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  • ENGL 44350: The Art of the Short Story

    8.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    "This course focused on the art form of the short story from the works of Anton Chekhov to those of Ernest Hemingway, with particular attention to the stories of Rudyard Kipling. Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce were prominent figures in the course, as well. Each story was examined for concise character development through powerful details, sentence structure and diction, dialects, perspectives, and whether or not the author's voice resonated in the work. "
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  • ENGL 44360: The Novel from James to Joyce

    8.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    "This course seeks to look at the development of the novel from the end of the 19th century into the era of Modernism in the early 20th. By focusing on the seminal writers Henry James, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, the course will study the development of innovative novelistic techniques within traditional and experimental novels. Texts for the class are as follows: The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, Middlemarch, Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses."
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  • ENGL 44369: Twentieth Century Poetry

    8.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The most influential poets of the century and their most well known work were studied in chronological order, beginning with Arthur Clough and Matthew Arnold, and including Lord Byron, W. H. Auden, T.S. Eliot ending with John Betjeman.
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  • ENGL 44370: Scottish Literature from Robert Burns to Jackie Kay

    2.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Taught as "PS 609748" The Proseminar will deal with landmark texts in Scottish literature. The course covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies. We will critically outline prominent literary trends and developments. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, postcoloniality as well as questions of multiculturalism, ethnicity and race. Discussions will revolve around solidly established authors, e.g. Robert Burns, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Neil Gunn, Alistair Gray, alongside relative newcomers, like David Wishart, Jackie Kay and Leila Aboulela, who have entered the literary scene over the past ten years or so.
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  • ENGL 44402: Aesthetics of Modernism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The course entitled "The Aesthetics of Modernism" will include the reading and discussion of texts such as Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway, James Joyce's The Dubliners (Eveline and The Dead) and Ulysses ( Molly Bloom's final monologue'), T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Samuel Beckett'sWaiting for Godot.
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  • ENGL 44405: 20th Century Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Taught in Dublin, Ireland - UCD Program
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  • ENGL 44406: 20th Century Supernatual Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    "EN 2028 20th Century Supernatural Literature at Trinity College; Course Objectives: The aim of this course is to introduce second-year students to classic texts and temes in twentieth-century supernatural literature. We will be discussing novels and short stories from America (James, Lovecraft, Matheson, Jackson, and Blatty), England (M.R James), Wales, (Machen), and Japan (Suzuki). Along the way we will be discussing topics such as: -The gothic roots of supernatural fiction, -The impact of growing psychological awareness upon the supernatural tale, -The place such stories have in an increasingly industrialized, "rational" world, -The evolution of the haunted house, -The role of the supernatural in the boom in commercial horror fiction during the 1970s, -The ways in which classic supernatural tropes and themes (such as the vengeful ghost and the vampire) have been brought into the present day, -The factors behind the resurgence of present-day interest in the supernatural (as reflected in the growing popularity of supernatural-themed films, and "real life" television shows)-The way in which supernatural literatures from around the world differ in their depiction of otherworldy and the uncanny. -Students will also be introduced to classic essays such as H.P Lovecraft's "The Supernatural in Literature" and Freud's "The Uncanny," as well as more recent attempts to define the parameters of supernatural literature (such as in S.T Joshi's "The Modern Weird Tale" and Stephen King's "Danse Macabre")."
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  • ENGL 44409: Modern Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    A thematic approach to the study of selected novels of the 20th century.
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  • ENGL 44410: The Fin de Siecle

    1.50 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will focus on literature and society in Britain at the end of the 19th century and in the first years of the 20th century. Some critics view this as a period of cultural crisis, of the break-up of the Victorian order, others point to the considerable degree of continuity between the Victorian period and what follows. In this course, then, we will look at a variety of texts in relation to contemporary issues and consider the exact nature of the fin-de-siecle ' crisis'. Topics to be covered will include: aestheticism and decadence; the 'New Woman' ; the 'New Imperialism'; the 'New Journalism'; and the degeneration.
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  • ENGL 44414: Modernism

    5.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course of twice-weekly lectures offers an introduction to the intellectual and cultural backgrounds of modernism and a survey of modernist literature. There are detailed accounts of seven key modernist writers: Conrad, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence and Yeats.
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