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From sensational Victorian stories to contemporary police procedurals, from Sherlock Holmes to Nancy Drew - the character of the detective remains a cultural icon. This course investigates the gender dynamics at the heart of crime puzzles and the masterminds who solve them. Students will write two short essays and one term paper. Texts include: Poe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; Collins The Moonstone; Doyle "The Speckled Band"; Keene Nancy Drew Mystery Stories; Chandler The Big Sleep; Chinatown. Quizzes, short presentation, midterm, final.
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Greek and Latin language and literature exercised a profound influence on the growth and development of English, affecting everything from vocabulary to literary structure. This course examines that influence. Topics to be covered include: the phonological and morphological development of Greek, Latin and English from Indo-European; Greek, Latin, and Romance borrowings into English; borrowings as a sign of cultural interaction; the mechanics of semantic change; and the translation of literary style. Illustrative readings will include Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Tennyson. Knowledge of Greek and Latin not required.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to major works of Asian American Literature while exploring issues of sexuality and gender in this body of literature. We will focus on race/ethnicity, authenticity, and representation as contested sites in Asian American Literature and how these contested sites produce inter/intraracial tensions about the Asian body as it is viewed from within Asian American Literature and from without. Primary texts will include novels, short fiction, poetry, film, drama, the graphic novel, and critical essays.
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A comparative anaylsis of gothic themes in selected works of American literature, including issues of cinematic adaptations of the same works.
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An examination of Catholicism in modern fiction, cinematic adaptations of those works of fiction, and other free-standing stories and films. In this course, as you might expect from its title, we will consider representations of Catholicism in the work of a number of authors and filmmakers. Our central texts are as follows: Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest (novel, French, 1937); Robert Bresson (director) The Diary of a Country Priest (1950); Louis Malle (director) Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987); Leo MCCarey (director) The Bells of St Mary's (1945); Pat McCabe, The Butcher Boy (novel, 1992); Neil Jordan (director) The Butcher Boy (1997); Peter Mullan (director) The Magdalene Sisters; Brian Moore, Black Robe (novel, 1985); Bruce Beresford (director) Black Robe (1991); James Joyce, Dubliners (short stories, 1914); John Huston (director) The Dead (1987); Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel, 1943); Elia Kazan (director) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Frank Capra, John Ford, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Leo McCarey, Robert Bresson, Jean Renoir, Federico Fellini - the list of great (lapsed or otherwise) Catholic film directors is staggering. In the films and novels and stories that we will be reading - for we will be reading the films just as closely as we will read the written words - Catholicism emerges in multiple ways. Some of the issues that will be raised for our analysis and discussion will be: iconography; sacrifice; mortality; sin; original sin; violence and religion; religious corruption; the tensions between the individual and the institutions of the Church, and the clergy; the loss of innocence; grace; hypocrisy; censorship; and silence. We will aim, too, to compare and contrast the different treatments of religion and humanity in these films and novels.
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3.00 Credits
A historical survey of world literatures that include images, themes, and plots related to the Christian conception of the devil.
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3.00 Credits
Through literature and cinema, a study of New Zealand's national attempts to identify itself outside of the Caucasian Pakeha vs. indigenous Maori ethnic divide.
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3.00 Credits
A historical survey of Christian apocalyptic literature, from the Medieval to the Modern periods.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the sequel as a literary form and how sequels affect an understanding of "the whole story."
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3.00 Credits
A survey of selected English Catholic novelists.
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