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3.00 Credits
Critical discussion of poetry, covering a broad range of forms and techniques, with an emphasis placed on class participation. Recommended for beginning English majors. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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4.00 Credits
What relationship do we human beings have - or should we have - with the natural world, of which we are certainly a part yet from which our consciousness separates us? In the Book of Genesis, God tells the humans to subdue the earth and have dominion over every living thing, yet elsewhere in the Bible God harshly lectures Job that there is much in nature beyond human understanding and mastery. Though poet William Wordsworth calls feminine, nurturing nature the "soul of all [his] moral being," Alfred Tennyson merely fifty years later sees that nature is vicious and bloody, completely opposed to humanity's moral ideals. 4 credits. Prerequisite: Only open to students in the humanities and Sciences Honors Program. 4 credits.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar encourages student athletes to reflect on and write about their past, present, and future athletic experiences. Students examine the relationship between competitive athletics and personal identities. Emphasis is placed on the transition to college from the perspective of the college athlete. Morality, body status, team dynamics, and personal performance are all discussed. This seminar is team taught by faculty members from HSHP & H&S. This course is cross-listed with SPMM11700. A student may not receive credit for both ENGL11700 and SPMM11000. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will read Yiddish literature in translation, studying its genesis and development in Eastern Europe and examining it within its historical and cultural contexts. Eastern Europe writers to be considered include Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, Abraham Reisen, I.J. Singer and Lamed Shapiro. The course will also explore the persistence of Yiddish literature and culture in American Jewish culture, looking especially at cinematic and theatrical representations of Yiddish tests, including Fiddler on the Roof, and Yentl. We will read writers who continued to write in Yiddish after WWII, including Abraham Sutzkever, I.B. Singer, Der Nister, Itzik Manger and Chaim Grade, and study contemporary writers who show distinctive Yiddish influences or comment on Yiddish literature and culture in their works, include Grace Paley, Steve Stern and Cynthia Ozick. Students may not receive credit for both this course and JWST11800. Cross-listed with JWST11800. 3 credits. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of Shakespeare's most maddeningly elusive and self-conscious play. Secondary readings will include literary criticism, theoretical studies of tragedy, and Shakespeare's sources. Performance, oral presentation, and daily written responses required. 3.0 credit. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will examine a series of 20th and early 21st-century dramas that fit within the general category we will call ¿the history play.¿ The defining features of this genre may seem obvious at first glance: to qualify, a drama must feature historically real characters who are engaged in events that really occurred. Yet it won¿t take us long to see how fluid this category actually is, and we will devote a fair bit of energy to defining and redefining its borders. The problem surely is connected to the question of how one defines ¿history,¿ a concept that is not itself static. It wasn¿t until the 19th century that historians came to detach their discipline from other humanist enterprises and regard themselves as scientists of sorts, dedicated to the rigorous uncovering of ¿facts.¿ And of course, the very instant that modern history was born, philosophers and artists set about rebelling against its certainty, denying the possibility that the past could be recaptured ¿as it really happened.¿ In this course, therefore, we will examine the ways in which our dramas choose to enact the past, interrogating what such choices tell us about each work¿s implicit or explicit understanding of what constitutes ¿history.¿ Readings will include some or all of the following: Shaw, Saint Joan; Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children; O¿Casey, The Plough and the Stars; Friel, Translations; Churchill, Top Girls; McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Smith, Fires in the Mirror; Kushner, Angels in America, Parts I and II; Frayn, Copenhagen: Stoppard, Arcadia.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of appropriations of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the current day, in plays, in films, in management manuals, and even on credit cards, to consider whether Shakespeare is the cause of adaptations in his name or the effect of them. Through a theoretical analysis of such appropriations, this course will negotiate literary issues of authenticity, veracity, adaptation, and culture. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of America's literature of madness and psychological instability, beginning with a brief look at Puritan documents and proceeding chronologically through the 20th century. The course will look particularly at how this literature of madness is inflected by issues of gender and race. Authors studied will include Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Gilman, Chopin, Faulkner, Plath, Kesey, Sexton, Lowell, Erdrich, Morrison, and Kaysen. 3 credits. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of Helen as a character in literature and as a cultural phenomenon from the Homeric epics to 21st century film. Open to students in the Humanities and Sciences Honors Program only. 3.0 credits. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
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