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Dec 21, 2024
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ENG 2281 - Survey of English Literature I
Credit(s): 3
In this course, we will read and discuss works by writers from what we now call Great Britain, including early Anglo-Saxon poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and John Milton’s great epic, Paradise Lost, which aspires to “justify the ways of God to men”. We’ll read a variety of genres, including epic, poetry, and nonfiction. As we do so, we’ll develop an overview of literary history: its themes, literary forms, and cultural contexts. In order to understand and appreciate literature from distant periods and places, we’ll consider the intellectual, cultural, and political climates in which it was produced, and how issues from the literary past persist in our world today.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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