Writing Workshops
Each workshop progresses from formal, technical exercises
to original compositions. Criticism of work in progress and completed, group
analysis, written recommendations, personal conferences; for students desiring
to improve basic writing skills and to develop their creative talents.
Prerequisite: ENG 1101-1102.
1407 Expository
Writing. 3 credits.
1601 Print
Journalism. 3 credits.
1641 Broadcast
Journalism. 3 credits.
1743H Creative Fiction Writing. 3 credits.
1822 Writing
Fiction. 3 credits.
1832 Writing
Poetry. 3 credits.
1931H, 1932H Freshman Honors Seminar. 3 credits.
Reading literary and other texts: fiction, non-fiction,
poetry, and drama. Writing: critical and analytic essays, with emphasis on
revision. Open only to Honors students.
2003; 2004 Survey of English Literature. 3 credits.
History of English literature from its beginnings
through the 20th century, focusing on
masterpieces illustrating the various literary periods; first semester:
from Anglo-Saxon times through the early seventeenth century; second semester:
from Milton to the 20th century.
2315 Chaucer. 3 credits.
Major works, with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.
2316 Medieval Literature in Modern English . 3 credits.
Medieval English and continental masterpieces in modern
English translation. Works in various genres (romance, lyric, allegory, saga,
epic) illuminate intellectual, social, and literary conventions such as courtly
love, chivalry, the heroic ideal, Arthurian traditions, and the quest for
salvation. Special topics may be chosen each semester.
2318 The World of King Arthur. 3 credits.
A broad, chronological survey of the Arthurian literary
tradition, with focus on the resources of the Wide World Web. The course
concentrates largely on medieval texts (Latin, Welsh, and English chronicle
materials, English and French romances) but includes some 19th and 20th
century Arthurian poetry and fiction. All works are read in Modern English
translation. Course requirements include mid-term and final hypermedia projects.
2331; 2332 Shakespeare I; II. 3 credits.
First semester: histories and comedies; second semester:
tragedies. Emphasis on Shakespeare's development, background of English drama,
and Shakespeare in our time.
2346 Milton and 17th Century Literature. 3 credits.
Studies in the metaphysical lyric, the biblical epic, the
neoclassical satire, the essay. Selections from Donne, Milton, Dryden, Bacon and
others.
2356 English Literature in the 18th Century. 3 credits.
Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake.
2358H John Locke and 18th Century Literature. 3
credits.
2360 The Enlightenment. 3 credits.
Continental and English masterpieces by writers and
thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
2400 The Romantic Vision. 3 credits.
Characteristic, influential, and significant works by
British and continental authors, with a view to understanding some of the major
interests, concerns, and attitudes prevalent in the Romantic period.
2410 Eminent Victorians. 3 credits.
Major writers—Carlyle, Macaulay, Dickens, Mill, Newman,
Browning, Arnold, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, and Pater—in relation to the
social and intellectual milieu.
2611; 2612 American Literature I; II. 3 credits.
Development of American literature; first semester: through 1870; second
semester: since 1870. Not open to students who have taken ENG 2610.
2861; 2862 Major Authors. 3 credits.
Works by a maximum of four major authors, usually English,
American, or both. May be repeated, since the subject matter varies from term to
term.
2910 American
Autobiography. 3 credits.
Diverse forms of personal narratives in the United States
from the 16th century to the present; emphasis on the changing needs that
writing autobiography has served over this period, and the variety of forms that
different kinds of writers' life stories have taken.
2911 Literature and Culture of the American City. 3
credits.
How writers have responded to intensifying urbanization in
the United States, largely since the end of the 19th century, and the role of
literature in defining a distinctly “urban” culture or consciousness during
this period. Fulfills the core requirement for the minor in American
Studies.
2912 American Literature and Culture 1876-1918. 3 credits.
The dramatic cultural transitions—particularly those
accompanying urbanization, industrialization and immigration—which shaped
writing and society in the US from the decade following the Civil War through
the end of World War I. Fulfills the core requirement for the minor in American
Studies.
2913 American Literature and Culture 1919-41. 3 credits.
Literature's response to cultural events between the two
world wars, especially the rise of middle class consumer culture and
conservative social values during the 1920s and the crisis of confidence and the
effort to restore order during the Depression. Fulfills the core requirement for
the minor in American Studies.
2914 Literature and Culture of Rural America. 3 credits.
Examines literature as well as film, music, art, and
material culture which deal with life on farms and in small towns across the
United States since the nineteenth century, in its historical context. Probes
the conflicts and tensions that surround rural ideals in an increasingly urban
US and the ways in which rural America has come to stand for national values.
2961 Contemporary Literature. 3 credits.
Fiction, poetry, drama, or nonfiction prose by contemporary
authors, usually English, American, or both.
3189 Comedy and Satire. 3 credits.
Theories of and studies in comedy and satire, from their
classical roots through the present. Some of the authors covered are
Aristophanes, Terence, Boccacio, Rabelais, and Moliere.
3208 The Art of Fiction. 3 credits.
How great writers of fiction shape their audiences'
responses through traditional and
experimental strategies.
3237 Great Short Fiction. 3 credits.
Survey of outstanding short novels or long short stories by
European and American writers.
3315; 3316 The English Novel. 3 credits.
The development of the novel genre through selected English
novels; first semester: Defoe, Richardson, sentimental and gothic novels, Austen,
the Brontes, Dickens; second semester: Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and
others.
3342 Modern American Fiction. 3 credits.
Novels and short stories by American writers since World
War II.
3376 Classic Modern Novels. 3 credits.
Intensive study of five landmark novels, some in
translation, by authors who have explored new territory in modern fiction.
3408 The Art of Drama. 3 credits.
Theatrical conventions and techniques to clarify how
dramatists convey meaning and hold an audience; intensive examination of
selected American, English, and Continental plays.
3411 Tragedy. 3 credits.
Selected works from different periods and cultures.
Emphasis on understanding the forms of tragic drama and the nature of the tragic
vision of life.
3424 Renaissance Drama. 3 credits.
Renaissance plays by authors other than Shakespeare.
3461 Modern Drama from Ibsen to the Present. 3 credits.
European, British, and American dramatists such as Ibsen, Strindberg,
Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, O'Neill, Beckett, and Ionesco.
3717 The Art of Poetry. 3 credits.
Poetic techniques and meanings through intensive
examination of selected works.
3742 Modern Poetry. 3 credits.
19th century roots; modern masterpieces (Eliot, Pound,
Frost, Yeats); contemporary poets.
4051, 4052 Introduction to Linguistics. 3 credits.
How scientific procedures are applied to discover the
structure of languages. Provides a body of factual knowledge about the languages
of the world, their diversity, what features they have in common, and the
relationships among them.
4055H Linguistics Research Seminar. 3 credits.
4081 Classic Literary Criticism and Theory. 3 credits.
Plato through the 19th century; exploration of fundamental questions: What is literary art? What
value does it have? How does it work? How is it understood and judged? Analysis
of works selected for relevance to these questions.
4086 Modern Criticism and Theory. 3 credits.
How particular modern and contemporary theories can help readers understand
particular works, the nature of literature, and the process of interpretation.
4201; 4202 Masterpieces of World Literature. 3 credits.
Survey of monuments of literary, historical, and
philosophical imagination in the West; emphasis on close reading of texts and on
classroom discussion rather than lectures; first semester: classical antiquity;
second semester: postclassical antiquity to modern times.
4411 Literature and Social Change. 3 credits.
Literary explorations with an historical or sociological slant. May focus on one
of the following topics: Literature and War, Literature and Revolution,
Literature of the Underclass, The Immigrant Experience in America.
4519 American Jewish
Literature. 3 credits.
Literature written by Jews in the US since the turn of the
century. Focuses on how these texts deal with the experiences of immigration and
suburbanization, conflicts between tradition and modernity, and the legacy of
the Holocaust. Authors include A. Cahan, A. Yezierska, M. Gold, I.B. Singer, P.
Roth, B. Melamud, S. Bellow, C. Ozick, T. Olsen, and G. Paley.
4571 Parents and Children. 3 credits.
The portrayal in literature of the splendors and miseries
of having children; generational conflict; people's changing attitudes, first as
young children, then as parents of children and as middle-aged children of aging
parents.
4911, 4912 Honors
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