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3.00 Credits
This course provides the tools necessary for meaningful translation of Spanish texts to English.
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3.00 Credits
The techniques of nonfiction writing--from the basic journalistic news story to the magazine feature to the personal essay.
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3.00 Credits
Using English-language novels and poetry of the 20th century, an examination of the metaphors and themes that unmask the realities of war, and how the texts themselves become battlegrounds on which the human imagination both creates an individual's sense of self and constructs and deconstructs cultural ideologies.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced survey of theatrical literature and criticism since the beginning of the 20th century. Students will read one to two plays per week along with selected secondary critical literature.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the irony in a variety of Western literatures.
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of the forms, ideas, and preoccupations of the religious imagination in literature and of the historical relationships between religious faith and traditions and particular literary works. The conflicts and tensions between modern Gnosticism, in literature and ideology, and the sacramental imagination will constitute a recurring point of focus. We will also lend special attention to the vision and imagery of the journey and wayfarer, and the conflicts and affinities between private and communal expressions of faith. Readings will be selected from the following: criticism by Tolstoy, T.S. Eliot, John Gardner, Flannery O'Connor, Hillis Miller, Elie Wiesel, Martha Nussbaum, Wayne Booth, George Steiner and others on the relations among ethics, religion and literature; selections from the Bible, Dante, and saints' lives; Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest; Roth, Job; Kazantzakis, Saint Francis; Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor; DeVries, The Blood of the Lamb; Greene, The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair; Wiesel, Night; Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment; Emerson, Sermon on the Lord's Supper; selected O'Connor short stories or The Violent Bear It Away; selected Updike short stories and criticism; Weil, Waiting for God; Singer, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories; Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest; Bergman (director), The Seventh Seal; Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced survey of theatrical literature and criticism from the earliest plays to the beginning of the 20th century. Students will read one to two plays per week along with selected secondary critical literature.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the diversity of literatures from the African continent.
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3.00 Credits
A multimedia examination of recurring patterns and themes in comedy.
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3.00 Credits
A close, formal analysis of the English translation of the Bible (King James Version), focusing the distinctive poetic and literary qualities of theme, image, myth, and narrative form.
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