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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Short works of French, Russian, and G e rman fiction, beginning with 18th-century quarrels between classicism and romanticism and ending with multicultural influences on the creation of 20th-century “classics.”
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) The history of writing about nature and the environment in the U.S. from the beginnings of European colonization to the recently proclaimed death of “Nature.” Authors include Bartram,Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Cather, Abbey, Dillard, DeLillo, and Le Guin. Recommended for environmental science and literature majors, as well as anyone interested in the intersection of these two fields of inquiry. Also offered as ENV 2440.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every semester An introduction to literary study for current and prospective literature majors. Readings are divided among three areas: primary texts, secondary texts that offer contexts for the primary texts, and works that define the study of literature. Each course section addresses its own topic. Replaces LIT 2225. Prerequisite: For qualified first-year students, permission of the board-of-study coordinator Note In order to continue in the literature major, students must complete LIT 2450 with a grade of B- or higher. The course is generally taken in the sophomore year; transfer students wishing to major in literature must complete LIT 2450 during their first semester at Purchase.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I Readings illustrate the range of issues, styles, and contexts in the Bible, including Genesis and Exodus, Deuteronomic Histories, prophets major and minor, Job and Ecclesiastes, the Gospels, and Apocalypse. This is not a course in religion, but in a literary and cultural tradition deeply concerned with human action in relation to divinity.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II Spans the literature of the European invasion of North America, from the 16th century through the first decade of a national publishing industry of “American” letters following the Revolutionary War. The classconsiders the connections between writing and colonialism, nation building, and the resistance of these powerful narratives in, for example, the few written words of the indigenous populations and the enslaved.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II An examination of literature written in the U.S. between 1830 and the end of the 19th century. Careful attention is paid to the context of western expansion, slavery and its legacy, industrialization, immigration, and other historical developments. While much of the course is devoted to the “American Renaissance,” studentsalso consider several contemporaneous literary traditions and their interrelationships.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Focusing on U.S. literature of the 20th century, this course traces the development of realism, naturalism, and modernism in their literary, social, and historical contexts. Particular attention is given to shifting notions of nationhood, war, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, and modernity.
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3.00 Credits
Sequence III See JST 2855 in the Jewish Studies section for description.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Focuses on the interface of literature and identity as represented in a variety of texts written during the last century by lesbians and gay men from the U.S. and abroad. The class examines the ways in which the text is shaped by, translates, and affects social and political forces, and the shifting representation of lesbian and gay identities that emerge.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II Engages the question “Dostoevsky or Tolstoy ” through readings of some majorworks, emphasizing The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina as examples of “dialogic” vs. “monologic” narr a t i v e s
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