Literature courses USA

...the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Molière. The class compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method... Learn about: Communication Training...

...This course will examine the relationship between theatre and society through the lens of the drama produced in response to these changes. However...

...special emphasis on student involvement and control. I will ask you to submit one ten-twelve page essay, two shorter (five page) essays, and to accept the role...

...They will help you locate the verse in relation to literary traditions and genres, as well as within political, social, and historical contexts...

...These presentations, between 15-20 minutes in length, should be conceived as exercises in literary interpretation through close analysis, and should ideally...

...of poets and their work as generally extraneous to the work of the sciences. Yet poets have long reflected upon and have sought to embody in their...

...elevating morals, compensating for failure); other accounts of ideal masculinity and femininity (conduct manuals, theories of gender and anatomy)...

...running to 10-15 pages, and assessing how the work of one of our poets confronts the "real" world and its complexities. Tactically, work through the focused...

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...(Preparation for preliminary research on report topic) Melville. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition, chapters 10-24 Report Topic: Exploration...

...What is the nature of God, and how can we account for that nature in a cosmos where evil exists? When is rebellion justified, and when is authority legitimate?...

...Repeated absences will lead to a formal warning and may end in your being dropped from the class. Grading will be based on the following weighting...

...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...

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...a final paper running to at least eight pages. The papers will each deal with some aspect of the readings and discussion; topics may be invented by...

...Oxford World's Classics, 2008. ISBN: 9780199536337. [Preview with Google Books] Kenney-Herbert, Wyvern. Culinary Jottings for Madras. Facsimile edition...

...two shorter essays (4-6 pages) and one longer, comparative essay (9-10 pages), the last one. I will ask for brief proposals for the last essay...

...and nuances of what we might call an ethnic subjectivity? What could it mean to harbor fugitives within the self: transgressive thoughts or a “foreign” identity?...

...This course considers a broad range of works from different countries, different media, and different genres, in exploring the transition to a decentered "Einsteinian"...

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