Literature Undergraduate Degrees

...in other words, drama was useful. Shakespeare's fellow playwright Thomas Heywood similarly recalled: Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session William...

...1831); Melville's redesign of a travel narrative into a Gothic novella in Benito Cereno (1856); and Alison Bechdel's rewriting of Oscar Wilde's The Importance...

...than are short stories or novels, and essays are featured regularly and prominently in the mainstream press (both magazines and newspapers) and on... Learn about: Quality Training...

...How do these authors approach issues of family, community, nation, language and history? What can their work tell us about the complex interconnections between...

...of identity and the ways the different determinants of identity intersect, compete, and cooperate. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course... Learn about: Quality Training...

...writing exercises and conducting workshops on original stories. A writer reads with a different eye. In this class we will be reading stories and analyzing...

...of poetry from the outside in and from the inside out. It is both an essay writing and a creative writing class. In the essay part students write one-page...

...2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session MIT students were required to obtain permission from the instructor. Fantasy is currently one of the most popular...

...that is at the heart of genre writing. We shall also think about the ways in which crossing genres has led to the establishment of new genres (steampunk...

...Lectures / Workshops: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session None This class will focus on the craft of writing genre science fiction. We will examine...

...in different media can complement and enhance our storytelling. While we will read scholarly articles and discuss ideas about transmedia, this is primarily...

...intelligence programs like Eliza. With this base, students use authoring systems to model a variety of narrative techniques and to create their own fictions...

...in a workshop setting aimed at expanding the representational powers of a new creative medium. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Let's tell some stories...

...3 hours / session This class investigates theory and practice of digital or new media poetry with emphasis on workshop review of digital poetry created by students... Learn about: New Media...

...Lectures: 2 sessions/week, 1.5 hours/session None Seventeenth-century Europeans looked at the American landscape as outsiders and invested its distinctive...

..."Prisoner of the Wired World" through Robin Marantz Henig's cautionary account of nano-technology ("Our Silver-Coated Future") to David Quammen's investigation...

...The first half-century of sound included many of the most highly regarded Shakespeare films, among them - Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Henry...

...bring a new kind of seriousness of purpose to comics, blurring what's left of the boundaries between the highbrow and the lowbrow? Readings and materials...

...in traditional Celtic societies, centering on the folkloristic work of Robert Kirk in late seventeenth-century Scotland, and his links with the Royal Society...

...Alfred. In Memoriam. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN: 9780393979268. [DS] = The Wire: The Complete First Season. Created by David Simon. Home Box Office...