspective of domination, resistance, and the search for alternatives. 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) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Contemporary fiction written in English from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa, with emphasis on the diverse traditions of this multiethnic region, where African, Arab, South Asian, and European communities have created rich linguistic and literary forms. Attention paid to the depredations of colonialism and neocolonialism, the conflicts between tradition and modernity, and the ways in which the fiction represents history, engages with politics, redefines national identities, and invents hybrid literary genres. 4 credits.
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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of the fundamentals of film form: narrative construction in the Hollywood system as well as nonnarrative formal systems (documentary, abstract and avantgarde film). Includes examination of the fundamentals of film style (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound) and attention to the relationships between the literary and filmic texts. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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