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3.00 Credits
The creation of the great Dionysian festival in the fifth century in Athens marks the emergence of the western tradition of drama. Initially providing the context for the performance of tragedy and later comedy, the yearly festival in Athens brought citizens together to witness the dramatization of philosophical, cultural, and political issues crucial in the development of Athenian democracy. Greek drama is characterized by an intense engagement with themes such as the meaning of human and divine justice, the conflict between tyranny and democracy, the subordination of women, the limitations of human knowledge, the problems of interpersonal conflict and war, the nature of wisdom, and human vulnerability to suffering and misfortune. Engaging closely with the fervor generated by the political turmoil, ideological conflict, and cultural crisis that swept through Greece in the latter half of the fifth century, the drama of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes forms the foundation for many of the enduring questions reflected upon subsequently in the western literary imagination. The course will cover representative works by each of the authors mentioned above. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is study of the Bible as a literary masterpiece. The course covers such works as Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, Isaiah, the Gospels, and the Epistles of Paul. Same as WLT 52. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
From 1660 to 1800, London was the center of English literature. London was also the largest and busiest city in Europe, a hub of finance and commerce, as well as fashion, culture, aristocratic social life, and theaters and galleries, but it was also home to hundreds of thousands of people living in extreme poverty, often dying of starvation. Perhaps because of this friction, writers, as well as visual and musical artists, produced works of fierce energy: some heatedly passionate, some wildly comic, most of them deeply provocative. Writings include satirical attacks on the establishment, fanciful tales of exotic lands, successful strategies for young lovers, plays glorifying criminals, poems of advice and self-justification and discussions of what constitutes genuine happiness. Readings will include selections from Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Alexander Pope, Susannah Centlivre, and Samuel Johnson. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the works of seven major writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leading colorful lives in a time of revolutionary fervor, the poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats forged a new poetic idiom while working in a variety of new ways. Among prose works of the period, William Blake's prose poem, The Marriage of Heaven Hell, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein provide a new mythology for understanding the relationship of God and humanity. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Moved by the social and aesthetic concerns of their time, authors of the Victorian period worked to represent in their writing the minutia of what it meant to be alive in 19th-century Britain. Literature moved from the concerns of the Romantics with sublimity and the apocalypse to a realism interested in such matters as class, money, morals, and manners. In this course the works of the major novelists and poets of the time will be read closely, but they will also be explored in light of the vast and exuberant changes that were influencing these authors' lives and those of everyone around them. This course will revolve around such topics as the modern city and industrialization, gender and sexuality, and religion and science. Authors read will include Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, the Rossettis, George Eliot, Dickens, the Brontës, Conrad, and Wilde. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is in-depth instruction in the format and style appropriate for writing in a wide variety of business situations. Writing assignments include letters, memos, resumes, and a substantial formal report involving research.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with the Iliad and the Odyssey written during the eighth-century Renaissance in Greece, the classical tradition provides the foundation for many of the pervasive themes found in the western literary tradition. Characterized by an intense engagement with many of the archetypal myths of Greek oral culture that preceded them, Homer's epics had a profound impact upon the tragedies written in the fifth century in Athens and reflected a similar engagement with mythic tradition. By the same token, many of the themes reflected in epic and tragedy find expression in the original material generated by comedy and serve as a constant point of reference for the philosophical and rhetorical traditions also developing at the time. In addition, the presence of pervasive themes concerning all aspects of the human condition, in tandem with the literary forms generated during this period, extends well beyond the Greek world and can also be found in classical eastern texts producing their own unique genres. The literary forms generated in the era of classical Greece also came to have a profound influence on the literature generated in the Roman period. Either through a comparative analysis of eastern and western texts and/or an examination of Greek and Roman ones, this course will examine the literary forms and themes found in classical literature. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course will acquaint students with various approaches to myth (including the popular, literary, psychological, folkloric, and anthropological) and the theoretical conflicts and overlaps that exist among disciplines. Students will examine past and current trends in the study of mythology and consider the relevance of myth for ancient as well as contemporary peoples. Selected myths, legends, and folktales from within and outside of the Indo- European group will be considered. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the foundations of Western culture reflected in a series of literary masterpieces written during Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Its main objective is to encourage students to conceive of our literary heritage as an ongoing debate on the central issues of human experience. Its syllabus is composed of a selection of foundational texts that still shape our current perception of the world. The works that it includes, drawn from such major authors as Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare, are not only selected for their interest as major cultural documents of the Western world and for their stylistic innovations, but also for their insights into basic social problems that still confront us today. Selected works from non-Western cultures might be introduced for comparison. Students who complete both ENG 7 and ENG 8 fulfill the Core requirement in literature or language. Same as WLT 7. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required. Not open to students who have taken ENG 303.
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3.00 Credits
The novel is an eighteenth-century invention which flourished during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In England, the mainstream tradition of the novel is realism: a depiction of life as it really is, with the kinds of details we readers are familiar with as we move through our world today, subject to familial, social, historical, cultural, and economic forces. Many of the works we will read in this course will be realist novels, but we will trace in them influences of Romanticism, the Gothic, and symbolism. We will also explore the "breaking" of form and artistic convention practiced by the Modernist novelists of the early 20th century and their successors. We will examine a number of themes the novels have in common: love of various kinds; the conflict between the individual's needs and desires and those of the family or of society; the place of the past in people's lives; the sexual and social "codes" the characters in these novels must master to succeed in life and achieve happiness; the role of social class and money in shaping the characters' fates and values. Moving outside the relatively comfortable sphere of national territory, we will also explore the mythology and practice of colonialism. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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