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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Growth of the middle class and the emphasis on individual experience in the eighteenth century that led to the development of a new literary genre: the novel. Readings in Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis on changing fictional techniques, conflict between the individual and society, and the representation of women in novels. Austen, Emily Bronte, Thackeray, Hardy, Gissing, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Social and artistic upheaval in the age of the French Revolution as reflected in the English poets and prose writers of the time: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the literature of the age and its involvement with religion, love, evolution, art, poverty, and politics. Arnold, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde, Yeats.
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3.00 Credits
Study of early twentieth-century poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama in its historical and cultural contexts. Consideration of how writers crafted literary forms in response to political and economic upheaval, crises in cultural identity, and changes in traditional gender roles.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of major statements by great critics from the Classical, Renaissance and Modern periods. Discussion of significant ideas dealing with literary creation, genre, principles of criticism, and standards of taste. Critics include Aristotle, Horace, Dryden, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold.
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3.00 Credits
Literary theory in the twentieth century, such as the New Critical, Neo-Aristotelian, Archetypal, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Deconstructive, Feminist, Reader-response, and New Historicist.
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3.00 Credits
The epic and saga as they have evolved from myth and legend. Archetypal heroes; heroic action; cosmology.
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3.00 Credits
A study of both continuity and innovation in the novel of twentieth-century Britain, with attention to the political, cultural and intellectual currents that shaped and were shaped by twentieth-century British novels.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in the major works of recent British and American poets and novelists.
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