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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the status of the Regency writer Jane Austen, often considered one of England's finest novelists, in our own popular culture. Readings will include a biography of Austen, four of her novels, selected scholarly articles on her current popularity, and creative responses to her work in the realms of fiction and non-fiction. We will also view several recent film adaptations of her novels. Note: this course counts as a major author course. (Fall '07)
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3.00 Credits
Through films or videotapes of Shakespeare's plays, we will explore how productions illuminate, enhance, or distort the script and how the change of medium makes different effects possible or even necessary. This course will examine interpretations of the text as well as foster awareness of dramatic and film technique. Previous study of Shakespeare is very helpful. This course may be used as an elective for the Film Concentration. Note: this counts as a major author course. (Fall)
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4.00 Credits
Topics include pre- 20th- century protohistory; the cinema of attractions; the development of narrative, features, stars and the classical Hollywood studio system; French impressionism; Weimar expressionism; Scandinavian naturalism; Soviet montage; documentary and avant-garde cinema; early Asian film; the changeover to sound; censorship; French poetic realism; developments in British, German and Latin American film. Students are not required to take part 2. ( Fall)
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4.00 Credits
The course begins with the war years and includes: Italian neorealism, film noir, the decline of the Hollywood studio system, and new documentary and avant-garde approaches. Also considered are: International art cinemas from Europe and Japan in the 50s and 60s and other key movements, from Brazilian Cinema Novo to New German Cinema, African and Indian cinema and other postcolonial cinemas. The course also examines: Hollywood's revival and its increasing commercialism, China's "Fifth Generation," feminist and otheindependent practice, and films from Australia, the Middle East, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Part 1 is not a prerequisite. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Twentieth-century and contemporary treatments of intimacy in poems from various traditions in English and in translation from other languages. Emphasis is on tenderness, erotic attraction, courtship, "falling in love", addiction, martyrdom, obsession, compulsion, fantasy, loving the self, living with loss and living together. Discussion of problems in communication, education, censorship. In-class readings required. Some strong language. Note: this counts as a genre course. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar in 19th- century, 20th- century, and contemporary poetry traces the transition from "Romantic" to "Modern" sensibility from Emerson to T.S. Eliot and beyond to living poets of the Americas. Discussion of forms and technique, but emphasis is on reading well, finding distinct voice and dramatic context in each poem. Includes Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, Derek Walcott, Sharon Olds, Julia Alvarez, Billy Collins and others. Required recitations, analyses and writing assignments. Some strong language. Note: this counts as a genre course. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines in depth the short stories and the novels of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, focusing on their shared literary techniques and their relationship to earlier American thought. Special emphasis will be placed on the ways in which they developed or diverged from Emerson's use of symbolism as a literary technique and as a means of shaping one's understanding of reality. Note: this counts as a major author course. Research paper. ( Fall '06)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will examine definitions of the novel as a genre from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. As a new art form in the eighteenth century, the novel represented a new voice and new values in literature, embedded in realism, relatively democratic, sometimes female, and often middle class. Readings will include representative novels from the 18th- 19thand 20th- centuries. Alternates every other year with ENG 3076: Satire in Literature and Film. Note: this counts as a genre course. Research paper. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how the conception of Hell evolved from that of an afterworld where the dead dwell, to a place of diabolically appropriate punishment, to a state of mental and moral torment, to a useful incentive for impeccable behavior, to a means of revealing the nature of God and Heaven. Authors studied include Dante, Milton, Sartre, Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. Students need to be able to consider objectively the religious beliefs or disbeliefs assumed by the works. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will explore the nature of comedy in its various forms from classical times to the present. It will examine comedy's appearance in various genres: drama, fiction, and film. At each of the weekly meetings, the course will pair a reading with a film. Seminar sessions will be organized around reports and discussion. A research paper is required for this course. (Spring)
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