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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A study of English romantic literature in its historical and philosophical contexts. Authors normally studied include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Byron and Keats. Also offered through European Studies and Outdoor Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative American writers of the Romantic period, including Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Poe and Whitman.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on developments in American literature from the Civil War to the First World War, examining such movements as realism, local colorism and naturalism, and attending to contemporary social issues to which the literature responds: the aftermath of the Civil War and reconstruction, racism, the woman question, immigration, industrialization and urban poverty, rural life and westward expansion. Readings include works by realists such as Mark Twain, W.D. Howells, Edith Wharton and Stephen Crane, and works by less well-known writers like W.E.B. Dubois, Charles Chesnutt, Rebecca Harding Davis, Abraham Cahan and Kate Chopin.
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4.00 Credits
Students are exposed to theoretical writings, dramatic texts and performances that reflect the continuing experimentation in the theatre since the 1890s. Students examine artistic reactions to a post-Darwinian and post-Freudian worldview and are exposed to the various methods in which playwrights and theater practitioners have grappled with finding new ways of articulating what it means to be human in an industrialized world. Prerequisites: Performance and Communication Arts 125 or 215, English 190 or permission of instructor. Also offered as Performance and Communication Arts 338 and through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The novel is a relatively new genre, a form that emerged in the 18th century and differed from previous ones in appearing only in print. Why did the English novel originate at this time? What did authors imagine it as being and doing? And how did the genre evolve throughout the 18th century? To answer these questions, we situate the novel within its historical contexts, examining English politics and culture. We also survey the century's most influential novels and assess the development of subgenres such as the epistolary novel, the Gothic and the novel of manners. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The Victorians ran the greatest global power of their time and struggled with many of the same issues as we do - both public (technology, prejudice, pollution) and private (love, marriage, family). This course examines their novels within this context, starting with realistic works (such as the hilarious Vanity Fair and Barchester Towers) and ending with a few novelistic forms that arose or resurfaced at the end of the period (sci-fi, horror, detective fiction). Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the writings of women from four major American ethnic groups: African-American, Native American, Asian- American and Latin American. Works are examined as products of particular ethnic traditions as well as products of a common female American literary heritage. Writers may include Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Silko, Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros and Julia Alvarez. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the literary response to the taming of the American wilderness. The course focuses on the close association of nature and art in American literature, examining how American writers, in shaping story and poem, have tried to reconcile the processes and values associated with "wilderness" and "civilization." Soattention is given to the historical and cultural backgrounds of the wilderness theme. Writers such as Crevecoeur, Jefferson, Cooper, Thoreau, Melville, Twain, Whitman, Jewett, Frost, Faulkner, Cather, Steinbeck, McPhee and Dillard are studied, but an effort is made to choose works not usually taught in the surveys of American literature. Also offered as Environmental Studies 346 and through Outdoor Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The content of each course or section of the course is different and is announced when the Class Schedule is published prior to registration.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of modern poetries from the Anglo-American canon. Major authors include Thomas Hardy, A.E. Houseman, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robinson Jeffers, e.e. cummings, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath. The general aim of the course is to strengthen our capacity to read carefully and experience more deeply the work of a wide variety of poets.
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