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3.00 Credits
The Honors Colloquium will introduce students completing the honors thesis to research methods in literary studies. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to enable them to develop her thesis topic. They will conduct research in consultation with their thesis advisor and begin work on the thesis project, which will be completed in the Spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Research and composition of a thesis in English.
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3.00 Credits
A selective, chronological survey of the varieties of historical writing in England from its beginnings to the rise of vernacular historiography in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
This course will interrogate issues of gender and identity in the work of contemporary Irish language writers. We will examine the ways in which contemporary writers in Irish writing from a constellation of identities, sexual, cultural and linguistic question explore these issues as they articulate them in specific cultural forms. Drawing on recent theoretical work in gender studies and postcolonial studies the course will look at texts which question and problematize essentialist notions of cultural identity. It will explore in particular some of the tensions inherent in the articulation of a cross-cultural sexual identity and the specificity of linguistic and cultural inheritance in contemporary writing in Irish. We will read, among others, texts from writers such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Biddy Jenkinson, Nuala Nà Dhomhnaill, Pearse Hutchinson, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Seán Mac Mathúna and Micheál Ó Conghaile.
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3.00 Credits
Here we survey major British novels over a two-century time span, taking stock of key genre developments along the way. Proceeding chronologically, we begin by exploring how conventions of extended "realistic" prose narratives were established in the 1700s. Then we proceed up through the Romantic and Victorian periods, when the British novel reached a high point of social prominence, narrative variety, and sophistication. Finally, looking to the first decades of the 20th century, we see how Modernists fashioned radically new narrative approaches in an effort to move beyond the topical and literary constraints of the Victorian period. Likely readings include: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bram Stoker, Dracula; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. Graded work includes short papers, classroom presentations, and a final exam.
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3.00 Credits
This is a cross-disciplinary course that surveys the literary and cultural history of First Amendment protections for free speech and religious liberty from the early modern period into the global present. We will look at the intellectual genealogy, development and contestation of those concepts in Anglo-American literature, jurisprudence, and political thought, and we will attend with special care to the function of literature as a medium of public constitutional commentary. We will also study the modalities of constitutional interpretation, read some First Amendment case law and its UK equivalents, and consider a few contemporary cases in which literature and other cultural forms test the limits of permissible speech in pluralist democracies. The course may be of special interest to students considering law school.
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3.00 Credits
Limited to students in the Creative Writing M.F.A. Program, the workshop's major emphasis is on analysis, criticism, and discussion of participants' fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid manuscripts. Assigned readings in contemporary prose further the discussion of literary movements, critical schools, and publishing realities, as well as the aesthetic and philosophical implications of genre, style, and subject.
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3.00 Credits
For students enrolled in the M.F.A. program.
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3.00 Credits
A fiction workshop for graduate students in the MFA in Creative Writing program, with an emphais on students developing their own aesthetic and personal vision, juxtaposed to and within the larger movement of the contemporary literary world.
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3.00 Credits
For students enrolled in the M.F.A. program.
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