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3.00 Credits
Intensive study (in translation) of Dante and his intertexts as context for readings and/or further coursework in later English literature (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, etc.). Block 8: Dante's "Divine Comedy". Reading Dante's Divina Commedia can be a harrowing experience: its intertexts and allegory shadowy at best when viewed through a mirror darkened by 700 years of human experience. The primary goal of this course is to make reading the Divine Comedy less infernal: to provide you with the basic medieval cultural matrices that will help you make sense of the substance of this immense poem without robbing you of the change to be, as Borges describes, "carried away" by the Commedia. Revel in the brilliance and perversity of Dante's literary imagination. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 351.) 1 unit - Evitt.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
An examination of the relationships, both similarities and differences, of history and literature. Using selected theoretical texts from Aristotle to the present, traditional narrative historical texts, fictions based on imagined thoughts and actions of historical figures, and comparisons of historical biographies and historical novels, the course explores the different and/or similar purposes and functions of historical writing and literary writing, and the truth claims of each as forms of narrative and knowledge. In addition, we will read history literarily and literature historically in order to interrogate the uses and limitations of both forms of writing. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Selected examples of medieval dramatic practice - English and Continental - with emphasis on one or more of the following kinds of medieval drama: Liturgical Drama, Saints' and/or Conversion Plays, Corpus Christi Cycle Drama, Morality Plays. English plays taught in Middle English; Continental plays in translation. Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Selected literature of the period 1500-1660 addressing a topic such as time and mutability, gender and genre, nature and art, politics and society. Prerequisite: 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Kendrick.
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3.00 Credits
Selected poetry of the period 1500-1660 focusing on a single poet (such as Donne or Spenser), a group of poets (such as Donne and the Metaphysicals or Ben Jonson and the Tribe of Ben), or a particular genre of poetry (such as narrative verse, the lyric, pastoral poetry, the sonnet sequence, or satire.) Prerequisite: 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Detailed study of one of the following groups: 1) histories, 2) comedies and romances, 3) major tragedies, 4) a number of the works grouped according to a thematic principle. Block 6: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and the Philosophers. In this upper-division interdisciplinary seminar, students will explore the philosophical contexts for Shakespeare's plays. Themes this course will explore include individual authority and the construction of power, the rise of science, self-fashioning, and the efficacy of the individual, doubt and loss of the world. Readings will include selections from the most influential contemporaries and near contemporaries of Shakespeare. We'll explore Machiavelli's The Prince, Bacon's New Atlantis, Montaigne's Essays, and Descartes' Meditations in conversation with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Othello, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Prerequisite: 200 or 300 level lit course in CO, English or other lit or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 352 and Philosophy 303.) 1 unit - Evitt, Genova.
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3.00 Credits
Tragedies, comedies, and tragi-comedies by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Major poetry and selected prose of John Milton, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Selected British (and occasionally some American) fiction, poetry, and non-fiction prose of the period, with attention to a topic or theme such as satire, the early Gothic novel, town and country, travel narratives, heroines of gentility (images of femininity in the 18th century), and the construction of 'the 18th century' as a literary period. Prerequisite: 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
The novel from Defoe to Austen with emphasis on any one or several of the following critical issues: the epistolary novel, satire and the novel, religious quest and narrative strategies, representations of women in the early British novel, representations of 'otherness' in the early British novel, and formal innovation and continuity in the early British novel. Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Butte.
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