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CATLOG ADDENDUM Spring
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Visit the
Online Catalog for
current information on courses offered in the Literature Major.
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Spring 2010
MAJOR AUTHORS
LITERATURE SEMINAR
Courses of Special Interest
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MAJOR AUTHORS (Spring 2010)
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FULFILLS:MAJOR AUTHOR REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE
MAJORS
300-LEVEL WRITING INTENSIVE REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE MAJORS |
LITR 319 MAJOR AUTHORS: Dante
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:15 pm Days: Mon. eve.
Instructor: Rosetta Dangelo (rdangelo@ramapo.edu)
This course aims at introducing students to late medieval culture, using Dante, its foremost literary artist, as a focus. Attention is directed at medieval poetics, historiography, art and music in addition to political theory, religious, and social development of the time. The course emphasizes the continuity of Western tradition, especially the classical background of medieval culture, and its transmission to the modern world.
Students study the Divine Comedy both as a mirror of high medieval culture and as a unique text that breaks out of its cultural bounds.
Students will be engaged in close reading and discussion of Dante’s Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy and will search for answers as to why after seven centuries the Commedia remains central to the European literary tradition.
This course fulfills either the Major Author requirement, the Pre-1800 Requirement, or the International Literature requirement of the Literature Major. At the same time, it can fulfill the International Literature requirement for secondary education English certification.
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LITR 319 - MAJOR AUTHORS:JANE AUSTEN
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Days:MR
Instructor: Patricia M. Ard (pard@ramapo.edu)
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Jane Austen's (1775-1817) reputation as a novelist of manners in the British tradition is robust and continues to grow in the 21st century. Writing in the early half of the 19th century, she created a richly detailed fictional world in which she invested with importance the largely female concerns of family life, fashion, courtship and marriage. Her characters do venture to the city but it was the often brutal social and economic milieu of the English countryside which primarily interested Austen. We will read five of her major novels: Persuasion, MansfieldPark, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Her life and the issues related to gender and publication that it raises will be examined, and her life and works will be placed within the context of British history and the British literary canon. We will also place Austen in the framework of a specific British female literary tradition and read some of the scholars who are (re)creating Austen's place in that tradition. The course will also examine issues of film adaptation and her literary works.
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This course fulfills the Major Author requirement of the Literature Major. At the same time, it can fulfill the British Literature requirement for secondary education English certification. |
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LITERATURE SEMINAR (Spring 2010) |
FULFILLS:CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE MAJORS
400-LEVEL WRITING INTENSIVE REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE MAJORS |
LITR 414 Literature Seminar: SHAKESPEARE
Time:11:30 am - 1:00 pm Days:TF
Instructor: Donald Fucci (dfucci@ramapo.edu)
LITR414 Literature Seminar: Shakespeare
The course is an advanced study of Shakespeare’s work. Representative plays as well as his sonnets and longer poems will be read critically as well as within a broader cultural and historical context. Course requirements include working in small groups leading to class presentations and individual papers. Focus will be on close reading as well as research into recent scholarship.
Previous course in Shakespeare not required. |
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This course can fulfill either the Capstone or Pre-1800 Literature requirement of the Literature Major. At the same time, it can fulfill one of the British Literature requirements for secondary education English certification.
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LITR 414 Literature Seminar: POSTMODERNISM
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Days: MR
Instructor:Vassiliki Flenga (vflenga@ramapo.edu)
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Niall Lucy states: "Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is usually attributed to 'postmodernism' as a powerful signifier of the radically new and challenging." This seminar will trace the notion of the postmodern theory and fiction after World War II. After a brief historical overview of the development of the concepts of postmodernism and post modernity, we will focus on texts by literary theorist such as Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, and Cixous that celebrate difference and experimental fiction by Flanchot, Barth, Calvino and Lispector, which defy literal conventions and question our assumption of reality. Through the in-depth examination of a variety of literal texts, the course will enable us to analyze contemporary art forms and discuss their social, economic and political implications. |
This course can fulfill either the Capstone or International Literature requirement of the Literature Major. At the same time, it can fulfill one of the European/International requirements for secondary education English certification.
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Courses of Special Interest (Spring 2010) |
NEWish COURSES!
THESE COURSES HAVE NOT BEEN OFFERED IN RECENT YEARS! |
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LITR 243 DETECTIVE FICTION AND FILM
| An attempt to trace the evolution of this varied genre, and of its dominant character, the detective and its counterpart, the “killer.” Born of the Gothic tradition, the detective story asks basic questions: not just “whodunit?” but what is right and what is wrong? Where can justice be found? While we may read some European texts (Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon) the course will focus on American writers (Poe, Twain, Raymond Chandler, Himes, Highsmith, others), exploring why the form has enjoyed such relentless fascination cross cultures and for modernist and post-modernist alike. Much of our attention will be taken up with hard-boiled fiction and film noir (two well documented genres of crime stories). Thus, the course will also consider the role of the detective story in film. Americans usually consider film a commodity, but will treat it as an art form. To become discerning viewers we will acquaint ourselves with the terminology and methods of the film critic, and develop a refined appreciation for a medium we may often take for granted. |
From Paul Auster's City of Glass by David Mazzucelli & Paul Karasick |
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Days: TF
Instructor:Edward A. Shannon (eshannon@ramapo.edu)
FULFILLS: International North America for General Education, American Literature or Multicultural Literature for Teacher Education.
LITR 333 SOUTHERN AMERICAN WRITERS
Time: TBA pm Days: TF
Instructor:Joseph Johnson (jjohnson@ramapo.edu)
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This course will examine the rich diversity of literature by writers of the American south from the 1800s to the present in prose, short and long fiction, poetry, and drama. Themes such as racial conflict, attitudes towards women, nature as a defining force, and others will form a basis for exploring such authors as Faulkner, Welty, Warren, Gaines, Hurston, O'Connor, and others. |
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FULFILLS: 300-level LITR for Literature Majors, Amer. Regionalism or Amer Artistic Express for American Studies Majors, American Literature or Multicutlrual Literature for Teacher Education.
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