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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of literature desirable for children; topics include development of principles of selection and standards of evaluation. Students will develop acquaintance with a wide range of current books. PR: ENGL 1104.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of literature appropriate for adolescence; topics include development of principles of selection and standards of evaluation. Students will develop acquaintance with a wide range of current books. PR: ENGL 1108, 2220 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to acquaint students with a number of major works of highly imaginative literature by such writers as George MacDonald, J.R.R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Angela Carter, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and Jorge Luis Borges. While providing approaches to appreciate and evaluate such texts, the course will also address cultural/literary assumptions about the value of fantasy, both in fi ction and in human development. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the works of three or four writers most closely associated with nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Among the writers who may be chosen for study are Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. PR: ENGL 3303.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of the work of four or fi ve realist and naturalist writers and the intellectual and historical context in which they worked. Such writers may include James, Twain, Crane, Dreiser, Norris, Howells, Cather, Wharton, Chopin, Jewett, and Garland. PR: ENGL 3304
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to trace the development of the American novel from the late eighteenth century to the present. Important American novels will be analyzed in a chronological sequence. PR: ENGL 3303 or 3304.
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3.00 Credits
This course identifi es and analyzes representative examples of writers and their literature (poetry and prose) that have grown out of the Appalachian Region. Major emphasis is placed on the cultural, historical, geographical, and social elements that have infl uenced the themes and points of view of the literature. Selected nonprint (fi lm) interpretations of both the region and its literature are a part of the course content and serve as important learning strategies for projecting the tone and atmosphere of the region and in establishing along with reinforcing its stereotypes and imagery both inside and outside the region. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the artistic and literary movements in the early 20th century that continue to shape ideas of literature, reading, art, and taste. With attention to the avant-garde, readings will include highmodernists like Eliot, Hemingway, and Pound, as well as those writers less obviously participating in the aesthetic directives posed by the era. PR: ENGL 3304.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which visual and written texts have illustrated shifts in political and linguistic thought since mid-century. Students will need patience and a good sense of humor and must be prepared to encounter assaults to their most precious assumptions with an open mind. The graphic novel, performance art, experimental poetry, and other hybrid texts will be studied alongside familiar literary forms revised for current concerns. PR: ENGL 3304 or 3314.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a study of English and continental European literature of the Middle Ages. Genres covered include the chronicle, romance, fabliau, beast fable, lyric, saint’s legend and drama. PR: ENGL 3313.
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