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English Department

Courses Offered - Fall ACY 2024

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This course is designed to introduce new majors to tools of professional literary analysis through a set of focused readings.


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Why do we go to sea? Since humans have been able to tell stories, the idea of the sea has dominated our imaginations. Elusive and ineffable, people across history and cultures have been trying to express the emotion and relationships we feel towards the sea. This class will explore this question through the consideration of a wide variety of poetry, novels, and other forms of sea stories; from Micronesian mythology to modern fiction.


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A study of drama, emphasizing reading, viewing, and analyzing dramatic literature and performance.

 

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A study in the analysis of poetic form and expression.


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A study of the novel and short story with particular emphasis on the conventions, techniques, and innovations in the form.


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A study of American, European, and world film in conjunction with relevant literary works.


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Literature and thought of the period bracketed by the two great English Epics, Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost. The course includes a continental perspective, with readings from such authors as Machiavelli, Rabelais, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Castiglione.


Literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s. Readings may include works by such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, the Shelleys, Byron, and Keats.


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British Literature from 1945 to present day. Reading may include the novels of Orwell, Greene, Murdoch, Naipaul, Barnes, Ishigura, and Zadie Smith; the Plays of Beckett, Pinter, Orton, Stoppard, and Friel; and the poetry of Larkin, Heaney, Hughes, Gunn, and Motion.


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This course surveys American literature and culture from the early colonial period through the Civil War. To gain a solid grounding in the literary history of this period, we will read both masterpieces long accepted in the American canon and other works whose excellence was too often hidden by popular success. This survey ends in the bloodshed of a nation divided, which is fitting in that the period we will study is marked by the conflict of ideas: between American individualism and communal nation-building, between lofty declarations of freedom and brutal realities of slavery, between nostalgia for republican simplicity and fear of cultural provincialism, between the ideology of domesticity and the mythology of the frontier.


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 A survey of American Literature from the Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, emphasizing the rise of realism and naturalism. Readings may include works from such authors as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, Chestnutt, Chopin, James, and Wharton.


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A study of a representative sample of Shakespeare's tragedies, histories, and comedies. Readings may also include works by Shakespeare's contemporaries.


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An introduction to the writing of prose, poetry, and drama. This course will focus on the practical craft of creative writing. Students will also study the skills of close reading and revision through regular critique workshops.


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A study of advanced methods of presenting information in a wide variety of forms. Assignments may include preparing articles, reports, and military documents. Students may be asked to design and present a persuasive or analytical speech.


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