Literature courses USA

...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...

...we will try to understand the ways in which a particular text not only reflects but responds to and shapes aspects of the culture from which it derives...

...and consider how later poets, especially female poets, tried to come to grips with, or escape from, that dominance. As a seminar, the subject will place...

...of the contexts of English verse. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course aims to introduce students to some of the most important...

...Jean-Paul Sartre, and Elaine Scarry. Readings will include work from authors including Wordsworth, Keats, Mary Robinson, Mary and Percy Shelley...

...introduction to interdisciplinary humanistic research. Students are required to attend all class sessions and to participate. I do not evaluate class participation...

...be clearly marked as distinct from the student's own work. MIT's academic honesty policy can be found at the following link: 25% work in class (participation...

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...European scientific advances and home-grown ventures like the Wilkes Exploring Expedition to Antarctica and the Pacific inspired new endeavors in cartography...

...both by admirers and by antagonists. Modern readers have continued to contend with both Milton's text and its sources. In this class, we will read Paradise...

...the myth of American exceptionalism. This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by these influential American authors. In studying paired works...

...both Milton's text and its source. Students should come to the seminar having read Paradise Lost straight through at least once; this can be accomplished...

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

...which will be spaced fairly evenly over the term. The papers will total twenty pages in entirety, with two papers running to at least six pages each...

...so we’ll be focusing, rather, on selected chapters and recipes. All the books, except for the 20th-21st century ones, are available online, in reprints...

...You should expect to be present and prepared at all meetings of the class (repeated absences will affect your grade). You should also expect to present...

...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?...

...It is the policy of the Literature Faculty that students who plagiarize will receive an F in the subject, and that the instructor will forward the...

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