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3.00 Credits
This course surveys Arthurian literature from its 12th-century origins to the present day. It will include analysis of the archaeological evidence for a historical Arthur, as well as the Celtic background from which the legends spring. PR: ENGL 1108.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the literary history, interpretation and genres of the Bible, as well as signifi cant biblical tropes, metaphors and narratives. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2220.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an analysis of the components and genres of oral folk literature through poetry (the folk song, ballad and instrumentation), narrative (myths, legends, folktales, fables, morals, anecdotes, personal narratives and other forms of folk narrative), and language (verbal lore, such as dialect/accent, beliefs and superstitions, proverbs, sayings, riddles and jokes) within the contextual process of perpetuation (storytelling) and preservation (collecting and motifi ng). Emphasis will be placed on the Appalachian cultural perspective. A fi eld study will be part of the course. Also listed as FOLK 3300. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2220.
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A study of classic texts in women’s literature, including such works as A Room of One’s Own, “Tell Me A Riddle,” Jane Eyre, OrlandoThe Awakening and Adrienne Rich’s work. Students will also study the works of such contemporary female writers as Caryl Churchill, Marilynne Robinson, Margaret Atwood, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Rachel Ingalls and Maxine Hong Kingston. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
A study of writers and forms traditionally omitted from the American literary canon, this course tracks the writing of people unacknowledged by conventional versions of American history with attention to their experimentation with literary genre and disciplinary boundaries. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines world drama from the nineteenth-century to the present. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a critical study of this art form based upon the work of authors from around the world. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on roughly ten poets from around the world whose works have been published in the last thirty years. Discussions of poetic movements and strategies shaped by and infl uencing the writers and their audiences accompany study of the primary texts. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of representative Southern authors and works from colonial times to the present, emphasizing characteristically Southern themes and the diverse points of view that have made up the American South, including those of women, African-Americans, and other minorities. The experience of defeat and experience of colonization are studied. Included are such fi gures as Harris, Chesnutt, Twain, Chopin, Hurston, Toomer, Wolfe, Faulkner, Welty, Ransom, and O’Connor. PR: ENGL 3303 or 3304.
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to trace the evolution of the motion picture from its beginnings to the achievements of the present. Such aspects of the fi lm as genre (the western, the horror fi lm), techniques (sound, editing, photography), themes (forbidden knowledge, vengeance), and character types (cops, comics, crooks) will be considered. Although this course is intended for serious students of the verbal and visual arts, it is also designed to accommodate (as an elective) interested students who are avid fi lmgoers and desire to improve their appreciation of the fi lms they see. PR: ENGL 1108 and 2221.
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