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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of literature and filmmaking, films based on works of literature, and mutual influences of technique. Prerequisite: one literature course GE: Literature
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3.00 Credits
Readings in representative works from Spain and Spanish America, with emphasis on contemporary literature. (The denomination “Hispanic” may also embrace works in Portuguese or of Spanish writers in the United States.) Taught in English. Prerequisite: ENG 010 2 GE: Literature
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students an introduction to the works of several well-known Spanish and Latin American authors. Students will gradually develop their reading skills in Spanish by reading and discussing short pieces of fiction, thus enhancing their vocabulary, grammar, stylistic appreciation, and cultural knowledge of the Spanish language and the various Hispanic cultures. Texts have been selected to provide students with a smooth transition from language classes to an appreciation of Hispanic literature. Prerequisite: SPAN 0201
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the great body of literature that is contemporary French narrative. Students will read a representative sample of some of the most important authors of this century, looking at their themes, narrative techniques, and the interaction between the two. The two main genres are the short story and the novel. During the semester, students will also be viewing films based on well-known French novels or short stories. The class will be encouraged to discuss the films in light of what they learned in the course.
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3.00 Credits
The course will explore selected texts of African literature written in English or translated into English.? It covers major modern African fiction and its role in explaining African politics, culture, and religion.? Appropriate audiovisual material is included to give students a basic but comprehensive background in postcolonial African literature and culture.? Such masterpieces as Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Beti's novels of colonial Cameroon, Mariama Ba's So Long Letter, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's and other representative works will be studied.? GE: Literature
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3.00 Credits
The history, culture, and politics of the Caribbean are studied through the works of major authors. Representative cultural and audiovisual products are also covered. Diversity and hybridity, as key features of Caribbean identity, are discussed. The role of the United States in the shaping of this region will also be examined. Areas covered include Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the West Indies. GE: Literature/Non-Western
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3.00 Credits
The study of a special topic in comparative literature.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the modernist tradition in fiction and poetry, including Hemingway, Faulkner, Stein, Woolf, Yeats, Eliot, and Toomer. Prerequisites: two literature courses
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3.00 Credits
This course covers literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Asian subcontinent from the period of colonization to the present. It examines the literature in the context of empire, independence, ethnicity, religion, and national identity. It draws on contemporary works in postcolonial theory by Said, Ngugi, Chatterjee, Zizek, Achebe, Jameson, and others. Prerequisite: one other English course
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern critical theory and literary analysis. Special attention paid to attempts made in this century to construct a general theory of literature incorporating methods from other disciplines (structural linguistics, semantic philosophy, Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, psychology).
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