Courses

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• MET EN 142: Literary Types: Poetry
  Critical reading of representative English and American poems. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• MET EN 143: Literary Types: Drama
  Critical reading of representative plays from the ancient Greeks to the present. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• MET EN 175: Literature and the Art of Film
  Survey and analysis of cinema as an expressive medium from the silent period to the present. Films are screened weekly and discussed in conjunction with works of literature.
• MET EN 201: Intermediate Composition
  Does not give concentration credit. Practice in writing narration, exposition, argument and persuasion, the critical essay, and the research paper. Related readings. Class discussion of papers. Individual conferences. Students enroll in specific seminars. Limited enrollment.
• MET EN 202: Introduction to Creative Writing
  Designed mainly for those with little or no experience in creative writing. An introduction to writing in various genres: poetry, fiction, and plays. Students' works discussed in class. Limited enrollment.
• MET EN 220: Proseminar: Literacy Study
  Fundamentals of literary analysis and interpretation. Intensive study of selected literary texts. Frequent papers. Limited class size. 4 cr
• MET EN 322: Survey of British Literature I
  Prereq: MET HU 221. British literature from its beginnings to the Restoration.
• MET EN 323: Survey of British Literature II
  British literature from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century.
• MET EN 355: Modern Drama
  A century's transformations of drama and stage. Reading and discussion of plays from early realism and expressionism to the theatre of the absurd and present trends: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, Pirandello, Brecht, Sartre, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, and others.
• MET EN 356: Modern Drama II
  Modern to contemporary drama since about 1950. Beckett, Genet, Osborne, Wesker, Pinter, Arden, Stoppard, Durrenmatt, Grass, Weiss, Handke, Albee, Miller, Williams, Shepard, and others. Related readings in predecessors, such as Kleist and Artaud, and in less well known contemporaries.
• MET EN 363: Shakespeare I
  Six plays chosen from the following: Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV (Part 1), Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale.
• MET EN 364: Shakespeare II
  Six plays chosen from the following: Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
• MET EN 373: Detective Fiction
  Origins and development of the detective and crime genres in England and America, including works of Collins, Poe, Dickens, Doyle, Christie, Sayers, and Chandler, among others.
• MET EN 529: The Romantic Age: English Literature in the Age of Revolution
  Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Emphasis on readings, but the course deals with romanticism both as an historical movement and as a cultural category significantly connected to modernism.
• MET EN 535: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
  Close reading of balladic, lyric, and longer poems by Hardy, Yeats, Lawrence, Auden, Rosenberg, Mew, Loy, MacDiarmid, Gurney, Douglas, Larkin, Hill, Harrison, Prynne, others. Poets' essays and opposed schools and approaches. Reference to other arts, and times of political tragedy.
• MET EN 536: Twentieth-Century American Poetry
  Study of five or six poets from the following: Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Frost, Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Ammons, Ashbery, Plath, Ginsberg, Merrill.
• MET EN 543: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
  The novel from Scott to Hardy. Among the works to be discussed: Scott's Waverley, Austen's Emma, Dickens's Bleak House, Eliot's Middlemarch, Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
• MET EN 544: The Modern British Novel
  Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster, Beckett, and other novelists of the period 1895-1956.
• MET EN 546: The Modern American Novel
  From 1900 to the present, including Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and selected contemporary novelists.
• MET EN 547: Contemporary American Fiction
  Study of American postmodern fiction and culture since 1950; includes works by Atwood, Barthelme, Burroughs, Coover, DeLillo, Nabokov, Pynchon, and others.

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