In this course, students will refine skills related to academic English and will have an intensive study of academic vocabulary. Students will study the authentic use of the English language in reading and writing and will examine advanced concepts related to academic English. This course works as a support for other courses and will help prepare students to be successful in their academic career. Non-native English speakers only.
This course explores the endlessly alluring world of Middle-earth, which J. R. R. Tolkien was developing throughout the sixty years of his adulthood. Our real-world contexts for this exploration might include his work as a 20th-century scholar of medieval languages and literatures, his service as a lieutenant his during World War I, and his love of the natural world, while our literary contexts might include his translations or rewritings of Anglo-Saxon epic, medieval romance, Norse myth, and Arthurian legend.
This course introduces students to a range of theoretical methodologies used by creative writers and literary scholars. While each section of the course may focus on a different theme or on a different group of primary texts, all sections encourage students to learn and to apply a variety of methods with the goal of crafting critical analyses of literature.
These courses (I and II) provide an overview of British literature, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon period and extending into the 20th century. Selections may be drawn from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Both courses invite students to explore developments in British literature through the lens of different historical contexts, and both feature a variety of writings from different social classes, genders, and cultural traditions. ENG 226 includes selections from Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, and modern literature.
Indexes scholarship pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations to scholarly journal articles and book reviews.
Indexes the scholarship of literature, literary movements, and literary criticism. Contains significant full text of articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, critical essays, and work and topic overviews.
Indexes critical and descriptive sources from reference works, books and journals across literary disciplines.
A comprehensive, international union catalogue listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801. Contains entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.
Indexes books pamphlets and broadsides printed in America from 1639-1800. Based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans