Restriction(s): English MA students and undergraduate junior and senior students in the BA/MA and BA/MAT programs only. Study of selected plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence. Topics include origins and development, staging, and theories of old and new comedy at Athens and of Roman comedy, mime, farce, influences on later comedy.
Restriction(s): English MA students and undergraduate junior and senior students in the BA/MA and BA/MAT programs only. A comparative study of literature and ideas in eighteenth-century Europe, focusing on English, French, and German literature, with some attention to Italian and Spanish. Major literary and philosophical trends are analyzed, including the rational and satirical attack on traditional values and the current of "sensibility" which stressed the powers of the emotions and the senses. Works by Swift, Voltaire, Fielding, Diderot, Johnson, Rousseau, Prevost, Goethe, Lessing, and others.
Restriction(s): English MA students and undergraduate junior and senior students in the BA/MA and BA/MAT programs only. Intensive study of three great modern playwrights with an emphasis on dramatic theory and criticism, social context, and literary/theatrical values.
Restriction(s): English MA students and undergraduate junior and senior students in the BA/MA and BA/MAT programs only. The course will concentrate on literature from sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora and may include writers from the Caribbean, Asia, and the Americas. Discussion topics may address issues of place; power and its effects, including colonialism and slavery; gender relations, family structures, religious beliefs; the arts and other cultural expressions.
Restriction(s): English MA students and undergraduate junior and senior students in the BA/MA and BA/MAT programs only. Selected works by European, English, and Latin American masters, illustrating the evolution of the novel during the twentieth century. Works by James, Proust, Kafka, Dos Passos, Woolf, Gide, Mann, Hesse, Stein, Beckett, and others.