August 30, 2024
The course traces various developments in the genre of the novel from the 17th to the 20th centuries through a reading of selected representative texts. In addition, students are required to consider these works alongside of the development of theories about the novel. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 200-level literature classes are required to produce 4-5,000 words of critical writing.
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August 30, 2024
The course deals with works by major writers in the English language over a period of nearly one thousand years. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry, this survey continues through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concludes with Milton. In the context of the course, students should develop both their general background knowledge of literary history as well as their ability to appreciate and criticize particular texts. This is a reading and writing intensive course.
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August 30, 2024
This course explores in some depth a particular period, theme(s), or genre in American Literature. Students study the major historical and cultural contexts out of which the works grew. An important aim of the course is to deepen students’ knowledge of a certain topic through a choice of representative writers and works. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics. This is a reading and writing intensive course.
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August 30, 2024
This study of European drama begins with major realists and naturalists such as Chekhov and Ibsen alongside the experimental innovations of Strindberg and Brecht. The modern theater of, among others, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Osborne, Churchill, Kane and Butterworth are analyzed with special emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure and technique. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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August 30, 2024
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May 8, 2024
This course examines the influence of psychoanalysis on writers, literary theorists, and literary critics. Students will read the work of a selected group of writers, explore the influence of psychoanalysis on those writers work, and consider the subsequent psychoanalytically informed criticism of that work. Finally, students will assess the current state of psychoanalytical literary criticism and the cultural legacy of psychoanalysis. The writers and psychoanalytic approaches studied may vary.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth treatment of a area of special concern within the field of English composition and/or literature.
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May 8, 2024
This course examines the influence of psychoanalysis on writers, literary theorists, and literary critics. Students will read the work of a selected group of writers, explore the influence of psychoanalysis on those writers work, and consider the subsequent psychoanalytically informed criticism of that work. Finally, students will assess the current state of psychoanalytical literary criticism and the cultural legacy of psychoanalysis. The writers and psychoanalytic approaches studied may vary.
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May 8, 2024
This course considers the importance of the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath to American and British fiction. Following a brief survey of the historical context of slavery and the slave trade, students will read British and American slave narratives and consider their creative afterlife in a selection of novels. They will be introduced to the literary conventions of the genre of slave, free men and free women writings.
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May 8, 2024
The course is a study of representative works of world literature that can be selected from antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 19th century and modern ages. The course emphasizes the study and consideration of the literary, cultural, and human significance of selected great works of the western and non-western literary traditions.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of English Literature. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth study of American drama of the 20th century. Works by playwrights such as Albee, Mamet, Miller, ONeill, Williams, Wilson, Wasserstein, Norman, Kushner, or Durang will be analyzed with emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure and technique. The social and philosophical vision of each playwright will receive particular attention. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of English Literature. Courses offered previously include: Dickens and Englishness; Race, Class, Gender, Culture: The American Dream in Literature; The Innocents Abroad: Perceptions of Italy in American, European and British Writing; Topics in World Literature: Masterpieces in Western Fiction. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth study of American drama of the 20th century. Works by playwrights such as Albee, Mamet, Miller, ONeill, Williams, Wilson, Wasserstein, Norman, Kushner, or Durang will be analyzed with emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure and technique. The social and philosophical vision of each playwright will receive particular attention. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of English Literature. Courses offered previously include: Dickens and Englishness; Race, Class, Gender, Culture: The American Dream in Literature; The Innocents Abroad: Perceptions of Italy in American, European and British Writing; Topics in World Literature: Masterpieces in Western Fiction. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
An in-depth study of American drama of the 20th century. Works by playwrights such as O’Neill, Wilder, Williams, Miller, Albee, Simon, and Mamet will be analyzed with emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure, and technique. The social and philosophical vision of each playwright will receive particular attention.
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May 8, 2024
This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing. An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of English Literature. Courses offered previously include: Dickens and Englishness; Race, Class, Gender, Culture: The American Dream in Literature; The Innocents Abroad: Perceptions of Italy in American, European and British Writing; Topics in World Literature: Masterpieces in Western Fiction.
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May 8, 2024
The turn of the nineteenth century, also known as the Age of Revolution, saw deep cultural, political and economic changes in Western society, which caused equally deep and long-lasting innovations in the understanding of the self as a liberated individual in a necessary relationship with nature and a political whole. These changes are reflected in, or sometimes anticipated by, the literature of the time.
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
The course will concentrate on the achievement of a single important English writer of the last two centuries: the chosen writer might, for example, be Keats, Dickens, Browning, or Joyce. As part of the required work, each student will select an individual research project for a class report. One previous course in English Literature or permission of the instructor. This is an honors course and carries four semester hours of credit.
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May 8, 2024
This course explores in some depth a particular period, theme(s), or genre in American Literature. Students study the major historical and cultural contexts out of which the works grew. An important aim of the course is to deepen students’ knowledge of a certain topic through a choice of representative writers and works. The course may be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
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May 8, 2024
The course will concentrate on the achievement of a single important English writer of the last two centuries: the chosen writer might, for example, be Keats, Dickens, Browning, or Joyce. As part of the required work, each student will select an individual research project for a class report. One previous course in English Literature or permission of the instructor.
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May 8, 2024
This course explores in some depth a particular period, theme(s), or genre in American Literature. Students study the major historical and cultural contexts out of which the works grew. An important aim of the course is to deepen students’ knowledge of a certain topic through a choice of representative writers and works. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics. This is a reading and writing intensive course.
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May 8, 2024
The course deals with novels selected in terms of a particular theme or a particular period of time within the 20th century as, for example, the development of the traditional theme of romantic love in the first or the second third of the century. The novels studied may include both works written in English and works in translation. One previous course in English Literature or permission of the instructor.
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May 8, 2024
The course explores a particular moment, theme, or genre within the broader context of English literature of this period. Possible topics include the works of Dryden, Pope, Johnson and their circles, the impact of the sentimental movement upon neo-classical culture, and a survey of fiction of the 18th century. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
In this course, students will engage in a chronological exploration of the sonnet. Beginning with a brief introduction to the forms Italian origins, students will then examine the formal and thematic evolutions of the sonnet as it came to and gained popularity in the English-speaking world. Themes and conventions to be discussed will include Petrarchism, courtly love, gender, anti-Petrarchism, history, politics, the self, and art.
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May 8, 2024
The course explores a particular moment, theme, or genre within the broader context of English literature of this period. Possible topics include the works of Dryden, Pope, Johnson and their circles, the impact of the sentimental movement upon neo-classical culture, and a survey of fiction of the 18th century. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
This course analyses the role and significance of the tragic in important works of literature in English. The structure, sentiment, devices and idea of the tragic will be discussed, along with a general analysis of the structural differences and similarities between twentieth century tragic works and those designated as classical examples of Tragedy.
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May 8, 2024
This course is an upper-level course designed to provide a thorough investigation of a limited number of texts or of a specific central unifying theme that can be chosen either from Western or non-Western literature. The course invites students to take a closer look both at the text or theme in question and at the world out of which the focal subject developed.
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May 8, 2024
By examining short stories, this course develops students’ critical abilities in reading and writing about narrative fiction. The students are introduced to a comparative perspective on literature and learn to identify and evaluate the short story’s formal elements, acquiring the skill to read fiction critically, to look beyond the content, to appreciate the ambiguities and complexities of the literary text, and to communicate their findings in critical papers of academic quality.
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May 8, 2024
Thesis supervision for English majors in their final year.
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May 8, 2024
This course considers the importance of the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath to American and British fiction. Following a brief survey of the historical context of slavery and the slave trade, students will read British and American slave narratives and consider their creative afterlife in a selection of novels. They will be introduced to the literary conventions of the genre of slave, free men and free women writings.
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May 8, 2024
This course serves as an introduction to the growing field and practice of digital humanities in literature, with a focus on the transformative role of digital technologies in how we experience the stories of humankind and, in turn, the important role of language arts in humanizing technology.
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May 8, 2024
This course is a general introduction to Shakespeares plays and an in-depth study of a selection of representative plays including a comedy, a history, a tragedy, and a romance. Through the close reading of the plays selected for the course, students will learn how to analyze a theatrical text, will study the Elizabethan stage in its day, and consider Shakespeares cultural inheritance. This is a reading and writing intensive course.
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May 8, 2024
An overview of the poetry produced during the Victorian Age in Britain and an indepth study of the works of the principal poets. The course aims at an assessment of the influence of cultural and historical forces on the poetical texts of the period through the close reading of selected works.
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May 8, 2024
This course serves as an introduction to the growing field and practice of digital humanities in literature, with a focus on the transformative role of digital technologies in how we experience the stories of humankind and, in turn, the important role of language arts in humanizing technology.
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May 8, 2024
This course entails the study of five of Shakespeares plays in order to assess how he located and historicized his Italian-based drama. Thanks to the Rome location, students will be able to directly compare the archaeology of Shakespeares creativity with the splendors of ancient and Renaissance Italy that are integral to the works covered by the course.
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May 8, 2024
A survey of women writers in the English literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present. This course starts from Margery Kempe and ends with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Louise Erdich. Feminist critical theories and selected essays are also included.
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May 8, 2024
One of London’s (and New York’s) main tourist attractions today is its theaters. In any one season, the choice of productions to see is well over 50 and varies from ancient Greek tragedies to the latest blockbuster musical. EN 248 “Elizabethan and Jacobean Theater – an Introduction” examines the origin of this tradition in the time of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603), King James I (1603 – 1625)
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May 8, 2024
A continuation of the survey begun in EN 230, this course deals with works by major British writers in the period 1660 to 1832. Approximately equal attention is devoted to writers of the Restoration (excluding Milton) and 18th century, and to writers of the Romantic Movement.
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May 8, 2024
Gender plays a role in every literary text produced and read. This course examines gender studies from a formal and historical perspective within literature and asks what gender means and how it operates within the field of textual studies. Students will examine gender, from an intersectional point of view, in the creation, reception, and meaning-making of texts.
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May 8, 2024
This workshop aims to develop the graduate-level creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of poems; to develop self-editing skills; to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing poems. Students will read both contemporary and canonical poetry and materials related to analyzing and editing poems, and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates poems, and producing their own poems and discussing them in workshop.
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May 8, 2024
To supplement the traditional university study of composition and literary analysis, this course provides students with the opportunity to develop skills at reading literature as a source of help in improving their own creative writing. Designed primary for students interested in creative writing, the course focuses on the reading of literature from the point of view of the practice, or craft, of fiction writing.
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May 8, 2024
The For Credit (FC) Internship course combines academic learning with a short-term (part-time with a minimum of 150 hours) internship. Field experience allows participants to combine academic learning with hands-on work experience. For-Credit internships are unpaid. The organization or firm must be sponsored by the JCU Career Services Center (CSC).
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May 8, 2024
The course considers the concern of representative Romantic and Victorian writers to perceive some thread of meaning in the development of their lives and their efforts to make their own pilgrimages and discoveries of a life-mission exemplary for others.
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May 8, 2024
Designed as an introduction to the theoretical approaches to literature, the course will stimulate students to think and write critically through the study of the principal topics of literary theory. The course will adopt both a historical approach, covering each theory in the chronological order of its appearance on the scene, and a critical approach – putting the theories to the test by applying them to a literary text.
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May 8, 2024
The course deals with novels selected in terms of a particular theme or a particular period of time within the 20th century as, for example, the development of the traditional theme of romantic love in the first or the second third of the century. The novels studied may include both works written in English and works in translation. One previous course in English Literature or permission of the instructor.
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May 8, 2024
Presupposing no previous knowledge of literature, this course deals in an intensive manner with a very limited selection of works in four genres, poetry, short story, drama and novel. Students learn the basic literary terms that they need to know to approach literary texts. They are required to do close readings of the assigned text, use various critical approaches and write critical essays on the specified readings.
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May 8, 2024
The course will deal with a limited number of poets who have written in the English language. In some terms, the major American poets may be studied, while in others the major figures in British and Irish poetry. One previous course in English Literature or permission of the instructor.
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May 8, 2024
This course focuses on the core function of narrative across disciplines. Understanding how narratives work is essential to communicate effectively on any subject, through any medium. We use stories to understand and interpret our world and our place in it. Students will be introduced to the critical principles, terminology, and applications of narrative studies as they were first developed in literary and cultural theory.
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May 8, 2024
The course will deal with a limited number of poets who have written in the English language. In some terms, the major American poets may be studied, while in others the major figures in British and Irish poetry. One previous course in English Literature or permission of the instructor.
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May 8, 2024
The course considers the importance of Italy for non-Italian writers, particularly European, British and American writers from the eighteenth century onward. Topics considered include: a critique of the perception and construction of Italy and Italians, the development of genres like the gothic or novels of national identity, the gendering of nationality, imperialism, the use of art and history in literature.
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May 8, 2024
The course deals with a limited number of poets who have written in the English language. In some terms, the major American poets may be studied, while in others the major figures in British and Irish poetry. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 300-level literature classes are required to produce 5-6,000 words of critical writing.
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May 8, 2024
The course considers the importance of Italy for non-Italian writers, particularly European, British and American writers from the eighteenth century onward. Topics considered include: a critique of the perception and construction of Italy and Italians, the development of genres like the gothic or novels of national identity, the gendering of nationality, imperialism, the use of art and history in literature.
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May 8, 2024
This workshop aims to develop advanced creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction; to develop self-editing skills; and to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing literary fiction. Students will read both contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates’ fiction, and producing and workshopping their own fiction.
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May 8, 2024
What is it about Jane Austens fictional world that makes her novels so popular, and why do we continue to adapt her work on screen? This course considers the enduring appeal of Austens novels from within and beyond their historical contexts.
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May 8, 2024
The course deals with the development of American Literature from the mid-17th century to modern times, with an emphasis on the creation of a distinctive American “voice.” Attention will be given to writers in the Puritan period and the early Republic, as well as to those who contributed to the pre-Civil War “American Renaissance,” the rise of Realism and Naturalism, and the “Lost Generation.
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May 8, 2024
This is a one-credit course in research methodology and practices for the development of a thesis in English Literature. The course is intended for English literature majors in their penultimate term. Students will be introduced to the practicalities of thesis writing.
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May 8, 2024
This course examines a series of Roman authors in relation to particular writers from more recent centuries. The comparisons will situate each author in his own cultural context then look at the nature of the link between selected ancient and the modern texts. Sometimes this comparison will lead to considerations of the great axis of Rome/London in order to better appreciate how modern authors perceived their own relation to the ancient world.
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May 8, 2024
Designed especially for English majors, this course should be taken during the student’s final year. It includes a historical survey of the major critical theories of literature begining with those of Plato and focusing finally upon those developed since 1970. While examining critical theories, students will also reveiw the literary works that they have studied in their previous undergraduate courses and relate the theories to those works.
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May 8, 2024
To supplement the traditional university study of composition and literary analysis, this course provides students with the opportunity to develop skills at reading literature as a source of help in improving their own creative writing. Designed primary for students interested in creative writing, the course focuses on the reading of literature from the point of view of the practice, or craft, of fiction writing.
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May 8, 2024
This course explores the themes of crime and punishment in literature, with particular emphasis on the treatment of guilt (and the attendant concepts of legal and moral responsibility) as it is experienced by the individual consciousness of the perpetrator, the accused, the victim, the jailer, and the collective conscience of society.
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