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3.00 Credits
This course examines selected forms of fiction written in English by modern novelists from various regions, backgrounds, social experiences, and points of view. Major authors from Australia, South Africa, Canada, India, and other countries will be represented.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the range of contemporary theory about film through readings and viewings of selected films. The writings of earlier film theorists such as Eisenstein, Kracauer, Deren, and Bazin will provide a base for the examination of more recent theories rooted in genre studies, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Prerequisite: ENG 2083: Introduction to Film Criticism. Research paper. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the ways in which New York City has been portrayed in literature and film. Literature will cover several authors from the 19th- through the 21st- centuries. Films will include comedies, satires, musicals, films about immigrant and ethnic experiences, and gangster and crime films. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The end of colonialism in the 20th Century has in recent years given rise to studies devoted to reexamining the history, politics, language, and literary representations of the colonial era. Much of this work is coming from writers in the ex-colonies who are attempting to re-define themselves within the western canon. This class will examine African writers as they attempt to grapple with the history of European representation of Africa. We will examine some of the most recent debates such as African versus European languages, Negritude, Pan-Africanism, gender, identity and the current ethnic problems that have led to genocide in some areas. Readings will include: Emmanuel Dongala's Fire of Origins, Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, Ama Ata Aido's Our Sister Killjoy, Ousman Sembene'God's Bits of Wood, Philip Gourevitch's We wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Killed withour Families: Stories from Rwanda.
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This course examines the importance of vocation - a call to meaningful work in the world, which sometimes takes the form of a particular profession - in the novels by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. It will also attend to other key themes and to evolving techniques of narration, characterization, and description; contextual reading will include brief biographical selections and some criticism. Recommended: ENG 2035 (Victorian Literature). Note: this counts as a genre course. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the variety in subject matter and style offered by British authors in what is often considered the "golden age" of the novel. We will begin by comparing "condition of England" novels from the middle of the nineteenth century, which attempt to balance a critique of industrialism with conventional sentimentalism and romance. We will next look at the development of detective and "sensation" fiction. Finally, we will consider fictional representations of the liberated "New Woman" in the 1890s. Throughout, we will attend to changes in literary techniques such as characterization and narrative, as well as in conceptions of the roles of authors and readers. Our authors will include Charlotte Bront?, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and George Gissing.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the significance of the memoir - a firstperson account of a portion of one's life, often written by a person not otherwise famous - in late 20th- and early- 21st- century literature and culture. Examining the ways in which memoirists represent themselves through prose and the choices they make in shaping their life stories, we will approach these memoirs both as literature and in terms of their appeal to present-day mass audiences. Both American and international authors will be represented. Note: this counts as a genre course. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
A comprehensive examination in English and American literature, which is required of all senior English majors. (Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Students nominated by the faculty may be invited to do the Senior Honors Project, usually a major research paper. Further information may be found in the description of the departmental Honors Program. ( Spring) Creative and Professional Writing Courses:
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4.00 Credits
This course examines several filmmakers whose work has been considered to have sufficient consistency and merit as to be made by an "author." We interrogate the concept of authorship in cinema in terms of its history, politics, explanatory power, use as marketing strategy and other strengths and limitations. Directors will vary, but the course is international in focus, with at least one non-English language filmmaker represented. Prerequisite: One other film studies course or Instructor's permission. ( Fall)
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