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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A seminar study of the poetry of Edmund Spenser, concentrating on Books I and III of The Faerie Queene and on some of the shorter poems, with an emphasis both on the rich literary qualities of the poems and on their intricate connections to the culture of Elizabethan England. Prerequisite: Junior majors only.
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3.00 Credits
Study of topics, authors, and genres within the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Courses numbered 360-69 are limited-enrollment seminars. The 2007-2008 topics are listed below.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Neoclassical poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction prose, including works by Swift, Pope, Fielding, Sheridan, Johnson, and Austen.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the aesthetic and thematic developments of poetry and prose in the Romantic period, with emphasis on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
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3.00 Credits
The bildungsroman (novel of development) and the domestic plot were the two dominant narrative forms in the nineteenth century. But how do the stories of growing up and getting married fit together More specifically, how does a novel suggest genuine development in a life-story that ends at early adulthood Or alternatively, how can a protagonist grow past the unfortunate marriage choice that signaled his early immaturity This course takes up four justly famous nineteenth-century novels, Emma, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Portrait of a Lady , to explore the range of issues these plots raise for the protagonist: class identity, professional development, social discernment, and self-knowledge. Prerequisite: Preference to junior English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Study of topics, authors, and genres within the twentieth century. Courses numbered 390-99 are limited-enrollment seminars. The 2007-2008 topics are listed below.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the literature of the modern South. Works by William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Anne Porter, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, and others.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literary heritage of New Orleans , with a focus on fiction, poetry, and sketches inspired by this "least American of all American cities." Readings from Whitman, Twain, Cable, Chopin, Faulkner, Hurston, Bontemps , Tennessee Williams, Hellman, Capote, Percy, Toole, and others. The course includes an eight-day trip to New Orleans.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of American poetry of the early twentieth century, with greater attention given to three or four of the following poets: Frost, Stevens, Moore, Williams, Pound, Eliot, and Robinson.
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3.00 Credits
A study of US literary works in which the primary concern is the relation between the natural world and the human mind. After addressing seminal 19th-century works by Emerson, Thoreau and others, we will spend the rest of the term on more recent essays, poetry, and fiction, including such authors as Frost, Dillard, Faulkner, Ehrlich, and Berry.
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