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3.00 Credits
L. Johnson, M. Stephens An introduction to literary study exploring the relations among texts and various contexts, both historical and critical. Focused on writing produced in this hemisphere, this course addresses questions of why, what, and how people read in the discipline of English. As "Visions and Revisions of the Antebellum South," this course includes th e Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave , Harriet Beecher Stowe ? Uncle Tom's Cab in, Mark Twai n's Adventures of Huckleberry F inn, Margaret Mitche ll's Gone with the Wind, and William Faulk ner's Absalom, Ab salom! As "African American Modernisms," this course fo cuses on The Souls of Bl ack Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon J ohnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Col ored Man, Claud e McKay's Home to Harlem, and the poetry and fiction of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale
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P. Balakian, J. Naughton A consideration of certain seminal poets in France and the United States who pioneered modern poetic idioms at roughly parallel moments in their culture's respective histories. The course considers these questions: How do poets define themselves as "modern" How does their sense of being modern assert itself against traditional cultural, social, and religious values How is their modernism reflected in their attitudes toward war, sex, the unconscious, the problem of good and evil Students examine these questions as they emerge in two cultures that are, in direct and circuitous ways, in dialogue with each other. Poets include Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, H. Crane, and Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Breton. French poets are studied in translation. No knowledge of French is required. No prerequisites. This course is crosslisted as FREN 225
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3.00 Credits
S. Cerasano Readings in western drama, chosen primarily from authors writing in the period from classical antiquity through the Renaissance, explore theories, definitions, and the performance of tragedy. This course is open to sophomores and first-year students only. Students with credit for ENGL 266 may not receive credit for ENGL 211.
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3.00 Credits
G. Hudson An introduction to the reading and criticism of poetry emphasizing an understanding of the means by which poetry communicates. The course includes discussions of language, rhythm, sound, form, voice, etc., and extensive readings of poetry written in English, with comparison of poems from other traditions and parallel readings in critical texts.
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3.00 Credits
M. Stephens A consideration of poetic form as a central staging ground for exploring what black American poets have inherited from African and European poetic traditions, and what new lyrical modes emerge from the specific landscapes and soundscapes of the New World. This course studies the intimate relation between sounds and words, music and rhetoric, figures of speech and song, and writing and performance. Poets include: Phillis Wheatley, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Derek Walcott, Robert Hayden and Elizabeth Alexander. II. Literary History
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3.00 Credits
P. Balakian, J. Brice, P. O'Keeffe An introduction to the reading and writing of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. In a given term, the emphasis is determined by the instructor. This course is open to sophomores and first-year students only.
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3.00 Credits
L. Johnson, P. Richards, S. Wider A chronological survey of literature in what became the United States from the beginnings to 1865. Students explore the richness and diversity of early American literature through the study of a wide range of authors and texts in the context of important social, political, and cultural developments during the centuries-long period from the earliest European exploration and settlement of North America to the end of the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
L. Johnson, P. Richards, S. Wider A chronological survey of literature in the United States from 1865 to the present. Students explore the development of later American literature through the study of works of fiction, nonfiction prose, poetry, and drama by a wide range of authors in relation to literary movements such as realism, modernism, and postmodernism, as well as in the context of important social, political, and cultural developments since the end of the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
M. Stephens A chronological survey of the literature of the Black Atlantic written in English from 1450 to 1850. Students read works of poetry, fiction, and nonfictional prose by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds who share a relationship to the events of exploration, discovery, trade, colonization, slavery, labor, and revolution that shaped intercultural contact between Europe and the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Americas from the 15th to the mid-19th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Individually supervised studies for students of high ability. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
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