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3.00 Credits
Focuses on works of modern Hispanic-American writers, including such authors as Pulitzer Prize winners Oscar Hijuelos and National Book Award nominee Cristina Garcia (Cuban-Americans), Piri Thomas and Judith Ortiz Cofer (Puerto Ricans), and Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros (Mexican-Americans). As with all fine writers, their work deals with universal and timeless themes common to human condition. They present their fiction, poetry, drama and essays from a perspective that reflects their cultural heritage, history and experiences as a minority group living in U.S. Accordingly, their work revolves around such themes as language, alienation, identity, exile and assimilation, prejudice, cultural and ethnic pride, religion, and family. Theirs is an important and rising voice in literature of U.S. Offered on: G / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Study of British, European and American literature of the modern period (up to and including WW II) focusing on such literary developments as naturalism, impressionism, stream of consciousness and existentialism. An attempt is made to view the works in a psychological, historical and sociological context. Writers who may be included in discussion are Dostoevsky, Hesse, Conrad, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Camus, Yeats, and Faulkner. Offered on: A-E-G / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Critical study of representative Shakespearean comedies, tragedies and histories, including examination of the Elizabethan world picture. Offered on: A-E-G / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Study of theme, form and imagery in traditional and contemporary poetry. Offered on: A-E-G / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Open to students with a 3.0 average or better in nine credit hours of English, including ENG102. Specific content varies from semester to semester. Offered on: A / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Honors course examining a number of significant epics with view toward understanding their origins and literary impact. Each epic studied in its historical and cultural context as well as in terms of literary themes and poetic expression. Individual epics examined closely to gain appreciation of their unique qualities. In addition, issues common to a number of epics are explored. General topics include nature of the epic as expression of heroic or religious ideals, the epic as expression of cultural attitudes, difference between oral and literary epics, the epic as a particular kind of poetic experience, and heroic nature of epic poetry. Offered on: G / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Examines development of modern detective story from its origins in mid-19th century to today's popular formats. Explores differing representations of society by "classic" British, American and contemporary multicultural writers and critiques the ways in which recent film and weekly TV series attempt to fuse classic motifs with info-age commercialism. Encourages students to become detectives themselves as they research topics for in-class discussions and papers. Offered on: G / 3 cr. hrs.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the genre of magical realism, fiction in which the relationship between the ordinary and extraordinary provokes narrative interpretations in relation to the history, cultures, myths, superstitions and politics they represent. This course will analyze the conflicting perspectives of the real and imaginary in the work of such writers as Nikolai Gogogol, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Allende and John Cheever. Prerequisite: ENG101 and ENG102. Note: Fulfills SUNY General Education Requirement for Humanities.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course will focus on the idea of "The American Dream" in contemporary literature with a particular emphasis on the idea of re-invention that is an integral aspect of this fluctuating but enduringly influential ideal. We will examine the cultural myths that influence the idea of the American Dream and the assumptions behind those myths that have created a society in which each generation expects to "do better" than the previous one through a process of inexorable progress.
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