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Students read and discuss selected British examples from this second great century of the novel in English. A major focus of the course is women, both as key contributors to the novel's evolution and as central characters in the texts. (Offered alternate years)
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This course offers introductory techniques in the writing of both fiction and poetry. The workshop format emphasizes group discussion of the writings of class members. Some exercises are assigned, some individual invention is expected. Readings of modern authors supplement discussions of form and technique. This course is normally required as a prerequisite for fiction and poetry workshops. Prerequisite: ENG 101. (Weiss, Conroy-Goldman, Staff, offered each semester)
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This course offers an exploration of the phenomenon of decadence in its literary aspect: the pursuit of heightened experience, sensory or imaginative, in the face of social and ethical constraints. (Staff, offered occasionally)
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This course reviews the literature of modern Ireland in its cultural, historical, and political context. Open to English majors; others by permission. (Staff, Spring, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to contemporary American poetry, this course emphasizes both the close reading of poems and the placing of recent American poetry within its social and literary contexts. Prerequisite: ENG 101 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted with women's studies. (Staff, offered alternate years)
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The English literary renaissance began in the latter half of the reignof Elizabeth I (1558-1603), an age marked by tremendous anxieties -anxieties about religion, about politics, about gender, about class,about race, about history, and about the future. This course willexplore how these various anxieties were negotiated by the remarkableliterary culture that blossomed during the period. Readings willinclude poetry, prose, and drama by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel,Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, Nashe, Lyly, Kyd, and Marlowe. (Carson,offered alternate years)
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In a homophobic society that discourages the political organization of sexual minorities by subjecting them to discrimination and violence, one of the few ways in which lesbian and gay people have been able to articulate a consciousness of their identity has been through the publication of works of fiction, although until the 1940s even this mode of expression often was legally suppressed. In this course students read and discuss eight novels that played pivotal roles in the development of a sense of identity and political purpose among gay and lesbian people and which thus helped to define the lesbian and gay communities and movements of today. (Patterson, offered alternate years)
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In the literary sub genre known as black humor, comedy and cruelty are often fused with disturbing results. This course considers Freud's thesis that all humor is based on an implicit threat of violence or obscenity. It also considers the extent to which black humor is peculiarly modern and/or American. (Staff, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
In this course's close reading of three of the major novelists of the British tradition-Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, and D.H. Lawrence-attention is given to the connections with literary modernism in England, as well as social and historical questions of class and gender. (Staf f, offered alternate years
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3.00 Credits
The development of film style from the origins of cinema through the early years of the transition to sound technology. (Lyon)
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