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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nation's literary development before, during and after the Civil War. Literature that gives rise to the issues nationhood; construction of American, Southern, and racial identities; and social advances that were stripped away by the Jim Crow laws that marked the end of the Reconstruction era. The roots of feminism in the abolitionist movement are also examined. Readings may include Douglas, Whitman, Crane, Dubois, Washington, Garrison, and Stanton. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2007.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the profound changes in American society between the two world wars. Key writers may include Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Larsen, Hughes, Stevens, Williams, Hurston, and Steinbeck. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2009.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the poetry and fiction of the Beat Generation. Rejecting the culturally conservative mood of America in the 1950s, the beat movement expressed a literature of raw intensity which tested the boundaries of creative freedom. This was a generation of artists who rebelled against received forms and opened literature to a range of experiences repressed as marginal or dangerous: madness, ecstasy, addiction, homosexuality, suicide, and religious dread. Writers may include Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Kesey, Burroughs, DiPrima, Snyder, Bukowski, McClure, Waldman, and Cassady. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2007.
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3.00 Credits
Undeniably, we live today in a visual culture. Film and television have become the dominant creative modes. How do today's writers compete in a world dominated by image? What are their concerns? How have they experimented with and challenged traditional narrative forms and genres? This course surveys some of the most dynamic contemporary poets, novelists, and dramatists who are making a name for themselves today. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
Cold War politics, Civil Rights and the Women's Movement, the Vietnam War, the "Me" Generation, Wall Street, Cyberspace.How did U.S. writers and artists respond to all this? This course investigates how poets, fiction writers, and playwrights dealt with some of the major questions of their generation. Works may include poets Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and Rita Dove; fiction writers James Dickey, Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler; and playwrights Arthur Miller, Amiri Baraka, Edward Albee, and Anna Deveare Smith. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2009.
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3.00 Credits
No other city in America (or perhaps the world) has fired the literary imagination more than New York. We look at the incredible diversity of this literature, from immigrant narratives and migration tales to essays, comic strips, and short stories. We also investigate what it is about New York that provokes such interest among writers. What is New York a metaphor for-power, prestige, poverty, diversity, American exceptionalism? Why does the rest of the country continue to care about New York stories? Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2007.
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3.00 Credits
Arguably, modern American poetry stems from two mid-19thcentury master poets: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This course closely analyzes the canon of both poets and may also provide an overview of subsequent poets influenced by the lady from Amherst and gray man from Camden. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2009.
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3.00 Credits
The American West has fostered some of our most important and lasting national myths of success, progress, and conquest. This course looks at European-American ideas about nature and civilization, gender and race, and violence and individualism within the context of these mythic narratives. We also investigate more contemporary narratives which offer a corrective in their commitment to representing the diversity of the West. We look at novels, stories, films, and other cultural artifacts as we investigate how this space has and continues to shape our understanding of the unique promises of American life. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2009.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the writers of the American South. Possible authors include Twain, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Welty, Lee, Tennessee Williams, Percy, Woolfe, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Capote, and Mason. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2010.
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at the long neglected fields of Native American, African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-/Latino- American literature. Possible authors include: Momaday, Morrison, Lahiri, Silko, Erdrich, Anaya, Cisneros, Alexie, Hijuelos, Kingston, Tan, Ng, and Kogawa. Prerequisite: 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2010.
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