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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of generic, thematic, and cultural relationships among selected novels of early twentieth-century writers such as Conrad, Ford, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and Huxley. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. T. Lewis or P. Boshoff
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3.00 Credits
A study of major British, Irish, and American poets as exponents of modernity: Yeats, Lawrence, Moore, Frost, Eliot, Pound, and Stevens. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. R. Boyers, T. Diggory, or R. Parthasarathy
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3.00 Credits
A study of British, Irish, and American poets since the 1930s: Auden, Thomas, Larkin, Heaney, Lowell, Berryman, Plath, and Rich. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. R. Boyers, T. Diggory, or R. Parthasarathy
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3.00 Credits
A generic, thematic, and cultural consideration of selected romances and novels by Behn, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Goldsmith, Burney, and Austen. The study begins with the formulae of fictional romance and examines the development of the more sophisticated, psychological novel as it rises to eminence in English literature. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. R. Janes
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3.00 Credits
A generic, thematic and cultural consideration of selected novels by Austen, the Brontes, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and others. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. C. Golden or B. Black
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3.00 Credits
The continental novel as an expression of social, intellectual, and artistic problems; not an historical survey. Readings may vary from one year to the next but will include major authors such as Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Proust, Gide, Mann. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. R. Boyers or S. Goodwin
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3.00 Credits
A study of twentieth-century gay and lesbian literature, with a focus on British and American authors. Students will explore a literary tradition in which the invisible was made visible-in which historically marginalized sexualities took literary shape. Questions to be considered include: What strategies have lesbian and gay authors used to express taboo subject matter, and how have these strategies interacted with and challenged more traditional narrative techniques How does the writing of queer sexuality recycle and revise notions of gender What kind of threat does bisexuality pose to the telling of coherent stories In what ways do class, race, and gender trouble easy assumptions about sexual community Prerequisites: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. M. Stokes
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of a special topic in medieval English literature with special attention to medieval literary conventions and to the cultural context in which they developed. Topics studied may draw on the works of the Gawain-poet, Langland, Malory, and others, and may focus on a genre, a theme, or a period. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. With permission of the department, the course may be repeated once for credit. K. Greenspan
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3.00 Credits
Chaucer's dream visions and The Canterbury Tales ( ca. 1370-1400). The social, economic, religious, and literary background of the High Middle Ages will clarify the satiric aspects of individual tales. Chaucer's innovative handling of the conventions of frame and link-between-tales leads to speculation about the structure of the fragment as a competitive sequence and about the formal correlatives to a justice if not judicial at least poetic. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. K. Greenspan
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3.00 Credits
Study of the drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, exclusive of Shakespeare, but including such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. Offered alternate years. R. Janes
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