Literature Undergraduate Degrees in USA

...literature's formal and thematic techniques? How useful is it to think of literature as its own kind of "map" of urban space? Are cities too grand...

...for instance], and part depends on the different attitudes toward traditional form. We read poets from North America (Whitman, Williams, Lowell...

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...will be circulated two weeks in advance of each paper's due date for those students who require it. The first of these papers will be rewritten upon...

...weighting somewhat in exceptional circumstances; usually this works to your advantage. If written work is incomplete or attendance is infrequent...

...Reading these books in fresh contexts, we discover that the familiar landscape of the American tradition looks unexpectedly new. Note: Reading includes...

...The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel similar to Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in combining controversial material with sentimental and comic literary...

...how Fermat's theorem, classical translation, and chaos theory become the stuff of stage comedy. Sessions: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Taking...

...either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists)... Learn about: IT Law...

...the class will culminate in the development of materials for an original play based on these themes, which we hope will be produced by the Royal Shakespeare... Learn about: Communication Training...

...a sense not just of the richness of English Renaissance drama, but also that of the historical and cultural moment of the English Renaissance itself...

...William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will explore some of that poetry...

...Each of these requirements will be carefully considered in determining your grade. If you cannot be in class or meet a deadline because of an emergency...

...the Writing and Communication Center. Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on OCW. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the...

...have sought to embody in their work the most elementary processes of mind, and have frequently drawn for these representations on the very sciences...

...elevating morals, compensating for failure); other accounts of ideal masculinity and femininity (conduct manuals, theories of gender and anatomy)...

...You will be required to write two 5-page analytic essays, each dealing with a specific poem from one of the assigned texts. I'd prefer you avoid poems...

...After learning the basics of grammar and vocabulary, we will read not just excerpts from the great Beowulf but also heartrending laments...

...consult the style guides available at the Writing and Communication Center and the MIT Web site on Plagiarism. Melville. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition...

...These are some of the key questions that engaged the poet John Milton, and that continue to engage readers of his work. Lectures: 2 sessions /...