The Literature curriculum includes period courses in American, British, and World Literature genres, literary theory courses, interdisciplinary courses such as Cultural Texts and Verbal/Visual Texts, and special topics such as Literature of the American Frontier, Irish Literature, and Biography. In a typical semester, fourteen graduate courses will be offered in Literature. In addition to their core courses, L iterature students must also take ENGL 7000 Methods and Contexts of Literary Scholarship.

The curriculum seeks to provide students with the interpretive skills necessary to understand their own and other cultures. It provides students with advanced preparation for a wide range of careers in which research and writing are important, including teaching, publishing, advertising, and public relations. Students are encouraged to gear their programs toward their own interests.

Each year, visiting scholars present lectures on literary topics for students, faculty, and members of the Memphis community. The concentration also sponsors workshops on topical issues and research.

Literature Courses Include:

• 7000 Methods and Contexts of Literary Scholarship
• 7020-39* Special Topics in English
• 7100* Independent Study (1-6 hours)
• 7211 Medieval Literature
• 7230 Chaucer
• 7232 Shakespeare's Tragedies
• 7233 Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories
• 7242 English Renaissance Literature
• 7244 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
• 7254 English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
• 7256 Milton
• 7264 English Poetry and Prose, 1660-1800
• 7265 Eighteenth Century British Novel
• 7276 English Literature of the Romantic Period
• 7278 Victorian Literature
• 7280 Nineteenth Century British Novel
• 7291 Modern British Novel
• 7292 Modern British Poetry
• 7293 Modern British Drama
• 7323 American Literature to 1865
• 7324 American Literature, 1865-1914
• 7325 African American Literature, 1930-1960
• 7326 African American Literature of Memphis and the Mid-South
• 7391 Modern American Novel
• 7392 Modern American Poetry
• 7393 Modern American Drama
• 7411 European Literature to Renaissance
• 7412 European Literature since Renaissance
• 7441 European Fiction
• 7442 Modern European Drama
• 7451 Women and Literature
• 7452 Biography: Process and Text
• 7462 Contemporary British and/or Commonwealth Literature
• 7464 Contemporary American Literature
• 7465 African American Literature, 1960 to the Present
• 7466 Contemporary World Literatures in Translation
• 7467 African American Literature, Beginnings to 1900
• 7468 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
• 7469 African American Women Writers
• 7473 Verbal /Visual Texts
• 7474 Cultural Texts
• 7476 Modern Popular and Literary Tradition
• 7477 Textuality: History, Culture, Form
• 7478 Textuality and Identity
• 7479 Studies in Cultural Figures
• 7480 Cultural Theories
• 7481 Early Popular and Literary Traditions
• 7701 Historical Perspectives on Literary Criticism
• 7702 Contemporary Perspectives on Literary Criticism
• 7996 Thesis (3-6 hours)

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