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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literature of England during the Restoration and the 18th Century (1660- 1800), including authors such as William Congreve, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Lady Montague, and Daniel Defoe. Major ideas discussed include empire and nationhood, social class, slavery and abolition, and the use of literature as a political tool.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis and criticism of the works of well-known Romantic writers (Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, the Shelleys,) and several lesser-known writers (Smith, Baillie, Clare). Historical, social, literary and political context is established through the work of several important essayists (Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincy) and through a brief look at 18th century precursors to the Romantic Movement (Gray and Young).
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major poetry and prose of England from the 1830s to the turn of the century. The course will focus on the era's preoccupation with various forms of "change" (religious, social, scientifi c, technological and political, etc.) as refl ected in the works of selected writers such as Carlyle, Mill, Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, Ruskin, Arnold, Hopkins, the Rossettis, and Gaskell. Attention is also given to the seeds of modernism within the writing and thought of the period.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the development of literary modernism in a variety of genres. Authors under consideration may include Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Bertolt BrechtT.S. Eliot.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American traditions and forms from native myth and discovery narratives to colonial and enlightenment poetry and prose.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the nineteenth century writers' quest to make a new American consciousness. Attention will be given to how writers refl ect and engage Puritan, colonial, and democratic traditions. Consideration of the relationship between individuality and American identity will also be given. Readings will include major works by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Poe, and Dickinson.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines literary texts that dramatize, refl ect, and engage changing social andeconomic realities at the turn from the 19th century into the 20th century. Special attention will be devoted to literary "realism" and to matters of narrative, work, region, science, religion, gender, and language. Readings will include texts by Twain, Howells, James, Chopin, Gilman, Crane, Norris, Dreiser, Adams, and Wharton.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of key writers of postmodernist literature, some of whom may include Vladimir Nabokov, Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, Angela Carter, William Burroughs, John Berryman, John Ashberry, Charles Bernstein, Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Ishmael Reed, and Caryl Churchill.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of key writers, texts, and literary developments from the late twentieth century to the present. Authors might include Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, David Mamet, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Alice Munro, and Jeanette Winterson.
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3.00 Credits
Study and analysis of contemporary nonfi ction prose and its historical backgrounds. Concentrating chiefly on the essay, the course may also investigate other examples of the genre, such as biography, literary diary and letter, profi le, review, and shorter historical, scientific,business, and technical essays.
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