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One unit. An examination of some major pieces of literature, which draw heavily upon religious themes and concepts for their content. How, for example, do fi ctional works deal with the issues of guilt, punishment, faith, and the quest for salvation What is salvation How, also, are God and Christ conceived in contemporary fi ction Cross-listed w/RE 203. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered fall and spring semesters.
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One unit. The fear of revolutionary ideas spreading from France to England, the growing opposition to slavery and the slave-trade, and increasing calls for the redefi nition of women's rights all help to create the social and political contexts for English literature written between 1780 and 1830. Poets of the period respond to these issues and to questions about the workings of the human mind, the power of the imagination and the relationship between people and nature. We will explore these concerns as we study the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and others. Not open to students who have taken EN 306. Offered fall semesters of odd years.
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One unit. A reading of major works from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century with a focus on their historical context. Readings will be selected from such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Pope, Keats, Austen, Conrad, Eliot, Joyce, and Woolf. The course is part of the foundation of the English major and should be taken by the end of the sophomore year. Offered spring semester.
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One unit. This course is an introduction to the conventions of literature and to a variety of theoretical approaches to it (psychoanalytic, Structuralist, Marxist, Feminist, etc.). Readings will include poetry, fi ction (the works of authors such as Nicolai Gogol, Salman Rushdie and Nicola Griffi th), and various critical articles and introductory readings on theory. Students will learn the research tools necessary to locate and evaluate literary critical sources. Writing assignments will require the integration of literary interpretation, critical ideas, and theoretical approaches. The course is part of the foundation of the English major and should be taken by the end of the sophomore year. Offered fall and spring semesters.
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One unit. This is a course in English designed to introduce several masterworks of the Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to students who may or may not be ready to read the texts in the original language. Readings include selections from early peninsular works, such as El Cid and the Quixote, pre- Columbian texts, such as the Popul-Vul, poetry from colonial Mexico's Sor Juana and, fi nally, contemporary works from both Latin America (Borges, Cortázar, Allende) and Spain (Matute, García Lorca, Arrabal). (Cross-listed as SP 213.) Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester.
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One unit. The plight of orphans such as Dicken's Oliver Twist, the poverty that drives fl awed decisionmaking for Braddon's Lady Audley and the fear of scandal that haunts many of Sherlock Holmes's clients are examples of the issues we will study in this course. The tension between a rapidly changing society and tradition and social conventions wreaks havoc for Victorian characters. Expanding views of women's rights, the pressure of maintaining a vast empire and the infl uence of increasing industrialization all challenged the familiar and comfortable ideas of nineteenth-century English people. Not open to students who have taken EN 309 or EN 324. Offered spring semesters of even years.
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One unit. This course introduces students to Comparative Literature as a discipline. Students will examine different methods of comparative study, including the comparison of different national literatures, different regional literatures, and literatures written in different languages. The course is structured around a series of essays taken from the groundbreaking study Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, which are paired with a series of literary texts. Offered as required.
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One unit. This is a fundamental fi lm course which should create good critical viewers with a basic knowledge of fi lm form, concepts, and terminology. On a practical level, students will be applying what they've learned to fi lm and video of all kinds. Students will also learn basic fi lm history, including the cultural role of international cinematic trends. Equally importantly, students will learn how to identify and disarm the covert political and social assumptions in which fi lms immerse audiences. The amount and level of reading as well as writing standards will be high. Two short papers, a research paper, and class presentations will be required, as well as a mid-term and fi nal exam. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered as required.
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One unit. A course dealing with literary topics not covered in the standard courses of the department; its content will be determined by the instructor. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered as required.
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One unit. The course will explore important medieval texts from the tenth through the fi fteenth centuries in both the British Isles and the continent. We will cover a range of genres, including epic (Beowulf) and romance (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) as well as allegory, lyric, and drama. Offered as required.
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