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English connotative meanings of the images, sounds, and copy used in ad campaigns. Students will refine their skills of analysis by considering how ideology is coded and decoded by the producers and consumers of contemporary advertising. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1208 or ENGL1502
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ENGL2604 American Voices II: U.S. Literature Since 1865 (AI-L) A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the contemporary era, this course introduces students to major works of U.S. fiction, poetry, and drama. Students examine key literary movements, including realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and study a diverse array of U.S. writers who have shaped, extended, or challenged them. Spring semester. 4 credits ENGL2701 Literature and Film (AI-L) This course focuses on investigating the relationships between different media, specifically traditional forms of literature and film, with special attention to understanding the cultural significance of these texts. Students will read literature from a variety of genres, including poetry, short stories, plays and novels. Films to be viewed will include direct adaptations of these works; alternative representations of the work’s plots, themes, or characters; and cinematic renderings of literary figures and the literary imagination. Students are also introduced to basics of film history and film theory. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2013. 4 credits ENGL3301 The American West in Film and Literature Poet Derek Walcott tells us that the poet is the voice of the landscape, suggesting a dynamic interplay between our inner and outer landscapes. This course concentrates on the influence of the American landscape on the lives and thoughts of European Emmanuel Emmanuel College College
colonial settlers to the cowboys and cowgirls of the Wild West to contemporary writers and visual artists. Using the lens of the landscape of the West, the class examines the literature of tolerance, democracy and ambition. Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2014. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL1208 or ENGL1502; and two 2000-level courses and junior or senior status ENGL3303 Images of Masculinity This course explores the construction of masculinities in post-World War II American literature and film, concentrating on whether masculinity is conceived as natural and immutable or is culturally or historically determined. We will examine how versions of masculinity relate to cultural developments such as feminism, the “crisis in masculinity,” and drag culture. We will also explore the connections between sex, gender, sexuality, race, and class. Readings have included John Irving, The World According to Garp; Walter Mosley, The Man in My Basement; Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman; and Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain. Films have included Fight Club (Fincher 1999); The Graduate (Nichols 1967); Training Day (Fuqua 2001); Venus Boyz (Baur 2002); Brokeback Mountain (Lee 2005); and Y Tu Mamá También (Cuaron 2001). Theoretical texts include readings from theorists such as Michel Foucault, Thomas Laqueur, and Judith Halberstam. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2013. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL1208 or ENGL1502; and two 2000-level courses and junior or senior status ENGL3305 Satire Beginning the English 18th century—“the Age of Satire”—this course will present works by Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Oliver Goldsmith, and