A survey of the development of the genre, with primary emphasis on the techniques and styles of representative novelists. Four to five novels are studied in English or in English translation. An analysis of the attributes of the well-written short story. Primary emphasis is on such aspects as theme, plot, characterization, point of view, tone, imagery, irony, and symbolism as exemplified in representative works of the 19th and 20th centuries. A of images of women in literature.
Lecturers select works by writers of both sexes to analyze significant female and male perspectives.
A detailed study of selected major texts of American literature from the 17th to the 20th century. In both courses, approximately six plays of Shakespeare are read and then analyzed and discussed in the classroom. An examination of representative authors in the development of modern drama from Ibsen to the present. Works from Ibsen, Shaw, O Casey, Brecht, Beckett, and others may be in the anthology of plays used in this course. Depending upon their length and complexity, six to eight novels are read and then analyzed and discussed in the classroom.