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ENGL 1420-003: Poetry

This course introduces students to reading poetry by examining the great variety of poems written and composed in English from the very beginning of the English language until recently.

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ENGL 1500-001, 002: Masterpieces of British Literature

This course introduces students to a range of major works of British literature, including at least one play by Shakespeare, a pre-20th century English novel, and works by Chaucer and/or Milton.

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ENGL 1420-001, 002: Poetry

This course introduces students to reading poetry by examining the great variety of poems written and composed in English from the very beginning of the English language until recently.

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ENGL 1340-001, 001B: Mysticism and the Jewish American Literary Tradition

In this class about Jewish mysticism and the Jewish-American literary tradition, you will enter a world filled with dybbuks and golems, with stories about Ezekiel’s Chariot and the Shekhinah or the female divinity. You will read stories about the creation of the universe about absence, nothingness, and divine constriction that are rarely read in university classrooms.

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ENGL 1260-001, 002, 003, 004: Introduction to Women's Literature

This course introduces literature by women in England and America. We cover both poetry and fiction and varying historical periods while acquainting students with the contribution of women writers to the English literary tradition and investigates the nature of this contribution.

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ENGL 1230-001, 002: Environmental Literature

This course introduces students to the tradition of American environmental literature dating from Transcendentalism through realist and experimental contemporary literary texts.

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ENGL 1220-001, 002: From Gothic to Horror

Ghosts and monsters fill the pages of popular books and appear on our TV and movie screens. This course surveys the literary history of such creations and asks what we can learn from them. We will begin by exploring the origins of the Gothic genre.

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