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3.00 Credits
This course will trace the generic development and changing structures of the short story form - there is more involved here than mere brevity - and will also provide a series of readings from the major British and Irish short story writers from the twentieth century. We will read from the short story theories of these individual authors, where such theory exists, and will examine the important connections between the form and the idea of a "`national" literature. Writers will include: James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Mary Lavin, Kate Roberts, D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
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This course is designed to introduce students to Victorian poetry and culture. We will study poems by canonical figures such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, Oscar Wilde, A. C. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, D. G. Rossetti, and Christina Rossetti. We will also look at poems by lesser-known figures such as Amy Levy, Alice Meynell, Charlotte Mew, Lionel Johnson, Augusta Webster, and Michael Field. Selections from Victorian prose will help us understand all of these poems in relationship to nineteenth-century developments in literary and aesthetic theory. This course will also pursue several organizing themes and topics that preoccupied much of the Victorian imagination, such as social reform, the woman question, the crisis of faith, evolutionary science, empire, self and society, aestheticism, and modernity. Learning goals: Students in this course will learn to recognize the basics of poetry, such as rhyme, meter, and the different conventions of poetic forms. This course will also provide students with the analytical tools and techniques they require in order to recognize general literary devices, such as symbolism, imagery, voice, and figurative language. Students will not only read poetry in its historical context, but will also focus on how poetry -- through aesthetic, formal, and intellectual innovations -- transformed this cultural landscape that is the Victorian era. The range of assignments and classroom activities are designed to further foster students' critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Regular participation, including classroom discussion and four short in-class writing assignments (2 pages maximum), teach students to position themselves within competing interpretations and arguments. Two formal papers (8-10 pages) give students an opportunity to apply their analytical and rhetorical skills as they develop their own interpretation of a text as situated within the relevant historical and cultural contexts. Ideally, this course will not only inspire students' appreciation for Victorian poetry but also for the importance of literature and writing in their own lives. Students will learn to identify themselves as historically and intellectually situated interpreters who navigate and participate in competing discourses on a daily basis. Course requirements: regular participation, 2 papers, a mid-term exam, and a final exam. Required texts: The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, the Concise Edition.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of selected literatures written between the Civil War and World War II, specifically focusing on how this fiction shows the impact of economic and technological transformations on religious beliefs, conceptions of human identity, and work environments and men's and women's places in them.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on major literary figures and works of 19th-century America, focusing chiefly on the two decades before the Civil War, a period often hailed as the first flowering of a genuine American literature.
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3.00 Credits
Close examination of selected works written by Americans from the 17th century through the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of selected novels, written by a variety of American authors, that consider the question "what characteristics and values define American identity?"
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3.00 Credits
Many American authors are skeptical toward religion, yet they are, nonetheless, preoccupied with the religious experience. This course explores the relationship between these attitudes in American literature.
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of major and minor American women writers of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of the religious and philosophical dimensions of selected American literary texts with a focus on literary forms, the history of ideas, and cultural and interpretive currents both traditional and modern. Students will be expected to write a series of brief, incisive critical papers.
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3.00 Credits
Many contemporary fiction classes conclude with works published around the time that you were born in the mid-to-late 1980s. This course focuses on novels published during the decade in which you are living and examines the interpretive difficulties raised by such works. Without being able to rely on an established history of scholarly criticism or their place among the so-called "great books" of civilization, the reader of contemporary novels must actively consider why these works are worth studying as well as how they function. The major aims of this course are to introduce you to these exciting novels and to provide you with the critical and interpretive framework for determining what contemporary literature is and why it matters. We will focus on eight novels and novellas examining the intersections between self and society and between literary art and the popular cultures of film, television, hip-hop, rock, and comic books. Readings include novels and novellas by Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem, David Markson, and Toni Morrison. The course also includes a screening of the film adaptation of Foer's Everything is Illuminated. Because this course is intended for non-majors, each unit will include introductions to the basic tools of literary study including close reading, how to write a literary argument, how to incorporate secondary criticism and theory, and the basic principles of film and television. Course requirements include two 5 to 7 page papers and one 7 to 10 page paper.
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