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For students whose work and purpose have developed sufficiently to warrant continuing work in fiction. Regular writing and reading assignments as well as critiques in class. Prerequisite, 215 and a 200-level course in literature. Maximum enrollment, 16. Larson.
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For students whose work and purpose in creative writing have developed sufficiently to warrant work in creative non-fiction (i.e., memoir or travelogue). Regular writing and reading assignments as well as critiques in class. Prerequisite, 215 and a 200-level course in literature. This course can be counted as an elective towards the concentration in Creative Writing. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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This interdisciplinary course studies the lesser known natural historical records of European scientists alongside the more familiar literary works of Romantic Era poets and prose writers. We investigate the way all of these texts employ the non-human as that which restricts the human to, just as it emancipates the human from, the animal that it is. We consider the principles of taxonomy and natural aesthetics, the generation debates, and theories of evolution, in order to understand 18th- and 19th-century efforts at representing the natural world. Prerequisite, 2 courses in literature or 2 courses in science. (Same as Comparative Literature 311.) JSchwartz.
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Uses of structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism and theories of race, nation and sexuality in literary analysis. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, a 200-level course in literature. Not open to students who have taken 297. Maximum enrollment, 20. Widiss.
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Study of tragedies and comedies from before and after the 1660 restoration of the monarchy, when women began performing in and writing for the professional theater in London. Attention to changes in plot incident and characterization arising from the presence of women on stage, as well as the effects of changes in performance spaces and audience expectations. Plays include Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Dryden's version of the same story in All for Love (1677), and comedies by Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Behn, Wycherly, Congreve and H. Cowley. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, one 200-level course in literature. Maximum enrollment, 20. Strout.
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Study of the novel as an emergent form in both its English and French contexts. Topics include the role of women as writers, readers, and subjects of novels; the development of the genre; and the social context of the novel. Works by such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, Daniel Defoe, Francoise de Graffigny, Choderlos de Laclos, Marie de Lafayette, Antoine Prevost, Marie Riccoboni, Laurence Sterne, and Voltaire. (Taught in English.) Does not fulfill the senior seminar requirement for the English concentration (1700-1900). Prerequisite, one 200-level course in literature. Open to juniors and seniors only.May not be counted toward the French major. (Same as French 334 and Comparative Literature 334.) Maximum enrollment, 12. Stewart and J O'Neill.
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The Romantic Period in English literary history has long been defined by the work of six male poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron. We will study their poetry in the context of form, history, and politics, and investigate how their work might be seen to form an ideology or movement. We will also read work by poets such as Barbauld, Clare, Burns, and Hemans, popular in their own day, but thought of as 'minor' subsequently, in order to evaluate how questions of gender and literary value inform our sense of what is 'Romantic'. (1700-1900). (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, one 200-level course in literature. Not open to first-year students. Maximum enrollment, 20. Oerlemans.
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3.00 Credits
The writing of the men and women inside the American prison system constitutes a kind of shadow canon to that of better-known literary artists. We will read broadly in 20th-century American prison writing, asking questions about the generic coherence, social and moral import, and historicity of prisoners' non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Authors will include Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Japanese and Chinese internees. Students will visit a writing class taught inside Attica Correctional Facility (post-1900). Prerequisite, one 200-level course in literature. Open to juniors and seniors only. Does not fulfill the senior seminar requirement for the English concentration. (Same as American Studies 342.) Maximum enrollment, 12. Larson.
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This seminar examines the history of publishing in the 19th and early 20th centuries, from lending libraries and the three-volume novel to the banned books of modernism. We will investigate the role of the periodical, the circulating library, editors, publishers, and readers in the writing and reception of novels during this period. We will also pay attention how structures of publishing - such as magazine serialization or the moral censorship of Mudie's Lending Library - led to new forms of fiction. Authors will include Austen, Collins, James, Gissing, Joyce, and Woolf. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, One 200-level course in Literature. (1700-1900) Maximum enrollment, 20. Gannon.
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Principal trends in Modernist literature written in the United States and the United Kingdom roughly from 1900-45. Examination of the contours of the primary tradition, as well as attention to counter-traditions that evolved alongside the accepted canon. Readings of poems, novels and stories by such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Pound, Lewis, Ford, West and Loy will provide the context for understanding the larger trajectory of Modernism together with the opportunity for more detailed consideration of specific individual writers (post-1900). (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, one 200-level course in literature. Maximum enrollment, 20. Yao.
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