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Course Criteria
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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
P. O'Keeffe A consideration of individual stories by seminal non-US writers of the short form (Chekhov, Joyce, Woolf, and Lawrence) and then of individual collections by US writers who, not unlike the above authors, struggle to embody notions of community, belonging, and individuality (Anderson, Hemingway, Welty, Wright, O'Connor, Dubus, Carver, Paley, Moore, and Munro). Notions of community, belonging, and individuality are then traced to more recent collections by minority writers (Viramontes, Jones, Englander) and recent immigrant writers to the US (Lahiri, Diaz, Akpan, Lapcharoensap, and Li). (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
M. Maurer The writings of Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Ralegh, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries; includes works in prose, poetry, and drama. (Pre-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
G. Hudson The impact of Renaissance science and political and economic turmoil on English literature through the revolution of mid-century. The course includes works in prose, poetry, and drama of the "metaphysical" and "cavalier" schools: Donne, Jonson, Webster, Herbert, Herrick, Browne, Marvell, and their contemporaries. (Pre-1800 course
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3.00 Credits
C. Harsh, D. Knuth Klenck A study of representative works, from the early novel through the Victorian period. Readings include novels by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Bront , Eliot, and Dickens. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
M. Coyle, J.Pinchin A study of representative works, including Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Conrad, Lord Jim; Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Woolf, To the Lighthouse. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
M. Davies An intensive study of selected texts from the medieval Welsh or Irish literary traditions. Readings span the period from the 8th to the 14th centuries and include such works as the tales of the Ulster Cycle, the Buile Shuibhne (Sweeney Astray), the Mabinogi, and the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The course considers these works as cultural and historical artifacts, and also explores their accessibility to more modern critical and theoretical approaches. (Pre-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
C. Harsh, J. Pinchin A consideration of the major works of the Bront s: Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre and Villette, Emily Bront ' s Wuthering Heights , and Anne Bront ? Agnes Gr ey a nd The Tenant of Wildfell Hal l. This seminar also examines Bront biography, taking Elizabeth Gaskell 's The Life of Charlotte Bro nt as its point of departure. Students gain an understanding of the Bront s' literary and social contexts; they also gain an appreciation of the powerful myth that has grown up around these three sisters. (Post-1800 cours
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3.00 Credits
L. Staley A study of key texts from the 12th to the 15th centuries in which the authors attempt to articulate individual identity in relation to the medieval social codes and expectations that shaped their experience. Students consider such issues as love, gender, religious vocation, and court and town life. (Pre-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
D. Knuth Klenck A reconsideration of the history of the novel in the 18th century, using contemporary critical approaches to early women novelists. Jane Austen has held an unchallenged place in a great tradition of 19th-century authors, but has only recently been read in the context of her female predecessors. Reading Maria Edgeworth, Fanny Burney, and Charlotte Lennox gives students a new way to read Austen; reading among the many current critical theories about women as producers and consumers of fiction in the 18th century helps raise more general questions about the literary canon and how it has been formed. This course is open to juniors and seniors only. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Post-1800 course.)
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