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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory survey of English poetic and prose texts written from the eighth to the mid-seventeenth century. We will study these literary artifacts as imaginative representatives of experience, as cultural maps, and as human messages-in-a-bottle, set afloat in the seas of time. As we read these selections composed in English from past centuries past, we will be looking for both familiarity and strangeness. We will also be forming a sense of the variety and differing uses of literary genres: epic and romance [Beowulf and Sir Gawain & the Green Knight]; short story [Chaucer¿s Canterbury Tales and the Lais of Marie de France]; religious diary [excerpts from the mystical visions of Julian of Norwich in Revelations of Divine Love] and autobiography [from the first written in English, authored by Marjorie Kempe, a laywoman who records her business ventures, her negotiations of marital sex life, her adventures on pilgrimage, and her religious examination by the archbishop as a potential heretic]. We will also read lyric poems from the Old and Middle English periods, and from the Renaissance and seventeenth centuries, including some of Shakespeare¿s sonnets; political satire [excerpts from Utopia, a prose fiction authored by Sir/Saint Thomas More]; and at least on play¿possibly two ¿from the Medieval and/or Renaissance performing tradition. The semester¿s literary pilgrimage will conclude by coming full circle, back to the epic revisited, with selections from Milton¿s Paradise Lost. Regular short quizzes. Midterm & final examinations. Two short (5-10 pp.) Essays, due at mid-term and end-term. Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I, 7th edition.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive survey of British writers and literary forms of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to American literature from its beginnings through the Civil War, emphasizing important figures, literary forms, and cultural movements.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to American literature from the Civil War through the 20th century, emphasizing important figures, literary forms, and cultural movements.
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3.00 Credits
A study of literary satire from the early 18th century to the present with some attention to visual satire and current popular culture. Authors to be studied will certainly include Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Voltaire, William Blake, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, and probably on or more of the following: Aldous Huxley, Langston Hughes, George Orwell, Don DeLillo, and T. C. Boyle. Some of the questions we will consider are: Does great satire, which often highly historical, complicate ideas of art as timeless or universal? How does satire differ from comedy and irony, while frequently incorporating both? Is satire fundamentally a form of moral engagement or anarchistic play? What links aggression and laughter in verbal art? What do traditional satires tell about recent phenomena such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report - - and vice versa?
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3.00 Credits
Meet - or reacquaint yourself with - Shakespeare in a class that will examine his works from both literary and performative perspectives. Close textual readings of the plays will find realization in class performances of scenes and soliloquies. Co-taught by a former chair of Princeton's English Department and a professional actor trained in London and the U.S.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces undergraduate students to Irish literature, explores its dominant themes and motifs and surveys canonical texts and major authors from the 18th century to the present day. A broad range of texts and genres - poetry, novels, short stories, folklore and drama - are studied from a historical and cultural perspective and in relation to transnational literary trends and movements. Attention is also paid to modernization and tradition as well as post-colonialism, feminism and censorship. No prior knowledge of Ireland or the Irish language is required. Irish-language texts will be available in translation.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course in writing short fiction for English majors who come to writing with a broader literary background than non-majors. It is conducted through a discussion format centered on fiction written by students in the class, and in the context of readings drawn from the contemporary, literary landscape. Students will be encouraged to explore how style and language create aesthetic experience and convey ideas. No one type of fiction is advocated over another, and the emphasis in the class will vary from section to section; however, students will be expected to write fiction that demonstrates an awareness of the difference between serious literature and formula entertainment.
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3.00 Credits
This course invites students to learn about the practice of poetry writing with reference to both contemporary and traditional forms, media and genres. Though assignments and readings will vary from section to section, typically, students will build up the range and depth of their writing through impromptu exercises, homework poems, and the assembling of a final portfolio of revised, polished works. Students receive feedback on their poetry from class members as well as from the instructor and will be expected to give consistent, constructive feedback on peers' poems. Other topics under consideration might include translation, performance, hybrid genres or multimedia, depending on the section.
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3.00 Credits
A intensive poetry workshop exclusively for English majors.
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