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Course Criteria
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An investigation of the shape(s), purposes, and multiple meanings of narratives both in the lives of individuals and within institutions and cultures by sampling the work of journalists in reporting news as story, medical professionals in collecting case histories, ethnographers in describing unfamiliar cultural practices or investigating inter-group or inter-state conflict situations, historians in interpreting the past, political leaders in establishing public policy and political power, and advertising and marketing interests.
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A study of the literary culture of Southern Africa in the last 25 years of the 20th century, specifically the ways in which individual writers confronted the apartheid regime and their responses to the new South Africa in the post-apartheid period.
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A survey of influential 20th-century Jewish writers in Europe and the United States.
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An intense focus on the distinctive poetic and literary qualities of the English translation of the Bible (King James Version) through close formal analysis and through discussions of theme, image, myth, and narrative form.
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This course examines three major yet very different attempts at Christian autobiography: St Augustine's Confessions, St. Teresa of Avila's Life, and John Henry Newman's Apologia pro vita sua. Throughout, we will attend to three demands: a close reading of the texts themselves, including their narrative and rhetorical structures; an sense of how the self is imagined by the three writers; and an awareness of the authors' religious contexts.
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This intensive four-credit seminar is the introduction to the concentration in philosophy and literature and will pursue interdisciplinary approaches to literary, theoretical, and philosophical texts.
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A critical analysis of monsters, cyborgs, and other "created bodies" in literature.
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An historical exploration of fiction, poetry, and no-fiction written by persons rightly and wrongly incarcerated.
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Beginning with The Symposium and ending with selected modernist writings, how Eros has appeared and been expressed in the West.
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Close readings of masterpieces of 20th-century international poetry, including, among others, the works of Federico Garcia Lorca, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, Gennady Agyi, Gunnar Ekelof, Thomas Transtromer, Paul Eluard, and Dylan Thomas.
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