Literature Degrees in the USA

...I encourage you to discuss your ideas and your writing with me during office hours, or at other times convenient for us both. The different components...

...evaluated in terms of how many brilliant things you say in the course of the semester, but it is required that you have read the texts thoroughly and...

...the course aims to give undergraduates with some prior experience in the methods and topics of literary study an introduction to interdisciplinary humanistic research...

...These poems cover an enormous amount of aesthetic and psychological ground: ranging from the utterly subjective to the entirely public or conventional...

...talk to me as soon as possible. If you find yourself, on the due date, just not happy with what you've done, turn it in, let's talk it...

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...Quotations from other sources must be clearly marked as distinct from the student's own work. For further guidance on the proper forms of attribution...

...and on Genesis (Elaine Pagels, Mary Nyquist). Ten are assigned - you can skip two without penalty. These journals should be informal but thoughtful...

...Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Morrison's Beloved, characters and their creators achieve grandeur through...

...will receive an F in the subject, and that the instructor will forward the case to the Committee on Discipline. Full acknowledgement for all information...

...A = excellence (one sign of which is how much I was taught by the student) B = solid competence and consistency C = minimal adequacy. Seemingly...

...subject is to sharpen appreciation of film and literary fiction by studying the differences and similarities between the ways that filmed narratives...

...and/or in free ebook editions. Pegge, Samuel. The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform...

...arguments, and direct phrasings taken from someone else's work must be identified and properly footnoted. Quotations from other sources must be clearly...

...PublicAffairs, 2006. ISBN: 9780786715190. Delany, Samuel R. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. 20th edition. Wesleyan, 2004. ISBN: 9780819567147...

...and should balance detail with generalization. Readings for this course include works by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the painter Paul Cézanne...

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