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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II The major novels of Melville, as well as some of his poetry and several important shorter works of his fiction.
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4 credits. Alternate years Brings a feminist analysis to bear on the study of culture. Using techniques of “close reading” and interpretationdrawn from the disciplines of literature, art history, and anthropology, students examine literary texts, works of art, and other cultural artifacts and practices. Emphasis is on the ways that culture encodes and mediates relations of gender, sex, and sexuality. Readings in literature, ethnography, and feminist criticism and theory. Also offered as WOM 3655.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Examines several texts written by American women, including works by Radstreet, Wheatley, Rowson, Stowe, Dickinson, Jewett, Cather, Wharton, Hurston, Bishop, and Naylor. The question of whether there is a traceable female tradition during the past 350 years is addressed. Arguments for and against consideration of women authors as a separate group are also discussed. Readings include feminist literary criticism and theory. Also offered as WOM 3665.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) In this memoirsaturated time, it is important to recall that a person’s self-told story is one of the original and essential American literary genres. Students read autobiographical narratives from Puritan times to the present, from Ben Franklin to Annie Dillard, as writers struggle to control the construction of that most American of characters, “I.”
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An examination of short fiction as it emerged from the oral tradition of storytelling. Biblical tales and parables, Greek romance, saints’ lives, and the great story collections of medieval and early modern Europe are considered from a comparative perspective.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Surrealist literature, films, and art in France, Spain, and Latin America. Artists include Aragon, Breton, Bu uel, Césaire, Char, Dali, Eluard, and Lorca. Works are read in translation and lectures given in English; students with French and/or Spanish are encouraged to read in the original language.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Novels, poems, and plays produced in the U.S. from World War II to the present. Focus is on the development of a postmodern aspect, and attention is concentrated on the flourishing literature of minority groups. Writers include Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Adrienne Rich, and Tony Kushner.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Focuses on literature that responds to the characteristics of the contemporary English-speaking world: the breakup of British colonial empires that produced new literatures in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and postwar exile and migration that gave rise to vibrant minority voices within Britain itself. Readings include such authors as Michelle Cliff, Salman Rushdie, and Caryl Phillips. Attention is also given to contemporary filmmakers like Hanif Kureishi and Mike Leigh.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years The relationship of literature and imperialism in the past two centuries, during the period of European colonialism and its aftermath. Readings include literary texts by such writers as Kipling and Achebe, theore t i c a l and polemical writings about imperialism, and postcolonial criticism and theory.
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3.00 Credits
See FRE 3710 in the Language and Culture section for description.
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