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3.00 Credits
A thematic reading of "landscape" in American Literature from the Puritans to Toni Morrison.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the changing representations of men's and women's emotions in literature and other cultural forms, with a focus on nineteenth-century American literature.
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3.00 Credits
The human voice manifested tremendous cultural, spiritual, and political power for antebellum Americans. "Vox populi, vox dei" ("The voice of the people is the voice of God") proclaimed the political slogan, while Transcendentalist writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson considered the living voice to be superior to the dead letter. Vernacular literatures, Native American and African American oral traditions, and sacred and political oratory all contributed distinctive models of voice to the antebellum Babel. In this course we will focus on the trope of voice as it shaped the literatures of the American Renaissance period (roughly 1835-1865). We will explore the cluster of meanings that antebellum Americans attached to voice and examine the social and literary issues that these conceptions of voice prefigured. Our readings will include works by Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe. The major requirement for the course is a research paper of approximately twenty pages, produced in stages.
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3.00 Credits
In this research seminar, we will examine the forms of institutionality that inform literary study in the American academy and beyond by looking at the many lives of Henry James. Objects that will be included in this study include: the novels and essays of James himself; his literary legacy; the influence of James studies on literature departments and scholars; his celebrated biographer Leon Edel; film adaptations of key works; and the figure of "the Jamesian" in recent fiction by Colm Toibin and Alan Hollinghurst. Students will encounter a range of methods -- from new critical readings to the statistical analysis of titles of James criticism -- in their project to develop a broad view of modern institutionality as indexed by this fascinating figure.
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3.00 Credits
How does the world influence America? What is the place of America in the world? In this course we will read poetry, plays, manifestoes, and works of fiction that suggest many answers to these questions. Conversation will provide an organizing theme as we venture around the globe and range across time from Shakespeare to the present. Our readings will be grouped into units that focus on different modes of literary relationship and are likely to include The Tempest, The Scarlet Letter, and The Last of the Mohicans; poetry by Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes; fiction by Honoré de Balzac, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maryse Condé, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Toni Morrison; Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and works it influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela; and plays by Arthur Miller and Melinda Lopez. Course requirements include regular participation and in-class assignments; several short papers; one 5-page paper; and a ten-page paper.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of Southern fiction from 1900 to 1960, including Chopin, Glasgow, Toomer, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison, Hurston, Warren, Welty, and O'Connor.
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3.00 Credits
A close study devoted to tracing and defining the feminist literary cultures of the 20th century through, first, reading the writings created during the "First Wave" of feminist activism that defined women's militant and nonmilitant struggle for the vote at the beginning of the last century, followed by exploration of the feminist writing and thought that followed the suffrage movement and paved the way for discussions of Women's Liberation in the "Second Wave."
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3.00 Credits
This course will serve as an introduction to writers of The Harlem Renaissance, with an emphasis on how black writers viewed "the black experience" in both within the black community and the larger American culture.
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3.00 Credits
An intra-hemispherical study of literatures of the "Americas" from the mid-16th to the 18th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
A close examination of American literature written between 1800 to 1900.
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