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..."This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison", "Dejection: An Ode". Wordsworth, William. "Lines, Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Wordsworth, William... Learn about: Social Networking...

...(both of graded work and of attendance) and on my personal impressions of your work. Rather than carrying a fixed weight, attendance enters in as a sort of counterbalance...

...between literary themes, forms, and conventions and the times in which they were produced. Materials include: Medieval tales, riddles, and character sketches...

...to the folk revival of the 1960s and the present. There is a special emphasis on balladry, fiddle styles, and African-American influences. The class sings... Learn about: Folk Music...

...and (3) trace the emergence of subsequent theoretical paradigms as responses to what came before. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This subject...

...in a HASS-CI subject is 18, except in the case of a subject taught without sections (where the faculty member in charge is the only instructor)...

...I stress interpretive because, for reasons that I am sure you can understand, I cannot comment on personal statements of faith, much as I may respect their honesty...

...as a Christian hero and war-leader; as an ineffective king and pathetic cuckold; and as a tragic figure of noble but doomed intentions. As we trace Arthur's...

...questions for class discussion, ideas for future writing, etc. While these entries will not receive a letter grade, they are designed to lay useful groundwork...

...in the original Middle English, together with samplings from the Troubadour tradition and the dolce stil nuovo. Reading assignments will generally consist...

...survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century) from the perspective of women writers...

...plays, prose narratives, utopias, and chivalric romance. Authors and travelers will include Francis Petrarch, Amerigo Vespucci, Thomas... Learn about: Renaissance Literature...

...in terms of how many brilliant things you say in the course of the semester, but I require you to have read the texts thoroughly and to come to class prepared...

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

...these writers conveyed a spirit of chaos and upheaval even in stories whose settings are seemingly farthest removed from those cataclysmic historical events...

...more than two unexcused absences will drop your grade by a letter, and more than three such absences will be considered grounds for failing the course...

...it will not deal with the actions of persons of immense consequence—kings, princes, high elected officials and the like—but rather with the lives of apparently...

...The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria's long reign, 1837-1901. This was the brilliant age of Charles Dickens... Learn about: British Literature...