EN 410-420A - Seminar Series

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Merrimack College

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Description:

Study of a work, author, or topic in seminar format. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: EN 205A or EN 206A or permission of instructor. May satisfy before or after 1800 or cultural diversity requirement depending on particular course. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week. Representative seminar offerings: Shakespeare’s Corporeal Art: The Human Body as Material and Symbol in Shakespeare Study of the human body as theatrical medium, verbal image, and theme in selected plays, with attention to Renaissance scientific and social contexts which bear upon the rich store of corporeality in Shakespearean drama. Topics for investigation include: body as theatrical presence onstage; body as metaphor; the grotesque body; gendered bodies; clothing and the body; the body in pain; the body as corpse. Reading from such plays as Richard III, King Lear; Measure for Measure, and Titus Andronicus. American Memoir Study of the personal memoir as literary genre and as personal/cultural artifact. Discussion focuses on theory of autobiography/memoir, cultural context of memoirs, gender and memoir, truth and memoir. Requirements include reading in the theory and application of the genre, writing analyses of published memoirs, and composing individual memoirs. Readers, Writers, and Books: Seminar in Textual Scholarship Introduction to issues and methods in textual scholarship, including modern theories and practices in editing literary texts for publication. Attention to the impact of the book trade on the production and reception of literary works. Sessions in McQuade Library’s special collections.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.merrimack.edu

Phone Number:

(978) 837-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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