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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II The novels of Austen, Dickens, the Bront s, Eliot, and Hardy in the political, intellectual, social, and cultural context of Britain and its empire in the 19th century.
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3.00 Credits
Sequence II See ARH 3323 in the Art History section for description.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II Examines the emergence of the Romantic imagination, the concept of the subject or self, and the plural nature of Romantic discourse in Wollstonecraft, Austen, and Wordsworth, among others. Topics explored include the writers’ diverse concepts of creativity and originality, sense of their place in society, notions of political identity, and relation to British literary traditions.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II Traces the evolution of Romanticism in the aftermath of the radical promise of the first generation of Romantic poets, through the prose writers who self-consciously documented their literary and cultural heritage, to the full flowering of such writers as Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Emily Bront .
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) By studying migration in early 20th-century U.S. literature, this course examines the causes, costs, and consequences of relocation for immigrants to the U.S., expatriates to Europe, African- Americans to the North, workers to cities, and others out West. Major consideration is given to how real and imagined mobility across national, regional, class, ethnic, gender, and racial borders interrogates these boundaries.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly). Sequence II Victorian poetry against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world during a period that marked the high point of England’s global power. Writers include Tennyson, Elizabeth Barre t t B rowning, Robert Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Examines racial pride, racial origins, and urban blacks through an exploration of essays, poems, short stories, and novels by writers of the period (1915–1930). Authors include Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston. Emphasis is on students’ written analysis of in-class and outside readings.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Explores Dostoevskian themes of “the double,” “the idiot” or “holy fool,” the “undergrothe “Madonna-Intercessor,” and “crime and punishment” the works of Faulkner, Conrad, Nabokov, D.H. Lawrence, Flannery O’Connor, and others.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III An examination of the style, production, and reception of Ulysses, one of the founding texts of modernist fiction. Students analyze the distinctive style of each chapter and examine the relationship of the book to political and cultural issues of the period and to other literary texts by Joyce and continental writers. Readings also include historical, cultural, and critical materials.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Traces the rebellious “Faust” mythin literature from Goethe through Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, the devils of Dostoevsky, Mann, and Gide, to Kundera’s Book of Laughter and Forgetting and the film Mephisto.
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