Courses of Study - William Jewell College

teenth century fiction. The works selected for
the study are ones which figure significantly in
the history of realism, including Madame Bovary,
Middlemarch, The Portrait of a Lady, Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
OXE 112, 212, 412. Naturalist and Modern
Modes. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: D. Dean Dunham, Jr., Oxbridge Professor of
English Language and Literature
This tutorial course of study focuses on an
important, perhaps dominant, mode of literary
expression in early twentieth century fiction,
related to expression in other genres at the same
time. The works selected for the study are ones
which figure significantly in the history of modernism,
including Lord Jim, Ulysses, The Trial, To
the Lighthouse, and The Sound and the Fury.
OXE 213, 413. Seventeenth Century Voices:
Donne and Milton. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Staff.
Analysis of important works of John Donne and
John Milton in the context of 17th-century life
and thought, applying the historical/biographical
critical approach to understand how individual
works form the pattern of each poet’s works as a
whole and to see why even in this time of contentious
revision of the canon, these men retain
their status as major poets.
OXE 121, 221, 421. Tragedy: The Dramatic
Form. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Kim B. Harris, Professor of Communication
A survey approach to representative Occidental
dramatic tragedies: ancient Greece through realism.
Focus on form.
OXE 122, 222, 422. Tragedy: Perspectives
Through Drama. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Kim B. Harris, Professor of Communication
A survey approach to representative Occidental
dramatic tragedies: poetic realism through the
present. Focus on form and perspectives.
OXE 241, 441. Post-Colonial Literature and
Criticism. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Ian Munro, Professor of English
A study of the literary and theoretical texts of
contemporary writers belonging to formerly colonized
societies, examining such concepts as irony,
allegory and magical realism and the uses that
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postcolonial writers have made of concepts like
authenticity, identity, mimicry and hybridity.
Students completing the tutorial should be able to
show understanding of the critical debates surrounding
the term “post-colonialism” in literature.
OXE 260, 460. Medieval Devotional
Literature. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Patricia Deery Kurtz, Adjunct Tutor in
English Language and Literature
Medieval devotional literature from the Old
English “Dream of the Rood” to the late Middle
English morality play Everyman. Analysis of
devotional poetry, prose, and drama in terms of
subjects, themes, images, and purpose; emphasis
on English literature, but some consideration of
works by continental writers; comparison and
contrast of various types of piety; discussion of
the social framework; some sessions devoted to
the study of paleography.
OXE 165, 265, 465. English Literature before
1500. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Patricia Deery Kurtz, Adjunct Tutor in
English Language and Literature
A study of various genres of medieval literature
(allegory, drama, dream vision, elegy, epic, lyric,
romance, satire) and of relevant aspects of the history
of the period and how it influenced the subject
matter and tone of representative works.
Students will understand this literary period as a
continuum which encompasses language, imagery,
motifs, symbolism, themes and structure.
OXE 272, 472. Christian Doctrine and
American Literature. 4 (2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Mark Walters, Professor of English
An analysis of various theological perspectives of
fiction (how, for instance, certain readings of preand
post-lapsarian human nature lead to a range
of critical assumptions about the story-making
impulse and process), followed by an examination
of the ways in which Christian doctrine has
informed canonical American fiction, specifically
that of Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, O’Connor,
and Updike.
OXE 181, 281, 481. The Novels of the Bronte
Sisters. 4(2) cr. hrs.
Tutor: Laurie Accardi, Adjunct Tutor in English
Language and Literature
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