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4.00 Credits
Limited to students completing the English honors program
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4.00 Credits
Chaucer is one of the wittiest, most insightful, and intellectually alert of all English poets. A marvelous craftsman and social commentator, he quite rightly deserves the accolade of “first” among modern writers. A master in the subtleties of cognition and philosophical voicing, he has amazed readers for six hundred years with his range of empirical, speculative, and observational psychology. We will study the basic works of Chaucer – his dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales, with some background reading in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose. Emphasis will be put on the performative components of his writing and reading theory. Students will write two papers, do occasional in-class writing, and take a final examination. All Chaucer readings will be in Middle English. Class attendance is required.
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4.00 Credits
The course approaches The Divine Comedy both as a poetic masterpiece and as an encyclopedia of medieval culture. Through a close textual analysis of selected cantos from Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, students learn how to approach poetry as a vehicle for thought, an instrument of self-discovery, and a way to understand and affect the world. They also gain a perspective on the Biblical, Christian, and Classical traditions as they intersect with the multiple levels of Dante's concern ranging from literature to history, from politics to government, from philosophy to theology. Class format includes lectures and discussion. Intensive class participation is encouraged. No prerequisites.
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A survey of English Renaissance writers, with an emphasis on poetry and fictional prose. The course will focus on major authors of the period (including Bacon, Deloney, Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Lodge, Marlowe, Milton, More, Shakespeare, Sidney and Spenser) with some attention to other authors, both male and female, who influenced their writing. Renaissance writers and their audiences were trained to recognize a number of literary conventions that are not always familiar to modern readers. We become familiar with those conventions and spend quite a bit of time in careful analysis of style and form in order to appreciate why Renaissance audiences found these authors so compelling and to understand how their writing responded to readers' cultural, literary, political and religious concerns. Please note that the English Department has defined this as a course in nondramatic Renaissance literature. Fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the major.
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4.00 Credits
What does it mean for fiction to offer a realistic portrayal of the world? This course will consider American literature from 1865 to 1914 with a special emphasis on the concept of literary realism. Focusing on prose fiction (novels and short stories), we will explore how American writers understood and represented “reality” during a time of social and cultural upheaval at home and abroad. The class will touch on formal concerns, including literary techniques for depicting interiority and urban environments, and will also examine realism in the context of changing ideas of labor, race, gender, and democracy. Several questions will motivate us: is it possible to portray reality objectively in fiction? Why did nineteenth-century American writers value objectivity over other literary possibilities? What makes realist novels such compelling reading? Our texts will include novels by Howells, James, Chopin, Wharton, Twain, Chesnutt, Crane, Dreiser,and Du Bois.
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4.00 Credits
The course covers, in roughly chronological order, the history of the English novel in the 20th century; we will read and discuss the works of such major figures as Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Greene, Huxley, etc. We will also examine some of the history of the novel, its protean and elastic shape, its reaction to the artistic experimentation of the time, the ways in which the modern novel reflects developments and innovation in the form, as well its traditional relationship to the social contexts from which it springs.
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The course will deal with some 20th century American and European (especially East European) poets in a manner that foregrounds the transfer of particular styles beyond the languages in which the poems were originally written. We will pair some names together and through that discuss how post-1945 poetry translations inspired or influenced the ways of writing and the ways of thinking about poetry, both in USA and in Europe. Through close reading of the poems written in English and translated into English we will also talk about how some of the local cultural contexts become part of the contemporary international tradition. The poems discussed will include work by C. P. Cavafy, Derek Mahon, Zbigniew Herbert, Aleksander Wat, W. H. Auden, Miron Bialoszewski, Wislawa Szymborska, Miroslav Holub, Charles Reznikoff, John Cage, Bertolt Brecht, D. J. Enright, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery.
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4.00 Credits
Toni Morrison has emerged as one of the most influential writers and critics in contemporary American culture. This course will approach her work from a broad range of critical perspectives including black feminist thought, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, Biblical exegesis, postcolonial analysis, and critical race theory. Although this class will emphasize rigorous study of her literary work, we will also pay close attention to her contributions to literary criticism, her role in public life as well as her forays into political and national debates. In our study of her novels, we will explore such issues as the importance of history and myth in the creation of personal identity, constructions of race and gender, the dynamic nature of love, the role of the community in social life, and the pressures related to the development of adolescent girls.
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