300-400 LEVEL COURSES 321 - Biography #13034

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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MWF 11:00 TOBIN OLD CATEGORY: C A study of several literary biographies as works of imaginative craftsmanship as well as of truth-telling. We shall concentrate on the choices made by the biographers in terms of inclusion, exclusion, heightening and suppressing. We shall even review the doctrine that biography does not help in understanding the work of a writer. Some of the authors whose biographies might be studied are Shakespeare, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Keats, Hardy, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot. Prerequisites : intelligence and enthusiasm. Requirements: three essays and a final exam.

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3.00

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www.umb.edu

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(617) 287-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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