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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Although the classes will range widely across social, political and historical concerns, the focus will be on close reading of the texts. [NB This course fulfills the poetry requirement]
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3.00 Credits
A survey of American literature and culture ranging from the colonial era to the early Republic. We will examine major concepts and themes of early American literary history, including Exploration and Captivity, Puritan theology, Antinomianism, the Great Awakening, the rise of the Enlightenment, the Caribbean colonies, and the Age of Revolution. Our investigations will push us to test the conceptual limits of these categories as we trace their place in discourses of nationhood. Readings will include John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, and Charles Brockden Brown, among others. Discussion Section Required.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will consider the problem of modernity as expressed in a range of works, primarily fiction and poetry, written by British authors in the first half of the twentieth century. Topics include: historical change and trauma; gender and sexuality; empire, colonization, and the development of post-colonial voices; class and social mobility; memory; consumerism and mass culture; and the large-scale devastation of war. Authors include: Wilde, Conrad, Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Forster, Lawrence, Orwell, Rhys, and a selection of writings from the First World War.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor (Seminar). Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Davidson (jmd204@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 16th, with the subject heading, "Clarissa seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with an introduction to Shakespeare's career and a particular focus on 1599, perhaps his most productive year, this class will cover some of Shakespeare's later plays, including Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Coriolanus and The Winter's Tale. While lectures will focus on close readings of the plays, they will also consider the society and culture in which Shakespeare wrote his plays, the theatres in which they were performed, and the publication and editorial practices by which they have come down to us.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. (Seminar). On the London stage of the 1590s, a new theatrical genre emerged: the English history play. Often experimental in form, history plays addressed subjects such as the formation of national identity, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia in representing the past, and the causes of political change. Although the political dimensions of the history play have long been acknowledged, more recent work has considered how this genre engages with issues of embodiment that have been central to early modern scholarship on gender, sexuality, status, and affect. In this seminar, we will read the history plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with particular attention to the relationship between embodied experience (including that of women, commoners, servants, and criminals) and political agency. We will explore the connections between emotional turmoil and political insight, the significance of everyday life to national history, and the formation of cross-status intimacies between commoners and nobility. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor DiGangi (mmd4@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 16th, with the subject heading, "Shakespeare seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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4.00 Credits
When available, an admit list will be posted at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/courses_ugsemadmit.htm.
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4.00 Credits
Scientific writings by Isaac Newton, via works by Galileo, Bacon, William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and others. E-mail Professor Alan Stewart (ags2105@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Early Modern seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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