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21&62:352:223,224Survey of American Literature (3,3) The effects of intellectual and social changes, and the relationship between important authors and their times. American literature to the Civil War in the first term, continuing to the present in the second term. Open to sophomores and juniors. Can be taken as elective toward English major. |
21&62:352:300,301American Poetry (3,3) American poetry and its backgrounds, critical standards, and techniques from the 17th century to the present. |
21:352:324Latino/a Literature and Culture (3) Examines representative texts by Latino/a authors from
the colonial period through the present, which reveal the perspectives
of Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South, and Central American migrant
writers. Considers a variety of genres and formats including
chronicles, essays, fiction, oratory, journalism, performance art,
film, and music. Themes include: migration, assimilation,
dislocation; working conditions and labor struggles; colonization;
language loss and translation; cultural hybridity and mestizaje;
gender, sexuality, color, class, nationality, and transnationality in
Latino/a texts. Students may engage in group research into Latino/a
cultures of New York and New Jersey.
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21&62:352:333American Drama (3) A survey of American plays in their historical context from early
melodramas, romances, and comedies through the modern realistic and
expressionistic work of O'Neill, Odets, Anderson, Hellman, Miller,
Williams, Albee, Baraka, and others. |
21&62:352:337,338American Literature of the 19th Century (3,3) Studies in two or more related authors; emphasis on Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, or Melville in the first term and on Whitman, Twain, James, or Dickinson in the second term. |
21&62:352:343,344American Literature of the 20th & 21st Centuries (3,3) Major fiction, poetry, and other writing by Dreiser, Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, O'Neill, Dos Passos, Frost, Faulkner, or other recent American authors. |
21&62:352:348,349Representations of Race in American Literature (3,3) First term: poetry, short fiction, autobiographies, and novels from the 19th to mid-20th centuries; second term: texts from the 20th century. Texts by African-American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Jewish-American, and other "minority" or immigrant writers; emphasis on social, historical, and political contexts, and social construction of "race" and ethnicity. |
21&62:352:350The Vietnam War and American Literature (3) Interdisciplinary course exploring the interrelations between the U.S. war in Vietnam and American culture--before, during, and after. Students study fiction, poetry, autobiography, documentary films, and primary documents, including treaties, previously classified reports, and internal analyses written by the decision makers. |
21&62:352:351Crime and Punishment in American Literature (3) Crime and punishment in representative and influential works of American literature from the mid-19th century to the present. |
21&62:352:361Studies in American Authors I (3) Selections from the colonial period to the Civil War. |
21&62:352:362Studies in American Authors II (3) Selections from the post-Civil War period to the 21st century. May be taken independent of 21&62:352:361. |
21&62:352:363,364The Novel in America (3,3) First term: novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries; second term: novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. A diverse range of American novels by both canonical and noncanonical writers; emphasis on the social and historical contexts of fictional conventions. |
21&62:352:368,369Special Topics in American Literature (3,3) Topics change from year to year; specific topic noted in the Schedule of Classes. |
21&62:352:376Modern American Poetry (3) Poetry from the imagist revolt of the 1920s to the present: Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Roethke, Lowell, Plath, Cummings, Sexton, and others. |
21&62:352:377,378Contemporary American Literature (3,3) Survey of American fiction, poetry, drama, and other forms from World War II to the present. |
21&62:352:395,396Afro-American Literature (3,3) Survey of the significant poetry and prose of black writers in Africa and the United States. |
21:352:408Perspectives on American Modernity (3)Examines late 19th- and early 20th-century reflections on American
modernity and its accompanying literary innovations. Drawing on
scholarly discussions of modernity, imperialism, exile, postcolonial,
and comparative American studies, we read literature that grapples with
the historical conditions of migration, postreconstruction racial
discourses, industrialization, and expansionism. In addition to
relevant theoretical readings, readings may be drawn from a wide range
of American writers-- broadly defined-- including Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Walt Whitman, José Martí, Frederick Douglass, Wong Chin Foo,
Helen Hunt Jackson, Stephen Crane, W.E.B. DuBois, Zitkala-sa, Sui Sin
Far, and C.L.R. James.
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21&62:352:420Recent Trends in American Fiction (3) American fiction from 1930 to the present. |
21&62:352:468Recent Trends in American Drama (3) Post-World War II American plays and playwrights and the major influences that determined the direction of American drama; recent developments in American theater, the influence of the avant-garde, the changing character of the American scene, the growth of black theater, and the "new realism"; readings from Albee, Bullins, Guare, Pinero, Rabe, Shepard, Ward, and others. |
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