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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring A study of how various writers of the period grapple with questions about literary history, ideology, aesthetics, and the meaning( s) of America. Works by such authors as Chopin, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, and Wright. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring Examination of the development of Native American literature. Emphasis on narrative genres, such as autobiography and fiction, with some attention to poetry. The reading consists primarily of indigenous materials (to be read in English). Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring The response of British Romantic writers-Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Byron, and Keats-to the philosophical, industrial, and political revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Topics include natural supernaturalism, innocence and experience, social protest, and the Byronic hero. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring Writings of the industrial and colonial age in Britain, the 19th century. Readings explore changes in social structure, education, religion, science, and everyday life in the Victorian age; works by such authors as Dickens, the Brontes, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Gaskell, Eliot, and Butler. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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0.00 Credits
(Huckleberry Finn, Citizen Kane, Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf, The Music Man, Wiseguy, Goodfellas, and The Natural, among others) examine the following themes in American literature: the roles of men and women, family values, heroes and role models, American ingenuity, the underdog and the outlaw, and success.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 An exploration of the literature of South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) in the 20th century, focusing on the ways in which this literature deals with the concerns of national, religious, or gender-based loyalties and identities. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 An exploration of the literature of the English-speaking Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Trinidad). Emphasis is placed on the ways in which this literature deals with the experience of slavery, colonization, and independence and the ways in which it treats such issues and themes as regional identity, color, race, class, gender, and family relations. Attention is also given to the ways in which the literature and culture of the Caribbean makes use of such cultural elements as Carnival and vernacular Africanized English known as patois and creole. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement. Same as AFST 168.
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Students in this course read, study, discuss, and write about contemporary British theater – that is British drama since World War ll. Among the playwrights to be studied are Samuel Beckett, John Osbourne, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn, Peter Shaffer, Michael Frayn and Christopher Hampton. Since the course will be taught in London, classwork will be supplemented with performances of contemporary plays, along with the classics of world theater (depending on what is being staged in London at the time). Classwork will be augmented with performances at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the West End and/or fringe performances and a backstage tour of the Royal National Theatre. The course will include four theater performances. Optional theater performances are available as well. The course will introduce students to the city of London as the literary and dramatic capital of the English speaking world. The British Library will be used as a major resource for literary research.
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The Red Badge of Courage. Texts in the twentieth century include Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. We will also view two films, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York and Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Throughout the course we will explore the mysterious process that renders even the greatest villains reflections of our collective hopes and fears. Written requirements include two response papers and one longer essay.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Spring This course examines the representation of disability in Western literature and culture. The overriding concerns of the course will be with how the body's shape and capacities have been assumed to determine character and fate, how physical and mental impairments have been used in literature to signify moral and psychological states, and how representation may challenge conventional conceptions of "normality" and "disability." Literary texts from various periods will be supplemented with some nonliterary texts and documentary filPrerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Same as DSST 2.
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