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ENGLISH LITERATURE (L14)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2018

L14 E Lit 100First-Year Seminar: The Literary Life3.0 UnitsLab Required
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01M------2:00P-3:00PDuncker / 101 RikerNo final48410
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A--W-F--2:00P-3:00PEads / 205 RikerNo final12120
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B--W-F--2:00P-3:00PBusch / 14 SchumanNo final12120
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C--W-F--2:00P-3:00PCupples I / 215 HernandezNo final1290
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D--W-F--2:00P-3:00PCupples I / 113 MoralesNo final1280
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L14 E Lit 114First-Year Seminar: Science Fiction Literature & Film: A Contrast in Hyper-imaginative Media3.0 Units

L14 E Lit 160First-Year Seminar: Easy Riders, Migrant Laborers: American Mobility in Literature and Film3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-1:00PEads / 205 Le-KhacNo final15150
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L14 E Lit 3071Caribbean Literature in English3.0 Units

L14 E Lit 3081City on a Hill: The Concept and Culture of American Exceptionalism3.0 Units
Description:This course examines the concept, history, and culture of American exceptionalism-the idea that America has been specially chosen, or has a special mission to the world. First, we examine the Puritan sermon that politicians quote when they describe America as a "city on a hill." This sermon has been called the "ur-text" of American literature, the foundational document of American culture; learning and drawing from multiple literary methodologies, we will re-investigate what that sermon means and how it came to tell a story about the Puritan origins of American culture-a thesis our class will reassess with the help of modern critics. In the second part of this class, we will broaden our discussion to consider the wider (and newer) meanings of American exceptionalism, theorizing the concept while looking at the way it has been revitalized, redefined and redeployed in recent years. Finally, the course ends with a careful study of American exceptionalism in modern political rhetoric, starting with JFK and proceeding through Reagan to the current day, ending with an analysis of Donald Trump and the rise of "America First." In the end, students will gain a firm grasp of the long history and continuing significance-the pervasive impact-of this concept in American culture. American Culture Studies (AMCS) is a multidisciplinary program that provides both a broader context for study in different fields and a deeper understanding of American culture in all of its complexities.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L98 3081  L22 3082  L23 3080  L57 3081Frequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History

L14 E Lit 311Topics in English & American Literature: The Environmental Crisis Novel3.0 Units
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01M-W----2:30P-4:00PCupples II / L007 MicirNo final2590
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L14 E Lit 312WTopics in English and American Literature: End of the Century: American Culture during the 1990s3.0 Units
Description:Starting with Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind," a book that helped re-ignite the Culture Wars, this course will consider the debates and problems that pervaded American culture during the 1990s. From the end of the Cold War to the sexual scandals that rocked Bill Clinton's presidency, from the emergence of the Internet to the rise of grunge and rap, the 1990s were a time of vast change in American culture. It was period when we, as a nation, reconsidered the legacy of the 1960s, the Reagan revolution, and the end of the Cold War, a time of economic expansion and cultural tension. In our consideration of this period, we will take a multidisciplinary approach when tackling a variety of materials-ranging from literary fiction (Philip Roth's "The Human Stain," Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections") and popular films (Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and The Cohen brothers' "The Big Lebowski") to personal memoir and the music of Nirvana and Public Enemy-in an attempt to come to a better understanding of our recent history. Throughout the semester, we will pursue the vexed cultural, political, and historical questions that Americans faced in the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, and consider how literary texts imagined this period of American history. Other possible texts include David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," Joan Didion's "Political Fictions," Toni Morrison's "Paradise," John Updike's "Rabbit at Rest," and Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation." Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, WIArchHUMArtHUMBUHUME LitTCENH
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L98 312WFrequency:None / History
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01M-W----2:30P-4:00PSeigle / 111 WindleNo final16150
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L14 E Lit 313Topics in English and American Literature: "We're all mad here": Literature and Mental Illness3.0 Units

L14 E Lit 315Topics in American Literature: Popular Music and American Literature from Rag to Rap3.0 Units
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:30ASeigle / 205 MaxwellNo final25160
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L14 E Lit 316Topics in Literature: American Fiction from World War II to Today3.0 Units
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01-T-R---4:00P-5:30PSeigle / 111 Le-KhacNo final25180
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L14 E Lit 3161Topics in English and American Lit: Literature and Photography3.0 Units
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01M-W----4:00P-5:30PEads / 207 MaciakNo final2570
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L14 E Lit 316WTopics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction3.0 Units
Description:Little Goody Two Shoes taught morality and the alphabet to the poor children of her village and eventually rode in a coach and six; Nancy Drew drove a blue roadster (later a convertible and still later a hybrid) while solving crimes and bringing justice to the town of River Heights. Between these two landmark characters lie the two and a half centuries of rich and diverse fiction for girls that will be at the center of this writing-intensive course. After grounding our studies by reading selected works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we will concentrate on twentieth-century productions, beginning with the surprisingly progressive serial fiction produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and others in the early 1900s. (Titles such as The Motor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, and The Outdoor Girls advertise the series´ departure from domestic settings.) Throughout our study of both popular and classic texts, we will investigate the social, political and familial roles for girls that the texts imagine. Major genres will include mysteries, frontier fiction, career fiction, domestic fiction, school stories, and fantasy. Authors will include Newbery, Alcott, Montgomery, Wilder, Lindgren, L'Engle, and "Carolyn Keene." Writing Intensive. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L66 316W  L77 3121  L98 3121Frequency:None / History
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01M-W----1:00P-2:30PEads / 210 PawlNo final12160
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02M-W----4:00P-5:30PRudolph / 282 PawlNo final14140
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L14 E Lit 3372Women's Literature: Before Thelma & Louise: American Women's Adventure Stories3.0 Units
Description:American literature is filled with adventurers and adventure stories. Some of the most exciting tales were written by women. Their adventures include Mary Rowlandson's autobiography of her capture by and life with the Indians, E.D.E.N. Southworth's story of a nineteenth-century heroine who rescues imprisoned maidens and fights duels, and Octavia Butler's science fiction account of a twentieth-century black woman who is transported back through time to an antebellum plantation. Until recently, American women authors and their stories were largely dismissed because they were perceived to focus on domestic concerns, which were seen as narrow and trivial. But the works of many women authors are far different from sentimental domestic fiction. In addition to looking closely at the historical and cultural conditions in which the narratives were written, we examine the ways in which these writers conform to and rebel against cultural prescriptions about femininity. Finally, we read some contemporary and current criticism about these works and American women's writing and discuss the politics of canon formation. Tentative Reading List: Mary Rowlandson, The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682); The Journal of Madam Knight (1704); Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827); E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand (1858); Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979); Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow (1983). Writing intensive.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L77 337  L98 337Frequency:None / History
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01M-W----2:30P-4:00PSeigle / 104 BaumgartnerDec 17 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM12120
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L14 E Lit 3552Introduction to Literary Theory3.0 Units
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01-T-R---4:00P-5:30PJanuary Hall / 20 BattenNo final0100
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02-T-R---1:00P-2:30PEads / 210 MeyerNo final080
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L14 E Lit 357The Art of Poetry3.0 Units
Description:Let's take as our theme "dwelling in possibility" and Emily Dickinson will set the pace. Why did she compare poetry to a fairer house than prose and do other poets believe that poetry is fundamentally different from prose? Did Dickinson, in fact, believe that? These governing questions can guide us as we move from Walt Whitman's radically innovative Leaves of Grass, composed in the shadow of the impending American Civil War, into the contemporary era. In addition to Whitman (1855-1892) and Dickinson (1830-1886), major stops along the way will include Robert Frost (1874-1963), Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), Langston Hughes (1902-1967), and Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). Although these are wonderfully diverse creative voices, we will be reflecting on common writerly concerns that united them. The course, then, will study poetry in its biographical, social, and cultural contexts from the American Renaissance of the 1850s to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and beyond. Whenever possible, we will listen to recordings of our poets reading from their work in order to compare the effect of written and spoken texts. Frost, for example, who loved to perform in public, developed an elaborate theory of "the sound of sense." What did he mean by it and what other sounds did this seemingly robust theory exclude?
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:No Longer Offered / History
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PEads / 212 PollakNo final1530
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L14 E Lit 4101Medieval English Literature: Medieval Women's Writing3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-1:00PRudolph / 282 RosenfeldNo final15140
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L14 E Lit 4601The Shaping of Modern Literature: Queer Historical Fiction3.0 Units

L14 E Lit 474Frankenstein: Origins and Afterlives3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ARidgley / 107 Pawl, TreitelNo final15140
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L14 E Lit 481Selected English Writers: Virginia Woolf: Novelist and Feminist3.0 Units
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01-T-R---2:30P-4:00PEads / 215 SherryNo final20260
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L14 E Lit 498Spenser3.0 Units
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PCupples II / L007 LoewensteinNo final1570
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L14 E Lit 500Independent StudyVar. Units (max = 6.0)
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L14 E Lit 5001Honors Thesis TutorialVar. Units (max = 1.0)
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