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Intensive reading of selected American, British, and European plays from 1879 to the present. Analysis and critical literature will focus on significant twentieth-century and contemporary theatrical trends such as realism, expressionism, and the absurd.

Focus on Shakespeare's drama, including comedies and tragedies. Methods of study feature analysis of text, integration of selected critical literature, dramatic interpretation teams, informal writing, and a significant critical essay.

Careful reading of major poetry and prose (Lord Tennyson through Dante Rossetti and John Carlyle through John Stuart Mill) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu (Pre-Raphaelite painters, for example). Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis.

Careful reading of major poetry and prose (William Blake through Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, and DeQuincey) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu.

Careful study of major poetry and prose (Thomas Hardy to the present) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu. Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis.

Close reading and critical study of selected works of major American poetry and prose of the twentieth century. Special attention to the characteristics and implications of realism, modernism, and postmodernism.

Study of major writers in the period 1830 to 1870 with attention to Emersonian transcendentalism as evidenced in his own work and as it influenced in varied ways the aesthetics and practices of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.

Study of Hawthorne--the man, his times, his aesthetics, and his works--centered on his American Notebooks, his short stories and essays, and a selection of his novels, including The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun.

Study of the development of the American short story from Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe through local color writers, experimentalists, James, realists, and naturalists to the great variety of current practices.

A chronological study of a selection of classic American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor through Eliot and Frost, concluding with study of a large number of recent and current poets.

Prepares students to perform basic research using Off Campus Library Services (OCLS), electronic periodical indexes, and information resources. Students will identify and select appropriate material for inclusion in a college level research project which will be submitted at the conclusion of the course. (1 or 2 credit hours)

Students will work under a faculty mentor in their major and in cooperation with an Honors College advisor, producing a research thesis or creative project.