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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course explores the diverse literary experiments of a nation striving toward cultural and aesthetic independence. Readings and critical perspectives vary according to instructors.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course examines modern and postmodern literary experiments as manifested in American culture. Readings and critical treatments vary according to instructors. (Cross-listed as CRIT 332)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. The "experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet" (Emerson). Selected readings introduce representative poetic voices throughout each British and American age, from the Middle Ages to the present, from Beowulf to Prufrock.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course introduces students to selected American drama, allowing students to develop analytical skills for addressing dramatic texts and to relate their understanding of American plays to specific and dynamic cultural and historical backgrounds. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This course examines short stories, novels, plays, and poetry which led to a "Southern Renaissance" in the twentieth century. Writers might include Chopin, Faulkner, Hurston, Williams, Welty, O'Connor, Percy, Crews, Dickey, and Tyler.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This course begins with the birth of the modern play in the late 19th century, then traces the evolution of dramatic literature to the present time. Readings selected from such playwrights as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Ionesco, Albee, Baraka, Pinter, Stoppard, Shepard, Shaffer, Norman, and Mamet.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This seminar explores a number of issues central to our understanding of the novel. The approach varies according to instructor but may include historical development, comparative study, and/or thematic grouping. Readings vary but focus on the American, British, and European traditions.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This course examines how literature has been approached and understood from the time of Plato to the present day. Readings are selected from those critical and theoretical statements which have most profoundly influenced literary response and even literature itself. (Cross-listed as CRIT 359)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
1-4 hours. A series of courses, each being an advanced study of a subject not covered in detail by other 300-level courses.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. An advanced writing course for students interested in exploring the dynamics of self through the vehicle of the persona. Each student is expected to invent a persona and to write in the voice of that persona. There are also improvisations and collaborative assignments, in which the students' personae meet, converse, and interact. Prerequisite: 4 hours of 200-level creative writing.
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