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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of three American originals, eccentrics who, though wildly different from one another, reflect in common some central aspects of the American psyche. (Staff, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected short fiction by some of the major authors of 19th-century America, this course uses Northrop Frye's distinction between the short realistic form he calls "story" and the short romance form he calls "tale" to illuminate readings of short fictions by Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Chopin, Wharton, James, and others. (St aff, offered alternate yea
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students read literature by women who are often classified as part of "minority" groups. They examine these visual and literary texts as they engage the problematics of exile, sexuality, language, place, and memory. They read texts by Asian, Black, Chicana, Indian, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women writers. (Bas u, offered annually
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on literature that deals with coming of age and the getting of-if not wisdom-then at least a bracing dose of self knowledge. (Offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the three odd works usually classified by critics as"Shakespeare's Problem Plays," alongside a comedy, a tragedy, and aromance that might be seen to have some serious problems of their own. What makes these plays so problematic How weird can Shakespeare get (Carson, offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
Since the last third of the 20th century, feminist literary criticism has paid attention to the realm of medieval women which, for diverse reasons, had "previously been an empty space" (Showalter,1976.) This course looks at a variety of unconventional female lives in hagiography, fiction, history and legend from Perpetua, the 3rd century saint, to Joan of Arc, the 15th century warrior. Though this is not an historical survey, we will respect the chronology in order to recognize evolutions and evaluate influences as we read the story of Silence and the writings of Hrotsvit, Hildegard, Marie de France, Eloise, Margery Kempe, Christine de Pizan and others. Most texts will focus on medieval Europe, but we will also explore the point of views of some Asian female writers. This will allow us to compare and contrasts the views of educated, court women in different parts of the world, during the same historical period.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of Shakespeare and the Roman history play.Beginning with his long narrative poem, The Rape of Lucrece, weproceed to explore the four major tragedies that Shakespeare set inRome, paying particular attention to the ways in which these playsengage with questions of political theory, of class, and of gender.We will look in some depth at the ways other Elizabethan and Jacobeanwriters (especially Jonson) incorporated ideas of Rome into their workin attempt to make sense of what was really at stake for Shakespeare'soriginal audiences. Depending on class interest, we may well add somescreenings to the syllabus, since these plays have served as thefoundations for a handful of fascinating films, each of whichpreserves a complex negotiation between the contemporary, therenaissance, and the classical worlds. (Carson, offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
We begin by reading three history plays that Shakespeare used forsource material and inspiration, and then move on to consider his fivemost important English history plays, arguably the most impressivework from the first half of his career.We will read the plays with agreat deal of attention to their relationship to early modernpolitical theory, to early modern historiography, and also to theremarkable dramaturgy Shakespeare employs to extract such compellingstories from the raw fabric of history.These plays have fared betteronscreen than most of Shakespeare's plays, and so depending on classinterest, we may well schedule regular screenings to accompany ourreadings. (Carson, offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
This course in 20th century autobiographical prose explores both novelistic and factual memoirs. It compares the forms that literary memoir takes in several different cultures. The question of fiction vs. nonfiction is addressed, as well as the relationship of the author to the speaker of her/his book, and the ways in which the linear time of a lived life is transformed into literature. Students have the opportunity to write some memoiristic prose themselves in addition to critical papers. Crosslisted with women's studies. (Staff, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
In this close examination of the works of these three most important modern writers, special attention is paid to parallels between their works and movements in the visual arts, and to the implications of self conscious narrative. (Holly, offered every three years)
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