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4.00 Credits
Restricted to "Selznick" Students only
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4.00 Credits
This workshop is for advanced fiction writers who have completed ENG 121 or have permission from the instructor. The course emphasizes the development of each student's individual style and imagination, as well as the practical and technical concerns of a fiction writer's craft. Readings will be drawn from a wide variety of modern and contemporary writers. Students will be expected to write three original short stories as well as to revise extensively in order to explore the full range of the story's potential. Applicable English Cluster:Creative Writing
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4.00 Credits
An advanced creative writing workshop in poetry. Students’ poems will be discussed weekly. Creative writing assignments will be combined with brief essay responses to a selection of contemporary poetry books. A special emphasis on translation will also be included. Applicable English Cluster: Creative Writing.
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4.00 Credits
In this seminar, we'll do two things at once: read the works associated with the 19th-century "American Renaissance", and also read the great books of 20th-century criticism that produce and defend this tradition. We alternate weeks between works of literature and criticism, in order to establish an interesting reciprocal dialogue between the two kinds of writing. Of criticism, we'll ask: Which authors or works did critics value or devalue in order to make a "tradition"? What happens when we focus on the "literary" elements of critical prose? Of the literature: what features of form or content made certain works the harbingers of a cultural "rebirth"? Is there any sense in which these literary works do something like "criticism" - e.g., in thinking about their own value as fulfilling the call for a national aesthetic? Readings include literary works by Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, and critical works by D.H. Lawrence, F.O. Matthiessen, Leslie Fiedler, and Richard Poirier.
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4.00 Credits
Media ABC is an introduction to the very idea of medium and media—as in “the medium of print.” The goal is to come to a basic understanding of that concept. The perspective of the course is historical and critical. The key assumption is that media—the human voice, film, electronic files--shape their "content"--words, pictures, sounds—and their authors and their audiences. There have always been media because life cannot be lived without them. This year's topic is print—the dominant medium of communication for five centuries, its power and influence only now waning as we experience a digital revolution. This remarkable media shift puts us among the first explorers to arrive on the scene of epoch-making changes. We should take advantage of our own unique intellectual opportunity to look back on the history of print from the powerful new perspective of digital media. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication.
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4.00 Credits
We consider issues raised in Walter Ong's '82 study, "Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word." His account related the growth of writing & print to the development of science & modern rational thought, exploring possible changes in collective consciousness as a result of the shift of media emphasis. We'll examine classical sources, incl Plato's suspicion of the power of oral poetry, & consider levels of literacy achieved in ancient society; we'll look at European medieval traditions. Discussions on the roles language & literature played in the lives of non-literate people as contrasted with literate. Study of the modern & contemporary periods focuses on practices as conversation, becoming literate, collection of oral accounts & their uses, uses of ethnographic writing, & different approaches to speech, writing, & language in African American & white communities. Key aim of the course is to show the politics, mutual dependency, & reciprocity of oral/literate uses of language in literary/nonliterary
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0.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
This course is for special one-time courses on topics of current interest.
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0.00 Credits
No course description available.
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5.00 Credits
"The Matrix of Wisdom" examines writing and recorded speaking of medieval western European women. Starting with the 9thC carolingian noblewoman Dhuoda and her letters to her son, we end with Joan of Arc’s trial in the 15thC and the transcripts of other women brought before the Inquisition. This course mingles secular writings with religious; romance and protest with vision. Abbess, nun, mother, widow, court poet, heretic and convert come together in these selections from Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schönau, Na Prous Boneta, Heloise, Margery Kemp, Marie de France, Julian of Norwich, Christine of Pizan and others. The focus of the course is wise transgression: under what conditions could women break or not break the rules that kept them from writing, roaring, preaching, objecting, cross-dressing, doing battle, chastising popes and monarchs, challenging church doctrine, or from speaking out at all? Another is the relationships women nurtured with fellow women and the men who were loyal.
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