English 190
Research Seminar: Literature of California & the West Since WWI
Book List
Chandler, R: The Big Sleep; Dick, P: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Didion, J: Slouching Toward Bethlehem; Stegner, W: The Angle of Repose; Steinbeck, J: The Long Valley; Steinbeck, J: The Pastures of Heaven; West, N: The Day of the Locust
Other Readings and Media
In addition to the books listed, there will be photocopied readings, e.g. poetry by R. Jeffers, W. Everson, J. Spicer, T. Gunn and R. Hass, essays by J. Cain and E. Wilson, &c.
Description
Besides reading and discussing fiction and poetry with Western settings, and essays attempting to identify or explain distinctive regional characteristics, this course will include consideration of some movies shaped by and shaping conceptions of California. Depending on enrollment, each student will be responsible for organizing and leading class discussion (probably teamed with another student) once during the semester. Writing will consist of one long essay of 16-20 pages. There will be no quizzes or exams, but seminar attendance and participation will be expected, and will affect grades.
English 190 replaced English 100 and 150 as of Fall '09. English majors may fulfill the seminar requirement for the major by taking one section of English 190 (or by having taken either English 100 or English 150 before Fall '09). Please read the paragraph on page 2 of the Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course.
Fall, 2013
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Victorian Sensations
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Knox, Marisa Palacios
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar
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Lye, Colleen
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: How Verse Works: Rhyme, Rhetoric, and Repetition
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Brolaski, Julian T.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Suspicious Mind
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Words and Images: The Intellectual Marketplace of Antebellum America
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McQuade, Donald
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation
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Bernes, Jasper Q.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Metaphysical Poets from Donne to Vaughan
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Marno, David
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: Studies in Children's Literature
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Browning, Catherine Cronquist
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/17 |
Research Seminar: Utopian and Dystopian Literature
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Starr, George A.
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Spring, 2013
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: American Regionalism
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Portraits in Black: Dictator, Autocrat, Caudillo
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: "A Gallery of Wonders": Literature and the Culture of Consumption in Post-Civil War America
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McQuade, Donald
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Modern Folk: American Culture in the Thirties
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Pugh, Megan
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Roland Barthes: The Critic as Artist
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Jane Austen
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Francois, Anne-Lise
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Virginia Woolf
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Abel, Elizabeth
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Native America/Early America
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Donegan, Kathleen
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Mark Twain
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Hirst, Robert H.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Multilingualism & Middle English Literature
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Miller, Jennifer
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Thomas Pynchon
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Gordon, Zachary
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: California Literature Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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Fall, 2012
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Literature and the Post-human
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Too-Close Reading: Poe and Others
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Sentimentality
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Carmody, Todd
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Poetry and the Archive
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Pugh, Megan
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Utopian & Dystopian Stories and Movies
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: John Clare: A Peasant Naturalist Among the Romantic Poets
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Hass, Robert L.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Environmental Poetry and Poetics
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and the Cavalier Poets
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Jordan, Joseph P
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: Animals in Literature and Theory
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Eichenlaub, Justin
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir and Neo-Noir
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/17 |
Research Seminar: Narrating Health--An Introduction to the Medical Humanities
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Bednarska, Dominika
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| 190/18 |
Research Seminar: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
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Gordon, Zachary
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Spring, 2012
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar
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Tanemura, Janice
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Yeats, Joyce, & Beckett
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Falci, Eric
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: American Gothic
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Donegan, Kathleen
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: The Historical Novel
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Gordon, Zachary
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: <em>Moby-Dick</em>
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing
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Giscombe, Cecil S.
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Medieval English Poetry
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Lankin, Andrea A
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Mark Twain
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Hirst, Robert H.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Mass Entertainment in 1930s Hollywood
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Henry James
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Cultures of Realism in Postwar Britain
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Premnath, Gautam
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir
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Bader, Julia
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Fall, 2011
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Rejection of Closure: Slow Readings
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Hejinian, Lyn
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Another Nature
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Legere, Charles
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: The Writings of Daniel Defoe
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Literature of California and the West pre-1920
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
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Gordon, Zachary
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: In Defense of Literature
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Tanemura, Janice
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Walter Scott and Jane Austen
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Duncan, Ian
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Asian American Fiction
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Lye, Colleen
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Ethnic Surrealist Poetry and Poetics
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Chen, Christopher
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Paradise Lost, Found, Lost Again
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Turner, James Grantham
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Words and Bodies in Space: Poems for the Stage
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Bednarska, Dominika
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: American Captivities
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Donegan, Kathleen
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Chaucer and His Contexts
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Lankin, Andrea A
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| 190/17 |
Research Seminar: History of the Book, 597-2011
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Thornbury, Emily V.
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| 190/18 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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Spring, 2011
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Music and Poetry
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Falci, Eric
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: The Continental Renaissance
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Ring, Joseph
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Stages of Conflict: Alternative Early Modern English Theater Traditions
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Prawdzik, Brendan
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Herman Melville
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Tamarkin, Elisa
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Literature of California Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: The Literature of Utopia, Anti-Utopia, & Dystopia
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Lee, Steven Sunwoo
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: My Lost City: (Post)-Modernist and Post-9/11 Fiction
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Snyder, Katherine
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Victorian Mysteries
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Leibowitz, Karen D.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Homocinema
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Christopher Marlowe
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Landreth, David
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: "Rotten English"--on contemporary dialect literature
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Modernist Poetry and Poetics
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Fisher, Jessica
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