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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Intermediate fiction writing workshop with a focus on refinement and quality. Emphasis on completion and revision of short stories. Prerequisite: ENGL 107. NU and EV only.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Exploration of the structures of lyric poetry, with a focus on rhythm, figuration, and tonality. Texts are chosen from a wide range of poets, with an ear for the sheer pleasure of poetic language.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Study of the conventions of such film as screwball comedy, gangster, and the Western. Set against convention (rules, norms, and codes) is the director's invention or departure from a genre's traditions. Prerequisite: ENGL 111 recommended.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Survey of representative English, American, and European novels from the Eighteenth Century to the present.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Study of dramatic forms in various cultures and periods. May be repeated for degree credit given a different topic.
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Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). The stories we tell children can explain away childhood fears or inculcate values we would like to see replicated. Children's stories also reveal how a culture defines childhood. This course covers literature from a variety of time periods and genres, and will expose students to conventions of plot, character, and form. Prerequisite: sophomore standing; one literature course recommended. NU and EV only.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Comparative study of poetry from the Chinese, European, and American traditions. Attentive reading of poems from all periods with the aim of exploring similarities and differences between these two traditions. Introduction to theoretical disputes about what poetry is or does in both traditions and to issues in translation. NU and EV only.
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Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Study of images and definitions of womanhood, motherhood, and the "feminine" invarious works. Students explore, question, and ultimately seek to reconsider, rewrite, and reclaim women's history. Students will complete projects determined by contract. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. May be repeated for degree credit given a different topic.
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Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). The first semester, Shakespeare to 1600 A.D., covers early plays and the sonnets, the literary traditions and backgrounds of the plays, Shakespeare's language and theater. The second semester covers plays written after 1600 with emphasis on interpreting irony and tragedy through dramatic structure and imagery.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Introduction to American Jewish literature from the 19th century forward. Covers genres including poetry, drama, and film, with strong emphasis on fiction. Explores Jewish writing in the U.S. in relation to immigration, the labor movement, the Holocaust, and orthodoxy, and Jewishness at the crossroads of race, ethnicity, religion, and culture. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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