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ENGL 714-10: Poetry & Poetics: African Diaspora
Section Description: This course focuses on the poetry and poetics of the African Diaspora with special emphasis on writing from the Caribbean, Canada, and Great Britain. We will be broadly conce
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ENGL 659-01: Modern & Contemporary Poems & Poetics
Section Description: In this course, we’ll discuss and study terrific Modern and contemporary poems, and contend with some poets’ essays that (seemingly) advocate for such poems. Breakthrough Mod
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ENGL 611-01: Toni Morrison
Section Description: In 1993, Toni Morrison became the eighth woman, first African American, first African American woman, and first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the most cov
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ENGL 590-01: Dickens
Section Description: We will read three novels written at the height of the novelist’s mastery: Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. We will take the time to read each carefu
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ENGL 523-01: Hamlet
Section Description: All it takes is the image of a man with a skull, and you know that you are in the world of "Hamlet." This is perhaps the most famous literary text by the most famous author i
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ENGL 508-01: Critical Approaches to Chaucer
Section Description: In this course, we will read Chaucer’s major works, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, in the original Middle English, while engaging with a wide variety of criti
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ENGL 681-01: Introduction to Film Theory
Section Description: Film theory might best be described as an interdisciplinary set of interpretive frameworks that all try to understand what motion pictures are, how they work, and how they ma
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ENGL 664-01: American Poetry: Afterlives of the Lyric
Section Description: What was lyric poetry? This course reads an array of US poets whose work negotiates the question of genre in the period of the lyric’s afterlives, roughly since 1914. We will
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ENGL 626-01: Asian American Literature & Culture
Section Description: In this class we will read a representation of Asian American literary texts and theory and consider the debates that have shaped the field of Asian American literary studies
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ENGL 597-01: Victorian Sexualities
Section Description: Recent criticism of the literature and culture of the middle and late nineteenth century has pointed out that the famous Victorian prudery meant not so much that people stoppe
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