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This course closely examines a coherent set of short texts and/or visual works. The selections may be the shorter works of one or more authors (poems, short stories or novellas), or short films and other visual media. Additionally, we will focus on formal issues and thematic meditations around the title of the course "Staying Alive." Conten
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- literature
- prose fiction
- stories
- novellas
- journalism
- henry james
- william faulkner
- eudora welty
- primo levi
- anne charters
- italo calvino
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Our purpose is to consider some of the most elaborate and thoughtful efforts to define and delineate "all-mastering," and to consider some of the delineations of "all-mastering the intellect" in various guises - from magicians to master spies to detectives to scientists (mad and otherwise). The major written work of the term will be an ongo
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- literature
- mastering
- mastery
- narrative
- popular culture
- media
- convergence
- film
- television
- spies
- detectives
- intellect
- magician
- scientists
- graduate students
- journals
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This semester, Contemporary Literature (21L.488) deals with Irish literature, a subject broad and deep. To achieve a manageable volume of study, the course focuses primarily on poetry and prose, at drama's expense, and on living writers, at the expense of their predecessors. Each class session follows a discussion format, often with student
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- literature
- contemporary literature
- irish literature
- fiction
- drama
- poetry
- joyce
- yeats
- bolger
- beckett
- o'brien
- trevor
- lavin
- mcgahern
- dorcey
- doyle
- berkeley
- friel
- heaney
- crotty
- boland
- dhomhnaill
- meehan
- carr
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William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will explore some of that poetry, and consider how later poets, especially female poets, tried to come to grips with, or escape from, that dominance. As a seminar, the subject will place special emphasis on student involvement and
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- literature
- w. b. yeats
- william butler yeats
- irish poetry
- poetry
- female poets
- patrick kavanagh
- louis macneice
- john hewitt
- richard murphy
- john montague
- seamus heaney
- michael hartnett
- derek mahon
- paul durcan
- paul muldoon
- ciaran carson
- paula meehan
- medbh mcguckian
- boland
- rita ann higgins
- cathleen ni houlihan
- nuala ni dhomhnaill
- round
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The landscape we will explore is the troublesome one of the relevance, impact, and importance of poetry in a troubled modern world. We will read both poetry and prose by several substantial modern writers, each of whom confronted the question that is the subject's title.
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- literature
- poetry
- robert lowell
- denise levertov
- adrienne rich
- seamus heaney
- robert pinsky
- billy collins
- jean monahan
- john hodgen
- lloyd schwartz
- steve tapscott
- rita dove
- neil astley
- poetry
- robert lowell
- denise levertov
- adrienne rich
- seamus heaney
- robert pinsky
- billy collins
- jean monahan
- john hodgen
- lloyd schwartz
- steve
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For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive in major works in fictional forms shorter than the novel. Our task in this course will be to survey that field, by looking at particular moments of high accomplishment. We will, in addition, consider some of the ways in which
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- literature
- american
- short fiction
- story-telling
- narrative construction
- hemingway
- james
- welty
- hammett
- alvarez
- diaz
- cather
- huston
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