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Letters in bold identify courses which meet university general education requirements for: Culture:Arts (CA), Culture:Literature (CL), Cultural Diversity (D), or Writing-Intensive (W) credits. Italicized (T) and Area citations refer to requirements for the
English major. Courses having more than one letter code indicates that the course satisfies multiple general education requirements.
The prerequisite for all 200-level ENLT courses is ENLT 140 or the equivalent. Students must complete the University’s Written Communication requirement before they can register for any Writing Intensive literature course. Some of the courses listed below have
additional prerequisites; please read carefully.
All 300-level ENLT courses have a prerequisite of ENLT 140 or equivalent; a 200-level ENLT course is strongly recommended.
Students wishing to take 400-level ENLT courses must have completed ENLT 140 or the equivalent. The department strongly recommends that students complete at least one 300-level ENLT course before taking any 400-level ENLT course.
ENLT 103 Children's Literature
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Staff 3 credits | |
A broad study of literature for children since 1800, with the emphasis on American works since 1950, including aesthetic consideration of the art and design of picture books. Works for children up to the age of 12 are considered. Top of page |
ENLT 110 History of Cinema
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits | |
A study of the historical development of motion pictures. Practitioners in America and throughout the world are treated in this concise history of cinema. Film screening fee. Top of page |
ENLT 111 The Art of Cinema
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits | |
The study of the artists, technicians and businessmen who make films. Taped interviews of internationally famous filmmakers, as well as an analytic scrutiny of modern films, develop students' intelligent, active participation in the major art form in modern culture. Film screening fee.
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits | |
A study of the popular film genres (i.e., the western, the thriller, the musical, the historical epic, the woman's picture) as they developed and changed in the U.S. and abroad. Film screening fee. Top of page |
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits | |
A study of the grammar, poetics, rhetoric, and aesthetic of film criticism constitutes the heart of this course. Film screening fee. Top of page |
ENLT 120 Introduction to Fiction (CL)
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Staff 3 credits | |
An exploration of the nature of prose fiction, its elements and techniques. The emphasis is critical rather than historical. The range of works and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor. Top of page |
ENLT 121 Introduction to Poetry (CL)
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Staff 3 credits | |
An exploration of the nature of poetry, its value, aims, and techniques. The emphasis will be critical rather than historical. The range of poems and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor.
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ENLT 122 Introduction to Drama (CL)
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Staff 3 credits | |
An exploration of the nature of drama, its types, techniques, and conventions. The emphasis will be critical rather than historical. The range of plays and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor. This course may be counted toward the Theatre minor, minor or track.
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ENLT 123 Masterworks of Western Civilization (CL)
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Dr. Jordan 3 credits | |
Study of masterpieces of literature from the Hebrew Old Testament and classic Greek to the modern European, illuminating the development of Western civilization.
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ENLT 125 Classic American Stories (CL)
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Dr. Gougeon 3 credits
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This course will examine representative examples of the American short story from the 19th century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the significance of individual works, but some consideration will be given to the evolving American milieu. Readings will include Hawthorne,
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ENLT 126 Introduction to Irish Culture (CL, D)
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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An exploration of Irish culture by means of the island's major works of mythology, history, religion, folk story, fairy tale, song, verse, drama and fiction. All readings in English.
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ENLT 127 Myth of the Hero (CL)
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Dr. Jordan 3 credits
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Mythic materials are examined to discover the underlying heroic archetypal patterns. Then modern literature is examined in the light of the same mythic patterns.
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ENLT 140 English Inquiry (CL)
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Staff 3 credits
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An exploration of fiction, poetry, and drama. The approach is inductive; the aims are a greater understanding of literature, and an introduction to techniques of literary scholarship, theory, and research.
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The prerequisite for all 200-level ENLT courses is ENLT 140 or the equivalent. Students must complete the University’s Written Communication requirement before they can register for any Writing Intensive literature course.
ENLT 210 Modern Poetry (CL)
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Prof. Hill 3 credits
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Some previous study of poetry expected. Modern poets ranging from Frost and Stevens to Bishop and Larkin are examined. Major emphasis is placed on close readings of representative works and historical and cultural contextualization.
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ENLT 211 Dramatic Comedy (CL)
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits
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Principles, modes, tactics used in dramatic comedy. The plays of writers ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, as well as several films, will be analyzed as models. Opportunity for student writing of comedy. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
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ENLT 212 Masters of Darkness (CL, W)
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Dr. Gougeon 3 credits
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This course will survey a significant sampling of the short works of three of America's most famous "dark Romantic" writers: Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe. Consideration will be given to the historical milieu and the authors' responses to the problems and promises of the American experience.
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Dr. Passon 3 credits
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An exploration of the historical, critical, and conceptual nature of satire, including established satirical conventions and techniques. Representative examples in fiction, drama, poetry, and other media, with emphasis on British literature of the Restoration and 18th century, the Age of Satire.
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ENLT 214 Macabre Masterpieces
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Dr. Fraustino 3 credits
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A survey of English and American horror fiction which focuses on this mode of writing as a serious artistic exploration of the human mind, particularly abnormal psychology. Readings will include works by Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Bram
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ENLT 215 Literature of the Absurd (CL)
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Dr. Fraustino 3 credits
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Focusing on literature from 1850 to the present, this course will examine fiction, drama, poetry that reflect a general sense of disintegrating values and lost religious beliefs. Readings will include works by Poe, Byron, Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Williams, Hemingway, and Beckett.
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Dr. Friedman 3 credits
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An introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, including forays into each of the major dramatic genres (comedy, tragedy, history, and romance). Consideration will be given to the biographical and cultural contexts of individual works. This course may be counted
toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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This course examines the films, the published screenplays, the volumes of short prose, and assorted interviews and articles. We will examine some of Woody Allen's sources, such as Plato, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Bergman. Our approach will be historical and analytical.
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ENLT 222 Graham Greene's Travellers (CL, D, W)
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Dr. Engel 3 credits
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Detailed study of several privileged characters who exchange the familiar comforts of home for the disorienting complexities of the post-colonial world. Encountering social unrest in Africa, Latin America, Haiti, and French Indo-China, Greene’s protagonists abandon their aloof
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ENLT 224 Perspective in Literature about Illness (CL, W)
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Prof. Schaffer 3 credits
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This course will explore the narrative conventions of both the (literary) life story and the (scientific) case history as a means of analyzing both the characters involved in literary depictions of illness and the ways in which they perceive and understand others involved in the same health care event.
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ENLT 225 Writing Women (CL, D, W) (T)
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) This course begins with Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Carolyn Heilbrun's Writing a Woman's Life. The reading list includes a range of feminist responses to the questions raised by Woolf and Heilbrun, as well as fiction and poetry from Sappho to Willa Cather and Adrienne Rich.
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ENLT 226 Novels by Women (CL, D)
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Dr. Casey 3 credits
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A study of novels by and about women, including such authors as Austen, Bronte, Eliot, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Byatt, and Morrison. The aim is to expand students' knowledge of the novel's history and development and their understanding of women's experiences as expressed by women writers.
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ENLT 227 Frankenstein's Forebears (CL, D, W)
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Dr. DeRitter 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) An interdisciplinary exploration of the influential lives and works of Mary Wollstonecraft (feminist, memoirist, and novelist); William Godwin (anarchist, philosopher, and novelist); their daughter, Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein); and her
husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet and erstwhile political activist).
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ENLT 228 Race in Anglo-American Culture (CL, D, W) (T)
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Dr. DeRitter 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) This course will examine English, Anglo-American, and American portrayals of African- and Native American peoples between 1600 and 1860. The reading list includes works from both high culture (poems, plays, and novels) and low culture (Indian captivity narratives, frontier biographies, and slave
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ENLT 229 The Cross-Cultural Novella (CL, D)
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Prof. Schaffer 3 credits
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This course aims both to foster an understanding and appreciation of the novella as a distinct literary form and to introduce the student to the literature of a variety of continents and
cultures. The course will deal with writers such as Tolstoy, Flaubert, Kafka, Kawabata, Mann, and Gaines.
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ENLT 230 American Romanticism (CL) (Area D)
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Dr. Gougeon 3 credits
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This course will deal with representative short works of America's six major Romantic authors: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe.
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ENLT 234 Camelot Legend (CL, W) (Area A)
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Dr. Beal 3 credits
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This course will examine the development of Arthurian legend-tales of knights and ladies associated with the court of King Arthur-from its early origins in Celtic and Latin medieval literature, through medieval romances and histories, culminating in Malory's Morte D'Arthur.
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ENLT 235 Literature in the Age of Chaucer (CL, W) (Area A)
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Dr. Beal 3 credits
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This course will explore 14th-century non-dramatic vernacular literature. In addition to Chaucer, authors studied may include Langland, Kempe, and the Pearl Poet.
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ENLT 236 The Romantic Protest (CL, W) (Area C)
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Dr. Fraustino 3 credits
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A survey of the first half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and at least three "minor writers of this era. Discussions will focus on the Romantic imagination, the role of nature in Romantic mysticism, and Romantic notions concerning heightened sensations and altered
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ENLT 237 The Darker Romantics (CL, W) (Area C)
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Dr. Fraustino 3 credits
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A survey of the second half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Byron, Percey Shelley, Keats, and at least three "minor" writers of this era. Discussions will focus on the waning of the "Romantic religion" of Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth in an increasingly prosperous, skeptical, and secularized era.
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ENLT 239 Irish Short Story (CL, D, W) (Area E)
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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Detailed study of short stories from the pens of such masters as Yeats, Joyce, Frank O'Connor, McGovern, Jordan, Trevor, and Beckett. Serious craftsmen aware of the verbal tradition, shapers of the Literary Revival, These masters of language forge a literature that affirms spiritual values in the midst of material misery.
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ENLT 240 British Literature: Medieval & Renaissance (Area A)
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Drs. Beal, Friedman 3 credits
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A detailed study of representative works and authors from the Anglo-Saxons to the 17th century. Though the emphasis will be on an intensive study of major works in their literary and cultural context, consideration will be given to minor writers as well.
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ENLT 241 British Literature: Restoration & 18th Century (Area B)
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Dr. DeRitter 3 credits
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Study of a select group of English and Anglo-Irish authors whose works were first published between 1660 and 1776. Discussions and assignments will emphasize literary history, critical analysis, and sociopolitical contexts. Top of page |
ENLT 242 British Literature: Romantic and Victorian Periods (Area C)
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Drs. Casey, Fraustino 3 credits
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A study of the major literary works in 19th-century England: poetry, novels and non-fictional prose. The emphasis is threefold: critical analysis; literary history; social, intellectual and political background.
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ENLT 243 American Literature to 1865 (Area D)
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Dr. Gougeon, Fr. Quinn 3 credits | |
An in-depth study of a select group of major American authors from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. Included are Bradford, Franklin, Irving, and Poe. Consideration given to the historical and cultural milieu and development of major American themes and attitudes.
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ENLT 244 Modern British Literature (Area E)
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Drs. Engel, Whittaker 3 credits
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Selected modern and postmodern English poets, playwrights, and fiction writers: Hopkins, Eliot, Hughes, Auden, Larkin, Spender, Osborne, Stoppard, Pinter, Greene, Waugh, Read, Lodge, Amis, Spark, McEwan, and Chatwin.
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ENLT 245 American Literature, 1865 to the Present (Area F)
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Drs. Gougeon, Whittaker 3 credits
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Study of a select group of major American authors from the Civil War to the present. Included are Twain, Crane, Fitzgerald and Vonnegut. The historical and cultural milieu and the development of major American themes and attitudes are reviewed.
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ENLT 295 Shakespeare in Stratford (CL)
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Dr. Friedman 3 credits
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This course combines a traditional study of six Shakespearean plays on the University campus with a week-long residency at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Students will read and discuss the plays produced during the current Royal Shakespeare Company season and attend performances of those plays.
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All 300-level ENLT courses have a prerequisite of ENLT 140 or equivalent; a 200-level ENLT course is strongly recommended.
ENLT 340 Introduction to Late Medieval Drama (Area A)
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Dr. Beal 3 credits
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A survey of 14th- and 15th -century drama, including the Corpus Christi cycle, morality plays such as Everyman, Mankind and Castle of Perseverence, and the saint’s play. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
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ENLT 341 Shakespeare: Special Topics (CL, W) (T)
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Dr. Friedman 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) A detailed study of Shakespeare’s treatment of either a particular genre (comedy, tragedy, history, romance) or a particular subject that occurs across genres. Special attention will be paid to the meaning of plays in performance. This course may be counted toward the Theatre
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ENLT 342 Renaissance Poetry & Prose
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A survey of lyric and narrative poetry, fictional and non-fictional prose, and drama written in England between the time of Sir Thomas More and John Milton. Readings will include More, Surrey, Lyly, Spenser, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney, Donne, Webster, Jonson, Marvell, and Milton.
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ENLT 343 Milton & 17th-century Poetry
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Detailed study of the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets, and the poetry of John Milton. This course seeks to provide a bridge between the Elizabethan Age and the Restoration and 18th-century poets.
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ENLT 344 Milton's Paradise Lost
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Dr. DeRitter 3 credits
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Intensive study of Milton’s masterpiece. In addition to our reading and discussion of the text itself, we will examine its biographical and historical context and explore a variety of critical approaches to the poem.
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ENLT 345 Restoration & 18th-century Drama (CL, W) (Area B)
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Dr. DeRitter 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) A survey of the major formal and thematic developments on the London stage between 1660 and 1776. Discussions will focus on the social, political and institutional changes that re-shaped theatrical productions during this period. This course may be counted toward the
Theatre major, minor or track.
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ENLT 346 The English Novel: 18th & 19th Centuries
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Dr. Casey 3 credits
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The history of the English novel from its origins in the early 18th century until the end of the 19th century. The course focuses on such major figures as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Dickens and Eliot. Top of page |
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Dr. Casey 3 credits
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This course will focus on three major Victorian authors: one non-fiction prose writer, one novelist, and one poet. Possible authors include Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Bronte, Tennyson, Browning. Top of page |
ENLT 348 Colonial & Postcolonial Fiction (CL, D, W)
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Prof. Hill 3 credits
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Through detailed study of such authors as Achebe, Conrad, Forster, Kincaid, Kipling, Naipaul, Orwell, and Rushdie, this course explores the myths and meanings of 19th- and 20th-century European colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
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ENLT 350 Major Works: American Romantics (Area D)
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Dr. Gougeon 3 credits
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Cooper’s The Prairie, Emerson’s Nature, Thoreau’s Walden, Melville’s Moby Dick, and others. Evaluation of the works in their historical context and the development of the American Romantic movement, 1820-1865.
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ENLT 351 Transcendentalists
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Fr. Quinn 3 credits
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This course transcends the typical limits of this literary period to Emerson and Thoreau's major works. Thus, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker are covered.
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ENLT 352 The Development of the American Novel (CL, W)
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Dr. Gougeon 3 credits
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This course will focus on the ways in which the American novel has reflected our changing literary and cultural values from the late 18th to the 20th century. The reading list will include works by Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, and Kurt
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ENLT 353 Major Works: American Realists (Area F)
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Dr. Gougeon 3 credits
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Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Howell’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, James’s The American, Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and others. Works are evaluated in their historical milieu and the development of American Realism, 1865-1900.
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ENLT 354 Major Works of Twain & James
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Fr. Quinn 3 credits
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Works to be studied include Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and James’s Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors. These works will be examined both in terms of their historical context and by way of a comparative analysis of the
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ENLT 355 American Drama 1919-1939 (Area F)
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits
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A review of the first “golden age” of American drama, which includes biting masterpieces such as The Hairy Ape, Awake and Sing, and comic works such as You Can’t Take It With You and The Time of Your Life. This course may be counted toward the Theatre track
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ENLT 356 Major Works of Hemingway & O'Hara
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Fr. Quinn 3 credits
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Works to be studied include Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls, and O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra and From the Terrace. These will be examined in terms of both their historical contexts and their basic themes as part of a comparative analysis
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ENLT 360 Jewish Literature (D)
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Prof. Schaffer 3 credits
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The course provides a broad literary overview of Jewish life from medieval times to the present, examining the poetry, fiction, memoirs, and drama of Jewish writers from a variety of cultures.
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ENLT 361 Modern Irish Novel (Area E)
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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A selective introductory course to Ireland’s renowned modern novelists: Francis Smart, John McGahern, William Trevor, Neil Jordan, Brian Moore, Bernard MacLaverty, John Banville and others. These literary artists capture the verve, flavor, and illumination that distinguish today’s Irish
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ENLT 362 Literature & Philosophy
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) This course explores the Platonic insight that on the highest level literature and philosophy converge. We begin with a few of Plato’s dialogues which develop this idea. Then we examine several “literary” works in English which embody it. Our approach is analytical, inductive
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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The process of editing is surveyed. Macro-editing (publishing for a defined audience and delighting, surprising, informing, and challenging it) is emphasized over micro-editing (grammar, punctuation, and so forth). Both are fitted into the larger picture of promotion, fulfillment, circulation,
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Dr. Engel 3 credits | |
The evolution of the novel from modern to postmodern times. Major American and English writers are studied, moving from traditional narrative to self-conscious stylistic devices.
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ENLT 365 Comparative Romanticism
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Dr. Fraustino 3 credits
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Major British and American Romantic writers will be studied in an effort to distinguish the forms Romanticism takes in the two countries and to determine possible relationships. Authors to be examined include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, and Whitman.
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ENLT 366 Dante's Divine Comedy
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Dr. Beal 3 credits
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A canto-by-canto study, in translation, of Dante’s dream vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven. Consideration will be given to the cultural milieu and to medieval art and thought as these affect the allegorical meaning and structure of the poem.
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ENLT 367 Gerard Manley Hopkins, S. J.
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Dr. Jordan 3 credits
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Study of the life and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., the only priest-poet ever to be honored with a place in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.
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Prof. Hill 3 credits
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A reading of major works by Conrad and survey of critical response to this quintessential modern Western writer.
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A tutorial program open to third-year students. Content determined by mentor.
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ENLT 395 Travel Seminar: Ireland
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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This is an artistic, cultural, literary tour. Students will study the people and places that contribute to Ireland’s distinct place in the world of literary art. (Intersession or Spring Break)
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All 400-level ENLT courses have a prerequisite of ENLT 140 or equivalent; a 300-level ENLT course is strongly recommended.
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Dr. Beal 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) A study of Chaucer’s poetry in the context of medieval culture. Readings and assignments will concentrate on The Canterbury Tales, but will also cover the other major poems, such as the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Birds.
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ENLT 447 Keats: Death & Love
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Dr. Fraustino 3 credits
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This course will focus almost exclusively on one writer, John Keats, and explore the dynamic relationship in his poetry between death and love.
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ENLT 455 American Realists (Area F)
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Fr. Quinn 3 credits
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Study of representative figures in the post–Civil War period, the period of the rise of American realism. Authors treated will be Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, and selected modern authors.
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Dr. Whittaker 3 credits
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This course explores the prose works of James Joyce, a major figure in 20th-century literature. We will read Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and, with the help of various guides, Ulysses. We will work to apprehend in Joyce both the universal and the
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Dr. McInerney 3 credits
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Some previous study of drama required. A survey of the major trends and authors in 20th-century British and American drama, with some Irish and Continental works included. Readings will include works by Shaw, O’Neill, Miller and Williams. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major,
minor, or track.
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ENLT 462 Literary Criticism & Theory (T)
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Staff 3 credits
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(Theory Intensive) This course explores both the derivation and the defining characteristics of a range of contemporary interpretive practices, including those of psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, formalist, reader response, structuralist, poststructuralist, and cultural materialist critics.
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ENLT 470 Teaching Modern Grammars
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Staff 3 credits
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This course explores the English language in the context of transformational/generative grammar and in relation to what is expected of middle school and high school English teachers. Techniques for teaching these new grammars and laboratory teaching experience in the first-year writing clinic
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English majors can receive internship credit for a variety of on-the-job experiences. Approval must be obtained beforehand from chair and dean.
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Staff 3 credits
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The topics of these writing-intensive seminars vary from semester to semester. Based largely on student writing, presentations, and discussion, this capstone course is required in the major and culminates in the student’s development of a seminar paper. May be repeated for credit. Enrollment
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