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3.00 Credits
This course supplies an historical overview of Children's literature, from early modern folktales to contemporary young adult fiction. Emphasis will be placed on the connection between the various texts and their historical and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: one course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. 3 credits. (IRR)
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Study of the leading American dramatists of the 20th century, such as O'Neill, Behrman, Odets, Sherwood Anderson, Wilder, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Inge, Albee, and Eliot. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Study of six to eight Shakespeare plays as examples both of the way dramatic literature works and of the achievement of the greatest of English writers. Since plays vary each semester, course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. Also offered through the London Center. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Study of black women writers such as Hurston, Angelou, Morrison, and Walker. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
A study of African American literature from the slave narrative to the present. Writers whose works are examined include Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences or sophomore standing. OBJECTIVES: This course will explore a wide range of fiction, drama, poetry written by twentieth-century women. Some of our texts will be formally innovative, some explicitly political, some quite popular; many will be an adventurous combination of convention, rebellion, and diversion. Our discussion will commence with the New Woman (a figure who straddled the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and defied the Victorian cult of domesticity), and we will read our way through the changing literary articulations of femininity and feminism, towards our own new century. In this course, we will listen closely not only to the historical conditions out of which these texts arose and how our writers speak to (and about) one another, but also to how style, form and genre bear on the representation of marriage, sexuality, religion, parenthood, authority, and the expression of identity.
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3.00 Credits
Works that have dominated the Western imagination and set standards for art and life for nearly 3,000 years: the epics of Homer and Virgil, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and selections from the Bible. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Readings are drawn from the northern European epic, medieval romances, and medieval drama. Also Dante, "The Divine Comedy"; Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" and "The Canterbury Tales." Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
The class will bring together and explore a dazzling variety of works written by both Jewish and non-Jewish authors that concentrate on the subject of the Jewish supernatural. From a Russian officer who aspired to win a fortune by the means of three magical kabbalistic numbers, to a Hasidic rabbi who has turned into a werewolf, from a humble Golem to a monstrous Frankenstein, this course will analyze how authors from different countries, literary movements and historical periods used and interpreted Jewish mystical and occult motifs in their own writing. The subjects range from horror to gentle fantasy, from allegory to homespun realism, and from simple morals to Romantic passions. The literary works will be illustrated by a range of films, media presentations and historical materials. Prerequisites: one course in the humanities or social sciences. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences. 3 credits. (S,O)
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will closely examine the role of translation within the broader context of Comparative Literature; drawing from representative texts spanning across centuries, we will discuss concepts of interpretation, faithfulness, loss and gain, negotiation, colonization, and cannibalization. We will also explore the figure of the translator, both in theoretical and literary works, and learn about translation from the perspective of practicing translators and translated authors. This course is intended for students with a basic reading proficiency in a language other than English. Students may not receive credit for both LNGS 2500 and ENGL 25000. Prerequisites: sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F, IRR)
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