Literature Degrees in the USA

...forum where you can (but needn't) submit any materials or links you would like us to consider before class. We will make ourselves responsible for checking the forum... Learn about: Human Rights, Contemporary Literature...

...Late papers will also lose 1% (of the course total 100%) each working day; they should be brought to the main Literature office, during working hours... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...who plagiarise will receive an F in the subject, and that the instructor will forward the case to the Committee on Discipline. Full acknowledgement... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...Assignments will include three essays, in-class presentations of work-in-progress (one map, two posters), and in-class writing assignments. [Melville] = Melville...

...center for our readerly attention, this course examines the American novel in the context of the various histories which might be said to haunt fictional...

...Two late arrivals to class will count as one absence, so please do and do try to be on time. All readings (books) for the class are available at the bookstore... Learn about: American Literature...

...when it's written down? How does memory inform the present? Why are autobiographies and memoirs so popular? This course will address these questions among others...

...labor, poverty, and working conditions for women (Fern, Davis, Wharton); captivity and slavery (Rowlandson, Jacobs); class struggle (Fern, Davis...

...Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward. Use OCW to guide your own life-long learning...

...during class and to practice the skills of a good participant: informed attention, helpful contribution, generous and intelligent listening...

...All ideas, arguments, and direct phrasings from someone else's work must be i dentified with proper footnotes. Quotations from other sources must be clearly... Learn about: Communication Training...

...figurative language since Aristotle and it will attend to the development of those theories during the last thirty years, noting the manner in which...

...with standard margins. I will consider each of the requirements in determining your grade. If you cannot be in class or meet a deadline because of an emergency...

...usually taken as a comic and satiric view of the American South, acquires new resonances when read with texts that take labor as their subject...

...received by escaped slaves and writers like Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. Her novel Dred, coming later than Uncle Tom's Cabin...

...Not all of these goals will be fully realized by all participants, but among them, I hope you recognize at least some of your own personal priorities in taking this seminar...

...and Communication Center and the MIT Web site on Plagiarism. Freud, "Negation" Foucault, "The Repressive Hypothesis" Houchin, "Overture: Theatrical Censorship... Learn about: IT Law...

...with links to scholarly articles and books we own as well as many more available though Interlibrary Loan; and EEBO (Early English Books Online)... Learn about: Communication Training...

...a sense not just of the richness of English Renaissance drama, but also that of the historical and cultural moment of the English Renaissance itself...

...We will explore some of that poetry, and consider how later poets, especially female poets, tried to come to grips with, or escape from, that dominance...