I to present. Children's Literature Readings in children's literature by representative authors, including prose narratives and poems that have appeal to both adults and children. Literature and Film A study of modern and contemporary film, applying the language of literary criticism to the medium of film. Irish Renaissance Representative Irish writers of the period 1885-1940, including Yeats, Shaw and Joyce, against the background of modern English literature and modern Irish history. Explores the range and diversity of the human literary experience outside the industrialized West.
Readings span pre-historic to contemporary time and touch cultures of all continents.
This selected studies designation allows for the teaching of courses with more specialized focus, themes and issues that transcend genre and period classification. Course topics include Nature Writing and Utopian Literature, among others. I literature course. A study of some issues central to the literature by and about women in the 19th and 20th centuries. A study of African-American literature from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance.