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3.00 Credits
The life and representative works of Geoffrey Chaucer are the subjects of this upper-level course. Our main concentration will be on his Canterbury Tales, with selections from some of Chaucer's other poetry; we will also examine the Middle English and Continental traditions that influenced it. We will read Chaucer's works in Middle English and spend some time studying its structure and pronunciation; part of the grade, in fact, will be based on students' ability to read and interpret the Middle English of Chaucer. A midterm, a final exam, a major paper, an oral report, some quizzes and short assignments, and class participation comprise the remainder of the grade. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level course comprises a study of Shakespeare's history plays. Students examine the sources and influences for the plays such as Latin history, medieval chronicle, contemporary English drama, and the political, philosophical, and social writings of the age. The major emphasis of the course is on the plays themselves, including both the Roman and the English history plays. Students thus explore theme, character, setting, language, style, and tone, noting what is characteristic of the Renaissance as well as what is distinctive of Shakespeare. Course requirements include one major paper, a midterm, a final examination, quizzes, and class participation. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
In this upper-level course, students consider the sources and influences for these plays as well as the immediate historical and philosophical context in which they were written. The major emphasis of the course is on the plays themselves, tracing the progress of Shakespeare's comedy and tragedy from its Elizabethan beginnings to its Jacobean conclusion. Students explore theme, character, setting, language, style, and tone, noting what is characteristic of the Renaissance as well as what is distinctive of Shakespeare. Course requirements include a midterm and final exam, an oral report on a scholarly article, and a research paper. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level course closely reads the texts of the major British writers of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, including Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, and Milton. Though the course stresses the analysis of primary texts, it also locates these texts within the religious, political, and philosophical crises that distinguish the early modern era. The course familiarizes students with the criticism of these writers and their work by requiring an oral presentation and a research paper. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level course studies British literature and culture of the “long” eighteenth century, 1660-1789. Students study the intellectual,cultural, and political history of the period and learn its major literary trends and types, including the novel, satire, the verse essay, and the comedy of manners. Readings include nonliterary and noncanonical works, but concentrate on the major achievements of Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Restoration dramatists, and women writers. Students write short essays, take a midterm and final exam, deliver oral presentations, and submit a research essay. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
While Romanticism in Europe enjoyed its high period in the first half of the nineteenth century, this upper-level course examines romanticism as a cultural influence with principles that predate 1798, and which reach beyond 1840. While the canonical Romantic writers- Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats-occupy center stage, thinkers and ideas influencing them and modifying their work are given significant attention, especially neo-classicism, travel literature, the French Revolution, feminism, landscape painters. The course begins with lecture and moves to seminar. Course requirements include a midterm, major project, and a final exam. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Through study of fiction, poetry, and painting, as well as some texts from the sciences, social sciences, and philosophy, this upper-level literature course explores-through lecture and especially discussion- the world view of British writers such as Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Rossettis, Arnold, the Br?ntes, Dickens, Hardy, and Wilde, during the reign of Queen Victoria, caught in the struggle to find order during the collapse of Romanticism and the slow birth of Modernism. The course requires participation in class discussion, some in-class writing, two minor projects (an annotated bibliography and an exercise in literary theory), an essay (a critical review), a research essay, a midterm essay exam, and a final essay exam. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level course investigates British literature from 1870 to 1920, and emphasizes the literary movements of Naturalism, Symbolism and Stream of Consciousness. Participants read Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Hopkins, Yeats and Eliot, in addition to selections of criticism. Participants pay close attention to the historical, economic, scientific and social background of the period. Audio/visual materials and Power Point presentations supplement lectures and discussions. Course requirements include a journal, scheduled quizzes, mid-term and final examinations. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The literature and culture of ancient Greece has influenced modern culture greatly. In this upper-level course students will study representative works from this time and discuss this influence. Readings will include the epic poetry of Homer, the lyrics of Sappho and Archilochus, and the drama of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Students will also examine the critical theories of Plato and Aristotle and how these Classical thinkers have shaped our thought. The grade will be based on a midterm, a final exam, a major paper and a few short essays, quizzes, and class participation. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level course studies the major literature, art, and film of the modern and contemporary periods. Students read Dostoevsky, the French Symbolists, Kafka, Proust, Beckett, Breton, Calvino, and others and examine the connections between philosophical and cultural movements. The course requires a series of short essays, a midterm and final examination, oral presentations, and a research essay. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric and at least one literature course. Three credits.
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