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3.00 Credits
This course uses literature and gender theory in a study of male oral and written narrative. We will look at texts and "body language" in four areas of male self-identification: body image, war narrative,contact sport, and sexual identity. Students are required to write papers, keep a journal, and take exams. There is a requirement that all students undertake a monitored program of weight training and physical challenge to achieve a specific goal. Ugolnik
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3.00 Credits
How do the history of baseball, writings about baseball, and the playing of the "national pastime"reflect and shape American values, social conflicts, and identity An exploration through readings in baseball literature and history. Topics include: American idealism and the American Dream; democracy and free enterprise; race and class conflicts; hero worship; patriotism; ethics (including corruption and disillusionment); and masculine identity. Same as AMS 245. O'Hara
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3.00 Credits
A literary and theatrical examination of representative American drama from the Revolution to the present, emphasizing developments since 1920. The focus of this study is on how and why Americans have been depicted onstage as they have, and the powerful effect this range of depictions has had on American identity and the American imagination. Same as AMS/TDF 251. Silberman
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1.00 Credits
Significant writers from the colonial period through the 19th century are studied to establish the Black literary tradition in the developing nation. Same as AFS/AMS 256. Bernard
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2.00 Credits
Selected writers from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Aesthetics movement comprise the modern Black literary tradition in America. Same as AFS/AMS 257. Bernard
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3.00 Credits
Readings from a variety of traditions, periods, disciplines, and genres to discover diverse assumptions about nature and humanity's relation to it. Readings from both Western and non-Western cultures, though with emphasis on the British and Euro-American traditions. Such broad exploration across vast divides of time and culture should not only teach us about varied understandings of nature but also encourage self-consciousness as we form our own conceptions of what nature is and how we ought best to interact with and in it. Same as ENV 260. Mueller
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3.00 Credits
A survey of contemporary poets and poetics from 1970 to the present. Ford
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3.00 Credits
We are accustomed, when we read fiction, to "suspending our disbelief," seeing through the textinto a world we recognize as familiar and realistic. We also know from experience what a story should include in order to fulfill the conventional criteria for fiction: characters, plot, and climax, for example. In this course we will read and study fictions that break the rules. Texts include work by Italo Calvino, John Barth, Lydia Davis, Kathy Acker, Chris Ware, and Raymond Queneau. Sherin Wright
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3.00 Credits
As Jonathan Culler, "Theory offers not a set of solutions but the prospect of further thought. It calls for commitment to the work of reading, of challenging presuppositions, of questioning the assumptions on which you proceed." Students in this course will be introduced to theoretical schools and concepts that shape the study of literature and the practice of literary analysis. Students enrolling in this course should have taken at least one college-level literature course. Recommended for students considering graduate studies in English. Staff Writing courses, to which admission is only by permission of the instructor, are limited to enrollments of no more than 15 students.
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3.00 Credits
A workshop for students who have found fiction writing a satisfying means of self-expression and who now are ready to raise their work to a higher level. Students will write and significantly revise two or more short stories. What we read in this class-student work as well as contemporary published fiction-we will read as writers, meaning: with extreme attention to craft. We shall concern ourselves with the many choices writers make and the effects of these choices. We will practice writing dazzling sentences. Permission of the instructor required. Hall
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