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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of contemporary dramatic literature from the mid-20th century to the present focusing on understanding the dramatic form and its relation to society. Critical analysis of plays includes historical and cultural contexts as well as theatrical implications of staging the text.
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3.00 Credits
Romantic movement in England, 1790 to 1835, as exemplified in writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Wollstonecraft, DeQuincey, Hazlitt, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Study of myth theory, mythology, and literary symbolism in world literature.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to later 19th century English poetry and prose; emphasis on relationship between social-intellectual history and literature. Topics include problems of rapid industrialization, impact of science and technology, pressures for increased democratization, impact of laissez-faire capitalism, and relationship of the literature to 19th century music, painting, and architecture.
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3.00 Credits
Study of major British fiction, poetry, and drama, 1900 to the present. Topics include the Irish national movement, romantic/realistic attitudes toward war, the roots of modernism, the dissolution of Empire. Authors range from Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and Lawrence to Amis and Fowles. Approach is varied but tends to emphasize social-historical backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the evolution, subject matters, forms, and conventions of graphic texts with emphasis on their literary form.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the novel in Britain and America, 1948 to the present. Emphasis on variety of forms, styles, and techniques in the genre and on contrasts between British and American novels of the period reflective of long-established, quite separate traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Study of American literary and cultural roots in the 17th and 18th centuries; special attention to the emergence of myths and realities concerning the American hero and the American dream, including specific issues such as the rise of slavery, the role of women, the treatment of the Indian, the power of the Puritans, and the rhetoric of the Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
Study of Romanticism in terms of influence, development, and characteristics within the context of American culture, including textual examples ranging from indigenous native sources to those of Europe and the East.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of American nature writing, chiefly over the past half century. Focuses on the art of seeing natural places. Includes field trips, direct study of nature.
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