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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Survey of major authors and forms of earlier English non-dramatic poetry, with emphasis on Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare. Prerequisite: LI 235H or LI 238H.
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3.00 Credits
Readings of myths used in ancient drama and modern literature/film. Writers include Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides; Conrad, Joyce, Mann. Directors include Coppola, Polanski and Kurosawa. Freshmen require instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
Representative dramatic forms through works by O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Eliot, Osborne, Pinter, Beckett, Arden, Stoppard, and the influences which helped shape modern drama.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary (history, art, literature) and international (English, French, German) course on World War I. Readings include poems, stories, diaries, letters. Art includes Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism. Films from Chaplin to present.
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3.00 Credits
Focus: modern revolution in intellectual and artistic history. Attention to changes in society (urbanization, feminism), science (relativity, quantum mechanics), philosophy/social sciences (Nietzsche, Einstein, Freud), and related changes in art, music, fiction, poetry.
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3.00 Credits
Inquiry into the cultural significance of the Holocaust and the challenges of living in its aftermath thr ough study of testimony, literature, visual art, film, philosophy, and memorials.
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3.00 Credits
(Directed Study) Ten of twelve major American novelists of the first half of the 20th century from Dreiser through Richard Wright. Ideas, themes, and analysis of writing style.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in literary criticism from classical, Renaissance, neo-Classical, and modern writers. Representative figures include Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Sidney, Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold, and selected modern thinkers. Freshmen require instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
Poems of post-1950 American poets, various movements that developed and the values they represent, and the difficult relations between poet and society.
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3.00 Credits
What does it mean to act ethically? How might literature promote and/or undermine responsible thought and action? Readings to include philosophy (e.g. Kant, Levinas) and selected literary texts (e.g. Baudelaire, Melville, Lispector). Prerequisite: 300- level course in literature.
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