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3.00 Credits
This course examines American novels, short stories, and poetry from the period between the Civil War and first World War, looking particularly at responses to industrialization, social class, and gender and race relations. (Patterson, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
Chaucer composed his poetry in the context of peasant risings, religious heresy, English imperialism, and the aftermath of the Black Death. Focusing primarily on The Canterbury Tales, this course investigates issues surrounding the authorship, language, audience, and ideologies of Chaucer's work within the larger cultural, social, and political context of late medieval England. Readings may also include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and some of Chaucer's short poems.(Erussard , offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
In this course students read essays and poems by contemporary American nature writers who concern themselves with the human experience of and relation to nature. These writers lovingly evoke the American landscape while at the same time contemplating the modern environmental crisis. They approach the question of the meaning of nature in our lives in personal, as well as philosophical and ethical, ways. Crosslisted with environmental studies. (Staff, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Shakespeare, focusing in particular on seven of hisbest-known comedies. We will adopt a myriad-minded approach to ourreadings: in some classes we will read the plays historically, payingparticular attention to the ways in which these works offer us insightinto the early modern English culture that produced them (and viceversa); at other times we will focus on them theatrically, exploringtheir dramaturgical choices, or else poetically, examining theirliterary aesthetics; and in other classes still we will attend totheir politics, especially with respect to their handling of questionsof gender, class, race, and sexuality. (Carson, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Shakespeare through his five best-known tragedies:Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. As with ENG225, we will approach these plays from a wide variety of criticalangles, in the hope that the course will provide not only a survey ofShakespeare's plays but also a practical survey of contemporarycritical methodologies. (Carson, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys some of the major forms of medieval literature-the epic, the romance, and the fable-and attempts to relate these works to the earlier classical tradition. In addition, it attempts to make both cross cultural connections and connections with the social, historical, and philosophical levels of medieval culture. (Erussard , offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a short history of television narrative: the development of family dramas and their relation to post war shifts in the domestic space of the family; the relation between programs and advertising; daytime vs. primetime programming; and the appeal to or avoidance of issues of sexual difference, class, and race. (Lyon, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on specific aspects of the filmic system and how they work. Attention is paid to detailed analyses of images and sounds and their dynamic relation to the film's narrative. The goal of the course is a keener understanding not only of the world of film, but of the increasingly visual world in which we live. The primary emphasis is on what is called the Classical Hollywood Model, the dominant (culturally, economically, ideologically) mode of filmmaking in the world today (although not the only mode). As such it is crucial for students of film and, arguably, for us all to be actively aware of its structures and assumptions.
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3.00 Credits
Screenplays are the blueprints of movies. In this course students read screenplays and study the films that have been made from them. Special attention is paid to such elements as story, structure, character development, and to the figurative techniques for turning written text into moving image. Prerequisites: ENG 101 (Holly, offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores literature that imagines societal and individual life in the aftermath of near terminal and apocalyptic events. It considers biblical, post nuclear, post holocaust, and culture destroying experiences and responses to them: despair, recovery, redemption, regeneration, and continuance, and the ways they are figured in a variety of comparative literatures. (Weiss, offered alternate years)
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