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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Reading a variety of works that may be described as fantastic or speculative and written by authors from different cultures, we shall discuss and write about these texts in order to develop and improve students' critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. (Writing-intensive.) Open to first-year students and sophomores only; not open to students who have taken a 100- or 200-level English course. Maximum enrollment, 20.
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3.00 Credits
A focus on monsters and the monstrous in literature. Readings will include Beowulf, Frankenstein, Dracula, stories by Poe and Angela Carter, a selection of poems, and the movie Aliens. Throughout the semester, we will question what makes something monstrous and how monsters function in literature and culture. We will also examine how monsters intersect with the categories of gender, race, sexuality and class. (Writing-intensive.) Open to first-year students and sophomores only; not open to students who have taken a 100- or 200-level English course. Maximum enrollment, 20.
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3.00 Credits
Consideration not only of stories in books but also the representations of readers and reading within them and about the cultural and physical experience of reading. How have attitudes toward reading changed over time? Works by Bunyan, Franklin, Blake, Austen, Alcott, Stevenson, Haddon, Creech. Workshops using Hamilton's Rare Book and Book Arts collections and manual printing press. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first year students and sophomores only; not open to students who have taken a 100- or 200-level course in English. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Most Shakespeare plays have plays in them--either actual staged events, like the performance at the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or "staged" public events, such as trials and weddings. We will look at the plays within the plays in order to think about the plays as plays, rather than books one reads, and about the relationship between theater and ritual. Among the plays we will read are Henry IV, Part One, Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter's Tale. Students will be expected to attend showings of the plays outside of class time. (Writing-intensive.) Open to first-year students and sophomores only; not open to students who have taken a 100- or 200-level English course. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Drama in English from the Middle Ages to the present, with special attention to literary, social and historical influences and conventions that have defined the genre and its reception in various periods. (Writing-intensive.) Not open to senior concentrators in English or creative writing. Maximum enrollment, 20.
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3.00 Credits
Examines contemporary science fiction, horror and ghost tales such as Neuromancer, Beloved, The Handmaid's Tale, Interview with the Vampire, and the films Resident Evil and Dark City in relation to their Gothic precursors. We consider why the Gothic persists, what features have been adapted for the 20th and 21st centuries, and how the audience for the Gothic has mutated. To establish the foundations of the Gothic, we read The Castle of Otranto, Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray (post-1900). (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, one 100-level English course or equivalent. Not open to senior English or creative writing concentrators. Maximum enrollment, 20.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the effects of rapidly increasing literacy rates and increasingly affordable printed books on the rise of reading for pleasure as a common cultural activity in England and Colonial America between 1630 and 1750. Who could read? What was available? Who was making money off it, and how? We will consider the ways that writers (and booksellers) at this time tried to influence reading practices. We will also look at books as physical objects through explorations in the library, conversations with book conservators and workshops on Hamilton's manual printing press. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of themes, forms, and history of literary production by people of Asian descent in the United States. We will survey translated and English-language works by Asian American writers of varying ethnic affiliations, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and others. We'll explore how each writer negotiates a relationship with a particular cultural heritage, as well as confronts the racial, cultural, and political formations of the U.S.. Authors include Maxine Hong Kingston, Carlos Bulosan, John Okada, the Angel Island poets, and others. Prerequisite, one 100-level course or equivalent. (post-1900)
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3.00 Credits
Survey of a broad range of works, both "popular" and "serious," showing the continual renewal of the genre through the manipulation of conventional elements to produce new effects and to argue a variety of positions. Includes readings from Sophocles, Dostoevsky, Christie, Faulkner, Hammett, Chandler, Nabokov, Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Butor, Stoppard, Cortázar and others. Prerequisite, one course in literature. (Same as Comparative Literature 285.)
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3.00 Credits
Through a close examination of selected works by West African writers such as Kobina Sekyi, Casley-Hayford, Mabel Dove, Ayi Kwei Armah, Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, Kofi Awoonor, Atukwei Okai, Yaw Asare, Akosua Busia, Kofi Anyidoho and Amma Darko, students will examine how the Slave Castles, the Sankofa Bird and Ananse the Spider have shaped the manner in which Ghanaian writers portray their society (post-1900). (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, one 200-level course in literature (204, 205 or 264 preferred). Maximum enrollment, 20.
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