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• LIT 305: Modern American Drama

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  American drama from the early 1900's to the present, with emphasis on the development of the American theater as seen in such major dramatists as O'Neill, Odets, Wilder, Miller, Williams, and Albee.
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• LIT 306: Modern American Novel

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The novel in America from Dreiser to the present.
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• LIT 307: Modern American Poetry

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Major 20th-century American poets.
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• LIT 309: Thoughts/Writings of Martin Luther King

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Examines and analyzes the writings of Dr. King and their relationship to the themes he pursued and the leadership role he achieved.
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• LIT 310: African American Novel I

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A study of the African American novel from the genre's beginnings in the 1850s through to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Authors include William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, Charles Chesnutt, and Nella Larsen, examined in the context of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and other historical experiences of African Americans.
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• LIT 311: African American Novel II

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A study of the African American novel from Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) to the present. Works including Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) are examined in the context of changing cultural and political experiences of African Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
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• LIT 328: Old English Language and Literature

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An introductory study of the language (450-1150 A.D.) through a reading of religious and secular poetry and prose.
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• LIT 329: Medieval Women's Culture

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is a study of writings by medieval women and their contribution to the development of medieval culture.
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• LIT 331: Chaucer

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An interpretation of Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
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• LIT 335: Shakespeare I

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected histories and tragedies. Discussion of critical approaches to the plays and of the historical and intellectual climate of the times.
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