Literature Undergraduate Degrees

...and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session Forty years... Learn about: Communication Training...

...one of a group of practitioners - many of whom were more popular than him during and even after his remarkable career - will restore, I...

..."leadoff person," perhaps more than once, That role will demand that you choose from among the assigned readings for that session the poem we should focus...

...practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, locating them in their historical and social contexts. We will be emphasizing...

...in a person, a painting, a poem - make you a better person? Is there a necessary or even causal link between beauty and justice? While these ideas may seem outrageous today...

...and sometimes do genuinely stand - in opposition. Far from representing a mere departure from reason, then, the poem offers an image of the mind at...

...from licit to forbidden desires, they might also serve as a manual of experimentation with the resources of sound, rhythm, and figuration in poetry...

...poet's work and the questions of poetic influence and literary tradition. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication. This is meant to be a discussion course...

...> Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) This video provides a peek into Old and Middle English...

...thought and classification with more fluid and active systems. They inspired literary authors as well. This class will examine some of the most remarkable...

...1.5 hours / session What does the Genesis story of creation and temptation tell us about gender, about heterosexuality, and about the origins of evil?...

...1.5 hours / session America's major authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have traditionally been viewed as seizing on tragedy or epic as...

...In this seminar, we will read Paradise Lost alongside works of 20th century fantasy and science fiction which rethink both Milton's text and its source...

...For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive in major works in fictional forms shorter than the novel...

...Francis Ford Coppolla, Clint Eastwood, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, and Federico Fellini, among others. Literary works include texts by Aeschylus...

...or permission of the instructor. Iron chefs and home cooks; molecular gastronomy and farm-to-table dining; grain-based and protein-based diets...

...Texts will include travel writing, captivity narratives, orations, letters, and poems, by Native American, English, Anglo-American, African...

...And what is the future of “ethnic” literature in a global space? Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Two subjects in Literature or History...

...view and lifestyle that mark the twentieth century? This course considers a broad range of works from different countries, different media, and different genres...

...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...