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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Modern Jewish writers throughout the world are struggling with issues of belonging, memory, cultural identity, transmission, and exile. Questioning national, linguistic, racial, historical, and generic concepts as they renegotiate their identities, these myriad voices tell us about our postmodern condition. Writers include Jabes, Schwarz - B a rt, Spiegelman, Roth, Kamenetz, P. Celan, Sachs, Kugelmass, Paley, Olsen, Ginsberg, and Memmi. Also offered as JST 3715.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I An examination of the development of the British poetic canon in its literary and historical context. The development of lyric poetry is discussed in the context of changing reading practices and uses of literacy, and the multiple relations between literary artistry and the social world.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II Follows the development of the British poetic canon in its literary and historical context from the Restoration through modernism. The development of lyric poetry is discussed in the context of changing reading practices, uses of literacy, and modes of literary production, and the multiple relations between literary artistry and the social world.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly). Sequence III Considers seven novels that represent “modernity” as social,ethical, and/or individual crisis. The course explores overlapping modernist prose styles from romanticism to surrealism and concludes with a “postmodern” novel.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Migrating populations constitute one of the most complex issues in the contemporary world. What does it mean to be exiled geographically, linguistically, psychologically, and politically How do writers as varied as Kafka, Athol Fugard, Amy Tan, Aimé Césaire,Eva Hoffman, Edmond Jabes, and Anton Shammas express the dilemmas posed by uprooting
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly). Sequence I A close reading of the Divine Comedy in the dual context of late medieval Italy and contemporary theoretical inquiry.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III William Carlos Williams and William Faulkner were both deeply engaged with the historical myths of their time and place, and both were central influences in the evolution of American modernism. Readings concentrate on major novels by Faulkner and poetry by Williams.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) Traces the history of Anglo-American nature poetry and prose, from the invention of “Nature” to the recently proclaimed death of “Nature,” as weas the recently developed field of literary ecocriticism.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every semester A culminating course that draws together the work of the major and prepares students for and complements the senior project. Each course section addre s s e s its own topic; in every section, readings include primary texts, secondary texts that illuminate the primary texts, and works that d e fine the discipline of literature or its interdisciplinary extensions, including theory and cultural studies. Replaces LIT 4565.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly). Sequence II These two poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, dominate not only the American 19th century, but the entire history of poetry at length and in depth. Students also consider some of their marginal work (Whitman’s prose and Dickinson’s letters,for example).
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