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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students will examine a number of representative works of the Middle Ages, read in translation. Additional readings in, for example, the classics and religious literature will help to situate each work in time and place. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Prerequisite(s): a 100-level English literature course or permission of instructor. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 421.
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Examination of the various forms that developed and flourish flourished in England during the 16th century: prose, narrative and lyric poetry, and drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). Attention to classical and continental influences, the historical background, the legitimation of English, and the power of individual texts. Major figures may include More, Wyatt and Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 422.
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3.00 Credits
The poetry, prose and drama of England from 1600 to 1660 (exclusive of Milton). Major figures may include Bacon, Donne, Hobbes, Herbert, Marvell and Webster. Attention to political issues intellectual issues and religion as they bear upon the poetry of wit, the prose of conviction, and the drama of power and intrigue. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Prerequisite(s): a 100-level English literature course or permission of instructor. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 423.
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3.00 Credits
In poetry, the range and variety achieved within the ordered, urbane, civil style of Dryden and Pope and the later development of the innovative, exploratory style of Gray, Collins and Cowper. In prose, the achievement of Swift, Addison and Steele, and its extension in Johnson, Goldsmith, Gibbon and Burke. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Prerequisite(s): a 100-level English literature course or permission of instructor. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 424.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the texts in the British literary tradition, read in their relations to literary movements and broader cultural issues and movements, possibly in conjunction with non-canonical texts of the time period. Topics to be discussed may include: the literature of the earlier nineteenth and late eighteenth centuries in relation to a continuing culture of Romanticism; the literature of the mid and later nineteenth century in relation to cultures of Modernism; and the literature of Empire. (Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for either A Eng 426 or A Eng 427).
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3.00 Credits
Examination of British Literature in the twentieth century. Topics to be discussed may include, among others: the development of literary genres and themes; modernism and post-modernism; colonial and post-colonial literature. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 371 or 428.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of American literature of the colonial and federal periods. Topics to be discussed may include, among others: the development of literary genres and themes; formations of national identity; theological and political contexts. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 432.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of American literature of the nineteenth century. Topics to be discussed may include, among others: the development of literary genres and themes; romanticism, realism, regionalism, and naturalism; literature in relation to historical and political contexts. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 433 or 434.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of American literature of the twentieth century. Topics to be discussed may include, among others: the development of literary genres and themes; modernism and post-modernism; literature and identity formation in American culture; American literature in relation to transnational context. Cannot be taken by students who have received credit for A Eng 434 or 435.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of a single major author in depth (e.g., Chaucer or Milton), or of two or more authors whose works illuminate each other in terms of style, theme, and/or relationship to a particular historical era. May be repeated once for credit when content varies.
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