Readings from Mary Wollstonecraft, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Jean Rhys, and Barbara Pym. Issues of gender and the problematics of gendered narrative genres structure the course's investigations. Jaye The prose and poetry of English Romanticism. Larson Historical review of the influence of the biblical tradition in Western literature and theory. Selected parts of the Bible read as literary texts and studied side by side with fiction, plays, or poems that draw upon Scripture for archetype, symbol, character type, paradigmatic plot, and narrative strategy, poetic and prophetic imagery, literary allusion, biblical parody, and theme.
Emphasis falls on developing critical positions.
Tiger Study of representative works by important innovators of the period. Primary emphasis on the radical shifts in theme and technique resulting from the novelist's changing conceptions of male and female roles in society. Such poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, and Dylan Thomas and such dramatists as Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard are read in light of historical shifts in theme and technique. The second pair of the four-course sequence of writing workshops for matriculating and nonmatriculating students in the creative writing program. The four courses are designed to help students compile a manuscript-sized work.