ENGH251
The Renaissance: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
English
College of Liberal Arts
Course Subject Code
ENGH
Course Number
251
Status
Active
Course Attributes
BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MENL: Major-English:Literature, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature
Course Short Title
The Renaissance
Course Long Title
The Renaissance: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
Course Description
Explores the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality through an examination of representative texts from the Renaissance period in Britain. Major topics may include: the emergence of a new kind of self taking on authority and autonomy, the transition to a culture that legitimizes pleasure, the move from coterie and court audiences to a national audience, shifts in media from manuscript to print, the explosion of new voices in the first modern revolution, the breaking of images.
Min
4
Repeatable
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Equivalent Course(s)
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