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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. A course based on the writings of naturalist-authors from Thoreau to Annie Dillard who have sought or are seeking a satisfactory relationship between humankind and the embattled environment. (Cross-listed as WMST 293) (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. A series of courses, each being a detailed examination of the work of a single major writer. Currently these include: Homer, Dante, Swift, Hardy, Lawrence, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Morrison.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course introduces students to Chaucer's works. All readings are in Middle English, and students will gain competence in reading and pronouncing Chaucer's English. Readings will include "The Book of the Dutchess," excerpts from "The Legend of Good Women," "Troilus and Criseyde," and excerpts from "The Canterbury Tales."
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course examines the writings of medieval women - abbesses, merchants, wives, mothers, and mystics - to explore the challenges female writers such as Heloise, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan presented to orthodox Christianity, to gender stereotypes, and to medieval political and social structures. (Cross-listed as WMST 308)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course focuses on the poetry and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Elizabethan, the metaphysical, and the classical traditions of poetry are represented by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton; the Elizabethan-Jacobean drama is presented by such dramatists as Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course introduces theories of comedy and explores Shakespeare's development as a comic dramatist as students read the festive and romantic comedies, comparing his early efforts with his mature plays. It also examines Shakespeare's dramatization of English and Roman history, the genre of the history play, and the playwright's adaptation of history to the comic and tragic modes.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course focuses on Shakespeare as a tragic artist. It introduces theories of tragedy, explores the playwright's experimentation with the genre, comparing his early efforts with his mature accomplishments, and examines some tragi-comedies.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course explores the works of such authors as Jane Austen, Oliver Goldsmith, Matthew Lewis, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Jonathan Swift against the background of eighteenth-century values and ideas. Genres include the novel, drama, and poetry.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course focuses on the well-known works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats as well as on the less well known but important works of writers such as Anna Barbauld, Mary Robinson, and John Clare. Poems will be supplemented by works of fiction associated with British Romanticism such as Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course focuses on major Victorian poets and novelists such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde.
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