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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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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 is a HASS-D CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also offers substantial opportunities for oral expression, through presentations of written work, student-led discussion, and
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- literature
- william bradford
- mary rowlandson
- jonathan edwards
- benjamin franklin
- olaudah equiano
- phyllis wheatley
- washington irving
- ralph waldo emerson
- henry david thoreau
- nathaniel hawthorne
- frederick douglass
- herman melville
- margaret fuller
- harriet beecher stowe
- walt whitman
- emily dickinson
- realism
- satire
- rebecca harding davis
- samue
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What is a "life" when it's written down? How does memory inform the present? Why are memoirs so popular? This course will address these questions and others, considering the relationship between biography, autobiography, and memoir and between personal and social themes. We will closely examine some recent memoirs: Tobias Wolff's This Boy's
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- literature
- life
- memory
- memoirs
- biography
- autobiography
- tobias wolff
- barack obama
- edwidge danticat
- brother
- ayaan hirsi ali
- alison bechdel
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This course looks at comedy in drama, novels, and films from Classical Greece to the twentieth century. Focusing on examples from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Molière, Wilde, Chaplin, and Billy Wilder, along with theoretical contexts, the class examines comedy as a transgressive mode with revolutionary social and political implicat
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- literature
- humor
- drama
- narrative
- genre
- literary history
- irony
- comic
- slapstick
- satire
- wit
- trickster
- allegory
- transgression
- social commentary
- political commentary
- william shakespeare
- aristophanes
- moliere
- aphra behn
- jane austen
- mark twain
- oscar wilde
- italo calvino
- alison bechdel
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The theme for this class is "American Revolution." We will read authors who record, on the one hand, the failures of the American revolution, with its dream of democracy and freedom for all, and on the other hand the potential for narrative to reenact that revolution successfully. In different ways, these authors overturn traditional or une
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- literature
- american novel
- democracy
- slavery
- democracy
- slavery
- gender equity
- social reform
- literary strategies
- william blake
- herman melville
- nathaniel hawthorne
- harriet beecher stowe
- william wells brown
- sarah orne jewett
- william faulkner
- toni morrison
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This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present. It aims to introduce a number of literary genres and styles- the captivity narrative, slave novel, sensational, sentimental, realistic, and postmodern fiction- and also to address significant
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- literature
- women authors
- comfort women
- captivity narrative
- slave novel
- sensationalism
- sentimentalism sentimentalism
- realism
- postmodern fiction
- american revolution
- industrialization
- urbanization
- harlem renaissance
- puritanism
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What has been said of Moby-Dick—that it's the greatest novel no one ever reads—could just as well be said of any number of American "classics" like The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This course reconsiders a small number of nineteenth-century American novels by presenting each in a surprising cont
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- literature
- 19th century
- nineteenth century
- 1800s
- novel
- great books
- literary canon
- american authors
- colonial america
- native american
- puritan
- nathanial hawthorne
- scarlet letter
- lydia maria child
- hobomok
- slavery
- uncle tom's cabin
- harriet beecher stowe
- the adventures of huckleberry finn
- huck finn
- herman melville
- benito cereno
- mark twa
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This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at b
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- literature
- nineteenth-century
- american
- authors
- slavery
- uncle tom's cabin
- harriet beecher stowe
- the adventures of huckleberry finn
- mark twain
- samuel clemens
- united states
- culture
- historical context
- african-american
- frederick douglass
- william wells brown
- martin delany
- harriet jacobs
- dred
- frances e. w. harper
- charles chesnutt
- civil wa
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This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author's distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work "great." Students will get an oppor
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- literature
- literature
- herman melville
- toni morrison
- epic
- american
- moby dick
- beloved
- gender
- race
- language
- nationhood
- multimedia
- women's studies
- culture
- film
- text
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Global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries radically changed Western science, orienting philosophies of natural history to more focused fields like comparative anatomy, botany, and geology. In the United States, European scientific advances and home-grown ventures like the Wilkes Exploring Expedition to Antarctica and the
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- literature
- america's literary scientists
- global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- wilkes exploring expedition to antarctica and the pacific
- cartography
- ethnography
- zoology
- evolutionary theory
- herman melville
- henry david thoreau
- sarah orne jewett
- toni morrison
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This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni Morrison, 1931-) who, using lyrical, radically innovative prose, explore in different ways epic notions of American identity. Focusing on Melville's Typee (1846), Moby-Dick (1851), and The Confidence-Man (1857) and Morrison's Sula (1
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- literature
- literature
- herman melville
- toni morrison
- epic
- american
- moby dick
- beloved
- gender
- race
- language
- nationhood
- multimedia
- women's studies
- culture
- film
- text
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