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4.00 Credits
These courses provide an overview of British literature beginning with the Anglo-Saxon period and extending into the 20th century. English 225 covers some works in Old and Middle English ( Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales), poetry and drama from the Renaissance, including Shakespearean drama, and extends from the Restoration up to 1700. English 226 includes selections from Neo-classical, Romantic, Victorian and modern British literature. Students contemplating graduate study in English are strongly encouraged to take both courses. Also offered through European Studies.
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This is a cultural studies course on 20th-century Ireland with a focus on literature. The literary texts are placed in conversation with cinematic and musical texts as well as with historical and political contexts. The course examines the ways literature has been used to create and represent the postcolonial nation of Ireland, what stories it tells about history, identity and nationhood. Attention is paid to the vexed relationship between the Irish nation/ culture/people and the divided polities that occupy the island today. Readings include drama, fiction and poetry from the early 20th century and from the contemporary period. Authors include Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Friel, Nuala O'Faolain,Edna O'Brien, Heaney, Muldoon, Doyle and other contemporary writers. Also offered through European Studies.
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Beginning with a consideration of Frederick Douglass and the slave narratives of the 19th century, the course concentrates on the writers of the "Harlem Renaissance" and follows the developmentof African-American writing in poetry, fiction and drama to the present day. Representative authors are Douglass, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Connie Porter and August Wilson. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of major works and writers that have shaped the American literary tradition from its beginnings to the present, with particular attention paid to historical and social backgrounds. English 237 covers writings from the colonial period to 1865; English 238 concentrates on literary texts from the Civil War until the early 21st century. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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The background and development of Canadian literature in English. Though beginning with a survey of late 19th- and early 20th-century writing, the course emphasizes post-1920 Canadian literature, especially that written since 1940.
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An introductory study of basic technical problems and formal concepts of fiction writing. John Cheever once suggested that fiction "is a sort of sleight-of-hand that displays our deepest feelings about life." As beginning fiction writers, students will mine autobiography, secondary research and other sources for ideas that pique their artistic interests. Through close reading of published fiction and nonfiction on the writer's craft, students learn how to shape their material into compelling stories using characterization, point of view, time, setting and other narrative techniques.
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An introductory study of prosody and poetics. Class attention is divided among student writing, theory and published models. Weekly writing assignments address a variety of technical issues connected with both traditional and experimental verse, while reading assignments provide examples to follow or possibilities for further study. Matters of voice, affect, intuition, chance and imagination are given as much attention as those analytic skills necessary for clear communication. All students are required to share their oral and written work for group discussion and critique.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory study of basic technical problems and formal concepts of the literary essay. Students read and write essays on various topics, including travel, personal experience, landscape, natural science and politics. Weekly written exercises and student essays are read aloud and discussed in class. Also offered through Outdoor Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory study of basic technical problems and formal concepts of screenwriting. The study of produced screenplays and formal film technique, along with writing scene exercises, builds toward the construction of a short (50-minute) script. Also offered as Performance and Communication Arts 244 and through Film Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The content of each course or section of the course is different and is announced in the Class Schedule. Open to all students.
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