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3.00 Credits
Through a forensic or close analysis and discussion of selected texts by writers such as John Donne, Shakespeare, Poe, Melville, Edna St Vincent Millay, Dylan Thomas, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez and August Wilson (considered in their contexts), students will acquire the skills necessary for critical thinking and communication of their insights about literature. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only. Maximum enrollment, 16. Odamtten.
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3.00 Credits
Humans have always been deeply interested in animals, and literature reflects this interest in many ways. We'll examine the complexity of representing animals in literature by reading poetry, novels, and plays that reflect the human/animal divide, imagine being animal, or use animals as symbols. We'll also discuss how these texts reveal philosophical and moral issues that arise from our relationships with animals. Texts include Swift's Gulliver's Travels, London's Call of the Wild, and Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone. We'll also read a range of poetry. (Writing-intensive.) Open to first-year and sophomore students only. Maximum enrollment, 20. Oerlemans.
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3.00 Credits
A look at children's literature, poetry and stories of growing up in England and its colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of Edward Said's critical views of "orientalism." Authors include Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Lewis Carroll, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only. Maximum enrollment, 16. P O'Neill.
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3.00 Credits
Study of plays written in English from medieval England to 21st Century America in the light of literary, social and historical influences and conventions that have defined the genre of drama and influenced its reception by audiences. Special attention to the changing nature of the performance of gender and race after the English theater began to include women and people of color on stage and as playwrights. Readings include works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neill, August Wilson and Wole Soyinka, among others. (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. Strout.
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3.00 Credits
Truth is often a difficult thing to determine. The difficulty is compounded when the stakes of debate over the truth are high, as they are in searching for justice for individuals or communities. We will read poetry, drama, fiction and films that suggest the peculiarly American factors that shape notions of truth when justice is under debate. We will read recognized literary authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, Hellman and Baldwin, as well as writers who experienced imprisonment, including Malcolm X, Leonard Peltier and Kathy Boudin. (Writing-intensive.) Open to first-years and sophomores only; not open to students who have taken a 100- or 200-level English course. Maximum enrollment, 20. Larson.
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3.00 Credits
End of days, end of empire, end of the world as they knew it -- a focus on the apocalyptic in literature. Possible authors include Mary Shelley, William Butler Yeats, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, Margaret Atwood, P.D. James and Kazuo Ishiguro. We will examine how these writers envision the end, whether it be on a personal or pandemic scale, and how the anxieties and issues of their times influenced these visions. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only. Maximum enrollment, 16. Ngo.
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3.00 Credits
What blend of physical prowess, spiritual strength, moral courage and intellectual power creates a heroic figure, and what sets these exemplary men and women apart from the ordinary run of humanity? In this course, we will examine heroes and heroines from medieval monster-slayers to modern Holocaust survivors, in genres ranging from epic poem to graphic novel. Readings will include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Spenser's Faerie Queene, novels by Charlotte Bronte, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Art Spiegelman, and the play Angels in America. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only Maximum enrollment, 16. Terrell.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways pairs of works from different historical periods present the individual in relation to, or as separate from, the family--husband and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters. Focus on differences of genre, structure, and imagery. Close reading of plays by such authors as Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, and August Wilson, and narratives, novels, and autobiographies by such writers as Edmund Spenser, Frederick Douglass, Emily Bronte, and Kamila Shamsie. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only; not open to students who have taken a 100- or 200-level English course. Maximum enrollment, 16. Strout.
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3.00 Credits
William Hazlitt described his visit the National Gallery of Art in London in the 1820s as a religious experience: "A visit to this sanctuary, this holy of holies, is like going on a pilgrimage - it is an act of devotion performed at the shrine of Art!" In this course, we will consider the ways in which British literature between 1850 and 1950 represents religious and aesthetic experience as similar, and why some of these authors recommend art or literature as replacements for religion. Authors include Arnold, Carlyle, Pater, Tennyson, Trollope, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Waugh. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only. Maximum enrollment, 16. Gannon.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the short story with a focus on its evolution from the 19th century to the present, largely within the American tradition. Examines the growth of the genre and various trends in the form, from "local color" sketches to other-worldly tales, realism and experiments in modernism and postmodernism. Considers issues of structure, characterization, style, voice, as well as context. Authors include Edgar Allen Poe, Hawthorne, Chekhov, Chesnutt, Jewett, Twain, Hemingway, Joyce, Baldwin, O'Connor, Welty, Carver, Bambara, Munro and others. Prerequisite, one 100-level course or equivalent. Guttman.
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