LITERATURE 103 - Modern Poetry.Staff

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Claremont McKenna College

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In this course we will read the span of modern British poetry, including Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Houseman, Rupert Brook, Sigfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Graves, and W.H. Auden. Our course will conclude with an examination of contemporary poetry through reading Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney. Offered occasionally. 106. Comedy and Laughter. Bilger Comedy is the spectacle of justified mirth. But when is mirth justified, and how should the spectacle be arranged What does it mean when we laugh Is comedy entitled to be cruel We will consider the theory and practice of comic drama, ancient and modern. Authors will include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Behn, Hobbes, Goldsmith, Cowley, Wilde, Freud, Wasserstein, and others. Offered occasionally.

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1.50

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.claremontmckenna.edu/

Phone Number:

(909) 621-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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