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3.00 Credits
Introduces the major developments in modern British literature, emphasizing the development of modernism in Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf; drama from Shaw through Beckett to Osborne and Stoppard; the poetry of Yeats and Auden, Thomas and Larkin; the fiction of Lawrence, Greene, Orwell, and Lessing; and the impact of the literatures of the Empire in Ireland, Africa, the Caribbean, and India/Pakistan. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Study of Selected British and American poets of the twentieth century such as W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, H.D., T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edna St.Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Seamus Heaney. Literary movements and social conflicts that distinguish the period are discussed. Prerequisite: ENG 200
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3.00 Credits
Critically studies the origins of the English novel in the eighteenth century, with attention to the ways it emerged out of contemporary genres such as travel narrative, letters, memoirs, scandal chronicles, and journalism. Authors may include Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Walpole, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Austen. Prerequisite: ENG 200
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3.00 Credits
Critically studies novels of the Victorian period and their contexts - social, scientific, political, religious, domestic, economic, historical, and literary. Selected authors may include Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope, the Bront?, and Hardy. Prerequisite: ENG 200
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3.00 Credits
Studies major continental European novels against the social, political, and intellectual milieu of nineteenthcentury Europe. Within the framework of the romantic, realistic, and the naturalistic literary movements, novelists may include Lermontov, Manzoni, Balzac, Turgenev, Sand, Stendhal, Hugo, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Zola. Prerequisite: ENG 200
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3.00 Credits
Studies major continental European fiction against the social, political, and intellectual milieu of twentieth-century Europe. Within the framework of the modernist and postmodernist literary movements, authors may include Gide, Colette, Proust, Dinesen, Rilke, Malraux, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Duras, Celine, Nin, Bernanos, Unamuno, Mann, Remarque, Kafka, Boll, Aichinger, Broch, Grass, Kunera, Calvino, Svevo, Moravia, Silone, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Babel. Prerequisite: ENG 200
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3.00 Credits
Includes modern autobiographies and biographies of writers, artists, musicians, and figures from history and popular culture. A study of how autobiography and biography function as art forms and reflect the political and cultural contexts of their times. An exploration of the process of writing autobiography and biography. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on fiction, poetry, and drama produced in North, Central, and South Americas, offering comparative readings of selected texts. Writers may include Munro, Atwood, Hurston, Faulkner, Hemingway, Borges, GarcÃa Marquez, Clarice Lispector, Graciliano Ramos, and Jorge Amado. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
A study of the work of contemporary Native American writers including Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, and Sherman Alexi. The course focuses on novels but may include poetry, short fiction, and some works that defy classification. Themes such as orality, myth, community, storytelling, and genre boundaries will be examined. Prerequisite: ENG 150 Humanities and Social Science180 s
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3.00 Credits
This course in nonfiction writing covers a variety of forms and genres, such as the academic paper, the book or film review, the personal essay, and the editorial. Students produce frequent expository and/or analytical writings on selected cultural topics. While learning to edit their own as well as others' work, students develop skills in writing- as-process, grammar and style, argument, persuasion, and research. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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