English and Creative Writing [117F] - Interpretation and Self-Knowledge: "Till this moment I never knew myself"

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Hamilton College

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Description:

We will look at texts in which characters work to interpret the world in which they live and come to some self-understanding in the process. Reading their stories, we too will face questions of interpretation as we try to make sense of the fictional worlds before us. We will read two plays-Middleton's The Changeling and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman; two novels-Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Dickens's Great Expectations; stories by writers such as Chaucer, Melville, Wharton, and Banerjee; and a selection of poems. (Writing-intensive.) (Proseminar.) Open to first-year students only. Maximum enrollment, 16.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hamilton.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 859-4011

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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