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4.00 Credits
After Ibsen, realistic drama continued to be written by other dramatists in continental Europe, Great Britain and the United States. Students observe how different playwrights used the form of realism: as a vehicle for social and political ideas, as an instrument for expressing "folk" consciousness and as theformal basis for experience conceived symbolically or lyrically. Plays are selected from the works of dramatists such as Lorca, O'Neill, Hellman, Williams, Gorky, Miller, Hansberry, Wilson, Synge, O'Casey, Durrenmatt, Osborne, Handke and Pinter. Also offered through European Studies.
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A study of the contemporary literary response to rising national interest in the natural world and rising awareness about the danger to natural resources. Readings are predominantly in prose (novels and essays), with some poetry included. Among the questions the authors ask: as we approach the natural world, how can we move beyond metaphors of dominion? What are the biases of gender, geography and culture that we bring to our inquiry? What is the relationship between the human and the "natural"?What does it mean to fully invest ourselves in our local environment? Also offered as Environmental Studies 352 and through Outdoor Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The course focuses on an era of radical change and experimentation in fictional narrative, during which new ideas in psychology, philosophy and science accompanied the development of new fictional techniques designed to explore and revise how time and identity might be represented. Readings are largely in British fiction from 1900 to 1930. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of modern American novelists from Dreiser, Cather and Lewis through Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and important writers of the 1930s.
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A survey of post-World War II British fiction, including such novelists as Doris Lessing, V.S. Naipaul, William Golding, Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt and John Fowles. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to American literary works since 1960 for the purpose of illuminating the variety of forms that contemporary literature has taken and the themes it has addressed. Although the novel is the genre emphasized most in the course, short stories, novellas, works of creative non-fiction and graphic novels are also included. Authors whose work has recently been studied in this course include Barthelme, Capote, Didion, Elkin, Ellison, Erdrich, Grealy, Heller, Hogan, McGuane, Millhauser, Morrison, Naylor, O'Brien, Palahniuk, Pynchon, Roth, Spiegelman and Updike.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces a distinct way of organizing literary study, substituting for the study of national traditions the notion of postcoloniality as a global condition affecting not only literature but also categories we use to think about human experience: relations between colonizers and colonized and between culture and power; identity, authenticity and hybridity; roots, motherland, mother tongue; nationality. Readings include contemporary literature produced in the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, as well as important theoretical texts about postcoloniality. Also offered as Philosophy 357 and Global Studies 357.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of Canadian prose since 1920. Though concentrating on the novel, the course pays significant attention to the short story.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the contributions of women writers to the development of the American literary tradition. Representative writers include Stowe, Jewett, Freeman, Chopin, Cather, Wharton, Porter, Morrison, Godwin and Rich.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the origins and development of the English language with primary emphasis upon general principles of grammar and meaning. Attention is given to the sounds and forms of Old English and Middle English, as well as to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic questions about modern speech and writing. Also offered through European Studies.
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