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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will study traditional, folkloric, biographic, and religious texts alongside contemporary Latino/a visual and literary texts that offer new versions of old tales. In thinking about how texts exist in relation to other texts, students will consider the newness and "Latino/a-ness" of Latino/a literature as well as its emergence amidst the social, cultural, artistic, and political shifts in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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A survey of literatures written by English- and Spanish-speaking peoples from the late-Sixteenth Century to the mid-Nineteenth Century.
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An exploration of short stories and novels depicting the "working stiff" in the U.S. from 1920 to the present. Our reading list will include many of the usual suspects (James Farrell, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Nora Zeale Hurston, William Saroyan, Langston Hughes, Grace Paley, Tillie Olsen, and Raymond Carver); writers not usually associated with labor (Jean Toomer, Gertrude Stein, and Donald Barthelme); and contemporary writers (Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Edwidge Danticat, Juno DÃaz, Gish Jen, and George Saunders). We'll question the representation of labor, laborers, and class differences, and we'll also pose aesthetic questions: What narrative forms most provocatively explore particular kinds of work? What work do experimental texts perform that more conventional narratives cannot (and vice versa)? Many of thetheorists we'll rely on for insights about workers, class, and writing (Tillie Olsen, James Agee, and Barbara Ehrenreich) make good use of narrative themselves, and will help us contemplate how writing about labor can also reflect the labor of writing. Short response papers, group presentation, midterm, and a final project.
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From early national fiction and portraiture to American modernist poetry and painting, an exploration of the relationships between American literature and the visual arts.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will explore representative works of U.S. fiction ranging from modernist classics through post-WWII works and contemporary novels emphasizing issues of multiculturalism. The course will be reading-intensive, and will emphasize close reading skills, cultural analysis and historical contexts for each novel. Students will write three papers that are expected to perform literary analysis and integrate historical readings and/or literary theory from library reserves. As always, drafts are welcome and encouraged.
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Close readings of selected classic American novels.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of selected 19th and 20th-century American novels.
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3.00 Credits
Fictional representations of strangers and outsiders in American literature from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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In speaking of the after-effects of the first World War, the American novelist Henry James said: "The war has used up words; they have weakened, they have deteriorated like motor car tires; they have, like millions of other things, been more overstrained and knocked about and voided of the happy semblance during the last six months than in all the long ages before, and we are now confronted with a depreciation of all our terms, or, otherwise speaking, with a loss of expression through increase of limpness, that may well make us wonder what ghosts will be left to walk." Writers such as Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, and Phillip Roth, the authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, film makers, politicians and intellectuals have all portrayed the post 9/11 world in language similar to James's post-apocalyptic vision. This course looks at contemporary American culture and society and asks whether or not there is a definable post 9/11 narrative and aesthetic. Well address the ways in which the world has changed since 9/11 and how those changes have impacted daily life, local communities, the national consciousness, and global affairs. Discussion of these changes will be situated in our examination of major, post 9/11 novels, works of art, film and other media, formal governmental publication and policies, and religious writings. This course will have some short writing assignments, class presentation, and a final, research paper.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with a review of post-World War Two authors, a close analysis of both fiction and nonfiction written in America in the 1960s, with a particular emphasis on the Vietnam experience and the development of the counter culture.
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