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The course explores contemporary social and political attitudes as they have evolved from the shifting visions, values, and voices of the last 125 years. Drawing on prominent literature and films from different countries, it focuses on questions these works raise, and examines how changing realities have shaped important human rights and human dignity issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the figure of the immigrant and how writing and the literary text help reconcile the immigrant to her/his conditions away from her/his country of origin. The themes this course will explore include, but are not limited to, racism, nostalgia for home, the different forms of exile, living in between national spaces, memories, and languages, as well as the mutual influence of the immigrant and their adopted country. We will assess a broad range of texts from the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Likely authors are V.S. Naipaul, Buchi Emecheta, and Guillermo Verdecchio. The course will also underline the relationship between the themes and motifs of these works and their forms (narrative styles, genre, etc). Fulfills: World Literature requirement for English Education students.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
A historical survey of literature from non-Western cultures.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will explore through texts written by and about medieval women the complicated relationship between sanctity, sin, and illness in the Late-Middle Ages. Among the female authors we will visit are Hildegard of Bingen (her visionary work, Scivias, and her medical treatise, Causes and Cures), Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (selected plays), Julian of Norwich (Showings), Margery Kempe (The Book), and the gynecological writings attributed to Trotula. Male-authored texts will include selections from Jacobus de Voragine¿s Golden Legend, sints¿ vitae written by Thomas of Cantimpre and Jacques of Vitry (e.g. the lives of Marie d¿Oignies and Christina the Astonishing), and excerpts from the quasi-medical text, The Secrets of Women. In the late-medieval period, the boundaries between divine inspiration, visionary experience, religious passion, demon possession, madness, and symptoms deriving from gynecological ailments were not clearly delineated. The female soul and body often became the domain where the process of discerning among these overlapping experiences took place. In this course, we will consider how medieval writers conceptualized the mystical experiences, martyrdoms, and illnesses of women. In particular, we will grapple with the ways sex and gender shape texts by comparing how men and women wrote about the female soul and body. By comparing, for example, text such as the saint¿s vitae of Thomas of Cantimpre or Jaques of Vitry with the autobiographical accounts of visionaries such as Hildegard and Margery Kempe, students will be able to analyze how the biographies of female saints written by male hagiographers differ from holy women¿s accounts of their own lives. Students will also read and take turns presenting to their classmates a selection of relevant secondary literature. Among those scholars whose work will be used are Caroline Walker Bynum, Joan Cadden, Rudolph Bell, Nancy Caciola, Dyan Elliott, Barbara Newman and Walter Simon. Although a few of the primary readings in this course were originally written in Middle English, the great majority were written in Latin. Should there be sufficient interest and ability in this class, there is hope to conduct a Latin reading group in conjunction with this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to representations of love and violence in the elegiac, didactic, epistolary, and epic poetry of the Augustan poet Ovid. The complicated representations of women as both objects and agents of erotic desire and aggression have lead readers to label Ovid a misogynist as well as a proto-feminist. Through close readings and discussions of his texts, students will be encouraged to explore issues of sex and gender in the Augustan Age, according to Ovid, and as translated into his poetry. Students will also work to analyze Ovid's poetry on its own terms, giving attention to the relationship between genre and content.
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