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Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors themselves. Through the ways they engage with their own texts and those of other artists, sampling, remixing, and rethinking texts and genres, writers reflect on and inspire questions about the creative process. We will examine Ma
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- literature
- rethinking texts and genres
- mary shelley’s rewrite of milton’s paradise lost
- rman fairy tales
- ientific discovery tales
- ankenstein (1831)
- thic novella in benito cereno (1856)
- ison bechdel’s rewriting of the importance of being earnest (1895)
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As we read broadly from throughout the vast chronological period that is "Homer to Dante," we will pepper our readings of individual ancient and medieval texts with broader questions like: what images, themes, and philosophical questions recur through the period; are there distinctly "classical" or "medieval" ways of depicting or addressing
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- literature
- western
- culture
- literature
- judeo-christian
- philosophy
- religion
- greece
- classic
- history
- civilization
- homer
- aeschylus
- sophocles
- euripides
- thucydides
- plato
- aristotle
- saint augustine
- dante
- bible
- world
- westernization
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This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the growth of ideas about the nature of mankind's ethical and political life in the West since the renaissance. It will deal with the change in perspective imposed by scientific ideas, the general loss of a su
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- literature
- literature
- culture
- philosophy
- ethics
- theory
- society
- politics
- religion
- science
- west
- machiavelli
- more
- swift
- hobbes
- shakespeare
- rousseau
- wordsworth
- kant
- austen
- nietzsche
- balzac
- shaw
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Complementary to 21L.001. A broad survey of texts - literary, philosophical, and sociological - studied to trace the growth of secular humanism, the loss of a supernatural perspective upon human events, and changing conceptions of individual, social, and communal purpose. Stresses appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent th
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- literature
- secular humanism
- literature appreciation
- literature analysis
- political theory
- oratory
- autobiography
- poetry
- science fiction
- war
- renaissance
- machiavelli
- cort?s
- sahag?n
- european age of revolutions
- voltaire
- blake
- williams
- civil war
- abolition
- stowe
- whitman
- lincoln
- lowell
- walcott
- ondaatje
- o.s. card
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This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the growth of individualism in a world no longer understood to be at the center of the universe. The texts chosen for study exemplify
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- literature
- western culture
- foundations
- modernism
- texts
- literary
- philosophical
- sociological
- secular humanism
- human events
- individual
- social
- communal purpose
- common
- cultural
- possession
- ancient
- modern world
- discussion
- action
- characters
- voice
- form
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This course explores the form, content, and historical context of various works of fiction specifically through the thematic lens of "dysfunctional families." We will focus primarily on questions pertaining to the structure, language, story, and characters of these fictional works.
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- literature
- mary shelley
- nathaniel hawthorne
- e. m. forster
- toni morrison
- arundhati roy
- james baldwin
- virginia woolf
- cristina garcia
- flannery o?connor
- william faulkner
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This course introduces prose narrative, both short stories and the novel. It examines the construction of narrative and the analysis of literary response.
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- literature
- jane austen
- sir walter scott
- mary shelley
- frankenstein
- herman melville
- typee; gustave flaubert
- kate chopin
- virginia woolf
- alistair macleod
- northanger abbey
- the highland widow
- a simple heart
- the awakening
- to the lighthouse
- no great mischief.
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Reading Fiction is designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels focusing on the theme of "the city in literature," we will learn about the various elements that shape the way we read texts - structure, narrative voice, character development, novelistic experimentation, historical and poli
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- literature
- novel
- short story
- the city in literature
- structure
- narrative voice
- character development
- novelistic experimentation
- historical context
- political context
- reader response
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This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relat
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- literature
- literature
- fiction
- reading
- jane austen
- mary shelley
- herman melville
- kate chopin
- leo tolstoy
- virginia woolf
- nora okja keller
- oscar wilde
- prose narrative
- short stories
- novels
- literary response
- literary analysis
- art
- war
- verbal texts
- narrative styles
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This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles, traditional and innovative, western and non-western, and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms.
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- literature
- fiction
- writing
- austen
- dickens
- conrad
- woolfe
- charters
- literature
- novel
- narrative
- verbal text
- culture
- prose narrative
- short stories
- short story
- critical analysis
- literary response
- virginia woolf
- jane austen
- charles dickens
- joseph conrad
- literary interpretation
- close analysis
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This course offers students ways to become more engaged and curious readers for life. By learning the language of selected short stories and novels, students learn the language of literary description. There will be a strong emphasis on class discussion and writing. Readings will include fiction by O'Conner, Joyce, Tolstoy, Mann, Shelley, a
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- literature
- fiction
- writing
- austen
- dickens
- conrad
- woolfe
- charters
- literature
- novel
- narrative
- verbal text
- culture
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This subject follows a course of readings in lyric poetry in the English language, tracing the main lines of descent through literary periods from the Renaissance to the modern period and concentrating mostly on English rather than American examples.
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- literature
- literature
- poetry
- poets
- english
- renaissance
- modern
- shakespeare
- sonnets
- stanza-form
- figurative language
- metaphor
- metonymy
- meter
- accent
- duration
- apostrophe
- assonance
- enjambment
- chiasmus
- hyperbole
- litotes
- donne
- metaphysical
- milton
- pope
- wordsworth
- keats
- yeats
- eliot
- larkin
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This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to tech
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- literature
- literature
- poetry
- poets
- english
- renaissance
- modern
- shakespeare
- sonnets
- stanza-form
- figurative language
- metaphor
- metonymy
- meter
- accent
- duration
- apostrophe
- assonance
- enjambment
- chiasmus
- hyperbole
- litotes
- donne
- metaphysical
- milton
- pope
- wordsworth
- keats
- yeats
- eliot
- larkin
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"Reading Poetry" has several aims: primarily, to increase the ways you can become more engaged and curious readers of poetry; to increase your confidence as writers thinking about literary texts; and to provide you with the language for literary description. The course is not designed as a historical survey course but rather as an introduc
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- literature
- literature
- poetry
- poets
- english
- renaissance
- modern
- shakespeare
- sonnets
- stanza-form
- figurative language
- metaphor
- metonymy
- meter
- accent
- duration
- apostrophe
- assonance
- enjambment
- chiasmus
- hyperbole
- litotes
- donne
- metaphysical
- literary art
- language
- aethetic
- meaning
- poetic drama
- hymns
- lyrics
- history
- rhetoric
- song
- d
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Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of ritual as well as entertainment, drama has served to unite communities and challenge social norms, to vitalize and disturb its audiences. In order to understand this rich art form more fully, we will study and discuss a sampling of p
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- literature
- drama
- literary arts
- storytelling
- poetry
- live performance
- ritual
- entertainment
- communities
- social norms
- audiences
- plays
- dramatic structure
- performing arts
- writing
- discussion
- writer
- speaker
- cultures
- tools
- fiction
- ethical
- historical
- political
- artistic
- questions
- creativity
- self-awareness
- communicate
- theater.
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Drama might be described as a game played with something sacred. It tells stories that go right to the heart of what people believe about themselves. And it is enacted in the moment, which means it has an added layer of interpretive mystery and playfulness, or "theatricality." This course will explore theater and theatricality across period
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- literature
- drama
- literary arts
- storytelling
- poetry
- live performance
- ritual
- entertainment
- communities
- social norms
- audiences
- plays
- dramatic structure
- performing arts
- writing
- discussion
- writer
- speaker
- cultures
- tools
- fiction
- ethical
- historical
- political
- artistic
- questions
- creativity
- self-awareness
- communicate
- theater
- outdoor
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