LVA 2449 - Pilgrims & Pilgrimage in Lit

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Babson College

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3.00 credits LVA2449 Seeking Enrichment: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Literature (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The novelist Joyce Carol Oates has said, "To be an American is to be a kind of pilgrim ... a seeker after truth. The pilgrim is our deepest and purest self." In this course we'll explore the character of the pilgrim in selected fiction, essays, and poems, using questions such as: What inspires someone to take and retake pilgrimages: long, often difficult journeys far from home What friendships and other communities form along the way and why What besides self-enrichment do pilgrims hope to find, or possibly lose Through close reading, discussion, and written analyses, we'll study how writers use setting, plot, and theme to consider these questions. There will also be one field trip, which will serve as a local pilgrimage. Course texts may include contemporary works by Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin, and Curtis Sittenfeld, as well as selections from Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Basho, and Thoreau. Prerequisite: RHT and Foundation HSF and AHF

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3.00

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www.babson.edu

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(781) 235-1200

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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