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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) R.Mohan An introductory survey of English literature from regions that used to be part of the British Empire, focusing on topics such as the representation of first contact, the influence of western education and the English language, the effects of colonial violence, displacement, migration, and exile; consideration of specific aesthetic strategies that have come to be associated with this body of literature. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU S.Finley A study of the Bible and its diverse genres, including legendary history, law, chronicle, psalm, love-song and dirge, prophecy, gospel, epistle, and eschatology. This study is accompanied by an extremely various collection of literary material, drawn from traditional and contemporary sources, and from several languages (including Hebrew), in order to illustrate the continued life of Biblical narrative and poetry. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) M.McInerney An investigation of the evolution of both the English language and the concept of Englishness. This course will explore the literature of the British Isles ca. 1000- 1500, including Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English. We will consider the ways that Germanic, Celtic and Classical mythologies contribute to a sense of what it means to be "English", and also the impact of the Crusades and Crusade literature upon what it means to be "Western". Prerequisite: Freshman Writing
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Independent College Programs) K.Benston An examination of how the animal, as both fact and image, functions in the construction and practice of human institutions. Conversations among historians, artists, anthropologists, philosophers, scientists, and jurists will guide exploration of animals' place in human culture's ongoing story. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) K.Benston An investigation of Western drama through close study of major representative plays. Evolving notions of the dramatic event, from classical to modern and "post-modern" theaters, will be examined in relation to developing ideas of heroism, destiny, social structure, linguistic power, and theatricality itself. Emphasis will be placed on both thematic and structural problems of "play" and on the relation of the text to consequences of performance (e.g., acting, stagecraft, and audience response). In addition, we will read theoretical and cultural reflections on theater and the "performative" by such writers as Plato, Aristotle, Pico, Gosson, d'Aubignac, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) M.McInerney An "introductory emphasis" exploration of the long narrative poems that shape the epic tradition in anglophone literature. Readings in classical epic and medieval epic, Milton, Romantic epics and the modern aftermath of epic.
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3.00 Credits
HU Staff Through a close study of the poetry written in the English Renaissance, this course will introduce students to the varieties of selfpresentation as well as religious and political forces at work in the court and city. Emphasis will be placed upon the major poets, including Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, in addition to less known figures.
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3.00 Credits
HU K.Benston An "introductory emphasis" study of the major tragedies and related histories, comedies, and romances, with special reference to the evolution of dramatic form, poetic style, characterization, and ideology as they are shaped by Shakespeare's persistent experimentation with dramas of extravagant will, desire, tyranny, skepticism, and death. Particular attention will be paid to key scenes in an effort to assess both Shakespeare's response to contemporary literary and cultural concerns and the internal reformation of his own craft. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) D.Sedley A study of John Milton's major poems and prose in their historical contexts, with particular attention to Milton's engagements with aesthetic, scientific, and political inventions of the seventeenth century. Prerequisite: Freshman writing.
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3.00 Credits
HU L.McGrane Poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction prose of the Restoration and 18th century. Topic to be announced.
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