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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Staff An advanced seminar in a topic - author, genre, or theme - in American literature.
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3.00 Credits
L. Johnson, S. Wider A study of the two major figures of American transcendentalism in their social, political, and religious context. The course focuses on the major writings of Emerson and Thoreau, with some attention to related works by their contemporaries. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
P. Balakian An exploration of the long poem cycle in American literature. The course argues that the poem of collage-like sequences and open-ended structures is a distinctively American form that embodies a vision of American poets, history, and culture. Poets to be studied include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams, and others. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
L. Johnson An examination of autobiographical writing in America, with special attention to the following issues: autobiography as a literary genre; the relation between "truth" and fiction in autobiography; the role of gender, race, and social status in the writing and reception of autobiographies; and the ways in which specific cultural situations have shaped both the conception and the representation of the "self" in writings from the colonial period through the 20th century. (Post-1800 course
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3.00 Credits
Staff A study of Dickens's writings in their intellectual and social context and as major works of art. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff Major novels and tales, including representative sea narratives, political novels, and autobiographical fiction. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
K. Page The literature and culture of the English-speaking Caribbean. The topic varies from term to term. The course is of special relevance to students with Caribbean connections and to those interested in gender issues with cultural studies. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
P. Richards, M. Stephens An examination of the Harlem Renaissance as a literary period extending from the end of World War I to the beginning of the 1930s. Works studied include the manifestos of cultural promoters such as W.E.B. DuBois and Alain Locke as well as the art of Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attention is given not only to the literary innovations of these figures but to the social ethos of their work. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
D. Knuth Klenck A study of British literature of the later 18th century. During the latter part of the 18th century, there was an expansion of the definition of "literature." The new genre of fiction became both more popular and more respected; new importance was attached to literary criticism and the essay; and literary biography emerged as a significant genre. Texts include the writings of the poet, literary critic, lexicographer, and biographer Samuel Johnson; those of his biographer James Boswell, who was also one of the most important autobiographers in history; the first epistolary novel , Evelina , by Johnson's protegée Frances Burney; and Tristram Shan dy, the first "anti-novel," by their contemporary Laurence Sterne. Permission of instructor. (Pre-1800 cours
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3.00 Credits
M. Coyle Seminal writings from the 100-year period between Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1834) and Ezra Pound' s Guide to Kulchur (1938). The course considers how the notion of culture has informed understanding of the nature and purpose of art and literature. One course in 19th-century British literature is recommended. (Post-1800 course.)
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