english<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>sized. Plays studied in ENGL 325 are generallyexcluded from this course. Offered alternateyears. V.2, V.6a.ENGL 324 (3)–Revenge and Ravishment:Shakespeare and Jacobean DramaPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission. Anexamination of English Renaissance drama after1603, including late works by Shakespeare and playsby his Jacobean contemporaries such as Jonson,Middleton, Webster, and Ford. We will study thetheater’s increasing use of sensationalistic plotsand characters as well as the drama’s probingexploration of the individual’s relationship to socialauthority. Both textual analysis and dramaturgy willbe emphasized. Plays studied in ENGL 325 are generallyexcluded from this course. Offered alternateyears. V.2, V.6a.ENGL 329 (3)–American RomanticismPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.Study of works of 19th-century AmericanRomantic writers or those who are stronglyinfluenced by them. Emphasis on writers suchas Alcott, Douglass, Emerson, Fern, Fuller,Whitman, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville,Phelps, Thoreau, and Chopin. Offered alternateyears in the fall semester. May be counted as anadjunct course toward the minor in gender studies.III.O, V.2.ENGL 330 (3)–African-AmericanLiteraturePrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.A study of 20th- and 21st-century African-American writers, with emphasis on the HarlemRenaissance and more contemporary works.Topics may include models of identity and sexuality,the effects of primitivism, folk materials,and dominant cultural values on literary forms.Writers such as Dubois, Toomer, Hurston,Wright, Ellison, Larsen, Morrison, and Walkerwill be included. Offered alternate years in thespring semester. May be counted as an adjunctcourse toward the minor in gender studies. V.2, V.5.ENGL 331 (3)–The 19th-CenturyAmerican NovelPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.Topics can include the movements towards modernismand realism as well as the re-evaluation ofwomen and minorities in American life. Offeredalternate years in the fall semester. May be countedas an adjunct course toward the minor in gender studies.III.W, V.2.ENGL 332 (3)–Modern andContemporary Women WritersPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission. Astudy of a cross section of 20th- and 21stcenturyAmerican and international women’sworks in relation to the following literary andthematic issues: narrative experimentation, ethnicor cultural identity, and relation betweenindividual aspiration and cultural expectation.Offered alternate years. May be counted as a corecourse toward the minor in gender studies. V.2, V.5.ENGL 340 (3)–The Sacred and theProfane in the English RenaissancePrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.This course will investigate the relationship betweenthe religious and secular realms in Early ModernEnglish literature. We will give particular attentionto the uncertain delineations among holy, patriotic,familial, and erotic forms of love in poetry andliterary prose. Contexts will include the ProtestantReformation, the Scientific Revolution, the court,colonialism, and the English Civil War. Authorsmay include Spenser, Sidney, Wroth, Herbert,Donne, Milton, Cavendish, and the Cavalier poets .Offered alternate years. V.2.ENGL 343 (3)–Gothic WorldsPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission. Wewill study gothic literature in England during thenineteenth century in texts by Ann Radcliffe, MaryShelley, Emily Bronte, Bram Stoker, and OscarWilde and then examine gothic returns in threefilms: “Let the Right One In,” “Sin City,” and “TheDark Knight.” We will explore historical, social, andpsychological reasons for the appearance of gothicliterature as we read critical works on gothic theory.Offered alternate years. V.2.ENGL 344 (3)–Women in theRensaissancePrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.During the time of Shakespeare, the social positionof women was both paradoxical and precarious.A woman ruled England, yet womenwere considered “naturally” inferior to men.102
<strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong> Catalog EnglishIn this course, we will examine Early Modernliterature written by women- as well as literaturewritten by men about women- that exploreswomen’s various roles in both personal andpublic Renaissance settings. Offered alternateyears. May be counted as an adjunct course towardthe minor in gender studies. III.W, V.2, V.5.ENGL 361 (1, 2, or 3)–Special StudyPrerequisites: One 100-level ENGL course andpermission of the instructor. Study at an intermediatelevel of selected topics in literature orwriting to be pursued by individual studentsunder the immediate supervision of a departmentmember.ENGL 367 (3)–Visionary Rebels:Romantic ArtistsPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.This course explores Romantic poets and Gothicnovelists, focusing on key Romantic ideas such asthe artist as hero, the sublime, nature and the imagination,the irrational, and revolution. It will thenstudy parallel developments in painting throughthe examples of Constable, Delacroix, and Turner,and in music through the examples of Beethoven,Chopin, Liszt, and Berlioz. Offered alternate years.V.1, V.2.ENGL 377 (.5, 1, 2, or 3)–InternshipPrerequisite: Permission of the instructor,department chair, and dean. This course isgraded P/CR/NC only.ENGL 380 (3)–Classics of Modern DramaPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission. Astudy of the major western playwrights, dramatictheories, and theatrical styles of the twentieth century.The dramatists studied will include Ibsen,Chekov, Synge, Pirandello, O’Neill, Williams,Miller, Beckett, Ionesco, Hansberry, Pinter, andWilson. Offered alternate years. V.2, V.6a.ENGL 382 (3)–ContemporaryInternational FictionPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.This course is designed to suggest the range,variety, and possibilities of the novel today.Readings will come from all across the Englishspeakingworld. Their diversity will itself be acentral theme. Since these works also registerdeep responses to social changes and historicalcrises, discussions will often focus on relationsbetween literary texts and their wider contexts.Offered alternate years. Not open to studentswho have credit for ENGL 398. III.W, V.2.ENGL 386 (3)–Fatal Attractions: Deathand Sex in the 19th-Century NovelPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.This course will study the conjunction betweensex and death in the nineteenth-century novel.It will explore the relationship between prostitutionand death, criminality and death, and carnallove and death in the novels of Flaubert, Zola,Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, ThomasHardy, and Mary Shelley. Theoretical worksto be studied are those of Foucault, Freud, andDarwin. Offered alternate years. V.2.ENGL 393 (3)–Modern PoetryPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission.This course focuses on the poetry of Yeats,Lawrence, Eliot, Stein, Millay, and Hughes. Wewill study their distinctive poetic achievementsin relation to relevant traditions and contexts.In particular we will examine how their poetryreflects or contests modern ideas about the self,the nature of language, the significance of poeticforms, and the purpose of poetry. Offered alternateyears in the fall semester. May be counted asan adjunct course toward the minor in gender studies.III.O, V.2.ENGL 394 (3)–Contemporary PoetryPrerequisite: Sophomores with permission. Astudy of a wide range of poetry in Englishfrom the mid-twentieth century to the present.Poets may include Auden, Larkin, Bishop,Lowell, Sexton, Plath, Brooks, Rich, Heaney,and Walcott. We will focus on questions ofform, technique, and interpretation while relatingthese works to relevant movements and traditionsas well as to the writers’ lives and times.Offered alternate years in the spring semester.May be counted as an adjunct course toward theminor in gender studies. III.O, V.2.103
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