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3.00 Credits
This course examines the different theories of persuasion from ancient times to early twentieth century. Throughout the semester students learn how to write persuasively using the ethical and emotional techniques of classical Greece, the theological strategies of the Middle Ages, the psychological techniques of the Enlightenment, and the stylistic and grammatical techniques of the early twentieth century. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to epistolary traditions from classical times through the Renaissance. Throughout the course, students examine the contents, the formal structure, and the style of the letter according to such genres as theological, moral, political, and personal. Students will also examine contemporary letter-writing methods and techniques through the lens of ancient epistolary theory. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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0.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on alternative theories of reading, writing, and literacy to prepare writing tutors. This course will also examine definitions of intellectual work in various disciplines as well as the literacy needs of students from a range of cultures, language backgrounds, and life experience. Pass/No Pass grading only. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
What made William Shakespeare the greatest writer in the English language? What are the special features that distinguish his work? Is there a unique "Shakespearean" perspective on display in his writing? This course attempts to answer these questions by focusing on the two kinds of drama-- comedy and history--that he mastered early and continued to re-conceptualize throughout his career. It explores in detail six of Shakespeare's plays, such as Twelfth Night and Richard II, paying close attention to the unique qualities that have transformed his drama into the most respected and frequently produced works of world literature. Readings might also include selections from Shakespeare's narrative poems and sonnets. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to Shakespeare's later career and focuses on the two major genres--tragedies and romances (or late comedies)--that he perfected during the second decade of his involvement with London's thriving commercial theater. The sequence of readings (which consists of six plays, such as King Lear and The Winter's Tale) demonstrates the continuing evolution of his drama from the late Elizabethan to Jacobean periods. Its aim is to provide students with a thorough understanding of Shakespeare's plays by closely examining the brilliant nuances of language, characterization, and plot that have secured Shakespeare's unrivaled reputation. Students will also be challenged to explore his richly ambivalent and subtle portrayal of characters confronting with the existential extremes of failure and fulfillment, death and restoration. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Together with Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton is one of the three giants of English literature. He is perhaps more challenging than the other two to readers in this century because he deals directly with a wealth of cultural and religious knowledge that is no longer familiar to the educated reader in the way he could expect it to be in his own day. And unlike the other major figures, he addresses an educated audience exclusively. Indeed, he has perhaps co-opted even the biblical heritage in some ways since his vision of the fall of the bad angels has become part of the popular imagination, supplanting the curious surrealism of the Book of Revelation itself. And he is the paramount influence in the subsequent history of poetry in English until Hopkins. Furthermore, he was a practical man of his age intimately involved with the political and religious upheavals of the tumultuous seventeenth century. He is among the earliest advocates of no-fault divorce, and he left a private theological work with a rationalist view of Scripture that is centuries ahead of its time. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
From the end of the sixteenth century in England, commercial drama attained a new power, sophistication, and status. It suddenly distinguished itself from the largely anonymous traditions of trade guild production and religious festival in the Middle Ages. A new attention to the interests of its paying audiences sharpened its encounter with contemporary language and life. During this period, despite being condemned as morally corrupting influences, the first permanent theaters were constructed and the entertainment industry was born. Played out against a background of social change and energized by a restless new encounter with the world, theater became--at this crucial moment in Western history--instrumental in shaping the way we view ourselves today. This course provides an introduction to six masterpieces of early modern English drama by a diverse group of playwrights that includes Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, John Marston, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide an intense engagement with a major figure who has inaugurated a unique literary tradition or genre, reshaped an existing tradition in an innovative way, or made a significant contribution to an established genre or period. In addition to examining many of the major works of the author, this course will provide an assessment of the various critical traditions that have grown up around the author, the author's relationship to other figures in his or her tradition, and an overview of the cultural/historical forces shaping the author's work. The course will focus on the author's philosophical preoccupations, thematic concerns, and ideological attitudes with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding of his or her contribution to literature. May be taken more than once if the topic is different. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
After the Civil War, realist depictions of upper- and middle-class life in American literature soon gave way to a darker, more fragmented vision of the world. How did American writing move from the fiction of William Dean Howells, who was celebrated as the greatest living writer at his seventyfifth birthday party in 1912, to T.S. Eliot's nightmarish portrait of modern life in The Waste Land ten years later? What were some of the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped such a change? How were American writers influencing and/or responding to other artistic media such as painting, photography, film, and music? This course examines these types of questions as we survey four literary movements since 1865: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. We will not only make connections across the boundaries of social class, gender, race, and culture, but we will also interrogate the notion of "American" literature itself. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the nineteenth century. In this course, we will trace the growing maturity and complexity of his intellectual and artistic development--in, for example, his progress from an early absolutist view of morality, in which good and evil are schematically opposed, to a view of the moral defects in even the best of his characters. We will also examine Dickens' social consciousness. England was the first and, in the nineteenth century, the greatest industrial power in the world. But the social conditions England's industrial machine created for the working class and the poor were almost unspeakable. Dickens denounced these injustices fiercely and was one of the loudest, most influential voices in a time of rapid economic and social change. Dickens was trained as a journalist in his early twenties, and he was a lifelong devotee of the theater, and we will look at both influences in his writing. In addition, we will look closely at the disjunctions and discontinuities in his often-sprawling novels where one often discovers pathos succeeded by comic cavorting and keen psychological portrayals following on the heels of melodrama. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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