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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by cwalker · returned 4 results
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ENGL 100 Inventing the Past 6 credits
How and why does literature imagine and create versions of the past? In this seminar, we will explore intersections of fiction and history in a variety of texts, in a novel that envisions a vivid physical and emotional world for Shakespeare’s family (Hamnet), in a “biography” that sends its protagonist time-travelling through several centuries and genders (Orlando), and in a work of alternative history that imagines a computerized Victorian era run by Babbage’s Analytical Engine (The Difference Engine), among others.
Held for new first year students
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ENGL 118 Introduction to Poetry 6 credits
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought”—Audre Lorde. In this course we will explore how poets use form, tone, sound, imagery, rhythm, and subject matter to create works of astonishing imagination, beauty, and power. In discussions, Moodle posts, and essay assignments we’ll analyze individual works by poets from Sappho to Amanda Gorman (and beyond); there will also be daily recitations of poems, since the musicality is so intrinsic to the meaning.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 249 Modern Irish Literature: Poetry, Prose, and Politics 6 credits
What can and should be the role of literature in times of bitter political conflict? Caught in partisan strife, Irish writers have grappled personally and painfully with the question. We will read works by Joyce, Yeats, and Heaney, among others, and watch films (Bloody Sunday, Hunger) that confront the deep and ongoing divisions in Irish political life.
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 323 Romanticism and Reform 6 credits
Mass protests, police brutality, reactionary politicians, imprisoned journalists, widespread unemployment, and disease were all features of the Romantic era in Britain as well as our own time. We will explore how its writers brilliantly advocate for empathy, liberty, and social justice in the midst of violence and upheaval. Readings will include works by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Percy and Mary Shelley, and their contemporaries.
- Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course