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3.00 Credits
The work of notable 20th- century and contemporary writers whose work reflects various aesthetic, cultural, political, economic and regional developments. The course examines the American literary reaction to complacency, hypocrisy, vulgarity, chauvinism, social injustice; the constrictions of family, of racial and ethnic bias; the image of women. Includes Hemingway, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Tim O'Brien, Jamaica Kincaid and others. ( Spring)
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This course will focus on close reading of three plays by Shakespeare, examining the rich possibilities inherent in the text from various perspectives: the English major's critical approach, the scholar's concern with text, the Elizabethan audience's cultural expectations, the actor's conception of a character, the director's wider view of the play, and the playwright's allencompassing vision of humanity. Note: this counts as a major author course. (Fall or Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with great works of the western European tradition of world literature from classical times through the eighteenth century. Readings include works by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Dante, Cervantes, Machiavelli, Moliere. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to women's writing from ancient times until the present, with a concentration on the 19 th21st- centuries. By reading a variety of genres-principally poetry, the novel, and the short story-we will explore how women authors of different times and nationalities have represented themselves and their gender in literatures. Additional topics will include women's approaches to love, family relationships, artistic achievement, and social differences. (Spring '07)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with great works of world literature written outside of England and the United States since the eighteenth century. Literature from a variety of regions and backgrounds will be examined, with special emphasis on works outside the western European tradition. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to some of the critical issues and debates in Asian literary studies. Through a survey of Asian Literature-and by this I mean literature from Japan, China, and India-since 1930'sstudents will explore some of the political, social, literary, and religious developments in these areas. We will look at some of the major developments such as the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the 1930s, the defeat and reconstruction of Japan, the partitioning of India in 1947, the Cultural Revolution in China, etc. Representative texts will be studied with attention to their historical background and the aesthetic and cultural values that informed them. Throughout the course, students will focus on the convergence of religion and gender with race and ethnicity. Readings will include Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death, Yu Hua's Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers.
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3.00 Credits
The novels of Jane Austen have frequently been adapted to the screen, both in feature film and television versions. This course will examine six recent screen adaptations of Austen's novels, to be broadcast this spring on PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" program. We will consider how each of these presentations shapes a contemporary audience's understanding of Austen and her work. Weekly viewing responses and a final synthesizing essay will be required. There is no prerequisite. This course can be taken on its own or accompanying ENG 3020: Jane Austen in Popular Culture (3 credits), for which there is a prerequisite of a previous ENG course.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines films written, directed, and/or produced by women. Although the majority of films treated will be by American women, significant examples will be drawn from other countries as well. Special attention will be given to artists who attempt to develop film images of women that are freed from the stereotypes imposed by the classical Hollywood film. Alternates every other year with ENG 2080: American Film. (Spring '09)
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4.00 Credits
This course begins with an examination of representative American film genres, such as the western, the gangster, and the screwball comedy, tracing their roots back to early American literature and culture, and following their development to the present. The course will also examine major new directors in contemporary American cinema. Taught every other year, this course alternates with ENG 3076: Women's Film. ( Spring ' 08)
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to principles important to a critical appreciation of film. Students will view a representative variety of American and foreign films with an eye to the aesthetic and technical choices made by directors in their attempts to create coherent works of art. The course will trace the development of film as an art form and as a vehicle for social subject analysis throughout the twentieth century. ( Fall)
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