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  • ENGL 360: Contemporary British and Irish Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    British and Irish poetry, drama, and prose fiction since 1965 analyzed in form and content with special attention to the relationship of literary techniques, and cultural, historical, and theoretical context.
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  • ENGL 361: Tolkien and Lewis

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    J.R.R. Tolkien has been called "the Author of the 20th Century," and C.S. Lewis is likewise one of the best known names among literary and academic figures of the last 100 years. The main goal of this course is to try to explain why two rather marginalized Oxford professors now appear, posthumously, as dominant literary figures for their generation and succeeding ones. While the main concentration will be on the works of Tolkien and Lewis, and their impact on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, we will also consider the circumstances of their lives and friendship with each other and the group known as the Inklings.
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  • ENGL 362: American Romanticism

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course provides an in-depth study of the essays, fiction, and poetry of canonical writers of the antebellum period (1820-1865), including Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. Students will also read writings by non-canonical authors of the period, including abolitionists, Native American activists, women's rights activists, pseudoscientists, and commune leaders. They will learn about important events of authors' lives, from Melville's four-week captivity by cannibals in Nuku Riva to Dickinson's (often caricatured) decades-long retreat to her bedroom. They will learn about the cultural phenomena (the fashion industry, phrenology, the museum) and the historical events (slavery, industrialization, expansion) that conditioned the texts they read.
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  • ENGL 363: Modern Drama

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Reading and analysis of selected plays from the time of Ibsen to the present, thus providing a comprehensive view of the best dramatic literature of the Modern American, British, and European theatre since 1870. Recordings, television productions, and stage performances are incorporated whenever possible.
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  • ENGL 364: Modern Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Representative poetry published since 1870 in England and America as the basis for a study of forms, aspects, and tendencies in contemporary verse, with particular reference to poetry as a criticism of modern life.
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  • ENGL 365: Modern Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    World War One, empires on the brink, and explosive developments in art, technology, and human consciousness: Modernism and modernist literature sought to respond to all of these factors, and many more. The course will examine fiction of the modernist avant-gardes, the high modernism of the interwar years, and other literary movements, like Surrealism, the Lost Generation, and the Harlem Renaissance. Novels from the United States and the United Kingdom provide the primary array of texts; given the importance of global social phenomena during the period, novels from other regions may be considered.
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  • ENGL 368: Postmodernism

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    What is the postmodern? When did it begin-and is it over? Is it an artistic movement or a socio-cultural condition? And why do people get so agitated whenever its name is spoken? To work toward answers to these questions, the course examines representative postmodern literature and arts across a variety of media and genres, with an emphasis on texts produced in the late 20th century in America, with the occasional foray to continental Europe. Primary texts include novels, rock music, theory, films, comics, and visual arts-and some texts that try to incorporate all of the above.
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  • ENGL 369: The American Autobiography to 1920

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course provides an in-depth study of the American autobiography from 1607 to 1920. Students will read conversion narratives, from the seventeenth-century spiritual autobiographies of Puritan women to the eighteenth-century confessions of condemned criminals. They will read bestselling success manuals, including those of journalist Fanny Fern and showman P.T. Barnum. They will read the life stories of major American activists, from Samson Occom and Olaudah Equiano to Sarah Winnemucca and Ida B. Wells. Students will think about these works in the context of contemporary historical events, from English colonial settlement and the Atlantic slave trade to the American Revolution, from the industrial revolution and expansion to the Trail of Tears, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the nadir of race relations, from the Ghost Dance revival and the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era.
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  • ENGL 370: Selected Topics in English

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    The course provides focus on a particular figure, period, or topic in language, literature, and/or rhetoric. Students may register for the course for up to six total semester hours of credit; students may not repeatedly register for a specific iteration of the course.
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  • ENGL 371: Independent Study

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    A course for students who wish to study the work of a particular literary figure or a special topic in language, literature, or communications in depth. Students may register for this course more than once, up to a maximum of six semester hours of credit, so long as they do not repeat the same topic.
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