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4.00 Credits
The country house as a reflection of changing cultural values from its origins in the Middle Ages to its decline during the Second World War. Readings in Jonson, Marvell, Pope, Austen, James, Shaw, Yeats, Forster, Woolf, Waugh. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. An interview and a writing sample may be used, in order to implement this limitation. A. Bradford
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4.00 Credits
This is the same course as Comparative Studies in Culture 308/French 408. Refer to the French listing for a course description.
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4.00 Credits
Ambitious poet, revolutionary propagandist, free-press advocate, and would-be divorcé, Milton spent his later years blind and crying out to be "milked" by his secretaries of his great poem , Paradise Lost . Readings will include Comus, Lycidas, Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, excerpts from Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. L. Wilder
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4.00 Credits
A course exploring how some contemporary novels try to cognitively map the increasingly global world, in ways that seemed to become impossible after the nineteenth century. Authors we will read include Zadie Smith, China Miéville, William Gibson, Robert Newman, and Alan Moore. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. S. Hay
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4.00 Credits
A study of Henry James's fiction and travel-writing set in Italy, with attention to what Italy means to a late 19th century American writer. Readings include Roderick Hudson, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Aspern Papers, The Wings of the Dove, and Italian Hours. This course is taught in the SATA Rome program only. Open to juniors, seniors and students who have taken English 220. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Rivkin
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4.00 Credits
This course will broach the philosophical question: What distinguishes the condition known as being human We will approach this question through a study of texts that contemplate mortality and consciousness. We will also consider the ethics of humanity through readings investigating torture and terrorism. Authors include Derrida, Scarry, and Fanon. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. C. Baker
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4.00 Credits
This course will conceptualize British Romanticism and explore its origins by examining the period from 1785 until 1815. We will read major authors, such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Austen, and will take up significant political issues, such as the French Revolution, slavery, and women's rights, as they appear in writings by Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Equiano. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Staff
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4.00 Credits
Special Topics in 20th Century Fiction
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4.00 Credits
A study of the works of James Joyce with special emphasis on Ulysses. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Offered alternately with Course 320B. J. Gordon
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4.00 Credits
A comparison of representative works of 20th-century "modernist" fiction with more traditionalworks from the same period. Authors to be studied may include Joyce, Ford, Woolf, Wodehouse, Waugh and Nabokov. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Offered alternately with Course 320A. J. Gordon
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