2007-09 - Graduate School - The University of Alabama

Graduate Catalog: Section 6.8http://graduate.ua.edu/catalog/15900.htmlNational period.EN 542 American Novel to 1900. Three hours.Emphasis is on the development of the American novel through 1900, with particular attention given to Hawthorne,Melville, Cooper, Twain, Chopin, Crane, James, and others.EN 543 American Novel, 1900 to 1945. Three hours.Emphasis is on the development of the American novel from 1900 to 1945, with particular emphasis on such writersas Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Wolfe, Dreiser, Cather, Norris, Wright, and others.EN 544 American Novel since 1945. Three hours.Emphasis is on the development of the American novel since 1945, with particular emphasis on such writers asEllison, Kerouac, Bellow, Mailer, Didion, Morrison, O'Connor, Pynchon, Percy, and others.EN 547 American Poetry to 1900. Three hours.A critical examination of the works of several major American poets before 1900, with emphasis on the poetry ofBradstreet, Taylor, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson.EN 548 American Poetry, 1900 to 1945. Three hours.An analysis of the sources, themes, and directions of Modernist American poetry, 1900–45, through the work ofPound, Eliot, Williams, Stein, Stevens, Frost, and others.EN 549 American Poetry since World War II. Three hours.A survey of major postwar poets, with an emphasis on contemporary poetry and poetics.EN 553 Studies in American Fiction. Three hours.Advanced study of American fiction, focusing on a body of work or authors covered in depth using a variety ofmethodological or theoretical approaches. Topics announced each semester.EN 554 Studies in American Poetry. Three hours.Advanced study of American poetry, focusing on a body of work or authors covered in depth using a variety ofmethodological or theoretical approaches. Topics announced each semester.EN 561 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde. Three hours.Includes study of Chaucer's language and the 14th-century milieu.EN 563 Studies in 16th-Century English Literature. Three hours.A survey of the nondramatic literature of the Elizabethan period. Readings in major and minor writers in verse andprose.EN 564 Renaissance Women Writers. Three hours.A survey of women writers in English in the 16th and 17th centuries, including poetry, drama, fiction, and life-writing.EN 565 Renaissance Drama. Three hours.An exploration of the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries (1580–1642).EN 566 Shakespeare. Three hours.Topics vary, but the course normally considers a broader selection of Shakespeare's works than is included in atypical undergraduate course.EN 568 Studies in 17th-Century English Literature. Three hours.A close reading of the most important and interesting works of Donne, Herbert, Bacon, Browne, Jonson, Marvell,Herrick, and selected minor metaphysical and cavalier poets.EN 570 Spenser/Milton. Three hours.At any given time, this course will focus either on Spenser (with emphasis on The Faerie Queene ) or on Milton (withemphasis on Paradise Lost ).EN 571 Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature. Three hours.Designed not only to introduce graduate students to the literature and history of 1600–1785, but to connect thatperiod to the periods which preceded and followed it. Topics will vary from semester to semester.EN 573 Problems in Enlightenment Literature. Three hours.Designed to introduce graduate students to new directions in scholarship on the literature of the EuropeanEnlightenment, or what is sometimes called "the Long 18th Century," 1650–1850.EN 582 Romantic Literature. Three hours.Advanced introduction to Romantic literature and to current developments in Romantic studies.