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. Major emphasis on the student's ongoing work, which is read and discussed in the class and in individual conferences with the instructor.
Students provide written criticism on each submission read.
The instructor also provides written commentary on each submission. The relation of English and American literature to its intellectual and social origins, and the effects of literary works on society. Possible offerings include Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf, Yeats, Hawthorne, and Langston Hughes. Thesis supervised by two faculty members, one directing the project. Arranged for qualified students only and with the permission of the faculty members concerned.