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    Advanced Fiction Writing
    (2017-01) Solomon, Asali
    Students in the Advanced Fiction Workshop will not only continue to hone the basic elements of their fiction, including character development, dialogue,plot and prose style, but will focus much of their efforts on revision and the process of "finishing" a story.
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    Studies in American Environment and Place
    (2017-01) Finley, Stephen
    Texts mostly 19th and 20th c. American, beginning with Thoreau. Topics: cultural production of landscape (rural and urban), environmental history, place studies, ecology. Visual resources: American landscape painting, and including 3-4 films.
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    The Bible and Literature
    (2017-01) Finley, Stephen
    A study of the Bible and its diverse genres, including legendary history, law, chronicle, psalm, love-song and dirge, prophecy, gospel, epistle, and eschatology. This study is accompanied by an extremely various collection of literary material, drawn from traditional and contemporary sources, and from several languages (including Hebrew), in order to illustrate the continued life of Biblical narrative and poetry.
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    Postcolonial Women Writers
    (2017-01) Mohan, Rajeswari
    This course will focus on writings by women from a range of postcolonial societies, and examine the ways they intervene in and energize aesthetic and political discourses that critique gender arrangements. In particular, we will explore the ways writers use diverse narrative traditions such as folklore, fable, and memoir--as well as, more recently, digital writing styles--to give voice to their particular historical, cultural, and political perspectives. We will also trace the play of irony, parody, and mimicry as writers figure their ambivalent positions as women, especially around issues of modernity, sexuality, religion, nation, globalization, and development.
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    The Celtic Fringe: Irish,Scots and Welsh poetry 1747-2009
    (2017-01) McInerney, Maud
    Readings in the English-language poetry of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This course will explore works by Dylan Thomas, W.B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmaid and Seamus Heaney, as well as those of more recent poets such as Paul Muldoon, Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie, Tom Leonard, and Gwyneth Lewis. Special attention will be paid to the roots of contemporary Welsh, Irish and Scottish poetics in the native traditions of the Celtic languages and to the contribution of these poems to post-colonial discourse.
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    In the American Strain: Music in Writing 1855-1975
    (2017-01) Devaney, Thomas
    The seminar is an investigation of music in American literature. Walt Whitman was immersed in opera; Emily Dickinson was steeped in the hymnbook; Zora Neale Hurston in folksong; Amiri Baraka in the blues and bebop;John Cage in silence. We will explore how poetic music and ‘music’ diverge, but also look at the ways in which music and poetry have fed and inspired each other.
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    The Novel
    (2017-01) Mohan, Rajeswari
    This course is a survey of the British novel in the 20th C, during which radical transformations were wrought in conventions of realism, characterization, plot, and narration. Texts include novels by Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Greene, Carter, Fowles, Rushdie, and McEwan.
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    Performance, Literature and the Archive
    (2017-01) Pryor, Jaclyn
    An examination of the uses of performance theory for reading 19th, 20th, and 21st- century American literature. This course uses performance theory, which grapples with questions of embodiment, eventfulness, gesture, identity, presence, repetition, reproduction, script, and timing, to ask what kind of relations these texts enact or make possible within an American tradition, and how they register but also transform the histories that haunt them.