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In this course we will explore the vital relationship between American literature, American culture, Nature, and environmental values, asking how changing literary interpretations of the land have influenced attitudes toward nonhuman nature. Why have American authors been so consistently concerned with and inspired by the idea of wilderness? How did our culture move from the Puritan notion of howling wilderness to the Transcendentalist vision of divine nature to contemporary nature writers' concern with imperiled ecosystems? What literary interpretations of nature will be likely in the future?
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An impressive number of narratives, novels, diaries, and poems recording the responses of women to the American frontier have become available in recent years. By reading about these frontier experiences, and examining differences in perception and conception based apparently on gender, students will better understand how the frontier functioned within American culture and what "cultural work" these texts accomplished.
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Focus on American fiction that records physical as well as metaphysical journeys; writers' exploration of new territories such as the frontier West, Polynesian Isles, and South Pole; their imaginative discovery of new truths about nature, society, and the self. Includes works by Poe, Cooper, Melville, Simms, Kirkland, and Chopin.
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A study of the 19th-century American literary movement known as Realism. The course focuses on works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain.
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This course will cover the modern European novel through the thematic rubric of "love and lies." The latter theme affords the opportunity to consider fiction not only as a medium of the literary genre of the novel but also as a discourse of self-expression, self-creation, and in the cases of some our lying protagonists, self-destruction. Students will focus on characters' constructions of "truth" and "lies" as these concepts are informed by characters' emotional positions. At its most ambitious, this focus on the dynamic of intersubjectivity not only provides important insights into the literature we will read but also enhances students' understanding of the interpersonal connections that drive individuals' worldviews and narratives.
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This course focuses on the connection between place and cultural identity in the shaping of a writer's distinctive voice. Influences include ethnic, regional, and linguistic markers, as well as dislocation from the place of origination. Regional focus within the global community may vary by academic term.
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students develop the writing skills necessary for success in graduate school, including proper citations, time management, and the content and format for two types of research proposals. Students become proficient in the APA style and have the opportunity to resolve grammar and structure problems with the professor.
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This course examines the contemporary cookbook as a genre of literary nonfiction, influenced by autobiography, memoir, and personal essay. Students will read and write recipe texts through the theoretical elnses of food studies and literary theory to understand how cookbooks function as literature in the popular market and the academy.
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A study of selected works of Twain within the context of American literature and the tradition of American humor.
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