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1.00 Credits
One unit. We will study science fi ction from the nineteenth century to the present. Science fi ction as social critique will be a focal point of the course. Issues that science fi ction works address include crises of self-defi nition, the interplay between technologies and the humans who create and use them, the fear, anticipation and acceptance/ rejection of the alien, the future of society's institutions (from government to religion) and the links between progress, humanity and the natural environment. Reading for the course may include works by H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nicola Griffi th, Octavia Butler and Orson Scott Card. There will also be signifi cant critical reading in this course. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semesters of odd years.
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One unit. This course focuses on the English novel as it evolves from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Both the gothic strain and the impulse to detection occur in the works of authors such as Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront , Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, and P.D. James. In working with these narratives we will explore the links between the supernatural and criminal as we also take up the variety of structures that English fi ction offers us. The course also emphasizes the use of secondary critical sources. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
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One unit. Romantic struggles, dysfunctional families, madness and violence have preoccupied the drama since its origins. In this course, we will survey selected plays central to the development of Western drama. The characteristics of the genre will be explored, including comic and tragic dramatic structures as well as the concept of the tragic hero in classic and modern plays. We will examine gender issues, and the psychological and sociological complexities of human behavior represented in dramatic literature. Playwrights may include Sophocles, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Bernard Shaw, Tennessee Williams, and Marsha Norman. Get ready to read some fascinating plays: no acting is required! Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. Drama, one of the most powerful of artistic experiences, reaches its height in the late English Renaissance and again in the late twentieth century. This course will look fi rst at some of the most compelling of Renaissance non-Shakespearian plays and then at some of the experimentation that has made contemporary drama particularly fascinating. Among the authors we may study from the Renaissance are Kyd, Webster, Middleton, Behn, and perhaps Polwhele. The playwrights of today may include Beckett, Hansberry, Soyinka, Puig, and Wilson. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. Designed for students who have demonstrated superior ability in one of the forms of composition. Considerable practice will be afforded in the writing of the short story and/or poetry. Offered as required.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. A study of selected plays representative of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist. The course is required of the English major and should be taken by the end of the junior year. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
One uni t. What's it like to be young and growing in the land of cotton and kudzu, debutantes and rednecks, coon dogs and bass boats, instant grits and barbecue Find out how a culture that created jambalaya, catfi sh pie and Elvis could also produce Strom Thurmond or the Klan. Readings will include well-known major Southern authors such as William Faulkner, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor, as well as some very droll present-day writers such as Barry Hannah, and Ellen Gilchrist Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. A study of selected works of one to three important British and/or American authors representing different periods and genres. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. Offered as required.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. Development of "modernism" in British, Irish, andAmerican poetry, from Whitman, Dickinson, and Hardy to the major fi gures of the early twentieth century: Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and Stevens. Includes British "war poets," along withimportant fi gures of the '30's, '40's, and '50's, such as Dylan Thomas, Auden, and MacNeConcomitant poetics theory, along with seminal criticism of the period. Close reading of poetic texts along with intensive instruction in the areas of prosody-metaphor and fi gurative language, stanza patterns, rhythm and meter, verse genres, poetic diction, "voice" and tonalmodulation. Essays and research paper, mid-term and fi nal exams. Prerequisite: EN 212 or permission of instructor. May not be taken by students who have taken EN 291 Special Topic: "Contemporary Poetry." Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. A study of selected writers of fi ction and poetry since World War I. Offered fall semester.
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