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3.00 Credits
This course covers a wide range of culturally diverse short fiction. Emphasized are interpersonal relations, narrative voice, imagery, symbolism, and other aspects of short story telling. Included are Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, Gail Godwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Bernard Malamud, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, Leslie Silko, Richard Wright and others. Goals are improved critical reading, writing and speaking. Required: open class discussions, organized critical presentations, regular writing assignments. Note: this counts as a genre course. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
English I studies a selection of masterpieces from the Dark and Middle Ages: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D'Arthur, Piers Plowman, The Canterbury Tales, and early English drama. Through these works we observe how individuals learn to live with God, their neighbors, and themselves as well as how women and the lower classes gain new importance. Though many works will be read in translation, during the course the student will learn to read Middle English. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
In an age of discovery, Renaissance writers explored the rewards and dangers of reaching into new areas of experience, of questioning the accepted social and moral order, of concentrating on their desires instead of God's. A selection of masterpieces by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Donne, Milton and others reveals their insight, imagination and power over language as well as the possibilities and problems considered by sixteenth and seventeenth century writers. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore seven plays about lovers and rebels, young and old. We will watch young men and women find their identities or forge new ones while they struggle to balance obligations to family, society, and self; and older men and women struggle with the choices they have made. We will explore Shakespeare's dramatic art as well as his deep understanding of our humanity. Students will write several short papers and watch many scenes on film. Note: this counts as a major author course. (Fall) (Spring)
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4.00 Credits
This course is divided into two parts, A and B, each of which runs for one-half semester and carries a value of two (2) credits. The course as a whole will examine the transition that took place in literature from the Neoclassical period of the early- and mid- 18th- century to the Romanticism that emerged in the late- 18thand early- 19th- centuries. Emphasis will be placed on comparing and contrasting these two different approaches to literature and art. Authors studied in part A will include Defoe, Swift, Gay, Pope, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Sheridan, among others. Part B will cover Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, among others. Students may register for either a full semester or half a semester, but must ultimately take both parts in order to count as a core course or an elective for the English major or minor. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to key authors, texts, and preoccupations of the Victorian era. Victorian authors sought to explore identity and to represent the human experience under the influence of such powerful social forces and ideas as industrialization, imperialism, the "Woman Question," andevolutionary theory. Novelists include Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot; poets include Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Matthew Arnold. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on 20th- century English and Irish writers whose work challenges social, religious and aesthetic conventions. It deals with the beginnings and refinements of modernism, the effects of class and cultural conflict, the risks of intimacy and the search for values in contemporary society. It includes W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Edna O'Brien, and Harold Pinter. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine a period in American social and intellectual history that produced some of the grandest names in literary folklore and a timeless catalog of great literature. The battlefields of World War I, 1920's Paris and New York, the beaches of Key West and the French Riviera, and the breadlines of the Great Depression are just a sample of the settings out of which emerged a feverish moment in American literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature and meaning of the major Greek and Roman myths as expressed in the literature of the classical period. Readings include Works by Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Vergil, and Ovid. ( Fall or Spring)
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3.00 Credits
The course examines American writers from the colonial period to the Civil War, including Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Poe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman. These writers helped to define the American identity by exploring conflicts and contradictions that still shape our American experience: the conflicts between spirituality and materialism, individualism and community, idealism and pragmatism, economic opportunity and economic exploitation, romanticism and realism. ( Spring)
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