Literature 2163 - Innuendo

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

This course consists of studies in the "not-quitesaid"of fiction, poetry, drama, and theory. Students learn to distinguish the contexts and purposes of different kinds of innuendo by the analysis of speech acts, poetic statements, philosophical claims, and social prohibitions. Readings are drawn from Ferdinand de Saussure and other linguists, J. L. Austin, Deborah Tannen, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Ann Lauterbach, Miss Manners, Proust, Chekhov, Wilde, Beckett, Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Students are required to complete critical and creative writing assignments.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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