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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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- swift
- hobbes
- shakespeare
- rousseau
- wordsworth
- kant
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- balzac
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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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- poetry
- poets
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- 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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"Tragedy" is a name originally applied to a particular kind of dramatic art and subsequently to other literary forms; it has also been applied to particular events, often implying thereby a particular view of life. Throughout the history of Western literature it has sustained this double reference. Uniquely and insistently, the realm of the
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- literature
- tragedy
- western literature
- critcal thought
- ethics
- ancient history
- modern
- war
- sophocles
- euripides
- plato
- shakespeare
- balzac
- melville
- conrad
- ibsen
- fitzgerals
- dinesen
- camus
- literary theory
- nietzsche
- coppolla
- power
- scapegoat
- hero
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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 immediate intellectual antecedents and some of the implications of the ideas animating Darwin's revolutionary On the Origin of Species. Darwin's text, of course, is about the mechanism that drives the evol
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- origin of species
- darwin
- intelligent agency
- literature
- speculative thought
- eighteenth century
- feedback mechanism
- artificial intelligence
- hume
- voltaire
- malthus
- butler
- hardy
- h.g. wells
- freud
- artificial
- intelligence
- feedback
- mechanism
- speculative
- thought
- intelligent
- agency
- systems
- design
- pre-darwinian
- darwinian
- natur
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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 nature and the natural environment of mankind. The term nature in this context has to do with the varying ways in which the physical world has been conceived as the habitation of mank
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- western
- politics
- nature
- history
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- industrial culture
- aristotle
- defoe
- hume
- rousseau
- wordsworth
- thoreau
- darwon
- wells
- faulkner
- early modern
- contemporary
- darwin
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The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to bring to bear the viewpoint of those works on the study of classic works of literature. This subject will trace the history of ethical speculation in systematic philosophy by identifying four major positions: two from the anc
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- justice
- virtue
- literary theory
- responsibility
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- plato
- aristotle
- machiavelli
- hobbes
- sophocles
- euripides
- shapkespeare
- swift
- ibsen
- shaw
- dostoyevsky
- conrad
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This subject traces the history of the European novel by studying texts that have been influential in connection with two interrelated ideas. (1) When serious fiction deals with matters of great consequence, it should not deal with the actions of persons of consequence—kings, princes, high elected officials and the like—but rather with the
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- great books
- literary canon
- european literature
- novel
- history
- fiction
- cervantes
- balzac
- stendahl
- flaubert
- dostoyevsky
- tolstoy
- realistic tradition
- romantic
- naturalism
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This seminar offers a course of readings in lyric poetry. It aims to enhance the student's capacity to understand the nature of poetic language and the enjoyment of poetic texts by treating poems as messages to be deciphered.
The seminar will briefly touch upon the history of theories of figurative language since Aristotle and it will atten
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- literature
- lyric poetry
- poetic language
- figurative language
- aristotle
- literary theory
- history
- early modern
- metaphor
- science
- renaissance
- seventeenth century
- shakespeare
- donne
- marvell
- milton
- romantic period
- wordsworth
- coleridge
- keats
- early twentieth-century
- yeats
- t.s. eliot
- wallace stevens
- robert frost
- elizabeth bisho
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This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two media by genre, topic, and style. It aims to sharpen appreciation of major works of cinema and of literary narrative. The course explores how artworks challenge and cross cultural, political and aesthetic boundaries. It includ
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- literature
- media
- film
- literature
- genre
- topic
- style
- cinema
- literary narrative
- cultural
- political
- aesthetic
- boundaries
- theory of narrative
- akira kurosawa
- john ford
- francis ford coppolla
- clint eastwood
- orson welles
- billy wilder
- federico fellini
- aeschylus
- sophocles
- shakespeare
- cervantes
- honor? de balzac
- henry james
- f. scott fitzg
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Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when questions arise about its sources and its legitimacy. Most treatments of this subject resort to case-studies in order to illustrate the application of ethical principles to business situations, but our primary emphasis will be upon classic works of imaginative literature, which convey more directly than case-studies the ethical pressures of decision-making. Readings will include works by Shakespeare, Sophocles, Shaw, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Henrik Ibsen, among others. Topics to be discussed include the sources of authority, the management of consensus, the ideal of vocation, the ethics of deception, the morality of expediency, the requirements of hierarchy, the virtues and vices of loyalty, the relevance of ethical principles in extreme situations.
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This OER is part of OCW: Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity
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- 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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- thoreau
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- machiavelli
- hobbes
- sophocles
- euripides
- shapkespeare
- swift
- ibsen
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- dostoyevsky
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- bible
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- shakespeare
- balzac
- melville
- conrad
- ibsen
- fitzgerals
- dinesen
- camus
- literary theory
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- dostoyevsky
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- realistic tradition
- romantic
- naturalism
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