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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
E. Sun A close study of works by British poets and essayists working in the Victorian era (1837-1901), a glorious age for Britain in terms of national political, economic, and scientific and technological supremacy. The course examines how poetry, traditionally the mainstay of the literary tradition, became one among many genres and arts during this age, redefining itself in relation to the novel as well as to opera and photography. Corollary to considering the relationship between the arts (in the plural), students investigate how critics and essayists variously sought to define the function of "art" (in the singular) to other sectors of society. Authors studied include Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Mill, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, Lewis Carroll, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pater, Swinburne, Hopkins, Housman, and Wilde. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
J. Brice, J. Pinchin An examination of how serious writing is achieved. The focus of Living Writers is on contemporary fiction writers, who will be present in this class at Colgate - in 2009, Junot Diaz, Kim Edwards, Yiyun Li, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elizabeth Strout, Patrick O'Keeffe, John Gregory Brown, Carrie Brown, Emmanuel Dongala and Ladette Randolph. Students read stories and novels by each writer on the syllabus. Class discussion is led by two professors, who together teach the course. Each week the writer whose work has been under discussion visits the class. The presentation is followed by a public reading. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
L. Staley The social, political, and cultural background to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This course is open to juniors and seniors. Sophomores admitted by permission of instructor only. (Pre-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
M. Stephens An exploration of how the organization of erotic experience is articulated in literature in the context of the slave trade, colonialism and imperialism. The course's starting premises are twofold: first, that colonial and intercultural environments forced different racial, sexual and gendered subjects to perform their identities in each others' presence and in dynamic relation to various notions of the Other; and second, that the taboo against miscegenation and interracial desire has been as formative in the history of modern sexuality as the taboos against incest and homosexuality. The course requires students to engage with advanced theoretical readings in critical race theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies, alongside the close reading and formal literary analysis of primary texts. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff A study of very recent short and long fiction by writers both renowned and slightly secret. Students should consult the department and registration material to learn what specific topic will be considered during a given term. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
J. Brice A course in 20th- and 21st-century writers and the forces - historical, social and cultural - that shaped their work. This course focuses on traditional forms of nonfiction, such as literary journalism, the memoir, and the personal essay, as well as innovative forms that blur the boundaries between fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Among the writers are Henry Adams, Mary McCarthy, James Agee, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, and Dave Eggers. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
See course description under "Course Offerings: Literature; Advanced Courses," earlier in the English section.
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3.00 Credits
J. Brice A workshop in the reading and writing of creative nonfiction, especially the memoir and the personal essay. Prerequisite: instructor's approval on the basis of writing samples.
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3.00 Credits
P. O'Keeffe A workshop in the writing of prose fiction. The course includes study of other writers' work, with group analysis of students' work and individual conferences. A minimum of 75 pages of fiction is required by term's end. Prerequisite: permission of instructor on the basis of writing samples
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3.00 Credits
P. Balakian An advanced workshop in the writing of poetry; includes group analysis and criticism. Prerequisite: instructor's approval on the basis of writing samples.
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