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A study of central works of Jack Kerouac and several key literary sources he drew on. Includes On The Road, The Dharma Bums and the poetry collection Mexico City Blues. Influences include others in the Beat Movement like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Diana di Prima, American predecessors like Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Walt Whitman; the French Symbolist poets (in translation) Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Bauselaire; and finally the Romantic visionary William Blake
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The central objective of this course is to help students to enter imaginatively into the condition of people caught in extremis by disaster, death, and madness—or any combination of the three. The course is an intensely collaborative experience for the student and the instructor. Students give a seminar report on a public disaster that has been researched, review drafts of fellow-students’ work, write an original play, and participate in the production of the “class play.” The three common texts used in the course are John Hersey’s familiar Hiroshima; Kai T. Erikson’s Everything in Its Path; and Norman Maclean’s powerful—and posthumously published—Young Men and Fire.
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A survey of Russian fiction, of its themes and narrative techniques, with special emphasis on works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn. Russian history in outline, from the founding of the Kievan State to the emergence of the new Russian Republic. The course approaches individual works as cultural artifacts of their times.
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This course examines the phenomenon of language and harm from the point of view of contemporary theories in linguistics and rhetoric. Topics include language and violence in literature, hate speech, cursing, verbal conflic, interrogations, and negotiations. Students will be exposed to a variety of theories on the subject, including speech act theory and other theories of conversational logic.
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In-depth study of the significant work of one or more authors. Focuses on an author's literary development, as well as the relationship between the author's life and work.
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A course in reviewing critically popular films of recent times from the perspective of major issues in contemporary culture. A broad survey of key themes such as the dominance of remakes, diversity and multiculturalism, violence, technological visions and revisions of history in widely accepted films. Requires close viewing of films, class participation, writing critical reviews and analytical papers on key themes, films and filmmakers of the past decade and a half. Readings in cultural and media studies also required.
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Introduces students to the important genre of the memoir. Explores how the memoir explicates childhood, alientation in a multicultural land, alternative (and mainstream) sexuality, homelessness, mental illness and aging. Readings include a selection of recent American autobiographies and memoirs. Students may practice writing their own memoirs. (old #362G)
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