Literature | Academic Requirements | Minor in English and Comparative Literature | Courses: 1000–2999 | Courses: 3000–3999 | Courses: 4000–4999 | Faculty

The Literature Program: Upper-Level Courses (LIT 3000–3999)

Upper level (junior): LIT 3000–3199
Upper level (junior): LIT 3200–3399
Upper level (junior): LIT 3400–3599
Upper level (junior): LIT 3600–3799
Upper level (junior): LIT 3800–3999

LIT 3000–3199:

Lesbian and Gay Fiction
LIT 3001
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Focuses on the interface of literature and identity as represented in a variety of texts written during the last century by lesbians and gay men from the U.S. and abroad. The class examines the ways in which the text is shaped by, translates, and affects social and political forces, and the shifting representation of lesbian and gay identities that emerge. Also offered as GND 3001.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
LIT 3003
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
Engages the question “Dostoevsky or Tolstoy?” through readings of some major works, emphasizing The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina as examples of “dialogic” vs. “monologic” narratives.

Women and Film
LIT 3025
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Considers the intersections of sexual difference and cinema. Topics include theories of enunciation and sexual difference, female authorship and the idea of “women’s cinema,” gender and genre, woman as spectacle, the female spectator, and feminist film theory. Representations of sexual difference in films by selected male directors are studied as a means of examining the institution(s) of cinematic expression. The bulk of the course is devoted to studying women directors as they attempt to work within and against that institution. Also offered as CIN 3025 and GND 3025.

Literatures of the Mediterranean
LIT 3035
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
From ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Spain, and colonial North Africa to contemporary Latin Europe and the Middle East, the rich cultures of the Mediterranean have fascinated writers. A comparative survey of the literatures of the Mediterranean basin from Homer, Herodotus, St. Augustine, and Virgil to Flaubert, Maupassant, Vittorini, Goytisolo, and Camus.

Caribbean Writers
LIT 3065
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Focuses on the prose works of postcolonial Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean writers. The historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of the Caribbean are emphasized, especially points of commonality among the multiethnic Caribbean people.

Literature of the American West
LIT 3085
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
No American geographical fact is more significant than “the West”—less a place than an idea, an imaginative provocation. Many American writers have been provoked to represent the West, and students read from among their work, including such writers as Raymond Chandler, Sandra Cisneros, Jack London, Nathanael West, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Willa Cather, and many poets.

Wright, Ellison, Baldwin
LIT 3090
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
Explores the “Wright School” as it is depicted in Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) and as it is reflected/contested in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) and Notes of a Native Son (1955). Students also explore, in individual or group projects, subsequent writings of the 1960s by these writers.

Cervantes and European Narrative: The Rise of the Novel
LIT 3100
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
Centers on close readings of Don Quixote and selected exemplary novels. Using Cervantes as a model text, the class attempts to define the “novel” as an evolving genre in European narrative.

Don Quixote
LIT 3101
/ 4 credits / Summer (offered in Spain)
Centers on a close reading of Cervantes’s masterpiece, Don Quixote. Topics include the simultaneous emergence of the modern reader and the modern fictional character, as well as the rise of the novel as a crossroads between autobiography, oral tradition, and the rewriting of history. Instruction, readings, and assignments are in English, but work in the original language is encouraged for students who are adept in Spanish.

Literature of the Middle Passage
LIT 3105
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Examines the literature produced—in Africa, Britain, and the Americas—as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. Reading the work of such writers as Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, David Dabydeen, Chinua Achebe, and Caryl Phillips, students explore the ways that literature registers and responds to the historical legacies of this involuntary migration from Africa.

Comparative 19th-Century Novel
LIT 3121
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
A study of four major novels, their respective national obsessions, and contrasting historical contexts (British: Dickens’ Great Expectations; American: Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter; French: Balzac’s Eugenie Grandet; Russian: Dostoevsky’s The Possessed). Texts are read in conjunction with historical background material.

Medieval English Literature
LIT 3140
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
Examines the literature of England written in French, English, and Latin from the Norman Conquest of 1066 (when England was taken over by a Francophone elite) to the 15th century. Epic, romance, history, and the literature of spiritual devotion are read in their literary relations and social contexts. All readings are in translation.

Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
LIT 3141
/ Sequence I
Refer to DRA 3140 in Drama Studies Courses for description.

Chaucer
LIT 3150
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
A study of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales for students who want an introduction to medieval studies and for those who wish to extend their knowledge of the Middle Ages.

Renaissance in England
LIT 3155
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
The principal nondramatic genres—lyric poetry, prose fiction, political theory, social commentary, religious devotion—of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, read in their social and cultural contexts.

Literature of the High Middle Ages
LIT 3160
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
Literature from the songs of the troubadours and the rise of romance to the work of Dante is examined in connection with movements in European intellectual life and social history. Readings are in translation.

British Culture and Society in the 20th Century
LIT 3180
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
A team-taught course in British society and cultural development from World War I to the present, examined from the different perspectives of literature and history. Topics include war and social change, construction of class and gender, evolution of the state, intellectuals and politics, popular culture since 1945, feminism, and immigration and race. Readings in history and the works of such authors as Virginia Woolf are complemented by the viewing of films. Also offered as HIS 3180.

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LIT 3200–3399:

Spanish and Latin American Cinema
LIT 3211
Refer to SPA 3211 in Spanish Courses for description.

South Asian Literature
LIT 3215
/ 4 credits / Every year / Sequence III
Examines the emergence of national identity as represented in South Asian literature in the aftermath of colonialism. The class explores contemporary literary texts along with selected archival documents. Topics include nationalist literature, colonial discourse, and postcolonial fiction. Writers include Rukun Advani, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie. Taught in English.

The Renaissance in Europe
LIT 3220
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
Considers the literature of the Italian Renaissance in connection with such movements as humanism and Neoplatonism. Readings include works by Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Castiglione, and Ariosto in translation, but work in the original language is encouraged when possible.

Literature of Utopia and Discovery
LIT 3233
/ Sequence I
Refer to SPA 3233 in Spanish Courses for description.

Milton
LIT 3250
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
One of the greatest English writers and the central poetic influence in the language, Milton is read in the context of the classical literary, political, and religious traditions that he inherited, disputed, and transcended. Special focus is on the relationship of “prophesy” and mythmaking to the radical and dissenting imagination.

Kafka
LIT 3265
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
Focuses on one of modernism’s most innovative fiction writers, Franz Kafka of Prague (1884–1924). Students explore the relationship of Jewish to European-Christian culture in Kafka’s work, the literary sources and historical contexts of his allegories, and the influential concept of the “Kafkaesque.” The goal is to become familiar with the multiple interpretations generated from works like The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.

The Age of Reason
LIT 3271
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence II
Examines the idea of reason in British literature from Dryden to Wollstonecraft. Readings include traditional genres and forms of writing that escape traditional literary taxonomies.

Psychoanalysis, French Film, and Literature
LIT 3285
Refer to CIN 3285 in Cinema Studies Courses for description.

Politics and Writing: Intellectuals in an Age of Crisis, 1918–2002
LIT 3305
/ Sequence III
Refer to HIS 3305 in History Courses for description.

Modern Poetry in the U.S. and Latin America
LIT 3310
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
The coming of age of poetry in the Americas through the work of the great modernists: Wallace Stevens, Vicente Huidobro, Ezra Pound, Cesar Vallejo, T.S. Eliot, Octavio Paz, William Carlos Williams, and Pablo Neruda. Taught in English. Latin American poets may be read in translation or in Spanish. Also offered as SPA 3310.

The 19th-Century Novel in the U.S.
LIT 3315
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
What constitutes the genre of the novel and its various subgenres? Which historical contexts most shaped the novel’s development, and how? What was the novel’s role in culture and society? This course asks these questions about the 19th-century novel in the U.S. In addition to many of the novels from the period, students read various theoretical and historical considerations of the novel.

The 19th-Century British Novel
LIT 3320
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence II
The novels of Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, Eliot, and Hardy in the political, intellectual, social, and cultural context of Britain and its empire in the 19th century.

Word and Image in the 19th Century
LIT 3323
/ Sequence II
Refer to ARH 3323 in Art History Undergraduate Courses for description.

Romanticism I
LIT 3330
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
Examines the emergence of the Romantic imagination, the concept of the subject or self, and the plural nature of Romantic discourse in Wollstonecraft, Austen, and Wordsworth, among others. Topics explored include the writers’ diverse concepts of creativity and originality, sense of their place in society, notions of political identity, and relation to British literary traditions.

Cold War Romantics
LIT 3335
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Examines the poetry and historical backgrounds of poets, including Simic and Nobel Prize–winners Milosz and Brodsky, who moved from Eastern Europe to the U.S. during the Cold War period and influenced the poetic techniques and politics of such American poets as Robert Hass.

Romanticism II
LIT 3340
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
Traces the evolution of Romanticism in the aftermath of the radical promise of the first generation of Romantic poets, through the prose writers who self-consciously documented their literary and cultural heritage, to the full flowering of such writers as Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Emily Brontë.

Americans on the Move
LIT 3345
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
By studying migration in early 20th-century U.S. literature, this course examines the causes, costs, and consequences of relocation for immigrants to the U.S., expatriates to Europe, African-Americans to the North, workers to cities, and others out West. Major consideration is given to how real and imagined mobility across national, regional, class, ethnic, gender, and racial borders interrogates these boundaries.

Victorian Poetry
LIT 3369
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence II
Victorian poetry against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world during a period that marked the high point of England’s global power. Writers include Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins.

Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
LIT 3380
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
Examines racial pride, racial origins, and urban blacks through an exploration of essays, poems, short stories, and novels by writers of the period (1915–1930). Authors include Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston. Emphasis is on students’ written analysis of in-class and outside readings.

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LIT 3400–3599:

Modern and Postcolonial France
LIT 3424
/ Sequence III
Refer to HIS 3424 in History Courses for description.

Dostoevsky and His Heirs
LIT 3441
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Explores Dostoevskian themes of “the double,” “the idiot” or “holy fool,” the “underground,” the “Madonna-Intercessor,” and “crime and punishment” in the works of Faulkner, Conrad, Nabokov, D.H. Lawrence, Flannery O’Connor, and others.

Teaching Good Prose
LIT 3455
Refer to LWR 3455 in Expository/College Writing Courses for description.

Contemporary British Drama
DRA 3460
/ Sequence III
Refer to Drama Studies Courses for description.

James Joyce
LIT 3490
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
An examination of the style, production, and reception of Ulysses, one of the founding texts of modernist fiction. Students analyze the distinctive style of each chapter and examine the relationship of the book to political and cultural issues of the period and to other literary texts by Joyce and continental writers. Readings also include historical, cultural, and critical materials.

Goethe to Kundera
LIT 3491
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Traces the rebellious “Faust” myth in literature from Goethe, through Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and the devils of Dostoevsky, Mann, and Gide, to Kundera’s Book of Laughter and Forgetting and the film Mephisto.

Gothic
LIT 3497
/ Sequence II
Refer to ARH 3497 in Art History Undergraduate Courses for description.

The Civil War and the American Imagination
LIT 3530
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
The Civil War, its antecedents in slavery, its aftermath in Reconstruction, its enduring resonance in our culture. Against a background of historical analysis, the course examines both nonfiction works—fugitive slave narrative (Douglass and Jacobs), diary (Mary Chesnut), and propaganda film (Birth of a Nation)—and works of fiction by Stowe, Melville, Faulkner, and Morrison.

"Race" and the White Literary Imagination in the U.S.
LIT 3531
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
Examines perceptions of racial difference in literature by whites in the U.S., focusing primarily on the 19th century. The class reads recent historical and theoretical scholarship on categories of “whiteness,” “blackness,” and (Native American) “Indianness” and conducts research on 19th-century documents concerning slavery, Indian removal, and “scientific” inquiries into racial difference. Readings include Brown, Cooper, Poe, Stowe, Melville, Child, Twain, Dixon, and Faulkner.

Race and Representation: U.S. Literature and Film
LIT 3533
Refer to CIN 3533 in Cinema Studies Courses for description.

Emerson
LIT 3540
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
Detailed readings of the major essays, poetry, and journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the paradoxical central figure of American culture. The course addresses his powerful influence in literature, political ideology, rhetoric, religion, and popular arts.

Reinventing the American Renaissance
LIT 3541
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
In the 1940s, Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Whitman were dubbed the undisputed fathers of American literature. The course explores how these authors became the nation’s cultural touchstones. Students also look at authors who were contemporaries of Emerson and company, asking: Why were they neglected for so long? What do they offer? How does the reader’s experience of the more “traditional” texts change when they are read next to the once-neglected texts?

States, Citizens, Human Rights, and Literature
LIT 3573
Refer to POL 3573 in Political Science Courses for description.

Realism and Naturalism in U.S. Literature
LIT 3581
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
Realism and Naturalism constitute a literary movement, a worldview, and a methodology that have flourished since the Civil War. Primary attention is given to fiction from Twain to Mailer, but one representative poet and one dramatist are also included.

Childhood in U.S. Literature
LIT 3585
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Explores constructions and representations of childhood and adolescence in post–Civil War U.S. culture and fiction, focusing particularly on ideological linkages between nation and family and how these connections shape the experiences and writings of authors and educators across cultures. Readings may include works by Alger, Louisa May Alcott, Twain, Dewey, Adams, Riis, Yezierska, Fauset, Cisneros, and Rita Mae Brown.

Children’s Literature
LIT 3586
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Explores historical and theoretical constructions of childhood and literature written specifically for children. Issues considered include child development, family, sexuality, gender construction, nationalism, multiculturalism, fantasy, realism, and illustration. Readings include philosophical, psychological, and pedagogical theories of childhood, as well as books written for children. Particularly recommended for students interested in careers in education.

Perspectives in Literary Criticism
LIT 3595
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
Examines the ways that critical perspectives such as psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and feminism enrich and deepen our understanding of narrative and how narrative shapes meaning. Reading the writings of Faulkner and Twain, among others, and selected critical texts, students explore in class and in the papers they write the different insights yielded by each critical approach.

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LIT 3600–3799:

Modern Spanish Literature
SPA 3610
Refer to Spanish Courses for description.

Shakespeare and Film
LIT 3619
Refer to DRA 3620 in Drama Studies Courses for description.

U.S. Poetry
LIT 3620
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
The development of U.S. poetry. The course examines its major figures (Dickinson and Whitman from the 19th century; Stevens, Frost, and Williams from the 20th century) and surveys the “minor” poets. Provides an overview of contemporary poetry, as well as much practice in the close reading of poetic texts.

Francophone Literature
LIT 3621
/ Sequence III
Refer to FRE 3620 in French Courses for description.

U.S. Poetry in the Jazz Age
LIT 3625
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
The years following World War I were exceptionally rich for American poetry. This poetry is explored in the context of its foreground and heritage, its themes and styles, its sister arts (e.g., jazz), and the uniqueness of its historical moment. Poets include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, and Langston Hughes, among others.

The Modern Latin American Novel
SPA 3630
/ Sequence III
Refer to Spanish Courses for description.

Melville
LIT 3630
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
The major novels of Melville, as well as some of his poetry and several important shorter works of his fiction.

The American Dream
LIT 3645
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
Examines American texts since World War I to ask how American fiction both reflects and shapes national identity as it engages and critiques the American dream. What does it mean to be an American? What determines inclusion or exclusion? For whom is the dream accessible? Readings include such texts as Hemingway’s In Our Time, Bellow’s Seize the Day, and Lahiri’s The Namesake.

Feminism and Culture
LIT 3655
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Brings a feminist analysis to bear on the study of culture. Using techniques of “close reading” and interpretation drawn from the disciplines of literature, art history, and anthropology, students examine literary texts, works of art, and other cultural artifacts and practices. Emphasis is on the ways that culture encodes and mediates relations of gender, sex, and sexuality. Readings in literature, ethnography, and feminist criticism and theory. Also offered as GND 3655.

American Women Writers
LIT 3665
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
Examines several texts written by American women, including works by Radstreet, Wheatley, Rowson, Stowe, Dickinson, Jewett, Cather, Wharton, Hurston, Bishop, and Naylor. The question of whether there is a traceable female tradition during the past 350 years is addressed. Readings include feminist literary criticism and theory. Also offered as GND 3665.

American Autobiography
LIT 3670
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
In this memoir-saturated time, it is important to recall that a person’s self-told story is one of the original and essential American literary genres. Students read autobiographical narratives from Puritan times to the present, from Ben Franklin to Annie Dillard, as writers struggle to control the construction of that most American of characters, “I.”

Short Narrative
LIT 3676
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
An examination of short fiction as it emerged from the oral tradition of storytelling. Biblical tales and parables, Greek romance, saints’ lives, and the great story collections of medieval and early modern Europe are considered from a comparative perspective.

Surrealism and Its Legacy
LIT 3680
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Surrealist literature, films, and art in France, Spain, and Latin America. Artists include Aragon, Breton, Buñuel, Césaire, Char, Dali, Eluard, and Lorca. Works are read in translation and lectures given in English; students with French and/or Spanish are encouraged to read in the original language. Also offered as FRE 3681.

Modern Novel of Latin America (in English)
LIT 3685 / Sequence III
Refer to SPA 3685 in Spanish Courses for description.

American Theatre in Our Time
DRA 3690
/ Sequence III
Refer to Drama Studies Courses for description.

Contemporary U.S. Literature
LIT 3695
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Novels, poems, and plays produced in the U.S. from World War II to the present. Focus is on the development of a postmodern aspect, and attention is concentrated on the flourishing literature of minority groups. Writers include Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Adrienne Rich, and Tony Kushner.

Contemporary Literatures in English:
Multicultural Britain and Postcolonial Global Culture
LIT 3696
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Focuses on literature that responds to the characteristics of the contemporary English-speaking world: the breakup of British colonial empires that produced new literatures in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and postwar exile and migration that gave rise to vibrant minority voices within Britain itself. Readings include such authors as Michelle Cliff, Salman Rushdie, and Caryl Phillips. Attention is also given to contemporary filmmakers like Hanif Kureishi and Mike Leigh.

The Latin American Short Story
SPA 3700
Refer to Spanish Courses for description.

Literature and Empire
LIT 3700
/ 4 credits / Alternate years
The relationship of literature and imperialism in the past two centuries, during the period of European colonialism and its aftermath. Readings include literary texts by such writers as Kipling and Achebe, theoretical and polemical writings about imperialism, and postcolonial criticism and theory.

Cervantes
LIT 3705
/ Sequence I / Taught in English
Refer to SPA 3705 in Spanish Courses for description.

Cervantes
SPA 3710
/ Sequence I / Taught in Spanish
Refer to Spanish Courses for description.

Classics of French Literature on Film
LIT 3711
Refer to FRE 3710 in French Courses for description.

Jewish Texts, Global Contexts: Multiple Voices in Diaspora
LIT 3715
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
Modern Jewish writers throughout the world are struggling with issues of belonging, memory, cultural identity, transmission, and exile. Questioning national, linguistic, racial, historical, and generic concepts as they renegotiate their identities, these myriad voices tell us about our postmodern condition. Writers include Jabes, Schwarz-Bart, Spiegelman, Roth, Kamenetz, P. Celan, Sachs, Kugelmass, Paley, Olsen, Ginsberg, and Memmi. Also offered as JST 3715.

Literature of the Holocaust
LIT 3725
/ Sequence III
Refer to JST 3725 in Jewish Studies Courses for description.

European Drama in Our Time
LIT 3751
Refer to DRA 2750 in Drama Studies Courses for description.

Poetry and the Avant-Garde
LIT 3755
/ 4 credits / Alternate years / Sequence III
The notion of the “new” in poetry and art is examined. Students read a range of poetry written in the late 19th century through the 1940s in France, Germany, Spain, Latin America, and the U.S., and explore ways in which expressive novelty is linked to particular cultural and social situations. Along with the poems and some visual art, some contemporary texts that advance theories of the “avant-garde” are considered.

Pioneers of Modern Drama
DRA 3770
/ Sequence III
Refer to Drama Studies Courses for description.

The Personal Essay
LIT 3785
Refer to LWR 3785 in Expository/College Writing Courses for description.

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LIT 3800–3999:

British Poetry I: Beginnings to the 1650s
LIT 3825
/ 3 credits / Alternate years / Sequence I
An examination of the development of the British poetic canon in its literary and historical context. The development of lyric poetry is discussed in the context of changing reading practices and uses of literacy, and the multiple relations between literary artistry and the social world.

Note: LIT 3825 and 3827 comprise a two-course sequence: LIT 3825 is the first, LIT 3827 is the second. Students may take either or both courses in any order. (LIT 3825 is not a prerequisite for LIT 3827.)

British Poetry II: 1660–1940
LIT 3827
/ 3 credits / Alternate years / Sequence II
Follows the development of the British poetic canon in its literary and historical context from the Restoration through modernism. The development of lyric poetry is discussed in the context of changing reading practices, uses of literacy, and modes of literary production, and the multiple relations between literary artistry and the social world.

The Modern Novel
LIT 3839
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly) / Sequence III
Considers seven novels that represent “modernity” as social, ethical, and/or individual crisis. The course explores overlapping modernist prose styles from romanticism to surrealism and concludes with a “postmodern” novel.

Tragedy
DRA 3850
Refer to Drama Studies Courses for description.

Politics and Literature in Central Africa
LIT 3855
/ 4 credits / Special topic (offered irregularly)
Central Africa is examined through the dual perspectives of literature and politics. Topics such as independence, the emergence of political parties, dictatorship, democracy, and globalization are explored through literary texts and political and social writings produced in and about the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, and Zimbabwe. Also offered as POL 3855.

Comedy
DRA 3860
Refer to Drama Studies Courses for description.

Junior Seminar in Drama Studies
DRA 3890
Refer to Drama Studies Courses for description.

Updated July 18, 2008

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