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Modern/Postmodern English Fiction |
Translation 3E Fr. Daniel Bauer LC302 |
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English Renaissance Drama |
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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson 3E Dr. Joseph Murphy LC302 |
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English Writing II 3R Bro. Nicholas Koss LC 302 |
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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 II/3 credits/Br. 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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This course offers students an opportunity to sharpen skills in the translation of literature from Chinese into English and, to a lesser extent, from English into Chinese. The seminar will study recently published samples of literary translation and compare them with the original language, discussing techniques and strengths and weaknesses in the processes of translation. The seminar will move on examine student samples of translation, with students offering frequent oral reports on their choices of vocabulary, sentence structure, and development of atmosphere, mood, narratorial persona and other characteristics of works in their original versions. About 2/3 of the translation homework will be Chinese-English. Summations of translation theory will also be offered. Student can expect written or discussion homework every week. Strong class participation is a necessity. Average weekly written assignments are 2-3 pages in length, and a 15 page translation/analysis project at the end of the course is expected.
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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson/3 credits/Dr. Joseph Murphy |
This course brings together the most important male poet and female poet of nineteenth-century America. The contrasts between these poets' personae as often stereotyped (Whitman's theatrically male, affirmative, urban, Dickinson's theatrically renunciatory, morbid, domestic) and their poetic forms (Whitman's radically open, panoramic, obtrusive, Dickinson's radically terse, truncated, slant) can take a reader only so far into their poems. This course will take the time to read Whitman and Dickinson in depth, considering a large number of their poems as well as their letters, their biographies, their publication histories, and in the case of Whitman, his prose works and prefaces. From many angles-formal, historical, economic, religious, sexual-a complex and contradictory image of Whitman and Dickinson will emerge. We will also survey a range of critical approaches (including New Critical, religious, Freudian, New Historical, and gender studies) and consider the influence each of these poets has had on twentieth-century poetry, art, and music. Requirements include two medium-length essays or a longer essay; two presentations with outlines to be distributed to the class; and a creative project.
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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 semester.
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Modern/Postmodern English Fiction/3 credits/Prof. Cecilia Liu |
In this course we read a number of novels by contemporary British writers and a number of essays by theorists of postmodernism and metafiction. We will pay particular attention to the function of the narrator, the problems of subjectivity and agency, the intertextual and reflexive nature of much of the fiction, the use of pastiche and parody, the end of History and the importance of histories, the ex-centric perspective, and the relations between 'narrative' and 'history' (or perhaps, more accurately historiography for history in its written form) and the 'novel'. Authors to be studied include Virginia Woolf, Michael Cunningham, John Fowles, A. Byatt, Julian Barnes and Martin Amis. Texts may include: Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, A. Byatt 's Possession, Martin Amis' Success and Julian Barnes' Talking It Over.
Requirement:
1) active participation in class and on the internet,
2) a review/critique of a journal article for each novel you read for class
3) a 30-minute report on a novel of your choice with an outline ready for online publication,
4) a term paper (15 pages) and
5) a one-hour final presentation at the end of the semester.
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Restoration Literature: England 1660-1714: An On-Line Graduate Seminar/3 credits/Dr. Marguerite Connor |
What we call "Restoration literature" comes from very specific period in English history: from the restoration of the Stuart kings to the throne in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, in 1714. Many Restoration literature courses continue on through the 18th century, but I have decided to use the boundary set by Queen Anne's death, for this is an incredibly rich period in English literature, and I would like to take the time to savor its many flavors.
During the semester we will cover works by the "famous names": Dryden, Behn, Swift, Congreve, and Milton as well as look at the works of some of the "minor" writers of the time: Butler, Bunyan, Rochester, and Manley.
We will also be looking at many different genres. The Restoration period is most famous for its drama, and indeed, we shall be reading a number of plays this term, but this was also a time when the essay form flourished, and some say that it was perfected. Of course we will be looking at some of the best. We shall also be reading poetry and some early narratives.
Requirements for the course: Participation in the on-line discussions is mandatory; one short close reading to be posted for the class to discuss, one short position paper for me alone, and a 15-20 pp paper. You will be asked to post a brief synopsis of the paper as well as your bibliography for all of the class to share. Other requirements will be announced during the "first session".
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