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Schools and Movements in American Poetry — LIT2315.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will survey the evolution of, and revolutions in, the American poetry from 1950 to the present by exploring the work of various aesthetically and culturally linked groups of American poets that came to prominence in the decades following the Second World War: the Beats, the Confessional Poets, the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York
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Screenwriting: Scene and Structure — LIT2354.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Reading contemporary screenplays and story treatments, we will discuss the structure and scene work that goes into writing a successful screenplay. Almost without fail, all screenplays utilize a familiar and easy to learn three-act structure, but the very best screenwriters manipulate this structure nimbly via character development, excellent dialogue, and strong storytelling
Literature

Screenwriting: Scene and Structure — LIT2326.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Reading contemporary screenplays and story treatments, we will discuss the structure and scene work that goes into writing a successful screenplay. Almost without fail, all screenplays utilize a familiar and easy to learn three-act structure, but the very best screenwriters manipulate this structure nimbly via character development, excellent dialogue, and strong storytelling
Literature

Screenwriting: Story Studio — LIT2509.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
A good movie begins with a good script. A good script begins with a good story. In this class, we will explore the basics of structure and format for a feature-length screenplay, but the majority of the course we will be focused on storytelling, the development and polishing of good, strong stories. We will ask what goes into a good story, and how do you take those elements and
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Screenwriting: The Story Studio — LIT2509.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
A good movie begins with a good script. A good script begins with a good story. In this class, we will explore the basics of structure and format for a feature-length screenplay, but the majority of the course we will be focused on storytelling, the development and polishing of good, strong stories. We will ask what goes into a good story, and how do you take those elements and
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Screenwriting: The Story Studio — LIT2509.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
A good movie begins with a good script. A good script begins with a good story. In this class, we will explore the basics of structure and format for a feature-length screenplay, but the majority of the course we will be focused on storytelling, the development and polishing of good, strong stories. We will ask what goes into a good story, and how do you take those elements and
Literature

Seminar on Virginia Woolf — LIT4526.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
In this Seminar, we focus intensively on the fiction and nonfiction of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) whose enormous output, experimental techniques, and intellectual reach revolutionized the form and subject matter of both the novel and the essay. As a thinker and social critic, Woolf is artful, radical, and full of complication—a foundation for modern feminism and pacifism, and a
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Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript–typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be
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Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
For seniors working on critical or creative senior theses in Literature.Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript in a single genre –- 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Every week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer
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Senior Projects — LIT4322.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript--typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be
Literature

Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript–typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be
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Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. There will be one group meeting per week. In addition, each member of the class will have frequent individual meetings with the instructor during the course of the term. Corequisites: Students are required to attend Literature Evenings (Wednesdays, 7 – 8pm).  
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Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript--typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be
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Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: An Duplan
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This class is for seniors writing extended manuscripts in a unified genre: literary criticism, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenwriting, or a hybrid form that combines genres. We welcome entirely hybrid-form manuscripts, but mixed collections, i.e. some poems with some prose, are not acceptable in this class, for we privilege extended immersion in a

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Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
This class is for seniors writing extended manuscripts in a unified genre: literary criticism, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenwriting, or a hybrid form that combines genres. We welcome entirely hybrid-form manuscripts, but mixed collections, i.e. some poems with some prose, are not acceptable in this class, for we privilege extended immersion in a single
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Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript–typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. Additionally, students might on
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Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
This class is for seniors writing extended manuscripts in a unified genre: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or a hybrid form that combines genres. We welcome entirely hybrid-form manuscripts, but mixed collections, i.e. some poems with some prose, are not acceptable in this class, for we privilege extended immersion in a single genre. Think of your work as having two,
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Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
This class is for seniors writing extended manuscripts in a unified genre: literary criticism, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenwriting, or a hybrid form that combines genres. We welcome entirely hybrid-form manuscripts, but mixed collections, i.e. some poems with some prose, are not acceptable in this class, for we privilege extended immersion in a single
Literature

Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: mfeitlowitz@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This class is for seniors writing extended manuscripts in a unified genre: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or a hybrid form that combines genres. We welcome entirely hybrid-form manuscripts, but mixed collections, i.e. some poems with some prose, are not acceptable in this class, for we privilege extended immersion in a single genre. Think of your work as having two,
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Shakespeare's Tragedies — LIT2421.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Credits: 4
In this course, we’ll read a selection of Shakespeare’s tragedies, including Anthony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. We’ll consider the historical context of the plays, their sources, and the shadows they have cast on subsequent cultural productions. We’ll study Shakespeare’s language closely, and think about what his
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Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances — LIT2215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In his comedies (Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, etc.) and in his late so-called 'romances' (Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale, Pericles, and The Tempest), Shakespeare presents us with a vision of the stage as a place of transformation and delight, of cognition and recognition. In forests, islands, glades, and gardens, the characters
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Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances — LIT2392.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In his comedies and in his late so-called "romances," Shakespeare presents us with the stage as a place of transformation and delight, of cognition and recognition.  In forests, islands, glades and gardens, the characters lose and find their lives and loves, and the magic of play-acting, of stage-craft itself, is the medium of discovery.  We will read and look at the
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