Modern essays by Nietzsche, Simone Weil, Gregory Nagy, Eric Auerbach and others. Supplementary readings from late-medieval contexts, and the Arthurian afterlife in modern literature. We will investigate the origins and effects of the novel as a form from 1836 to 1950. The course will include works by Galt, Dickens, Eliot, Conrad, Forster, Woolf, and Joyce. Plotz Limit 15 Perm.
Students undertake their own original research.
Paradise Lost . An analysis and comparison of these two novelists with special attention to the critical debates that have developed in response to their work. Course is designed to provide undergraduates with training in carrying out research on literature, beginning with the use of various print and on-line resources. Sonnets, poetry of Wheatley, Whitman, and Beckett, fiction and criticism by Poe and Stein. Focusing primarily on the Black Arts Movement, this course attempts to produce histories of contemporary Black American literature that take the question of ambiguity as central to the production of the Black Aesthetic .