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Fiction into Film (3)
An examination of the mimetic process in the transformation of
fiction into film. Explored are such matters as fictional narratives
and filmic narratives; strategies in both forms of flashback,
flashforward, point of view, and temporal duration as well as spatial
focalization. Historical/cultural contexts for mimetic alterations and
emphases are central to the course's paradigm.
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Writers at Newark I: Contemporary American Literature (3)
Reading of at least four books from the Writers at Newark Reading Series, one book per event; attend four scheduled events in the reading series; and write four responses to the readings each semester. After checking in with the M.F.A. program coordinator before each reading at the Paul Robeson Gallery, students will attend the reading and email a short response to a teaching assistant in the M.F.A. program. Readings include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by a diverse group of nationally known writers.
Prerequisites: 21:355:101-102 or equivalent.
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Writers at Newark II: Contemporary American Literature (3)
Reading of at least four books from the Writers at Newark Reading Series, one book per event; attend four scheduled events in the reading series; and write four responses to the readings each semester. After checking in with the M.F.A. program coordinator before each reading at the Paul Robeson Gallery, students will attend the reading and email a response to a teaching assistant in the M.F.A. program. Readings include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by a diverse group of nationally known writers.
Prerequisites: 21:355:101-102 or equivalent.
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Literary Masterpieces (3,3)
Introduction to major works of world literature. The course develops the ability to read with understanding and to enjoy literature.
See also 21:350:275,276.
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21:350:221,222
Survey of English Literature (3,3)
Literature of the British Isles, from its beginnings to the present.
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21:350:227,228
Special Topics for Nonmajors (3,3)
Courses in the "strictly for nonmajors" track are more interdisciplinary and multicultural than traditional English courses, to complement students of the sciences, social sciences, and professions. While the syllabi include important literature and film, the emphasis falls on relating the works to a wide range of human experiences, dilemmas, and endeavors.
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21:350:247,248
Forces in Modern Literature (3,3)
Focuses on the relationships between imaginative literature and some of the main social, political, and scientific forces in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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21:350:254
Literature and Politics in the Third World (3)
Revolutionary movements and literatures of the peoples and nations of the third world. The development of national liberation and socialist revolution in the historical context of colonization and its aftermath. Detailed exploration of exemplary literature and film from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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21:350:275,276
Honors Literary Masterpieces (3,3)
Similar to but more challenging than 21:350:215, 216.
Prerequisite: Permission of department chair.
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21:350:302
Writing with Computers (3)
An advanced writing course with emphasis on how computers serve the needs of academic, technical, creative, or business writers; computer techniques for writing dissertations, theses, scholarly articles, semester papers, or pedagogic materials; handling scientific, foreign language, or graphics materials; business writing integrating spreadsheets and database programs into correspondence, reports, and proposals. See the Schedule of Classes for each semester; special emphasis sections are limited to designated majors.
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21:350:303
Writing for Business and the Professions (3)
Development of skills in analysis and writing of articles, essays, reports, reviews, and interviews, with exploration of individual abilities and interests.
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21:350:308
Foundations of Literary Study (3)
Provides English majors with a firm foundation in the terms, concepts, and issues of literary analysis. Reading includes selections from the major genres (poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction prose) together with a variety of critical and historical approaches. Projects introduce students to the goals and methods of literary research, including the use of computers, and provide practice in writing about literature.
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21:350:310
English Grammar (3)
Advanced English grammar; a survey of transformational-generative approaches, with attention to classroom practice and problems, including dialects of black English, English as a second language, and remedial English.
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21:350:311
Seventeenth-Century Literature (3)
A study of nondramatic prose and poetry from 1600 to 1660, exclusive of Milton; attention will be given to historical background.
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21:350:313
The Art of Satire (3)
A history of the theory and practice of satirical writing from ancient Rome to the present. Special attention will be given to the great age of English satire, the Restoration, and the 18th century, which produced writers like John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope.
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21:350:315,316
English Renaissance Literature (3,3)
A study of nondramatic prose and poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries. Readings may include works by Thomas More, Thomas Wyatt, Surrey, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isabella Whitney, Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, and George Herbert.
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21:350:317
Readings in the English Pre-Romantics (3)
The later 18th century, sometimes called the "pre-Romantic" era, was a great age of literary experimentation. This course will survey the prehistory of the English Romantic movement, including works by James Thomson, Thomas Gray, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, and William Godwin, ending with Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
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21:350:318
English Biography and Autobiography in the 18th Century (3)
A look at the varieties of life-writing in the 18th century, beginning with its classical and medieval backgrounds and running through Romantic autobiography. Genres will include saints' lives, spiritual autobiography, criminals' lives, and slave narratives. Authors may include John Bunyan, Benjamin Franklin, James Boswell, and Olaudah Equiano.
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21:350:319,320
Shakespeare (3,3)
A sampling of history, tragedy, comedy, and romance in plays representing the span of Shakespeare's creative life.
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21:350:323,324
English Drama to 1642, Aside from Shakespeare (3,3)
From the beginnings of English drama--miracle and morality plays, interludes--to the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors.
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21:350:325,326
The 18th Century (3,3)
A survey of the literature and culture of the "long" 18th century. First semester: the Restoration of 1660 to about 1745, focusing on Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Defoe, and Richardson. Second semester: 1745 to 1800, focusing on Johnson, Gray, Sheridan, Burney, Wollstonecraft, and Equiano.
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21:350:329,330
The Romantic Period (3,3)
First semester: works of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; second semester: works of Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries.
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21:350:331
The Art of the Film (3)
The viewing, analysis, and discussion of selected motion pictures by such directors as Griffith, Eisenstein, Ford, Huston, Welles, Bergman, Fellini, Buńuel, and Kurosawa; some films studied in relation to their literary sources.
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21:350:332
American Film (3)
The dominant tendencies in the rise of American film from the silent era to the present, with emphasis on comedy, the western, and the gangster-thriller.
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21:350:333,334
The Victorian Period (3,3)
Poetry and prose of the years 1832 to 1900; social, political, and artistic background of the period.
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21:350:335
Literature and Law (3)
Explores such themes as revenge, vengeance, guilt, confession, retribution, gender equality, and justice in American, English, and European works, ranging through several historical periods and ending with a detective novel.
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21:350:337,338
Topics in Literature (3,3)
Social conflict, personal values, urban problems, technology; relation of literature to mythology, psychology, and philosophy. A different theme or topic each semester.
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21:350:339,340
Major Writers of the 20th Century (3,3)
Backgrounds of modern British and American literature; major prose writers and poets of our century. First semester: works produced between 1900 and 1939; second semester: works from World War II to the present.
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21:350:341
Mythology in Literature (3)
Every literary genre from epic poetry through lyric poetry and drama to the novel, subgenres such as science fiction, and the graphic novel, is saturated with the influence of mythology. Focusing chiefly though not exclusively on Greek mythology, this course chooses a few crucial mythic themes and characters as they play out from Homer to the 21st-century novel.
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21:350:342
Modern English Poetry (3)
Poetry from the 1920s to the present: Eliot, Auden, Spenser, Thomas, Hughes, Larkin, and others.
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21:350:343
The Bible as Literature I (3)
A study of the Bible, its literary variety, and historical and religious development in the Old Testament.
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21:350:344
The Bible as Literature II (3)
A study of the Bible, its literary variety, and historical and religious development in the New Testament.
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21:350:345,346
Modern Drama (3,3)
Dramatic literature beginning with the advent of realism in the 1860s; European, English, Irish, and American plays studied, with attention to major movements and the philosophical and artistic forces which produced them. First semester: plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wilde, Shaw, and O'Neill; second semester: works by Brecht, Pirandello, Beckett, Hellman, Miller, Williams, and Genet.
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21:350:348
Early Caribbean Literature (3)
Surveys literature of the Caribbean, from the early 19th to the early 20th century. Most of the literature will be Anglo-Caribbean, with key texts from the Spanish- and French-speaking countries included. Discussed is the influence of European and American genres and movements, including the American antislavery novel, the romance, and European realism. Two key themes investigated are the emergence of both nationalist discourse and cultural hybridity as defining features of Caribbean literature. Particular attention is paid to the emergent literature of nonwhite populations of the Caribbean, linking these with the development of a distinctively literary Caribbean tradition.
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21:350:349,350
The English Novel (3,3)
Beginnings and development through the 19th century; first semester: novels
by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Godwin, and Lewis; second semester: works by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontės, George
Eliot, and Hardy.
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21:350:351,352
Survey of World Literature (3,3)
A survey, through translations, of significant works in world literature and their influence on Western thought.
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21:350:353,354
Modern and Contemporary English Novel (3,3)
English fiction from 1900 to the present. Selected works of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, A.S. Byatt, and Pat Barker illustrate formal shifts linked to social and economic changes. Questions are posed about narratives and how to read and write novels.
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21:350:355
The Technique of Poetry (3)
An introduction to the technical aspects of English-language poetry, including prosody, poetic form, and other formal features. Intense close-readings will focus on the relation between form and meaning.
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21:350:356
Caribbean Literature (3)
This course familiarizes the student with the basic themes and issues of Caribbean literature. Readings will include novels, poetry, music, and film. Course materials will reflect the linguistic and ethnic diversity of Caribbean societies.
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21:350:357
Children's Literature (3)
Explores some of the rich tradition of literature for children in
the past two centuries, from the Grimms' and many other fairy tales
through some of the classics written in English in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries into the ever-burgeoning field of more
contemporary children's literature. (Readings will vary each semester.) The
nature of this subject makes it appropriate for students of education,
psychology, and many other subjects in addition to English.
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21:350:360
Topics in Women and Literature (3)
The images and writing styles of women's poetry, drama, fiction, and
nonfiction prose in different cultures; common themes and variations
connected with class, ethnic, racial, and other differences; use and
revision of conventions and stereotypes by both male and female
writers.
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21:350:361
Women in Literature (3)
Selected literature by women that focuses specifically on women; works by Kate Chopin, Charlotte Brontė, Mary Wollstonecraft, Paule Marshall, Pat Barker, and Dorothy Allison. Emphasis on changing and continuous notions of womanhood and their formal representation in fiction; particular paradigms employed are female identity and the novel of female development.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
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21:350:362
Women in Literature (3)
Selected literature by women that focuses specifically on women;
works by Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood,
and Bharati Mukherjee. Emphasis on changing and continuous notions of
womanhood and their formal representation in fiction. Particular
paradigms employed are marriage and the community of women.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
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21:350:363,364
Special Topics in Film (3,3)
Topics change from year to year; topics include themes (e.g., women in film, the war film); studies in a major director (e.g., Bergman, Ford, Fellini, Hitchcock); national cinemas other than the American film; and film theory and criticism.
Prerequisite: At least 3 credits in a college-level film course.
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21:350:368
Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (3)
The drama of Britain from 1660 to 1800, including works by John
Dryden, William Congreve, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, and Richard
Brinsley Sheridan.
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21:350:371
Milton (3)
Literary and social backgrounds; the life of Milton, and his English and Latin works (the latter in translation).
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21:350:373
Chaucer (3)
Literary and social backgrounds; the life of Chaucer, Chaucer's language, and extensive reading of his works.
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21:350:375
Writing Nonfiction (3)
Workshop survey of nonfictional forms, including autobiography, oral history, case study, and factual narrative; nonfiction writing projects, workshop discussion, individual consultations, and where appropriate, collaboration in writing projects with other disciplines.
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21:350:377
Science Fiction, Technology, and Society (3)
Science fiction as a principal cultural expression of the impact of science and technology on society from the Industrial Revolution to the present and future.
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21:350:378
Middle English Literature, Aside from Chaucer (3)
Survey of medieval English literature from 1200 to 1500, with emphasis on the romances, popular ballads, lyrics, dramas, and religious and political allegories; selections read in modernized versions.
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21:350:379
Computers and Literature (3)
The use and image of computers in literature and literary study; word processing, online retrieval, computer-assisted instruction, artificial intelligence (AI), and information technology; how computers parse sentences, write machine poetry, make literary indexes, create concordances, and do stylistic analyses; the image of computers and other intelligent technology in imaginative literature. Readings may include works by Swift, Blake, Butler, Huxley, Orwell, Clarke, Asimov, Burgess, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Lessing, Joyce, and Dylan Thomas.
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21:350:380
The European Renaissance and English Literature (3)
Historical background and significant works of European literature during the rise of humanism and the Reformation; emphasis on their relation to contemporary English literature.
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21:350:381
The Short Story (3)
Reading and critical study of classical, medieval, and modern short stories; discussion of predominant techniques and theories.
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21:350:382
James Joyce (3)
A survey of Joyce's writings; intensive study of some major works.
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21:350:385
Eighteenth- and 19th-Century Drama (3)
English drama and its background from Farquhar to Wilde.
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21:350:390
Women in Medieval Literature (3)
Writing by medieval women, e.g., Marie de France, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Christine de Pizan, Heloise (and Abelard), as well as representations of women in Chaucer, in the Pearl poet, and in metrical romances with female heroes.
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21:350:391
Writing for Publication (3)
Advanced feature and article writing; students function as editorial board, discussing ideas for news features and magazine articles, and offering constructive criticism to each member-writer; students must produce a newspaper feature and a magazine article; the process is from query letter to finished feature and article.
Prerequisite: Writing sample must be presented to instructor before registration. Credit not given for both this course and 21:570:391.
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2:350:393,394
Studies in Literary Relations (3,3)
Critical relations between works of different periods or genres; the variety of literary responses to a given historical moment; the relation of English and American literature to its intellectual and social origins; the effects of literary works on society. Various special topics film courses (e.g., studies in film genre or the works of a director) also are offered.
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21:350:395
Nuclear War and Literature (3)
The development of nuclear weapons in culture and history from their first appearance as fiction in the first decade of the 20th century through the imagined futures that now form part of everyday life. Readings of works from Japan, the United States, the former Soviet Union, and other nations.
Credit not given for both this course and 21:050:395.
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21:350:398
Literature of Protest (3)
Literary works of several nations and eras; themes include economic, political, or social injustice and oppression; authors include Blake, Dos Passos, Gaskell, Mill, Shaw, Silone, Sinclair, Solzhenitsyn, Swift, and Thoreau.
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21:350:405,406
Major Victorian Authors (3,3)
Intensive study of two or more Victorian writers each semester; the relation of their work to the intellectual and historical background of their times.
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21:350:407,408
Independent Study in English (3,3)
Designed for students who wish to pursue literary studies (and who do not qualify for the Honors Program 21:350:495,496) outside the scope of existing courses. The student must interest a faculty member in supervising the project, convince him or her that the student has the ability to do the work, and then submit a written request to the department chair naming the consenting faculty supervisor. All other arrangements are determined by the student and supervisor.
Prerequisite: Permission of program adviser. See also 21:350:495,496.
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21:350:411
Development of the English Language (3)
Historical study of Old, Middle, and Modern English, with a survey of lexicography.
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21:350:415,416
Seminar in Literature (3,3)
Course material is specialized and changes from year to year. Some appropriate subjects include politics and fiction, theories and forms of tragedy, and the Irish Renaissance.
Prerequisites and topic to be determined by instructor.
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21:350:417,418
Literary Criticism (3,3)
Important concepts of literary value; first semester: the beginnings and development through the early 19th century; second semester: more recent trends.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
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21:350:429,430
Aspects of the European Novel (3,3)
Selected writings by Stendhal, Dostoevski, Conrad, Proust, and Malraux; development of the art of fiction.
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21:350:431
The World Novel to 1900 (3)
Major novels selected from the world's literatures, such as the
Russian, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German, read in translation.
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21:350:432
The World Novel in the 20th and 21st Centuries (3)
Major novels from the literatures of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the East, read in translation.
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21:350:433
Asian-American Literature (3)
Students are introduced to the most important works and issues in the emergence of Asian-American literature; covered are Chinese-American, Japanese-American, Korean-American, Filipino-American, and Indian-American works, among others; readings from Bulosan, Sone, Hong-Kingston, Mukherjee, Hwang, and Tan.
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21:350:449,450
Popular Culture (3,3)
A history of the popular book, newspapers, magazines, photography, film, radio, television, and other media as they have influenced and been influenced by literature, commencing with the 18th and 19th centuries in the first semester and continuing to the present in the second semester.
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21:350:458,459
Internship (3,3)
Placement in an appropriate publishing, public relations, or media firm for 8 to 10 hours per week; a journal reflecting each working day's activities plus a paper to be agreed upon by the academic supervisor and the intern.
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21:350:461
Creative Writing (3)
Introduction to the elements of fiction. Exercises and practice in learning the basic tools of fiction writing and how to use them to tell a story.
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21:350:462
Creative Writing (3)
Advanced course in recognizing and applying the elements of fiction and shaping them into various forms of story.
Prerequisite: 21:350:461 or permission of instructor.
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21:350:463,464
Creative Writing: Poetry (3,3)
Creative workshop in the forms of poetry and verse.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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21:350:467
Recent Trends in British Drama (3)
An analysis of post-World War II British dramatic literature; emphasis on theatrical movements, major figures, and major plays; topics include the "new realism" and the development of the antihero as a dramatic character; readings from Arden, Bond, Delaney, Orton, Osborne, Pinter, and Stoppard.
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21:350:469,470
Literary Genres (3,3)
Readings in the development of a single literary form or type each semester (e.g., tragedy, comedy, fantasy, romance, epic, or detective fiction).
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21:350:479
Major British Authors (3)
Selected British authors from Beowulf to the 18th century.
Individual authors selected are announced in the semester preceding the
course offering.
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21:350:480
Major British Authors (3)
Major British authors from Blake to the 21st century. Individual
authors selected are announced in the semester preceding the course
offering.
May be taken independent of 21:350:479.
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21:350:481
Readings in a Major Author (3)
An intensive study of the works of a single British author whose name
is announced in the semester preceding the course offerings. Authors might
include Austen, Johnson, Keats, the Brontės, George Eliot, Joyce, or
Doris Lessing.
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21:350:482
Readings in a Major Author (3)
Supplements 21:350:481 and uses a similar approach.
May be taken independent of 21:350:481.
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21:350:495,496
Honors Program-Studies in Literature (3,3)
The pursuit of special projects outside the scope of any of the existing courses under the guidance of a member of the department. The student must interest a faculty member in supervising the project and then submit a written request to the department chair naming the consenting faculty supervisor. All other arrangements are determined by student and supervisor.
Open only to honors students. Prerequisite: Permission of program adviser. See also 21:350:407,408.
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21:350:497,498
Honors Project-English (3,3)
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and permission of department chair.
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21:353:205
Writers at Newark (Pass/Fail)
Reading of at least four books from the Writers at Newark Reading Series, one book per event; attend four scheduled events in the reading series; and write four short responses to the readings/books each semester. After checking in with the M.F.A. program coordinator before each reading at the Paul Robeson Gallery, students attend the reading and email a short response to a teaching assistant in the M.F.A. program. Readings include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by a diverse group of nationally known writers.
Prerequisites: 21:355:101-102 or equivalent.
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21:353:206
Writers at Newark II (Pass/Fail)
Reading of at least four books from the Writers at Newark Reading Series, one book per event, attend four scheduled events in the reading series, and write four short responses to the readings/books each semester. After checking in with the M.F.A. program coordinator before each reading at Paul Robeson Gallery, students will attend the reading and email a short response to a teaching assistant in the M.F.A. program. Readings include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by a diverse group of nationally known writers.
Prerequisite: 21:355:101-102 or equivalent.
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