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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(same as AAS 335) Anglophone and English translations of Hispanophone and Lusophone writings by Caribbean women writers of African descent will be examined. Post Colonial and Africana feminist literary criticism will be used to explore the intersectionalities of race, gender, class, and sexuality on this literature as well as its connection to the writings African and other Diaspora women.
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4.00 Credits
(same as CMP 336) This course will focus on the literature and literary history of the poetic and epic traditions of Iran and Central Eurasia, paying particular attention to the interrelationships between nomadic and sedentary societies and the literature that they produce.
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4.00 Credits
(same as CMP 337) This course studies Anglophone literature in the wake of decolonization. With a focus on works produced in or about former European colonies, as well as an emphasis on postcolonial theory, this course equips students to think critically about the intersections between western and non-western traditions, imperialism, and globalization. Students will study fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and/or film from at least two different postcolonial sites such as Nigeria, the Caribbean, Australia, India, etc.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the major elements and conventions of the literature of the ancient Hebrews and early Christians as exemplified in the Bible. Emphasis will be placed on influential motifs and images, narrative technique, poetic style, genre, and cultural and historical context.
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4.00 Credits
(same as CMP 342) This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study significant myths and legends which have influenced the shape and content of both Eastern and Western literature and to acquaint them with the shifting and conflicting ways in which mythology has been transmitted and studied from the ancient world to the contemporary, from the East to the West.
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4.00 Credits
(same as CMP 343) An examination of the flowering of vernacular literature that occurred in western Europe in the fourteenth century. Emphasis will be placed on reconstructing how and why fourteenth-century writers, such as Dante, Juan Ruiz, Boccaccio, Froissart, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, came to create a vernacular tradition that transcended national and linguistic boundaries. Topics in the course may include fourteenth-century literary theory, marginalized and competing voices in the century, classical and vernacular precursors, material production of books in the period, social and political change in late medieval Europe, international relations of the period, and theories of literary influence.
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4.00 Credits
(same as CMP 346) This course will explore the phenomenon of Romanticism in Great Britain, the United States and Europe from a comparative perspective. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing how Romanticism intersects with other literary trends of the period and on how it develops as a reaction to the classical ideals of the European Enlightenment and the eighteenth century.
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4.00 Credits
(same as TTR 347) Scholarly study of modern continental, British, and Irish drama from the late 19th century to the present. The course examines select plays within contexts of modern European movements in philosophy, psychology, science, and the arts; theater and drama in Western civilization; and the human condition. Study of representative works by major European playwrights such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, Pirandello, Lorca, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Churchill.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the difficulties inherent in reconstructing a literary tradition out of extant writing in English from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The course will focus on one or more literary genres (e.g., romance) and will focus on gaps in the historical development and definition of the chosen genre(s), as well as on attempts to fill those gaps to create a tenuous native English tradition. In addition, the course examines the social nature of the texts studied, based, as they are, on oral performance and appealing to a range of social milieux.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of a variety of texts from 16th century England, a period that has been traditionally referred to as the Renaissance and more recently, the Early Modern period. We will consider the implications of both of these terms in our examination of a wide array of texts from this exciting, tumultuous, chaotic, and productive age.
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