Emphases on common motifs, the development of fictional elements such as characterization, plot, and point of view, and the role of the author. Recent offerings have included Yeats, Hawthorne and Morrison, Hemingway, Woolf. With the permission of the English faculty, students may enroll more than once for credit, providing that the focus of the course is different. A survey of the relationships among the art forms of a particular culture or historical period. Emphasis is placed on how literary works influenced or were influenced by larger cultural movements manifested in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Special attention is given to modern methods of analysis.
A secondary emphasis is placed on the visual and performing arts. The critical study of major British writers of the Romantic period. A study of major British writers of the Victorian period. At present, the focus of the course is African Literature. With the permission of the English faculty, students may enroll more than once for credit, providing that the focus of the course is different.