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3.00 Credits
Borrowed from the title of a novel by David Lodge, the title of this course, "Small World," captures its focus on the college campus as microcosm. The life of the university is often contrasted with "real" life, the world to which students will graduate when they earn their degrees. For professional academics, however, the world of the campus is the real world; and for the students who pass through this world, its reality shapes their life for four years, and possibly for a lifetime. This course examines the academic life as it is depicted in literature. The works chosen will examine the way in which the university setting functions in various literary genres at various periods in history, but with special emphasis on the late twentieth century. The students and professors who populate these pages will enable the students enrolled in the course, and their professor, to engage in a discussion of their common enterprise: living and working, whether for four years or for a whole career, in the little universe of the college. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with the theory and practice of writing in the eighteenth century. The first half of the course is devoted to examining different theories of writing and its relationship to philosophy, science, and literary criticism of the Enlightenment. In the second half of the course, students use these theories as lenses to examine modern discourse practices, including political speeches, literary texts, advertisements, and food packaging. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley, and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft will form our revolutionary circle. Wollsonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman will introduce her daughter's Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus, Byron's "Prometheus" and Manfred, and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. Other works by Byron and Shelley, especially the former's Don Juan, will be examined to see what light they shed on the Romantic rebel who seemingly defies both secular and religious dogma. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Astounding changes occurred--beginning around 500 years ago--in the social, cultural, and intellectual life of Western Europe and the Americas that have had a lasting impact on our sense of self. Technological advances and theoretical innovations changed the very nature of the way in which individuals came to conceive of themselves and their environment. Copernicus and Galileo transformed our conception of the universe. Magellan helped remap the world. Leonardo DaVinci and Michelangelo produced a more compelling reflection of the material world. Machiavelli redefined politics and Montaigne explored the vagaries of human consciousness. This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to some of the highlights of Renaissance culture and traces their impact on the literature, philosophy, and theater of the time. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
When the Victorians are thought of today, many stereotypes come to mind: they were sexually repressed; their architecture and furniture was overly elaborate and fanciful; their literature is long and dull. In this course these stereotypes will be explored, but they will also be largely exploded. The literature of powerful women and early feminists will be considered; the writings and paintings of sexual radicals of all stripes will be explored; and the poetry and criticism of political and social revolutionaries will be studied. Finally, this course will prove that all the good rebellions of today have their roots in the Victorian period. Works by the following writers, artists, and designers will be included: Emily Brontë, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Michael Field and Oscar Wilde. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
The term "magic realism" was originally used by the German art critic Franz Roh to describe painting that exhibited an altered representation of reality but has since come to be associated with literature with fantastic elements that defy rational explanation. Some other qualities of magical realist fiction include: the deadpan presentation of fantastic events, the use of symbolism and sensuous detail, non-linear narratives, and the use of implausible events to provide social and political commentary. Through a close reading of several representative works from the tradition, we will explore the unique blend of realism and fantasy that gives magical realism its distinctive signature. Some major themes addressed in the course will include: problems of human identity caused by the misuse of political power, the presentation of utopian alternatives to oppressive political systems, and the use of the supernatural to represent the inner psychic landscape of human experience. Authors covered in the class will include: Marquez, Rushdie, Okri, Allende, Morrison, Rhys, and Roy. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Gender and sexuality are - and always have been - culturally constructed. This means that our ideas of what a "woman" is, or a "heterosexual," have changed drastically throughout history. Our understanding of these identities has everything to do with forces in our society and next to nothing to do with the bodies we are born in. Literature plays an important role in exploring how gender has been constructed historically, and certain seminal texts have themselves caused cultural shifts in what these terms mean. To serve as a foundation, this course will consider a range of theoretical approaches, from psychoanalysis to queer studies to performance studies and beyond. Works by such authors as Mary Wollstonecraft, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin, Jean Genet, Radcliffe Hall, Audre Lorde, Jeannette Winterson and others will also be studied. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will look at the ways in which our use of language reflects and sustains our cultural attitudes about gender. We will begin by looking at how linguistic phenomena are linked to social ones, and go on to consider how gender roles are enacted through our use of and attitudes toward language - for example, in how we organize our conversations, the degree to which we use indirectness or politeness strategies, and the amount of talking time we occupy and how we do so. We will encounter a number of different ways of analyzing and interpreting our data, and debate the merits of each based on our own experiences as English speakers. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Virginia Woolf wrote that "in or about December 1910, human character changed." Although Woolf was writing about Roger Fry's hugely influential Post-Impressionist art exhibition, she was also thinking of her own literary practice, and of the patterns of behavior exhibited by the artists, writers and lovers who "belonged" to the Bloomsbury Group, that iconoclastic collection of people who lived in and around the Bloomsbury section of London in the early days of the twentieth century. This course will trace the ideas and experiments - visual, literary, sexual - enacted by figures such as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and some of their many other London and Cambridge associates. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
What caused the major revolution in playwriting that occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century? Audiences were both shocked and fascinated to find that, instead of watching lavish musical revues and broadly comic farces, they were now peering into the homes of stage characters whose lives and problems resembled their own experiences. Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian, focused attention on self-definition of characters who were wrestling with subjects never before staged, such as commercial fraud, sexually transmitted disease, and the day-to-day role-playing that characterizes many marriages. Other playwrights from different countries, followed, among them August Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and Anton Chekhov. Each of them added distinctive elements, each forging his own artistic signature. And the presentation of dramatic situations close to real-life experiences continued to develop through the first half of the twentieth century, expressed in different styles in the works of Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Readings include the major works of the period as students explore the variety of philosophical approaches and their relationship to the anatomy of the plays, as well as different staging and performance practices. Same as WLT 15. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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