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A study of how Chaucer's short lyric poetry, dreamvisions, and his tragedy Troilus and Criseyde engage readers with both the stories his narrator recounts and the seemingly insurmountable artistic and ethical problems that confront the poet as he attempts to mediate between his sources and the interests of his audience. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: ENGL 211 or 377. Three hours. Ms. Goodwin. (Students who have passed ENGL 482 cannot take ENGL 408.)
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A study of five of Shakespeare's more difficult plays in the context of current literary criticism and production theory. Special emphasis on gender and social relations and on the way these texts continue to have relevance today will drive the discussion and assignments. Students should be prepared to analyze critical perspectives of the plays, both literary and theatrical. Prerequisite: ENGL 311. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Ms. Scott.
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A January term course which studies a single text and its importance as a cultural artifact all over the world.We will consider Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspectives of different theories of literary criticism, old and new, view productions which offer radically different interpretations of age-old questions, and see how Hamlet goes on being written and re-written today. Prerequisite: ENGL 311 or permission of instructor. Offered every third year. Three hours. Ms. Scott. (Students who have passed ENGL 313 cannot take ENGL 413.)
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A close study of the works of JohnMilton, with attention to his life and times. Prerequisite: ENGL 211 or permission of instructor. Three hours. Ms. Scott.
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This course examines the stubborn survival of the aristocratic southern gentleman as a character in American fiction. The survey begins in colonialAmerica and ends withmodern writers, Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, Margaret Mitchell, and Harper Lee. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: 211, 212, 251, or 252. Three hours. Staff. (Students who have passed ENGL 332 cannot take ENGL 440.)
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A study of selected modern works written in English by women in the nations of the British Commonwealth. Among the writers studied will be Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Alice Munro, Marian Engel, Joy Kogawa, Michelle Cliff, Merle Hodge, Jean Rhys, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Christina Stead, Elizabeth Jolley, and Helen Garner. Offered every fourth year. Prerequisite: 211, 212, 251, or 252 or permission of instructor. Three hours. Mr. Sheckels. (Students who have passed ENGL 418 cannot take ENGL 450.)
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An historically organized introduction to theoretical and practical criticism, emphasizing the New Criticism and later twentieth-century approaches to literature such as psychoanalytic, feminist, New Historical, and post-colonial criticism and those rooted in the thoughts or Bakhtin and Foucault. Prerequisite: six hours of courses in English at the 200 level. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Staff. (Students who have passed ENGL 390 cannot take ENGL 455.)
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Departmental Honors I
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Departmental Honors II
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3.00 Credits
An independent study of a particular writer or group of writers under the guidance of a member of the Department of English.At least a 3.25 cumulative grade point average and approval by the curriculum committee are required. Three hours. Staff.
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