Announcement of Classes: Summer 2011

N117S/1

Shakespeare

MTuTh 2-4
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This course has a general purpose, to provide an intensive introduction to
Shakespeare by focusing closely on selected plays. It also has a specific
mode of operation: we’ll consider important aspects of Shakespeare studies
(ne...(read more)

N118/1

Milton

MTuTh 10-12P
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In this course we will read two of Milton's most influential poems very, very closely.  We'll read Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained closely both in order to understand Milton's style, his sense of poetic form, ...(read more)

N130A/1

American Literature: Before 1800

MTuTh 2-4P
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This course provides a survey of English-language American literature to 1800.  We will explore a wide range of texts from narratives of discovery and exploration through the literature of the American Revolution and the formations of an early...(read more)

N130D/1

American Literature: 1900-1945

MTuTh 10-12P
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A survey of American literature tracing the literary response to the emerging shape of modern life in the first decades of the twentieth century. We will read across a range of genres and styles to assess the particular influence of modernism and ...(read more)

N132/1

American Novel

TuTh 2-4P
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We will concentrate on the central issues deeded to the American novel by democratic ideology -- refusal and autonomy, loyalty, guilt, and atonement, futurity and the burden of the past -- and try to figure out how the formal innovations in the Ame...(read more)

N135/1

Literature of American Cultures

MTuTh 4-6P
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This course will analyze the categories of “disability,” “race” and “ethnicity” critically. “Disability” as an identity category is always raced, whether we attend to that intersection or not, and peo...(read more)

N166/1

Special Topics:
A Critical Approach to Children's Literature

MW 12-2P
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With a jump-start from the 19th century with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we will focus on books written for and/or read by children in the 20th and 21st centuries. Using a variety of critical techniques we will examine a range o...(read more)

N176/1

Literature and Popular Culture

MTuTh 4-6P
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Detective narratives have been some of the most poplar forms of entertainment in the last century and a half.  The narrative structures of the detective story have also been the favorites of scholars of narrative theory.  I plan to look a...(read more)