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Develops students' ability to recognize, analyze, and design effective structures of imaginative language and dramatic form. Emphasizes writing for the theatre vs. the screen; may vary from semester to semester. Classroom methods include workshops to critique student work, in class exercises, analysis and exposition of the work of noted playwrights and/or screenwriters, and frequent writing assignments. The class is limited in size.
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Personal essay and memoir are among the most popular forms of literature today, a fact one can confirm by looking any Sunday at the best sellers list in the New York Times. Emphasizes creativity of expression and provides an opportunity to practice these genres. Encourages experimentation with a variety of first-person forms and shows how to treat subjects that they know about and that are important to them. Conducted as a workshop in which students share their work with and learn from one another. Frequent individual conferences with the instructor. The class is limited in size.
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Each student chooses his or her own work (family history or memoir, love poetry or satire, nature or adventure writing, whatever you want). Using class and individual exercises, videotaped inspiration, and guests discussing their own work in progress, students will learn the major skills of each written genre to apply to their own special piece. Include word choice, imagery, language rhythm, conflict, characterization, narrative intervention, and tone. Other overarching concerns that professional writers struggle with include subtext, production, and intention. The class is limited in size.
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Acting is the art of creating something out of nothing by building a new reality for the audience before its very eyes. Skillfully performing this art demands a strong imagination, incisive intelligence, focus, and discipline. These skills lead not only to success in theatre, but also to a greater understanding of human nature and broad success interacting with people throughout life. In this class we will explore the art of acting, developing a shared vocabulary and reflecting our experience of each other's work. Students will be expected to show self-discipline, working independently and demonstrating improvement in the class. Students will be given assignments with specific memorization and performance dates. Students will produce a monologue and a scene, which will be shown at a public performance at the end of the semester. In addition, students will attend Boston professional performances and will discuss them in class.
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In attempting to write about the genocide that took place during World War II, writers have struggled with the dilemma, "how does one represent the unrepresentable " This course will examine the attempts of writers writing originally in English, French, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, and German to come to terms with this issue of "fictional representation" of the Holocaust. The reading list will be complemented by films that have also tackled the problem of turning the "unrepresentable" into art.
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In the Modern period, innovation and experimentation become especially valued. Yet such innovation is driven as much by the desire to represent the realities of the 20th century and of the struggle of human consciousness to deal with this rapidly changing world as by the need to make something new. Presents works that give a sense of the excitement generated by the advances and new freedoms experienced in this century and a sense of its horrors. Authors may include Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Bertold Brecht, and Milan Kundera among others.
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Heroes can be warriors or pacifists, romantics or realists, officers or outlaws, or a composite of all of these. The kind of hero a culture admires can tell us a lot about its values, its beliefs, and its fears. Examines male and female heroes from a spectrum of modern and traditional cultures. It considers how literary heroism functions as an expression of cultural values and social expectations. In exploring the ways that heroes do and do not function as role models, it also explores the conflict between individuality and social responsibility often revealed in heroic narratives. C I
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The year 1995 marked the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. In the intervening twenty years many novelists and poets-some of them veterans, some not-have attempted to transform their immediate experience of it or its effect on their lives into an art form that will have meaning for us all. In this they join the many writers throughout the world history of war who have written in the genre of war literature. This course addresses the genre of war literature and the questions, issues, and values it raises by looking closely at the literature and films of the Vietnam War.
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Explores the literary representation of women's nature, lives, and issues. The literary definitions and dynamics of Woman appear in such terms as self, voice, autonomy, relation to men, and position and agency in the world. Considers whether the gender of the writer affects the literary treatment of the subject. The texts studied will vary each semester.
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How does the study of literature provide insight into the significance of social customs, class, gender, race, religion, or nationality in different cultures And how can the products of those cultures-films, music, art objects, newspapers, advertising, and other documents and images-broaden and deepen this insight The movement of cultural products and mass media across national boundaries has changed the way people interact and the way goods and information circulate. There are certainly new forms of cultural clash, but also new channels of global cultural exchange. Presents literature, film, drama, and other cultural products which represent this sometimes troubling and often exciting cultural contact.
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