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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Between the Civil War and World War I, America experiences a "golden age," a "gildeage," and an "age of industry." In whamanner, and on whose terms, does America come to recognize itself and its experience? May include works by Whitman, Dickinson, Chestnut, Twain, James, Wharton, Crane, and Dreiser. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Examination of American literature from World War I and the beginnings of modernism through post-modern and contemporary poetry and prose. This course will explore the American identities articulated- and subverted-in twentieth-century literature, and will examine stylistic innovation in writers from T.S. Eliot and Jean Toomer to Toni Morrison and John Ashbury. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. May be repeated for degree credit up to 8 credits given a different topic.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). This course allows students to extend their knowledge of African-American literature and to study in depth a topic related to African-diasporic literatures. The selection of topics will vary depending on the instructor, but may include questions of representation, transnationalism, sexuality, and the influences of critical theory. Prerequisites: ENGL 201 or 202. May be repeated up to 8 units given a different topic. Offered as needed. NU only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Examines the contemporary Chicana/o poetry and major critical approaches to it. Historical, cultural, and political questions will shape our reading, and students will engage in extensive textual analysis, combining questions of context and content (or poetic style and form) with the content of the poems in question. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Explores the connection between poetries of loss and the establishment of national literary and cultural traditions, comparing and contrasting a mainstream American tradition with the literature of the Chicana/o movement. Students will practice close readings as they consider the cultural and social contexts. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. Prerequisite for 361E: ENGL 200E, 201, or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). This course focuses on the application of post-colonial literary theory to post-colonial literature of the last fifty years and earlier periods. Introduces students to bodies of literature from areas as diverse as South Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa. The literature/ theory balance will be established from the outset. Prerequisite: ENGL 251 recommended. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits) or May Term (3 credits). Selected topics in literary figures and themes. May be repeated for degree credit given different topics. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Studying a single author in depth, situating his or her works in their social, historical, and literary context. Authors include figures from any point in the Anglophone literary tradition, including Chaucer, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Melville, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Williams, Merrill, Morrison, Rushdie, and many others. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Survey of literary criticism from ancient times to the middle of the Twentieth Century. Combines representative readings of influential critics with imaginative writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Exploration of representative schools of current literary theory. Topics may vary, but the course is a combination of theory with readings in fiction and poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. NU and EV only.
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