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3.00 Credits
ENGL 20503, Northern Irish Writing and Politics M-F 10:20-12:30, 6/19-7/10 Mary Smyth (Cross-listed with IRST 30204). This intensive course will chart the links between politics, history, and culture in the partitioned North of Ireland over the past 80 years or so. Both Ulster unionist and Irish nationalist ideologies will be explored through the writings of the following Irish writers: Frank McGuinness, Brian Friel, Sam Thompson, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, Anne Devlin, Eoin MacNamee, Ciaran Carson, and Thomas Kinsella, among others. We will read drama, fiction, and poetry. There will also be a cinema element built into our survey of this complex conflict.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to many of the critical perspectives and theories that enliven contemporary literary and cultural studies on Gay and Lesbian Film and Literature. Throughout the semester we will examine a collection of films and literary texts by self-identified gay and lesbian writers and/or by authors who deal with gay and lesbian themes and characters, irrespective of their sexual identity. Through the analysis of the selected texts we will also examine the history, politics, and theoretical arguments both current and historical that deal with homosexuality to see how this human phenomenon and its cultural expression has affected and been affected by heterosexual culture and the conflicts that have arisen between them. We will also explore how sexual and gender norms are constructed historically and culturally; how sexual and gender norms affect gay, lesbian and heterosexual people's development and self-perception; how new definitions and theories of human sexuality generated by gay and lesbian individuals and communities present alternatives to dominant heterosexist traditions. One of the main objectives of this interdisciplinary course is to open intellectual dialogue, to broaden students' awareness of the human experience at the same time we acquaint ourselves with some of the most intellectually interesting works that have stemmed from gay inspiration. Films to be studied will include a selection from the following list: Beautiful Thing (Hettie Macdonald); Boys don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce); Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee); Love's the Devil (John Maybury); Saving Face (Alice Wu); Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre); All about my mother (Pedro Almodóvar); Another Gay Movie (Todd Stephens); Nico and Dani (Francesc Gay), and The Celluloid Closet.(Rob Epstein) Literary texts will include most of the following: Walt Whitman's Calamus poems, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, E. M Forster's Maurice; The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig; a selection of poems by Constantine Kavafy; The Well of Loneliness by Radcliff Hall; Djuna Barnes' Nightwood; a selection of poetry by Adrienne Rich; Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, and Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask.
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3.00 Credits
If Chaucer had never written The Canterbury Tales, his claim upon our attention as one of the greatest poets ever writing in the English language would be secure based on the earlier works that will occupy us as readers/ writers/ discussants during this term: Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls and the magnificent Troilus & Criseyde. Additionally we will certainly read some--or all--of the short poems that--along with Canterbury Tales (which we will not read)-- comprise the Chaucer canon. No prior experience with Middle English is required. Requirements: a midterm, a final, and a term paper. Text: Larry Benson's "The Riverside Chaucer" or any scholarly edition of the early poems named above.
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3.00 Credits
Filmmaking is always, at first, thinking and writing. This is a workshop for current and would-be screenwriters, to develop original ideas for the screen and to practice those techniques whereby those ideas can be translated into cinema on the page. Coursework will involve many short writing exercises and finally a script for a 20 minute film. There will also be a required lab screening.
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3.00 Credits
British writing of the 1930's was shaped by economic and political crisis, and the resulting ideological and aesthetic struggles begin to look all too contemporary. This course will look at the poetry of the Auden circle and Marxism; at the early sociological work of Mass Observation and the documentaries of Humphrey Jennings; at the scientism of the Cambridge group around William Empson, Jacob Bronowski and J.D. Bernal; at responses to the Spanish Civil War, both left and conservative, including those of George Orwell, Wyndham Lewis and Roy Campbell; and at the fiction writers Elizabeth Bowen, Christopher Isherwood, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Edward Upward and their different treatments of social and political pressure points. This broad range will be focused through a group of texts selected for their mutual contentiousness. Throughout, the responsibilities and irresponsibilities of writers during perilous times will be in question.
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3.00 Credits
Arranged by department honors advisor. Credits for research and writing honors thesis.
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3.00 Credits
Arranged by department honors program advisor. Credits for research and writing honors thesis.
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