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How is our understanding of nature and the environment conditioned by the ways in which writers have imagined it? This course examines how literature, especially that of 19th-century America, has laid down roots for our own attitudes towards the natural world. At a time when eco-criticism has been termed "the only ethical stance toward literature," we will explore what it means for readers--and writers--to be interested in geography, ecology, and biology; in questions of space, place, and region; in forms of life that are not human; and in the political and ethical stakes of such interests.
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The development of science fiction as a literary genre is deeply connected to colonialist and anthropological projects that sought to document contact with so-called primitive cultures. Students will examine writers such as Wells, LeGuin, and Delany within this historical framework, with emphasis on how science fiction writers used concepts of exploration, discovery, expansion, and civilization to critique oppression and imagine transformations of the world in which they write.
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The Icelandic saga is one of the most striking and fully developed narrative forms in early European literature. Terrible and terrifying, funny and passionate, sagas imagine and contain responses to cultural and historical changes. Positioned between fact and fantasy, these Northern narratives are marked by meticulous accounts of the ordinary, volcanic eruptions of the marvelous and searching explorations of the psychological. Our seminar will read major sagas in translation, illuminating a medieval narrative tradition that survives in fabulous variety.
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Three writers born in Dublin between 1854 and 1906 sought to make literature new. In ways both playful and deeply innovative, they turned established systems of literary representation on their heads. All spent significant time away from Ireland, in London or Paris. All were deeply alert to the rhythms of the Gaelic language. All produced a body of letters that illuminate their work and the growth of their imaginations. They often wrote as though they were part of no tradition at all, but rather set out to destroy what they might have inherited. Together, their prose, drama, and poetry form a distinct lineage of Irish Modernism.
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This course explores the evolution and significance of the American elegy, from the antebellum to the postwar periods. We will read both personal and public elegies, moving from deathbed to hospital bed, home front to battlefield, bourgeois parlor to rural woods. Beginning with 17th c. Puritan elegy and ending with late 20th c. family elegy, we will cover a range of periods and poems in between, including national elegy, Indian elegy, child elegy, African American elegy, Civil War elegy, World War elegy, lynch elegy, and AIDS elegy.
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This course reads episodes in the literature of innocence. It's a fragile state, since to know it you have to lose it. We'll look at the theological, sexual, and political consequences of the myth of innocence, mainly but not exclusively in fiction and poetry. We'll consider the state of demonic innocence (wild boys and scary girls), and ask what cultural work the myth of innocence does in movies and other products of our fallen state. Terms for interrogation include: pastoral, primitivism, utopia, nature, nostalgia, and guilt.
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Born out of movements designed to establish political and cultural independence, modern Irish drama is a case study of the inextricability of political and aesthetic questions. This course will focus on plays that started riots and riots that led to plays, and on the burden this revolutionary legacy created for later dramatists.
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What does Jewishness mean? Is it ethnicity or religion? Identity or culture? Belief or practice? How do performance and theater answer or illuminate these questions? We'll consider plays and performances, bodies and texts, performers and spectators, history, memory, and the present.
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August Wilson completed what many consider the most ambitious project of any American playwright. His cycle of ten plays, one for each decade, chronicles African American life in the 20th century. We will explore all ten plays as individual drama and depictions of history. We will read standard histories to gain background and context.
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A study of the role that moral education should play in literary study, with examples drawn from American fiction, photography, and film. The possibility of an "ethics of reading" will be tested through various questions: Are there limits to what should be represented (sexual explicitness, violence)? Should offensive depictions of race, or class, or gender be challenged? What is lost through an "inauthentic" voice, or through paraphrase, or through an imposed cultural style?
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