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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A study of the first flourishing of American literature in the generation preceding the Civil War, focusing on such influential figures as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 337 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of literature produced between the Civil War and the turn of the century. Discussions focus on realism, naturalism, and romanticism, as well as on the relation of these movements to a variety of cultural developments, including reconstruction, the growth of cities and of corporate monopolies, the emergence of women, the closing of the frontier, and nascent imperialism. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 339 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study in the development of the modern European novel that ranges from the groundbreaking work of such nineteenth century writers as Balzac, Flaubert, and Dostoyevsky to the later formal experiments of twentieth century authors like Kafka, Duras, and Kundera. Texts in question are assembled around the unifying focus of authority and desire. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 341 only).
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of representative works in Irish literature, by Catholic and Protestant, nationalist and AngloIrish, and canonical and noncanonical writers. Selection of texts will vary from semester to semester, sometimes sampling works in a single genre, sometimes concentrating in a single genre. Topics will include the impact of British colonialism, nationalism and its appropriation of Irish myth, representations of gender, and colliding definitions of "Irishness." Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 344 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of British modernist fiction and formal experimentation from 1900 to 1950 stream of consciousness, open form, mythic plot patterns, poetic prose, alienation, and selfconscious and fragmented narration. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 348 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative fiction published in the United States between the World Wars. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 350 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of Englishlanguage poetry published between 19001945, including works of Eliot, Frost, Pound, Stevens, Hughes, Williams, H.D., and Auden and of the social and political contexts of this work. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 353 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine how Modern Drama emerged to challenge the dominate genres and styles of the Victorian theatre. We will examine the development of modern dramatic practice in writers, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Wilde, and Chekhov, and its variegated developments in the plays of O'Neill, Glaspell, Miller, Brecht, and Beckett. Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
A study of Native American fictional and autobiographical narratives since the late nineteenth century from five or six different nations and of the earlier, traditional oral tales and songs that shaped these narratives. Course focuses on language and structure and religious and philosophical positions that inform these texts. Meets general academic requirement D or L and W.
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4.00 Credits
A study of works by African American writers from colonial times to the present, ranging from early slave narratives to the poetry of Amiri Baraka and the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. Meets general academic requirement D or L (and W which applies to 359 only).
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