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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to a selected topic in literature and/or language, with an emphasis on the relation between text and context. May be repeated with a different topic. (Fulfills humanities requirement; EN229N designates a non-Western course; EN229C designates a Cultural Diversity course; EN229E designates an early period course.) The Department
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3.00 Credits
Acquaints students with the contents of the Bible, introduces them to its history (dates of composition, establishment of canon, history of translations , especially in English), and provides practice in identifying and interpreting Biblical allusion in literary works. Some attention will also be given to doctrines and theological controversy. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) R. Janes
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3.00 Credits
Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Japanese literatures in translation; readings may include books from the Hebrew Bible; selections from the Mahabharata, the works of Kalidasa, Somadeva, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chu-i, Wu Ch'eng-en, and Murasaki Shikibu. Students read the texts in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural context. (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills humanities requirement.) R. Parthasarathy
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3.00 Credits
Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Chinese, and Japanese literatures in translation; readings may include selections from the works of Agnon, Amichai, Oz, Megged, Yizhar, Premchand, Manto, Tagore, Lu Xun, Zhang Jie, Kawabata, Mishima, Enchi Fumiko, and Hayashi Fumiko. Students read the texts in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural context. (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills humanities requirement.) R. Parthasarathy
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3.00 Credits
Books of the New Testament; selections from the works of St. Augustine, Apuleius, Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Swift, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The Department
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literatures in English from the Third World (India, Africa, and the Caribbean) since the end of colonialism. Major writers studied include Narayan, Rao, Anand, Achebe, Ngugi, Aidoo, Head, Naipaul, Walcott, and Rhys. Students read the texts in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural context. The course examines the implications of the emergence of English as a global lingua franca, the conditions of societies caught up between the opposing pressures of tradition and modernity, and the displacement of the oral by the written tradition. (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills humanities requirement.) R. Parthasarathy
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4.00 Credits
(see "Courses in Writing")
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4.00 Credits
(see "Courses in Writing")
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3.00 Credits
Critical approaches to the American novel. Readings may vary from one year to the next, but usually include works by Hawthorne, Melville, James, Twain, Dreiser, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, and Morrison. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. S. Kress or M. Stokes
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3.00 Credits
Studies of selected works of fiction published since the 1960s, with particular reference to the expanding possibilities of the genre. The readings feature authors such as Donald Barthelme, Heinrich Boll, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, John Gardner, William Gass, Gabriel Garciá Márquez, and Joyce Carol Oates . Prerequisite : Completion of the Introductory Requirement. The Department
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