Literature Degrees

...Art Spiegelman, Sherman Alexie, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Edwidge Danticat, and Alison Bechdel. Lectures: 1 session / week; 1.5 hours / session What is a "life"...

...the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, the 60s civil rights movements. A primary focus will be themes studied and understood through the lens of gender...

...and in theoretical works that endeavor to understand the culture of cities. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Two courses in Literature Eliot...

...for instance], and part depends on the different attitudes toward traditional form. We read poets from North America (Whitman, Williams, Lowell...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Plagiarism - the use of another's intellectual work without acknowledgement - is a serious offense... Learn about: Communication Training...

...treating poems as messages to be deciphered. Poetry departs from the apparently straightforward sentences of narrative, exposition and argument-the stuff...

...haunt, enrich, and/or shape her writing, we will try to answer these questions and raise others. Readings in literary criticism, women's studies...

...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...

...1.5 hours / session This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers...

...and to think about the medium of drama as well as one writer's work in depth. Some seminar participants will report on earlier plays that influenced these writers...

...either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists)... Learn about: IT Law...

...and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session Forty years... Learn about: Communication Training...

...one of a group of practitioners - many of whom were more popular than him during and even after his remarkable career - will restore, I...

..."leadoff person," perhaps more than once, That role will demand that you choose from among the assigned readings for that session the poem we should focus...

...practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, locating them in their historical and social contexts. We will be emphasizing...

...in a person, a painting, a poem - make you a better person? Is there a necessary or even causal link between beauty and justice? While these ideas may seem outrageous today...

...and sometimes do genuinely stand - in opposition. Far from representing a mere departure from reason, then, the poem offers an image of the mind at...

...from licit to forbidden desires, they might also serve as a manual of experimentation with the resources of sound, rhythm, and figuration in poetry...

...poet's work and the questions of poetic influence and literary tradition. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication. This is meant to be a discussion course...

...> Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) This video provides a peek into Old and Middle English...