Graduate
EN7301G - Contemporary Literary Criticism
This course offers a background in current literary criticism including
approaches such as: Psychoanalytical, Feminist, Postmodern and
Postcolonial. Students are introduced to key thinkers in each school
of criticism. These critical approaches are applied to a selection
of masterpieces by authors who include Marcel Proust, Edgar Allen
Poe, Franz Kafka, Carlos Fuentes, Sandra Cisneros, Nathaniel Hawthorne
and Jorge Luis Borges.
EN7311G - Comparative Literature: Modern &
Postmodern
By concentrating on the fascinating phenomenon of postmodernism,
this course develops a thorough perspective of contemporary literature
from modernity to recent days. It also sharpens analytical skills through
the study of critical theories that define the Postmodern. Works range
from Franz Kafka and T.S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges, Julio
Cortazar, Marguerite Duras, Margaret Atwood and Thomas Pynchon.
Honors
HO3301 - The Aesthetic Experience
This course focuses on the transformation of aesthetic consciousness
in literature and the arts in Western culture. Developments
are traced from medieval to contemporary art, music, drama and
literature.
The course should stimulate the appreciation of the arts as visions
mirroring the dominant values of each age, in which reality may
be experienced intuitively as well as rationally. Undergraduate
EN2321W - International Literature I: Short
Story & Essay
This course focuses primarily on the short story and to a lesser
extent on the essay. Key works within these genres have been selected
from an eclectic body of world-wide literature. The purpose is
to acquaint the student with classic and experimental works
of these genres, to learn the nature of forms and how they have
evolved, and to develop in the student a love of reading short
stories. The course includes works by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel
García
Márquez, Rosario Ferré, Luisa Valenzuela, Ernest
Hemmingway, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and others.
Prerequisite:
EN1311 or 1313.
EN2322W - International Literature II: Poetry & Drama
This course focuses on literature from around the world in the
genres of poetry and drama. The purpose is to acquaint the student
with classical and avant-garde works
and to develop an appreciation for some of the masterpieces of
Western literature in these areas. The student will also prepare
formal written critiques and write original poems. The course includes
works by Sophocles, Henrik Ibsen, Pedro Calderón de la Barca,
Pablo Neruda and others.
Prerequisite: EN1311 or 1313.
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