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3.00 Credits
Fourteenth-century writers operated in a world fraught with political and ecclesiastical controversy, sometimes extending to censorship, yet at the same time, evidence survives of a surprising degree of tolerance for certain radical ideas. This course will examine how the major writers of late medieval England simultaneously negotiated these troubled waters, and earned or exploited tolerances extended by the authorities. English authors to be studied will include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Thomas Hoccleve, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and M.N.'s Middle English translation of Marguerite Porete. These texts will be read alongside excerpts from several Latin or Continental writers, which may include Hildegard of Bingen, Joachim of Fiore, Bridget of Sweden, William Ockham, or others, and alongside some anonymous English texts, including political lyrics, Richard the Redeless, Mum and the Sothsegger and Wycliffite writings. Examples from articles of inquisition, statutes, legal defenses, petitions and broadsides may also be used. The aim is to help illuminate how literary writers sought to defend or enlarge their religious or political orthodoxies in response to the challenges of the time. The course will also examine and question modern scholarly trends, especially the recent tendency to use the Wycliffite movement as a popular cultural and theoretical lens through which to understand the phenomenal rise of vernacular literature in Ricardian England. Topics to be discussed will include: reception of visionary writing, attitudes toward women's learning and preaching, controversial religious doctrines (like universal salvation, millenarianism, and intellectual freedom), and political controversies over the Commons' control of royal tyranny, the Rising of 1381, the deposition of Richard II, and the colonial suppression of Irish language and literary culture.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major British poets of the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of both some selected plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and Pinter, as well as contemporary performance art, with attention to the work of John Cage, Fluxus, Yvonne Rainer, and the "body art" of Chris Burden and Orlan.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar on the world of British and European theater during the last half-century.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of several central issues that have dominated discussions of the intimate and complex relationship between modernism, gender, and race: the role of race and gender in the formation of modernist aesthetics; literary modernism's often tense relation to mass culture; the ambiguous status of the work of art vis-a-vis commodity; the development of political and literary avant-garde movements (with specific emphasis on those marked by gender and race such as the suffrage movement and the Harlem Renaissance); the development of modern discourses of sexuality; the intersections between female masquerade, racial passing, and new modes of mimesis; and the questions of memory and morning.
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3.00 Credits
A critical analysis of the cultural and literary implications of the Weimar Republic, as extension/extinction of German Romanticism.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar on postmodern direction in recent British poetry.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the novels, essays, art, and political writings of some of the members of The Bloomsbury Group -- including Woolf, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, and Leonard Woolf -- in order to explore the complex moments of cross fertilization, critique, and revision that define their encounters, along with notions of a "feminine" or "women's" modernism.
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3.00 Credits
A critical analysis of the cultural and literary implications of the Weimar Republic, as extension/extinction of German Romanticism.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the distinctions that have been made between modernism -- a set of predominantly aesthetic practices -- and modernity -- a condition that has a specifiable chronology and genealogy -- as evinced in works from Ireland, Britain, and the U.S. written between 1890-1940.
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