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3.00 Credits
This course charts the evolution and development of European Modernism from Parisian salons to the backyards and front porches of American towns. Writers such as Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Pound, Faulkner, Stevens, and William Carlos Williams may be considered. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Fall 2009.
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3.00 Credits
Postmodernism is the term used to describe art and literature since mid-20th century, a period showing the effects of totalitarian states, the threat of nuclear and thermal annihilation, environmental catastrophe, globalization of industry and culture, and the digitalization of communication. This course offers an introduction to ideas surrounding postmodernism by looking at some of the work of John Updike, Paul Auster, and other writers or artists routinely identified as postmodernist. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Spring 2010.
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3.00 Credits
How are male and female identities constructed in our literature and our popular culture? Is gender simply a "performance" orsomething more innate? Some of the most exciting literary and cultural theory in recent years puts this question center stage, connecting gender to questions of power, the body, and race. We look at this critical work and apply this theoretical approach to a wide variety of texts from novels, stories, and plays to film, television, and advertising. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Fall 2007.
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Politics, culture, and history in the theme of detection from early tales by, for example, Edgar Allan Poe ( Murders in the Rue Morgue) and Sir Arthur Conan Coyle ( Sherlock Holmes), through such writers as Wilkie Collins ( The Moonstone), Mary Elizabeth Braddon ( Lady Audley's Secret), Bram Stoker (Dracula), Robert L. Stevenson ( Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Charles Dickens ( The Mystery of Edwin Drood), to Henry James ( The Princess Casamassima) and Joseph Conrad ( The Secret Agent) and other recent manifestations in Agatha Christie and P.D. James. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Spring 2008.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to provide a theoretical framework for literary study. Students examine critical and theoretical approaches to cultural and literary analysis to understand the implications of the various ways of defining the project of literary study. Students trace the historical development and relations among various theories such as formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, and postcolonialism and also a range of contemporary fiction upon which theory has had a formative imprint. Theorists studied may include Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Freud, and Said. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
Forms of culture surround us at every moment. Rap lyrics, ads, TV news, productions of Shakespeare all carry implied messages about who we are, what world we live in, and what we should value. We examine the different modes of understanding and interpreting contemporary cultural phenomena. We analyze and write about cultural forms as texts to be read for what they tell us about men and women, wealth and power, race, nation, and technology. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Spring 2009.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad introduction to some of the seminal texts of Caribbean literature. It is an engagement with the ways in which Caribbean fiction has "developed" over thedecades. The condition of coloniality, and its problematic successors, postcolonialism form the critical axis of this course. Writers may include Kamau, Braitwaite, CLR James, Jean Rhys, Merle Hodge, Jamaica Kincaid, and George, Lamming. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
A special topics course designed to offer a focus on a single major author or on particular groupings or schools of authors from the outside the British or American tradition. A particular title is announced in the course offerings for a specific semester. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
The study of a theme, movement, image, iconography, theory, or similar focus as it emerges in world literature outside the British and American traditions. The title is announced in the course offerings for a specific semester. Check with the instructor for a course description. Prerequisite: Any AML, BRL, DRA, or LIT course 2000 or higher. 3 credits. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores specific, identified topics in the discipline of literature. The subject matter will be selected by the instructor prior to registration, with the approval of the department Chairperson. Open to Honors students only. 3 credits. Offered as needed; day.
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