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3.00 Credits
P. Richards A study of works by and about black Americans. Short fiction, the novel, drama, poetry, and the essay are examined with an eye for determining the nature of the black American's role, as writer and as subject, in the context of American literature as a whole. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff A study of Asian American literature and its major themes. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by contemporary Asian American writers are studied and placed in the larger context of American literature. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
S. Wider A study of literature by First Nations peoples. Works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry are studied with emphasis on the combination of, and oftentimes conflict between, different expressive traditions. Can an oral tradition become part of a written literature What is the function of "story" within different cultural traditions Writers include N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Luci Tapahonso, Irvin Morris, Esther Belin, and Craig Womack. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff A study of African literature written in English. This course uses a number of outstanding novels by African authors to introduce students to African writing in English, the distinctive features of the novel as written by Africans, and to some of the problems relating to culture, politics, and society in African countries in the post-colonial period. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
M. Coyle A survey of important developments in the formation of literary criticism as a modern discipline. Topics may include Freudian, feminist, deconstructive, Marxist, semiotic, and historical approaches. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
M. Coyle Selected British and American poets active between 1900 and 1950. Amidst all the discourse about the "postmodern," it becomes increasingly clear that there is no consensus on what it is "post." More recent versions of the "postmodern" argue that it is not a period but a mode - one coeval with Modernism itself. Modernity and postmodernity can thus be understood only in relation to one another. This course pursues that relation by focusing on poets like W.H. Auden, Sterling Brown, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Muriel Rukeyser, Wallace Stevens, Melvin Tolson, or William Carlos Williams. (Post-1800 cou
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3.00 Credits
E. Sun Introduction to the theoretical study of literature with emphasis on psychoanalytic and feminist approaches. This course surveys how thinkers working in these two overlapping critical traditions have brought the notions of the unconscious and sexual difference to bear on topics ranging from gender and sexuality to ideology, politics, and ethics. Through the frequent pairing of literary and theoretical texts, this course examines how theoretical concepts may derive from literary and rhetorical structures and, in turn, how literary texts may themselves articulate and complicate theoretical models of truth and knowledge. Readings include Freud, Hoffmann, Lacan, Althusser, Poe, Austin, Kafka, Felman, Butler, Kristeva, James, Blanchot, and Carruth. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff A study of the relationship between formally experimental literature and the cultural contexts of the first few decades of the 20th century. A variety of modern texts are closely read to discover how the writers experimented with the form and genre of modern narrative to convey the complex intersections of race and gender in modern identity. Writers may include T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Nella Larsen, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, and Virginia Woolf. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
P. Richards, S. Wider Poetry, sermons, essays, non-fiction prose, and some fiction of early 17th- to early 19th-century American literature. Close attention is paid to the origins and evolution of an American sensibility and the search for an American identity. Writers studied include William Bradford, Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Woolman, Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Freneau, and William Cullen Bryant. (Pre-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff A study of the figure of the Jew in English literature with an emphasis on the modern period. Beginning with a brief survey of medieval and early modern myths about and representations of Jews, such as the wandering Jew, the blood libel, and the usurer, the course turns to the modern period (1875-1945) to examine closely the racial, sexual, political, and economic tropes, myths, and stereotypes that both gentile and Jewish writers employed in their depictions of Jews in novels and poems. (Post-1800 course.)
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