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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing class fuses cultural analysis and critical reflection with the study and production of polished expository and multimedia prose. Students will examine their experiences and beliefs in order to foster a critical understandingsof self in society. Prerequisite: ENGL 180 or 185. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Staff.
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This hands-on course will teach students how to write feature articles and to submit them for publication to magazines and weeklies. Students will learn ways to developmarketable ideas and to write feature stories, profiles, how-to articles, and more. The class includes field trips to local magazine publishers and visits from guest editors and writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 185 or 180. Three hours. Ms. Mills.
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A workshop experimenting with various approaches to creative writing. Emphasis on understanding and practicing the processes of writing poetry and fiction, among other forms, developing skills of evaluation, and discovering new and original voices. Prerequisite: ENGL 180 or 185. Three hours. Staff. (Students who have passed ENGL 446 cannot take ENGL 306)
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A variety of literature from the 12th through the 15th centuries, including manuals, romances, visionary works, letters, tale collections, and mystical treatises. The course will explore how literary works are transmitted from one culture to another and how they change to accommodate different traditions, values, and audiences. Works studied include Yvain, the Inferno, the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: 211. Three hours. Ms. Goodwin. (Students who have passed ENGL 385 cannot take ENGL 308)
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A study of dramatic developments and social contexts of one of the richest periods of English literary history, the Renaissance. Plays from the mid-16th century through the 1630s, excluding Shakespeare. Topics covered include the development of "mixed" genres, political application, and the growing civil instability that resulted in the English Civil Wars. Prerequsite: ENGL 211 or permission of instructor. Offered every third year. Three hours. Ms. Scott.
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This course will study a rich and diverse range of literature that exemplifies the intellectual and artistic interests of the English Renaissance. Students will explore a number of different modes, tracing particularly the development of lyric poetry and its representations of love, courtiership, and the good life; students will also look at the development of prose (utopian fiction, travel narrative, and romance). Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: 211. Three hours. Staff. (Students who have passed ENGL 420 cannot take ENGL 317.)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the lyric poetry of John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, AndrewMarvell, JohnMilton, and other Cavalier and religious writers, including some women writers. These poems will be read in conjunction with one dramatic work from the period. Instruction and frequent practice in explicating poetry. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: 211. Three hours. Staff. (Students who have passed ENGL 424 cannot take ENGL 318.)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of British literature, 1660-1798, focusing on Restoration comedy, the public poetry of Dryden and Pope, the satire of several Restoration and Augustan figures, the emergence of the sentimental, the advent of new literary genres such as biography and the journal, and the transition from a Neo- Classical to a Romantic aesthetic. Prerequisite: 211 or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Sheckels.
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An examination of the novel as it gradually developed into a major literary genre. The course considers the formative shorter fiction by Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Jane Barker, Daniel Defoe, Penelope Aubin, Eliza Haywood, Mary Davys, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the later more developed novels by Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Frances Sheridan, and Fanny Burney. Prerequisite: 211 or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Sheckels.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the key period in American literature, focusing on such themes as the need to destroy what exists, the dangers posed and opportunities afforded by democracy to spirit, the cosmic significance of America, despair and ecstasy. Authors studied include Dickinson, Whitman, Poe and Hawthorne. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: 211, 212, 251, or 252. Three hours. Mr. Giemza.
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