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English 281: Fictions of Empire
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies) R.Mohan A study of representative texts from the 18th century to the present which deal with the British colonial encounter. Readings in Defoe, Behn, Haggard, Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Dinesen, Cary, Coetzee, and Achebe. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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English 284: Sex,Gender,Representation:An Introduction to Theories of Sexualities
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) G.Stadler This course investigates how cultural theory, philosophy, literary theory, and literature itself have evaluated and questioned the categories by which we understand sexualities. It pays special attention to the concept of "queerness" and the work of queer theory in defamiliarizing everyday assumptions about sexuality and sexual identity, gay and straight. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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English 284 - Sex,Gender,Representation:An Introduction to Theories of Sexualities
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English 285: Disabilities:Autobiography,Education,and Theory
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU S.Finley Contemporary autobiographies of disability, placed in four key contexts: literary history and genre, academic disability studies, rehabilitation sciences, and the American educational system as it has been shaped by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.) Typically offered in alternate years.
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English 286: Arts of the Possible:Literature and Social Justice Movements
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies) T.Tensuan We will examine memoirs, essays, and poetry by American writer/activists whose works illuminate the formation of -- and tensions between -- civil rights struggles, peace movements, feminist organizing, and LGBT movements. Readings include Baldwin, Rukeyser, King, Rich, Malcolm X, Lorde, Moraga and Stringfellow. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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English 289: Contemporary Poetry
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU Staff Ostensibly a survey of American avant-garde poetry from 1950 to the present. This course will endeavor to examine the ways in which poetry since WWII has undertaken the task of redefining itself, and in the process also sought to redefine its relation to politics, to tradition and history, and more importantly to language.
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English 290: History of Literary Theory:Plato to Shelley
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU (Cross-listed in Classical Studies) D.Roberts Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Typically offered in alternate years.
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English 291: Poetry Writing:A Practical Workshop
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU Staff Students will write a poem a week, usually following an assignment that focuses on a particular strategy or form, from dramatic monologues to prose poems to sonnets. Students will present their work for discussion and friendly critique by the workshop, and will be encouraged to revise their work over the semester. There will be some in-class writing exercises but most writing will be done outside of class. Light reading assignments will include modern and contemporary as well as older poetry. There will also be a mini-session on the business of poetry. Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration.
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English 292: Poetry Writing II-Contemporary Voices
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU Staff In this course, which is intended for both experienced and beginning writers, students will write a poem a week, often focusing on a specific strategy or form. The class will also read and discuss six books of varied styles and subject matters by contemporary poets: James Wright's "The Branch Will Not Break," W.S. Merwin's "The Rain in the Trees," Louise Gluck's "Wild Iris," Alice Notley's "Mysteries of Small Houses," John Ashbery's "Houseboat Days," and James Tate's "Shroud of the Gnome." Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration.
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English 293: Fiction Writing:From the Conventional to the Experimental
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU S.Reents This course invites students to read and write across a spectrum, starting with recognizably conventional short stories and heading into so-called "experimental" territory. We'll look at how traditional modes of story-telling have been both honored and disrupted by twentieth-century writers. Readings will feature such authors as Martin Amis, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Robert Coover, Lorrie Moore, Tillie Olsen, and H.G. Wells. Students will perform their own experiments with plot structures, narrative stances, and linguistic strategies through the fashioning of two short-short pieces and two longer stories. Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration.
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English 294: Fiction Writing
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
HU S.Reents This course invites students to explore how human subjectivity is evoked in fiction. We'll read numerous short stories, as well as provocative essays on neuropsychology by such authors as William James and Oliver Sacks. Students will experiment with strategies for depicting mindscape in two short-short pieces and two longer stories. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration.
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