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 English
Professor
Michael Adams, Chair
Professors Mary Jane Androne,
Richard Androne, Cacicedo,
and Woodward
Associate Professor Adlestein
Lecturers Clark, Frye, Greenwood,
Hummel, Strauss, Trayes,
and Wagner
200
Level Courses
Courses on the 200-level that are intended to
serve as general studies literature offerings are 210, 217, 235
and 270. 300 level advanced literature courses may be taken to fulfill
general studies requirements with permission of the course instructor.
| ENG
201 |
Major British Texts to 1780
A survey of major British texts, writers, and literary trends
from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1780. This course also is designed
to provide intermediate students of literature with a wide variety
of critical skills and approaches. While it is intended for
English concentrators, other serious students of literature
may enroll in the course with the permission of the instructor. |
| ENG
202 |
Major British Texts from 1780 to the Present
This course surveys central British texts, writers, and
literary trends from the Romantic period to the present. It
also is designed to provide intermediate students with a wide
variety of critical skills and approaches. The writers studied
will include: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Browning, Austen, E. Bronte,
Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Yeats, Pater, and Wollstonecraft. The
organic, lyric and gothic strains in 19th century literature
along
with "aesthetic theory" and "The Woman Question"
are some of the topics this course considers. The course is
intended for English concentrators, but other serious students
of literature may enroll with the permission of the instructor. |
| ENG
210 |
African-American Literature
A survey course divided into rubrics of period, activity,
and/or genre designed to acquaint the student with the formal
links and traditions within African-American Literature, including
drama; black women writers; literature survey; and nonfictional
prose. |
| ENG
225 |
Creative Writing
A course designed to offer practical skills in various kinds
of imaginative writing. A given course will address one of the
following four genres: nonfictional imaginative prose; long
fiction; the short story; or survey of poetry, short fiction,
and prose. |
| ENG
235 |
Major Authors and Topics
These courses, designed primarily for general studies credit,
focus upon major authors, major literary forms, or upon significant
intellectual issues in World literature. Foreign literary works
will be read in translation. Because these multiple-sectioned
courses are intended to offer a variety of options for students,
course topics will be made available prior to registration each
semester. May be repeated with a new topic.
Recent topics include “Humor in Literature,” “American
Short Fiction,” “ Arthurian Literature,” “Black
Women Writers,” “ Family Feud: The Drama of Family
Conflict,” “The Folk Song,” “The Ghost Story,”
“Literary Soul Food from the South,” “Theatre
as Conscience,” “ Twentieth-Century American Poetry,”
“Literature of War,” and “Utopian Literature.” |
| ENG
270 |
The Classical Heritage
A study of selected ancient Greek and Roman epic, dramatic,
lyric, and theoretical works that have influenced later World
literature and thought – especially literature in English.
All works will be read in translation, and there will be special
emphasis on the relationship of these works to contemporary
critical issues. Writers studied vary from year to year but
will always include most of the following: Homer, Sappho of
Lesbos, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato,
Aristotle, Plautus, Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, and Juvenal. |
| ENG
301 |
Introduction to the Historical Study of Language
This course opens with a rapid survey of the historical
development of the English language from Indo-European roots
through dialects of Middle English to modern times. American
English and its dialects are studied next. Then a generalized
view of language is presented in terms of gesture, paralanguage,
symbolic logic, linguistics, Grimm and Vernier, with special
emphasis on semantics. The course concludes with studies in
contemporary modes, communication arts, media, retrieval,
technical computer, and
AI languages.
Alternates with 352.
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| ENG
352 |
Chaucer
A careful reading of Chaucer’s major works from the
House of Fame to the Canterbury Tales. Basic instruction in
Middle English pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar
are given so that the student may read Chaucer in his own
language. All of the texts are studied with reference to historical
and cultural backgrounds.
Alternates with 301.
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| ENG
354 |
Shakespeare
The major Shakespearean plays. Primary emphasis is on a
close reading of the plays, but the Elizabethan background and
modern Shakespearean criticism are also studied. |
| ENG
355 |
Literature of Tudor and Early Stuart England
Poetry, prose, drama, and literary works of Tudor and Early
Stuart England. Emphasis varies, but the course includes such
writers as More, Wyatt, Elyot, Sidney, Spenser, Marlow, Raleigh,
Jonson, Donne, Webster, Herbert, Bacon, Burton, Beaumont, and
Fletcher. Offered in alternate years. |
| ENG
356 |
Milton and the 17th Century
A study of Paradise Lost and either Paradise Regained or
Samson Agonistes as the focal points of Early Modern controversies
in poetics, ecclesiology, theology, politics, science, and gender.
Other readings vary, but may include Jonson, Herrick, Herbert,
Donne, Marvell, Richard Hooker, Bacon, Browne, Calvin, Filmer,
Hobbes, Lilburne, and Winstanley, as well as selections from
Milton’s prose and minor verse. |
| ENG
357 |
Dryden to Blake: Restoration and 18th Century Literature
A survey of poetry, drama, and prose from 1660 to 1798.
Emphases vary, but may include topics such as satire, changes
in the conception of dramatic comedy and tragedy, the development
of the novel, the advent of sensibility, and the rise of a protofeminist
consciousness. Writers considered also vary, but may include
Dryden, Wycherly, Behn, Otway, Montagu, Defoe, Addison and Steele,
Swift, Pope, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Thomson,
the Wartons, Goldsmith, Johnson, Sheridan, Burney, Burke, and
Wollestonecraft. |
| ENG
366 |
Literature of the Romantic Era
The course begins with the study of the more important
18th century forerunners of Romanticism and continues with
the study of selected writers of the Romantic period. The
major Romantic poets – Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge,
Byron, Shelley, and Keats – are studied intensively.
Alternates with 380.
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| ENG
368 |
Literature of the Victorian Era
The major writers of nonfictional prose, beginning with
Carlyle, are studied in connection with the leading social,
religious, intellectual, and artistic movements of the age.
The poets, with major emphasis on Tennyson, Browning, Arnold,
and the Rossettis, are studied against their contemporary
background.
Alternates with 374.
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| ENG
372 |
British Fiction to 1890
An analytical and historical study of the technique and
development of British fiction from the 18th century through
Hardy. Major figures studied will include Fielding, Richardson,
Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, the Brontes, Dickens, Meredith,
Gaskell, and Trollope.
Alternates with 373.
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| ENG
373 |
Modern British and Irish Fiction
This course will survey major figures and themes in British
and Irish fiction from 1890 to the present.
The writers studied will include many of the following: Joseph
Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Virginia
Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, A. Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Graham
Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Iris Murdoch, Margaret
Drabble, Doris Lessing, and Anthony Burgess.
Alternates with 372.
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| ENG
374 |
European Fiction
The writers studied in this course will be drawn from continental
authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Major works of Goethe,
Gogol, Balzac, Flaubert, Turgenev, Stendhal, Tolstoi, Dostoevski,
Mann, and Chekhov will be among the works read.
Alternates with 368.
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| ENG
380 |
Twentieth Century American Poetry
Close textual readings of leading American poets from
Whitman to the present. The course is designed primarily for
English concentrators and/or students with a strong interest
in poetry.
Alternates with 366.
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| ENG
384 |
Major American Writers to 1860
This course will begin with two or three writers from
the Colonial and Federal period and then concentrate on the
major figures of the American Renaissance: Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne,
Melville, and Whitman.
Alternates with 385.
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| ENG
385 |
Major American Writers from 1860 to the Present
This course will involve study of six or eight poets and
novelists from the era of Mark Twain and Henry James through
the post-World War II period.
Alternates with 384.
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| ENG
386 |
Modern American Fiction
The development of the American Novel from the 18th century
to the present. Beginning with examples of Realistic and Naturalistic
fiction, the course traces the changing forms of fiction and
the influences that fiction has had upon American culture. Included
are representative selections from such writers as Wharton,
Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Welty, Bellow, Mailer,
Nabokov, Barth, Pyncheon, and Morrison. |
| ENG
390 |
Topics in British and in American Literature
This course will explore a topic or central problem of current
importance in literary study. This course may focus on the work
of major writers such as Virginia Woolf, Henry James, or Joseph
Conrad. In some semesters the course will focus on themes, genres,
and traditions in American and British literature such as "The
Gothic," the "American Renaissance," and "Women’s
Fiction." |
| ENG
399 |
Junior Seminar (W)
This course affords the student an intensive exposure to
prominent theories of literary interpretation and an application
of these theories to a variety of examples of the major genres.
Emphasis will fall upon in-class reports and critical papers.
Intended for juniors. |
| ENG
491 |
Senior Seminar (W)
Three major figures and/or works drawn from the range of
English and American literature and studies from a variety of
critical perspectives. A full-term research project and paper
not necessarily confined to the texts for study in seminar.
Format: discussion, oral reports, critical papers. Intended
for seniors. |
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