FRSEMR 36p - To Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

Considers largely fictional, mythic, or epic literature involving travel, quest, pilgrimage, sojourning, and enduring themes and questions this literature raises: parting/return, separation/reintegration, homelessness/homecoming, loneliness/companionship, orientation/disorientation, internal/external, place/space, apprenticeship, trial, growth, aesthetic vision, courage, and death. Includes works such as Gilgamesh, Tolkien's Hobbit, Homer's Odyssey, Basho's Narrow Road to Oku, Endo's Deep River, Hesse's Siddhartha, Calvino's Invisible Cities, Hersey's A Single Pebble, Frazier's Cold Mountain, Johnson's Middle Passage, `Attar's Conference of the Birds, McCarthy's The Road.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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