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J. Crespi This course introduces the styles and conventions of Chinese newspaper language. Emphasis is on vocabulary expansion, forms and structures that differ from everyday spoken Chinese, and tactics and skills for rapid reading. Aural-oral skills are reinforced through classroom discussions and supplementary materials. Prerequisite: CHIN 303 or the equivalent.
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J. Wang This course is designed to expand and consolidate students' aural and oral mastery of advanced vocabulary and grammatical patterns through the study of modern Chinese writers and their work. Materials alternate between original works of literature (poetry, short fiction, familiar prose) written for Chinese readers, and a multimedia-enhanced textbook that introduces important writers and literary events of the 20th century. Classroom and computer-based activities aim to enhance listening comprehension along with oral and written self-expression by actively and imaginatively engaging Chinese literature. Conversation sessions take on contemporary topics ranging from the modern Chinese family to women's issues, economic changes, and the urban experience. Prerequisite : CHIN 30 4 or permission of instructor.
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S. Cerasano, M. Coyle, G. Hudson, D. Knuth Klenck, M. Maurer, L. Staley Selected works by some of the most prominent and influential British poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to nineteenth-century authors such as William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Robert Browning. The emphasis in the course is on developing reading and analytical skills through both class work and critical writing. Required for all majors in the Class of 2013 and following, normally in their first or sophomore year; junior and senior majors admitted only by permission of the department chair. Not open to students who have taken ENGL 241 or FSEM equivalent.
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M. Davies An introduction to literary study focusing on the nature of literary tradition and its relationship to cultural and historical contexts. The rich, varied, and enduring tradition connected with the figure of King Arthur is explored through a consideration of English, French, and Welsh texts written between the early Middle Ages and the 15th century, although some more modern works may be considered. The course is concerned with (among other topics) how different cultures, historical epochs, and individual authors have adapted Arthurian tradition to meet their own needs and concerns and with what has made Arthurian tradition such a compelling source of material for so many different interests right up to the present.
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S. Wider An introduction to literary study focusing on the question of what it means to identify a national tradition of literature. This course examines Native American authors of the late 20th century in relation to the works of some of their contemporaries, including works by Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Simon Ortiz.
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3.00 Credits
M. Coyle An introduction to literary study that explores the relations among different arts and kinds of writing. Focusing on American culture in the 1920s, this course includes poetry by T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and William Carlos Williams; novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, and Nella Larsen; plays by Dubose Heyward and Eugene O'Neill; and music from Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin. This course explores how ways of reading inform (and inevitably transform) what we read and interpret.
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C. Harsh An introduction to literary study with attention to essential questions. What counts as literature Why group writers in literary periods What effect does a work's genre or mode have on a reader In this course, some works, sharing a thematic concern with innocence and experience, facilitate the examination of those questions. These works may include William Blake' s Songs of Innocence and Experience , Upton Sinclair ? The Jungl e, and F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsb
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K. Page Narratives of 20th-century American immigration. What does it mean to say "America is a nation of immigrants" As a literary form, the American immigrant narrative describes the process of migration, Americanization, and (un)settlement. In this course, students pay particular attention to how race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as the changing character of American cities, shape the immigrant experience. Is ethnicity in opposition to Americanness How is identity transformed by migration How and why is home remembered How is coming of age paralleled with migration What narrative strategies are deployed Finally, what are the constitutive tropes of American immigrant fiction
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M. Stephens An introductory course using the relationship between sexuality, modern literature and the history of global cities as a jumping off point for considering the problems, practices, and possibilities of literary study. The course undertakes close reading of modern texts to discover how urban settings influence our understandings of racial and ethnic identity, gender roles, and multiple forms of sexual relationships. It also addresses the ways that the cosmopolitan city provides new forms and content for both modern identities and post-modern narratives. Writers may include Jean Rhys, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Thomas Pynchon, contextualized by a variety of critical and historical works from the modernist and post-modernist periods.
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