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Elements of poetry for poets who wish to receive guidance for their own work and who wish to read the work of both contemporary poets and fellow students; an opportunity for writing, reading, and discussing poetry and poetics.

Principles and techniques necessary to the short story writer. Analysis of professional fiction as well as guidance for original work of beginning and intermediate writers. Limited to juniors and seniors.

The writing and editing of various kinds of essays in a workshop setting, plus an examination of the writing process itself and the reading of fine essays.

Study of relevant research and theory from composition, rhetoric, linguistics, and psychology applicable to practice. Intended for nominated Writing Assistants in training; others may join with instructor consent.

From Beowulf to 1500, readings from key poets, playwrights, and prose writers from the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods examined in the context of linguistic, social, and literary history.

A study of Chaucer's major works, especially the Canterbury Tales in a Middle English text, examined in the context of linguistic, social, and literary history and fourteenth-century literary history and historical background.

Readings from the greatest playwrights, poets, and prose writers of the British Renaissance, set within a framework of the changing ideas and fascinating cultural tapestry of the period. Authors studied include More, Marlowe, Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Webster, Donne, Wroth, Herbert, Lanyer, and Milton.

Readings in the fiction, poetry, drama, and essays of the wittiest, most pungently satirical, most artfully artificial era of British literature (1660-1770). Special attention to the cultural and economic background and the origins of the novel. Works by Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Defoe, Pope, Finch, Astell, Manley, Fielding, Johnson, Burney, Haywood, Barker, Hogarth, Addison, and others.

Introduction to Shakespeare's works including analysis and discussion of several of the comedies, histories, and tragedies with attention given to the cultural background and the interesting particulars of the Elizabethan theater.

A study of Dante's epic journey through the realms of hell, purgatory, and heaven in search of justice, love, and happiness, with a study of Dante's Vita Nuova, which shows his allegorical style and the significance of his love for Beatrice.

Study of classic authors and texts from France, Germany, Russia and Scandinavia including Lafayette, Laclos, Flaubert, Mann, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Ibsen among others, situating the texts within their specific cultural and historical contexts and highlighting gender and class as thematic concerns.

Investigation of the literary genre most associated with the middle class and the modern world. Problems of form and function inhere from the outset, and the definition of what constitutes a novel continues to evolve.

Appreciation for the short story and its practitioners from around the world. Readings reflect the history of the genre, notable figures, fictional techniques, and representative themes.

Intensive practice in reading lyric poetry in English (plus a few snippets from English narrative epics) in the framework of the history of the genre, with attention paid to representative forms, subjects, themes, and kinds of poetry from the beginnings of modern English to the present.

Intensive analysis of the methods, modes, and manipulations of nonfiction prose. Readings may draw from such nonfiction works as essays, memoirs, political documents, documentaries, and reportage to explore topics of truth and falsehood, representation and reality, medium and message.

Works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Bryon, Shelley, Clare, and Keats examined in the context of political, social, and literary history of the early nineteenth century.

Works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Hardy, and Wilde examined in the context of the political, social, and literary history of the late nineteenth century.

A survey of representative authors and texts from 1900 to 1945, including Conrad, Forster, Ford, Lawrence, Joyce, Shaw, Woolf, Mansfield, and the war poets, with special focus on the Great War's aesthetic, social, and historical repercussions on literature and culture.

Survey of representative works published since World War II, with an emphasis on historical and cultural contexts. Authors may include Bowen, Greene, Spark, Stoppard, Pinter, McEwan, Byatt, Barker, Lively, Weldon, and Ishiguro.

Examination of literary works that turns upon historical and political events. Emphasis given to the characteristics of fiction as opposed to the requirements of history and to fiction as a means of interpreting political events.

Explorations in the themes, forms, and theories of satire, past and present, examining how great writers have turned malice and moral indignation into witty, funny, or biting fiction, poetry, and drama. Readings drawn from authors such as Orwell, Houellebecq, Heller, West, Voltaire, Swift, Atwood, Pope, Jonson, Horace, and Juvenal.

Investigating a century of imaginative synergy between the medium of film and the medium of literature, this course explores connections, divisions, and adaptations between these two vehicles for narrative and ideas. Readings and viewings will exemplify how history, genre, and artistic form influence the translations of pictures and words.

An overview of the foundations of the American literary tradition as well as an investigation of its first flourishing in the nineteenth century. Possible inclusions are Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Franklin, Wheatley, Bryant, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.

Investigation of the major literary figures and the artistic response to the United States' emergence as a world power in the years 1865-1914. Possible inclusions: Dickinson, Howells, Twain, Crane, James, Chopin, Norris, Wharton, Chesnutt.

Investigation of the multiple American artistic responses to twentieth-century modernity. Possible inclusions are Pound, H.D., Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Faulkner, Cather, Hemingway, and O'Neill.

An intensive investigation of recent movements in American literature, including various aspects of postmodernism. Possible inclusions are Ginsberg, Kerouac, Bishop, Roethke, Plath, Lowell, Nabokov, Morrison, Dillard, Barth, Pynchon, Kushner, and Spiegelman.

Study of British and American authors from the eighteenth century to today who have creatively considered and analyzed humans' relationship to and representation of the environment. Selected authors may include William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Michael Pollan.

A survey of representative women writers and major texts from the American or British traditions with the introduction of key concepts of feminist theory and criticism.

A comparative study of representative works by American writers of African, Asian, Latin American, American Indian, and Jewish descent, within a historically situated understanding of issues, such as cultural continuity, immigration, assimilation, civil rights, and citizenship, affecting the lives of ethnic Americans.

This survey of Irish fiction, drama, and poetry from 1900 to today explores issues of identity, nationalism, gender, history, and faith through works by heavyweights Joyce and Yeats, but also by Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Marina Carr, among others.