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...but usually the process requires re-reading (at least once). Through the MIT libraries, you can find several useful tools to help you pursue your research... Learn about: Communication Training...

...theatricality and meta-theatricality; the private and the public. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Prof. Shankar Raman Shakespeare...

...William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will explore some of that poetry...

...course is not a burden in quantitative terms, it does require care and patience. I expect, and expect you will find rewarding, careful reading and re-reading...

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...have sought to embody in their work the most elementary processes of mind, and have frequently drawn for these representations on the very sciences...

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

...The landscape we will explore is the troublesome one of the relevance, impact, and importance of poetry in a troubled modern world. We will read both poetry...

...(The Wanderer, The Wife's Lament), an account of the Crucifixion as narrated by the Cross itself (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of riddles whose solutions...

...and critical thinking and writing. Students will choose topic areas at the beginning of the term, then refine these as their research, in-class presentations...

...temptation, and original sin. Even in a hostile political climate, Paradise Lost was almost immediately recognized as a classic, and one fate of a classic is to be rewritten...

...Any absence beyond those two deducts percentage points directly from your final grade (three for the third, four for the fourth, etc): two latenesses count as one absence...

...an epic poem which retold and reimagined the Biblical story of creation, temptation, and original sin. Even in a hostile political climate, Paradise...

...Since the death of Spaulding Grey, Garrison Keillor is the best living practitioner of the American story-telling (not story-writing) tradition...

...of students' remarks will have a marked influence on grades. Much of the grade will also depend upon the quality of the three written assignments required by the course...

...a time traveler from the future would learn a lot about us from our cookbooks, blogs, and Food Network. When we visit the past through cookbooks...

...Literature Faculty that students who plagiarise will receive an F in the subject, and that the instructor will forward the case to the Committee on Discipline...

...offensive language, cruelty, and human suffering. I cannot predict what material may affect someone experiencing stress or what will upset people for other reasons...

...to the Committee on Discipline. Full acknowledgment for all information obtained from sources outside the classroom must be clearly stated in all written work submitted...

...2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session In this 3-unit class, we will read Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. The goal of the class is for students to...