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This seminar offers an intensive study of the literary tradition of China or India
or Japan. Students will study representative works in non-fiction prose, fiction,
poetry, and drama, and they will consider the cultural, historical, and social
contexts in which they were written. Where appropriate, the theories of
literature of each tradition will be explored. .

ENGL 737 SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY
Former course number 537
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This seminar focuses on contemporary literary criticism and the theoretical
perspectives in which it is practiced. The course begins with a consideration of
the historical trajectory of literary theory, and in particular, the modern
foundations of theory, and culminates in training in the practical application of
contemporary theories to a selected text or texts. Theoretical schools studied
include, but are not limited to, the following critical approaches and theoretical
models: Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonial
studies, reader-response criticism, cultural criticism, gender studies, queer
theory, new historicism, film and other media studies, deconstruction, and other
postmodern theories as the evolving scene of critical paradigms may dictate.

ENGL 755 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Former course number 555
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This seminar is an intensive study of American literature. Students will focus on
one of the following areas of exploration: (1) a literary movement or period, (2)
a major writer, (3) a theme that runs through literary works by a number of
American writers, or (4) the influence of one major writer on another major
writer.

ENGL 756 SEMINAR IN BRITISH LITERATURE
Former course number 556
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This seminar focuses on a topic in English literature that falls under the rubric
of a particular genre, mode, period, movement, or theme. Possible topics may
include, but are not limited to, Gothic and horror literature, the stream-of-
consciousness novel, Romanticism and revolution, utopia/dystopian literature,
gender and racial identities, madness and decadence, postcolonial studies,

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