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  • LITERATURE 172: American Icons

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Yaffe This course will explore the concept of the icon in American culture. How have certain figures become the subject of scrutiny, obsession, even worship And how has the idea of the icon been a central theme in American literary texts and in American life Possible icons may include Walt Whitman (a gay icon and poetic icon), Henry James (an icon of the literary master), F. Scott Fitzgerald (an icon of the Lost Generation), Miles Davis (an icon of black masculine hop), Allen Ginsberg (a Beat Icon), Bob Dylan (an icon of the 60's counterculture, much to his chagrin), Billie Holiday (an icon of the martyred jazz diva), Sylvia Plath (an icon of confessional poetry), and Andy Warhal (our icon of iconography itself). Offered occasionally.
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  • LITERATURE 175: Women's Magazines and the Female

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Journalist. Bilger This course will explore the roots of women's print journalism in early women's magazines and will study key figures in the history of women journalists. We will cover a wide range of materials, ranging from 18th-century English magazines to 1990s' American magazines, and will consider recent debates about the status of women within the field of journalism. Offered occasionally.
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  • LITERATURE 177: The Art of Oratory.Faggen

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Great speeches have changed history. This course will explore the art of oratory from ancient Greece to modern America. Examination of speeches of Demosthenes, Pericles, Cicero, Burke, Webster, Lincoln, Churchill, Martin Luther King and others will be combined with study of theories of oratory and rhetoric from Aristotle to Wayne Booth. Major speeches from classical and modern drama and epic including Shakespeare, Milton and Melville will also be studied along with films and recordings of 20thcentury political oratory. Speech writing and performance will form a practical component of this course. Offered occasionally.
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  • LITERATURE 182: James Joyce

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Staff In this seminar we will read the major writings of the Irish author James Joyce, whose work was immensely influential on all 20th-century literature, in English and in other languages. We will begin with his collection of short stories, Dubliners, and with his quasiautobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The greater part of our class will be devoted to a detailed reading of Ulysses, his epic of the modern world__
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  • LITERATURE 34: Creative Journalism

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Arax An intensive hands-on course in feature writing styles and journalistic ethics; a primer for writing in today's urban America. Essentially, journalism, like all art, tells a story. How that story is told is as critical to the success of a piece as the importance of its theme. A series of writing exercises and reporting "assignments" will giveboth inexperienced and more advanced writers the tools to explore their writerly "voice." Special attention willbe devoted to discussions of the role of the journalist in society. Prerequisite: written permission of department chair. All registered students must attend the first class. Offered every fall semester.
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  • LITERATURE 36: Screenwriting

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Sahl A seminar-workshop on the theory and practice of writing screenplays. We will view films and read scripts in a variety of genres, examine the roles of art, craft, and commerce in writing for film, and discuss in general the enterprise of being a writer. Each student will make substantial progress in the writing of an original screenplay. Prerequisite: written permission of department chair. All registered students must attend the first class. Offered every spring semester.
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  • LITERATURE 38: Fiction Writing

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Staff This course, which will be conducted as a workshop, will deal with both short and long forms of fiction. Participants, who may choose either form, will present their original manuscripts and will discuss those submitted by their fellow writers. Prerequisite: written permission of instructor. All registered students must attend the first class. Offered occasionally.
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  • LITERATURE 57: British Writers I

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Lobis, Meyer A survey of the major British writers from the medieval and Renaissance periods. Throughout the course we will pay attention to how this literature reflects political, religious, and philosophical influences, as well as particular aspects of the early development of the English language. Offered every fall semester.
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  • LITERATURE 58: British Writers II

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Warner A survey of representative major themes and texts from the Restoration through the early 20th century. The course, which emphasizes poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose, addresses the transitions between Neoclassic, Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist trends in British literature. Offered every spring semester.
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  • LITERATURE 60: American Writers to 1900

    1.50 Credits
    Claremont McKenna College

    Faggen A survey of major American writing (excluding novels) illustrating the development of a national literature from the Colonial period through the 19th century. Readings will be chosen from the works of such representative writers as Edwards, Franklin, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and Henry James. Considerable attention will also be paid to the social and philosophical forces which influenced the literature. Offered every other year.
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