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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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- 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 semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus's Diario through the present. Travel writing has some special features that will shape both the content and the work for this subject: reflecting the point of view, narrative choices, and style of individuals, it also responds to the pressures of a real world only marg
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- literature
- world
- travel
- writing
- columbus
- literature
- north america
- french
- history
- europe
- caribbean
- brazil
- modern
- religion
- ethnicity
- culture
- shakespeare
- defoe
- rowlandson
- walcott
- montaigne
- de lery
- coetzee
- essay
- narrative
- novel
- poetry
- drama
- film
- report
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Sometime after 1492, the concept of the New World or America came into being, and this concept appeared differently - as an experience or an idea - for different people and in different places. This semester, we will read three groups of texts: first, participant accounts of contact between native Americans and French or English speaking Eu
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- columbus
- literature
- north
- america
- french
- history
- europe
- caribbean
- brazil
- modern
- religion
- ethnicity
- culture
- shakespeare
- defoe
- rowlandson
- walcott
- montaigne
- de lery
- coetzee
- essay
- narrative
- novel
- poetry
- drama
- film
- report
- north america
- new world
- america
- native americans
- english
- europeans
- north america
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This 6-unit subject gives students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the poetry of two living Nobel Laureates: the Caribbean poet, Derek Walcott, and the Northern-Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. We will begin and end the semester with their magnificent epic works: Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, and Walcott's Omeros
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- literature
- seamus heaney
- derek walcott
- beowulf
- omeros
- poetry
- epic
- translation
- northern ireland
- caribbean
- nobel prize literature
- opened ground
- collected poems
- former british colonies
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The Renaissance has justly become both famous and notorious as an age of discovery, and its voyages took place in many realms. This semester, we will read several history making narratives of early modern travel: first-hand accounts of discovery, captivity, conquest, or cultural encounter. As Europeans came to acquire experience of unfamili
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- literature
- renaissance
- literature
- middle ages
- professor vinaver
- middle english
- primum mobile
- house of busirane
- sawles warde
- natalis comes
- unmoved mover
- colin clouts come home againe
- eniautos daimon
- piers plowman
- prince arthur
- queen elizabeth
- round table
- sir orfeo
- heauy plight
- neuer wight
- knight aliue
- wyld man
- liuing wight
- first a
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The core of this seminar will be the great sequences of English love sonnets written by William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth. These poems cover an enormous amount of aesthetic and psychological ground: ranging from the utterly subjective to the entirely public or conventional, from licit to forbidden desires, t
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- literature
- english love sonnets
- william shakespeare
- philip sidney
- edmund spenser
- mary wroth
- sound
- rhythm
- figuration
- poetry
- petrarchan literary tradition
- francis petrarch
- sir thomas wyatt
- uses of love poetry
- seduction
- fame
- morals
- masculinity
- femininity
- conduct manuals
- theories of gender and anatomy
- narrative poems
- pornographic poem
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In 1667, John Milton published what he intended both as the crowning achievement of a poetic career and a justification of God's ways to man: an epic poem which retold and reimagined the Biblical story of creation, temptation, and original sin. Even in a hostile political climate, Paradise Lost was almost immediately recognized as a classic
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- literature
- john milton
- paradise lost
- renaissance literature
- medieval literature
- poetry
- epic poetry
- religious poetry
- literary criticism
- literary analysis
- philip pullman
- the golden compass
- his dark materials
- william blake
- biblical analysis
- bible
- genesis
- seminar course
- discussion
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What does the Genesis story of creation and temptation tell us about gender, about heterosexuality, and about the origins of evil? What is the nature of God, and how can we account for that nature in a cosmos where evil exists? When is rebellion justified, and when is authority legitimate? These are some of the key questions that engaged th
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- literature
- genesis
- paradise lost
- renaissance literature
- medieval literature
- poetry
- epic poetry
- religious poetry
- literary criticism
- literary analysis
- philip pullman
- the golden compass
- his dark materials
- william blake
- biblical analysis
- bible
- seminar course
- discussion
- twentieth-centry fantasy
- rewriting genesis
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This course focuses on the period between roughly 1550-1850. American ideas of race had taken on a certain shape by the middle of the nineteenth century, consolidated by legislation, economics, and the institution of chattel slavery. But both race and identity meant very different things three hundred years earlier, both in their dictionary
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- literature
- literature
- writing
- early american
- lives
- gender
- race
- nation
- faith
- nineteenth century
- legislation
- economics
- slavery
- narratives
- orations
- letters
- poems
- native american
- english
- anglo-american
- african
- afro-american
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In this 3-unit class, we will read Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. The goal of the class is for students to come away feeling comfortable with its language and argument; meeting in a small group will also allow us to talk about the key questions and issues raised by the poem. This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period
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- literature
- paradise lost
- john milton: lucifer
- adam and eve
- genesis
- fallen angel
- sin
- bible
- william blake
- merit
- thee and thou
- satan
- angel
- urania
- bellerophon
- orpheus
- garden of eden
- forbidden fruit
- god
- beelzebub
- angels
- heaven
- hell
- raphael
- serpent
- michael
- creation
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- english love sonnets
- william shakespeare
- philip sidney
- edmund spenser
- mary wroth
- sound
- rhythm
- figuration
- poetry
- petrarchan literary tradition
- francis petrarch
- sir thomas wyatt
- uses of love poetry
- seduction
- fame
- morals
- masculinity
- femininity
- conduct manuals
- theories of gender and anatomy
- narrative poems
- pornographic poem
File: 21l-002-fall-2002.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Foundations of Western Culture II
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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
File: 21l-315-spring-2007.zip
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- literature
- seamus heaney
- derek walcott
- beowulf
- omeros
- poetry
- epic
- translation
- northern ireland
- caribbean
- nobel prize literature
- opened ground
- collected poems
- former british colonies
File: 21l-007-fall-2008.zip
This OER is part of OCW: World Literatures: Travel Writing
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- world
- travel
- writing
- columbus
- literature
- north america
- french
- history
- europe
- caribbean
- brazil
- modern
- religion
- ethnicity
- culture
- shakespeare
- defoe
- rowlandson
- walcott
- montaigne
- de lery
- coetzee
- essay
- narrative
- novel
- poetry
- drama
- film
- report
File: 21l-007j-fall-2003.zip
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- brazil
- modern
- religion
- ethnicity
- culture
- shakespeare
- defoe
- rowlandson
- walcott
- montaigne
- de lery
- coetzee
- essay
- narrative
- novel
- poetry
- drama
- film
- report
- north america
- new world
- america
- native americans
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File: 21l-705-spring-2008.zip
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- john milton
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- renaissance literature
- medieval literature
- poetry
- epic poetry
- religious poetry
- literary criticism
- literary analysis
- philip pullman
- the golden compass
- his dark materials
- william blake
- biblical analysis
- bible
- genesis
- seminar course
- discussion
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