Prizewinners: nobelistas
Bachelor's degree
In Maynard (USA)
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Bachelor's degree
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Maynard (USA)
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This half-semester Samplings course, worth six instead of the typical twelve credits, drew attention to the thirteen female Nobel laureates. As the MIT Literature website explains, Samplings serve students looking for "a less intensive, more discussion and reading oriented way of continuing literary study." Secondly, "they allow the Literature Faculty to offer occasional subjects that cannot be permanently and regularly offered. Finally, they are a site of experimentation—a way of trying out new authors and new themes."
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This course meets in the second half of the semester.
Sessions: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
This Sampling course, worth six instead of the typical twelve credits, drew attention to the thirteen female Nobel laureates. As the MIT Literature website explains, Samplings serve students looking for "a less intensive, more discussion and reading oriented way of continuing literary study." Secondly, "they allow the Literature Faculty to offer occasional subjects that cannot be permanently and regularly offered. Finally, they are a site of experimentation—a way of trying out new authors and new themes."
This version of "Prizewinners" looks at women writers who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. There have been thirteen so far:
We will read novels or stories by five fiction writers—Gordimer, Morrison, Lessing, Müller, and Munro—with particular attention to narrative patterns in the texts, the socio-historical context of each writer, and critical reception of these works. Questions about how the Nobel Prize functions and is understood and about how Literature relates to the other Nobel subject areas—Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Economic Sciences—will feature in our discussions too.
Finally: Devices. Please turn off electronic devices unless we need them for that day's work. Any use of cellphones or other devices for communication with the world outside the classroom will signal that you are mentally absent, and you will be counted absent for that day.
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