Graduate English
Graduate English
2021 Summer Term
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EUROPEAN LITERATURE
ENGLISH 729
This course examines competing loyalties in European literature. We read through various genres and European literatures translated to English from Greek, Russian, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and other languages. To understand and analyze these original works we will adopt both historical and textual approaches. How have the historical circumstances shaped the ideological, philosophical, and intellectual concerns of European writers? How did conflicting ideas on the self, on belonging and identity, and on political affiliations emerge in the texts of these writers? What ideological influences stand behind these themes?
MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES
ENGLISH 765
This course is an introduction to literature written by writers of color living in the United States. With special attention to motifs such as history, marginality, movement, violence, hybridity, linguistic identity, and home/land, the course explores similarities and differences in the writings of diverse Americans. The prisms of gender, class, and sexuality connect to and collide with racialized identities. While realizing the advantages of comparative study, this course samples only select works by American writers.
INDIVIDUAL STUDIES
ENGLISH 798
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member.