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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An intensive survey of the most important terms in contemporary theory and their role in recent cultural and political debates. Each week will take up a new critical term, examining both its history and its current usages. Terms might include: language, ideology, performativity, sexuality, ethics, media, trauma, AIDS, globalization, and war.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course might also be titled "Having Fun with Freud." As psychoanalysis continues to lose ground as a clinical practice, it has become increasingly popular as a mode of criticism, a useful and creative tool for reading narrative. Analyzing works of both literature and film, we will focus on methods that can be applied to a wide variety of narratives, and that might also be relevant for independent work devoted to particular genres, including suspense, science fiction, fantasy, gothic, and testimonial. Topics may include hysteria, paranoia, uncanny, phobia, and trauma.
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In this course we will study in detail several of the major authors from late medieval England, paying special attention to the practice of imitation, whereby one English author mimics another. The readings will be in Middle English but no previous experience is required. While this course is all about primary texts, secondary readings on the course topic will be made available from time to time.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Beginning with some of Chaucer's short poems, we will examine the linguistic and intellectual backgrounds of Chaucer's great (unfinished) masterwork ,The Canterbury Tales. We will situate individual tales against medieval English and Continental writing and the Classics, but will primarily be interested in the kinds of noise that emerge in and between the tales: allusion, politics, insurrection, devotion, music, echo, repetition, contest, and requital. We'll start by learning how to convert silent Middle English text into spoken words, and move on to how silence itself is figured in and against Chaucer's poetry.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A selection of the greatest plays from the first half of Shakespeare's career, including the romantic comedies, history plays, early tragedies, with some attention to the sonnets. This is Shakespeare in Love--with language, theater, his own bursting creativity. Emphasis on erotic desire and communal restraint; dramatic structure and theatrical genre; above all on learning how to read Shakespeare with pleasure, paying attention to both the plays' verbal and theatrical values. We locate Shakespeare in his Elizabethan context and in our own times, still going strong in the 21st century.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A selection of Shakespeare's plays read in the context of the representation of violence on the Renaissance stage.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
We will explore John Milton's entire career, largely as poet, but also as prose writer and thinker: a lifelong effort to unite the aims of intellectual, political and literary experimentation. In doing so Milton made himself the most influential non-dramatic poet in the English language. We will spend much time with Paradise Lost, regarded by many as the greatest non-dramatic poem in English or any modern language; we will encounter Milton's profound, extensive learning and his startling innovations with words, and in ideas of personal, domestic and communal liberty.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
17th-century English eminence in literature, theater, science and philosophy is widely celebrated, but the Dutch contribution, no less significant, is little known: innovations in visual art, literature, philosophy, political, and economic thought. This course attends to the variety of exchanges and interactions registered in the literature, art, and thought of the two countries. Authors include Shakespeare, Nashe, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Defoe, Hooft, Bredero, Huygens, Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Vondel, Revius, Manasseh Ben Israel, Plockhoy.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The Protestant Reformation drastically altered the shape of daily life and religious practice in England during the 16th century. In this course we will look carefully at English poems and plays in order to explore how such literary works shaped the character of devotional life during the English Reformation. Taking key theological concepts as points of departure--predestination, providence, faith, justification, the organization of the church, the life of Christ, and the relationship between church and state--we will investigate how literary works instruct readers and how they test the limits of religious tenets and institutions.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Jane Austen is the darling of popular audiences and high culturists alike. The inventor of the modern novel and a pivotal, inspirational figure in English literary history, she is venerated or despised with peculiar intensity--for being a brilliant stylist or a provincial bore, a benign aunt or a nasty spinster, an instrument of tedious and oppresive normality or of dazzling and expansive fabulousness. We will test such views by studying all of Austen's novels, paying close attention to the context of 18th-century literature out of which she develops and contrasts her achievements to recent film adaptations.
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