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ENGLISH LITERATURE (L14)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2021
L14 E Lit 3524Topics in Literature: Early Modern Frenemies: literary competition, envy, and admiration3.0 Units
Description:This course will be devoted to reading both the poetry and drama of the early modern world (1600-1700) and the relations between and among its writers. Those relations were collaborative with poets and dramatists inspiring and borrowing from one another, even writing together; but relations could also be competitive-rivalrous and envious. And at times envy and admiration together sparked the creation of new literature: so it was with Christopher Marlow and William Shakespeare and with Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. As we read forward into the seventeenth century, we see similar patterns of admiration, collaboration, and rivalry at work between Milton and Shakespeare, George Herbert and John Donne, Ben Jonson and Aemelia Lanier, John Milton and Andrew Marvell, Lord Rochester and Aphra Behn, and Katherine Phillips and the Earl of Dorset. But perhaps the most interesting exemplar of a writer driven both by envy and admiration-and often at the same time-was the poet and dramatist John Dryden who seemed to have been in competition with just about every important contemporary-Milton, Waller, Marvell, Lord Mulgrave and Lord Rochester-with several eminent predecessors including both Shakespeare and Jonson, as well as with writers whose names we hardly recognize. Our goal will be to develop an understanding of how relations between writers worked at both the granular level of literary borrowing and adaptation and at the more complex or abstract levels of inspiration and competition. Satisfies the Early Modern requirement.
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUME Lit: EMEN: H
Instruction Type:Remote per COVID-19 Grade Options:CP Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----10:00A-11:20ARemote / LA ZwickerNo Final2520
Desc:Fully remote. Synchronous each meeting.
REG-DelayStart: 1/25/2021   End: 5/13/2021
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