2003-2004 - The University of Scranton

134 Arts and Sciences/English
ENLT 237 3 cr.
(CL,W) The Darker Romantics
(Area C) A survey of the second half of the
British Romantic period. Readings will include
Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, and at least three
“minor” writers of this era. Discussions will focus
on the waning of the "Romantic religion" of
Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth in an increasingly
prosperous, skeptical, and secularized era.
ENLT 239 3 cr.
(CL,D,W) Irish Short Story
(Area E) Detailed study of short stories from the
pens of such masters as Yeats, Joyce, Frank
O’Connor, McGovern, Jordan, Trevor, and
Beckett. Serious craftsmen aware of the verbal
tradition, shapers of the Literary Revival, these
masters of language forge a literature that affirms
spiritual values in the midst of material misery.
ENLT 240 3 cr.
British Literature: Medieval and Renaissance
(Area A) A detailed study of representative works
and authors from the Anglo-Saxons to the 17th
century. Though the emphasis will be on an
intensive study of major works in their literary
and cultural context, consideration will be given
to minor writers as well.
ENLT 241 3 cr.
British Literature: Restoration and 18th
Century
(Area B) Study of a select group of English and
Anglo-Irish authors whose works were first published
between 1660 and 1776. Discussions and
assignments will emphasize literary history, critical
analysis, and sociopolitical contexts.
ENLT 242 3 cr.
British Literature: Romantic and Victorian
(Area C) A study of the major literary works in
19th-century England: poetry, novels and nonfictional
prose. The emphasis is threefold: critical
analysis; literary history; social, intellectual and
political background.
ENLT 243 3 cr.
American Literature to 1865
(Area D) An in-depth study of a select group of
major American authors from the Colonial
Period to the Civil War. Included are Bradford,
Franklin, Irving, and Poe. Consideration given
to the historical and cultural milieu and development
of major American themes and attitudes.
ENLT 244 3 cr.
Modern British Literature
(Area E) Selected modern and postmodern English
poets, playwrights, and fiction writers: Hopkins,
Eliot, Hughes, Auden, Larkin, Spender,
Osborne, Stoppard, Pinter, Greene, Waugh, Read,
Lodge, Amis, Spark, McEwan and Chatwin.
ENLT 245 3 cr.
American Literature, 1865 to the Present
(Area F) Study of a select group of major American
authors from the Civil War to the present.
Included are Twain, Crane, Fitzgerald and Vonnegut.
The historical and cultural milieu and the
development of major American themes and attitudes
are reviewed.
ENLT 295 3 cr.
(CL) Shakespeare in Stratford
This course combines a traditional study of six
Shakespearean plays on the University campus
with a week-long residency at the Shakespeare
Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Students
will read and discuss the plays produced during
the current Royal Shakespeare Company season
and attend performances of those plays.
All 300-level ENLT courses have a prerequisite
of ENLT 140 or equivalent; a 200-level ENLT
course is strongly recommended.
ENLT 340 3 cr.
Introduction to Late Medieval Drama
(Area A) A survey of 14th- and 15th -century
drama, including the Corpus Christi cycle,
morality plays such as Everyman, Mankind and
Castle of Perseverence, and the saint’s play. This
course may be counted toward the Theatre
major, minor or track.
ENLT 341 3 cr.
(CL,W) Shakespeare: Special Topics
(Theory Intensive) A detailed study of Shakespeare’s
treatment of either a particular genre
(comedy, tragedy, history, romance) or a particular
subject that occurs across genres. Special
attention will be paid to the meaning of plays in
performance. This course may be counted
toward the Theatre track or minor.
ENLT 342 3 cr.
Renaissance Poetry and Prose
A survey of lyric and narrative poetry, fictional
and non-fictional prose, and drama written in
England between the time of Sir Thomas More
and John Milton. Readings will include More,
Surrey, Lyly, Spenser, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney,
Donne, Webster, Jonson, Marvell, and Milton.