ENGH251

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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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Course Restrictions

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