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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out a master's-level project and presents their results. For M. Eng. student, 597, fall term; 598 spring term.
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An introduction to the leading figures of earlier English Literature (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Swift), to literary history as a mode of inquiry, and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning shaping the way human beings think about themselves and each other with respect to art, artfulness, beauty, romance, desire, liberty and agency, God, the mind, sex, death. We will consider how authors create literature in dialogue with their predecessors, and in relation to contemporary circumstances. We will focus on the qualities of literary brilliance that have made this canon so revered and so influential.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course offers a broad survey of American literature from the early colonial period to the Civil War. Ranging across historical periods, we read a variety of genres including works of early contact, narratives of captivity and slavery, political writings of the revolutionary era, autobiographies, poetry, and novels. These genres reveal how the wilderness, the immigrant experience, cultural encounters, and American nature influenced literary form. We explore how American literature both responded to and shaped freedom, slavery, revolution, nationhood, race, westward expansion, and democracy.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the art of poetry written, spoken and sung in English over the course of nearly a millennium. Surveying forms as various as ballads and meditations, and writers from anonymous to the Beats, we will consider poetry as a form of beauty and a way of knowing.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is designed to provoke and cultivate an interest both in a range of very different forms of fiction and in the close reading of particular texts. Our general argument is that we can enrich our understanding of the real world by knowing more about the alternatives and simulations the human imagination has constructed over time. At the heart of the course will be the works themselves, from The Odyssey to the graphic novels of Neil Gaiman.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is designed to teach students how to read plays as literature written for performance. Key assumptions are that every act of reading is an act of interpretation, that a good reader of dramatic literature engages in an activity nearly identical to that of a good director or actor or designer, and that a reader might learn from theater practitioners how to make critical choices based on close reading and a knowledge of theatre history.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course introduces major ancient and medieval heroic texts, texts that tell the deeds of men larger than life, the incursions of gods and monsters into this human world, and the awe and suffering of mortals whose fortunes depend on how all of this heroically-proportioned battle plays out. Reading chronologically, we will compare formal elements that heroic narratives share and build a repertoire of literary features. We will consider how culture and history shape a text's specificity, examining across these texts the evolving ethos and capacity of the warrior, the hero's relation to his people, and the bearing of women on heroic lives.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will explore representations of crime (mainly but not only murder) in a range of American and European texts and films. We will look at amateur and professional detectives, crime scenes, gangsters, methods of investigation, theories of the criminal mind, and what we might think of as the sociology of fictional crime. What is the nature of this persistent, international interest in wrongdoing on the page and on the screen? Even and especially on the part of people who have no interest in real-life crime. There may be just too many answers to this question, but that's not a bad reason for asking it.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
ENG 230 aims to develop effective public speaking skills, along with a complex understanding of what it means to speak. At the same time as we look at some of the key ways in which voice and speech making have been imagined and theorized, we will draw on a variety of vocal and acting exercises to improve confidence and expression in oral presentation. The culmination of the course will be a public talk.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students learn to write clear and persuasive criticism in a workshop setting while becoming familiar with a variety of critical practices and research methods. The course culminates in the writing of a junior paper. Each section will pursue its own topic: students are assigned according to choices made during sophomore sign-ins. Required of all English majors.
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