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Contemporary
Theory and Criticism |
19th-20th Century American and English Satire 3E Fr. Daniel Bauer LC304 |
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Medieval Drama 3E Dr. Lyn Scott AV203 綜A |
Research and Bibliography 3R Bro. Nicholas Koss LC 302 |
Research and Bibliography Bro. Nicholas Koss LC302 |
English Writing I 3E Dr. Raphael Schulte LC302 |
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American Poetry Dr. Raphael Schulte LC302 |
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English Renaissance
Drama 3E Dr. David S.Y. Yu AV212 綜C |
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English Writing I Dr. Raphael Schulte LC302 |
American Poetry 3E Dr. Raphael Schulte AV213 綜E |
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Required Courses
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Senior Thesis/4 credits |
Third- and fourth-year students must take this course. Be sure to record this course on the registration form.
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English Writing I/3 credits/Dr. Raphael Schulte |
There is no description for this course. Please feel free to contact the teacher if you have any questions.
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Research and Bibliography/2 credits/Bro. Nicholas Koss |
There is no description for this course. Please feel free to contact the teacher if you have any questions.
Elective Courses
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Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism/3 credits/Dr. Kate Liu |
This course is designed for you to achieve three goals:
- an ability to read both primary and secondary theoretical texts to get a general understanding of important contemporary literary theories,
- an engagement in theoretical issues (such as text and textuality, canon formation, interpretation, ideology, discourse, etc.) as they arise from our reading of the primary texts, and
- an ability in analyzing literary texts from different theoretical perspectives with an awareness of the limitations of each.
Besides what are listed in the title, the other theoretical schools we may cover are: poststructuralism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and Cultural Studies. You are welcome to suggest what you want, and I will consider the theoretical schools to add or drop if more than 2 students require so.
On each school we will spend 3 to 4 weeks, moving from a general introduction, to close reading of some theoretical texts, to in-class application to some chosen tests, and, finally, to your own application and critique of the theories.
In this course, you will be responsible for:
- active participation,
- a 20-minute report on a theoretical text,
- a 20-minute report on application of a theory to a literary text and then a critique,
- a term paper of both theoretical discussion and literary application.
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Medieval Drama and Theatre Studies is an Internet Assisted course designed to connect dramatic texts with theatre history from 900 to 1500: a period which represents a cycle starting from itinerate players on the fringes of respectable society; to devotional dramas inside cathedrals, monasteries, nunneries and great halls; to popular, guild-sponsored biblical cycle plays in town squares and ditches outside the city walls; and finally, out of favor again as much a result of religious and civic censorship as the appearance of Vitruvius' books on architecture in 1486, which challenged the medieval representation of time as a cycle.
The course will contextualize medieval drama and theatre on the basis of several motives: to establish religious orthodoxy; to expand new-found leisure time into recreation; and to use resources to finance public events. Specific readings and historical materials will aim at submerging students in medieval life and thought as reflected in medieval performances. To this end, selected cycle plays will be read for their distinctive features, that is, how they differ from one another as well as from their biblical origins. Additionally, attention will be given to the ingenuity of medieval staging devices, financial records, public literacy and social codes; lives of performers; and common practices during theatre performances.
Owing to Internet Assistance, the flavor and color of medieval life will be facilitated by links to recordings of music from the middle ages; visual resources representing medieval art and architecture; library holdings of prestigious medieval academies; and both ancient and modern examples of medieval theatre performances. Students will have special access to video recordings of the FJU 2000 Medieval Festival and Forum which feature five medieval plays and scholarly paper presentations.
Coursework and student-teacher communications will be computer-assisted. Selected relevant critical texts include: (1)Medieval Drama by David Bevington, ; (2) The Medieval Stage by E. K.Chambers; (3)A New History of Early English Drama, edited by John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan; (4)Theatre in the Middle Ages by William Tydeman; and (5)The Medieval Theatre by Glynne Wickham.
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Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry." During this term we too will read poems and
—hopefully—keep our heads on; we'll struggle to determine what "American" poetry is and why it can give us a chill. To do this, you will read, analyze, and discuss poems by a variety of poets. This course will offer a survey of American poetry from early Puritan poets, such as Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, to such twentieth century poets as Robert Frost, H.D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O' Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Wright. Along the way we will also read poems by Phillis Wheatley, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. If students are interested in reading other poets, please tell me and I will try to arrange it.Because this will be a seminar course, most of our class time will be spent in discussion. Each student will be responsible for three in-class presentations and will have the option of doing two medium length papers
—the first due at mid-term—or one long paper due at the end of the semester.
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This course focuses on drama of the English Renaissance, exclusive of Shakespeare. We will concentrate on a number of dramatists of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, John Webster, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and John Ford. In addition, we will discuss plays that help provoke fruitful discussion of significant topics, such as domestic tragedy, crossdressing, and class. Students taking this course are required to participate actively in class discussion and do at least two presentations: one on a play and the other on a critical essay. A term paper of around 15 pages will be due at the end of the fall semester.
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19th-20th Century American and English Satire/3 credits/Fr. Daniel Bauer |
Satire is a literary genre that mixes humor with social criticism in a variety of deeply interesting and entertaining ways. This course will offer students a fairly detailed overview of the techniques of satire as demonstrated first in satire as such, not related to American and English literature (with samples from Greek, Spanish and 18th century Chinese literature), and then with a more comprehensive view of the fiction of writers such as Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Mark Twain. Time restraints will restrict somewhat our American samples, but at least a view of Kurt Vonnegut will be included among our writers there. Students should be prepared for the writing of an active literary journal every 3 weeks, and a final critical paper of 15-20 pages. Among the full novels required for reading are The Adventues of Huckelbery Finn, Nineteen Eight-Four, Animal Farm, and Slaughterhouse-Five.