Introduction to Drama

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Humanities
Literature
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Drama
Comparative Literature
Theater

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de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

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description: Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of ritual as well as entertainment, drama has served to unite communities and challenge social norms, to vitalize and disturb its audiences. In order to understand this rich art form more fully, we will study and discuss a sampling of plays that exemplify different kinds of dramatic structure; class members will also participate in, attend, and review dramatic performances.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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addressLocality: Cambridge

addressRegion: Massachusetts

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Anne Fleche

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Humanities
Literature
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Classics
International Literature
Drama
Theater

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de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course is a study of the history of theater art and practice from its origins to the modern period, including its roles in non-western cultures. Special attention is given to the relationship between the literary and performative dimensions of drama, and the relationship between drama and its cultural context.

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American Literature

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Humanities
Literature
Classics
American Literature

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description: This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early 19th century. It considers a range of texts - including, novels, essays, and poetry - and their efforts to define the notion of American identity. Readings usually include works by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Toni Morrison.

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World Literatures: Travel Writing

Mary Fuller

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Humanities
Literature
International Literature
Nonfiction Prose

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This semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus's _Diario_ through the present. Travel writing has some special features that will shape both the content and the work for this subject: reflecting the point of view, narrative choices, and style of individuals, it also responds to the pressures of a real world only marginally under their control. Whether the traveler is a curious tourist, the leader of a national expedition, or a starving, half-naked survivor, the encounter with place shapes what travel writing can be. Accordingly, we will pay attention not only to narrative texts but to maps, objects, archives, and facts of various kinds.

Our materials are organized around three regions: North America, Africa and the Atlantic world, the Arctic and Antarctic. The historical scope of these readings will allow us to know something not only about the experiences and writing strategies of individual travelers, but about the progressive integration of these regions into global economic, political, and knowledge systems. Whether we are looking at the production of an Inuit film for global audiences, or the mapping of a route across the North American continent by water, these materials do more than simply record or narrate experiences and territories: they also participate in shaping the world and what it means to us.

Authors will include Olaudah Equiano, Caryl Philips, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Jamaica Kincaid, William Least Heat Moon, Louise Erdrich, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

Expeditions will include those of Lewis and Clark (North America), Henry Morton Stanley (Africa), Ernest Shackleton and Robert F. Scott (Antarctica).

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Atanarjuat Quiz: Answers

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description: Solutions to a quiz on the film, "Atanarjuat."

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cs: Cvičení

de: Übung

fi: Harjoitus

uk: Практика

en: Drill and Practice

fr: Apprentissage par Répétition

da: Øvelse

nl: Oefenen

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Atanarjuat Quiz: Questions

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description: Quiz on the film, "Atanarjuat."

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After Columbus

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Humanities
Literature
American Literature
International Literature
Comparative Literature

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description: Sometime after 1492, the concept of the New World or America came into being, and this concept appeared differently - as an experience or an idea - for different people and in different places. This semester, we will read three groups of texts: first, participant accounts of contact between native Americans and French or English speaking Europeans, both in North America and in the Caribbean and Brazil; second, transformations of these documents into literary works by contemporaries; third, modern texts which take these earlier materials as a point of departure for rethinking the experience and aftermath of contact. The reading will allow us to compare perspectives across time and space, across the cultural geographies of religion, nation and ethnicity, and finally across a range of genres - reports, captivity narratives, essays, novels, poetry, drama, and film. Some of the earlier authors we will read are Michel Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Jean de Léry, Daniel Defoe and Mary Rowlandson; more recent authors include Derek Walcott, and J. M. Coetzee.

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Shakespeare

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Drama

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description: Three hundred and eighty years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the central author of the English-speaking world; he is the most quoted poet and the most regularly produced playwright — and now among the most popular screenwriters as well. Why is that, and who "is" he? Why do so many people think his writing is so great? What meanings did his plays have in his own time, and how do we read, speak, or listen to his words now? What should we watch for when viewing his plays in performance? Whose plays are we watching, anyway? We'll consider these questions as we carefully examine a sampling of Shakespeare's plays from a variety of critical perspectives.

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description: This quiz contains two essay questions.

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Writing with Shakespeare

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Drama Poetry Rhetoric

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description:
William Shakespeare didn't go to college. If he time-traveled like Dr. Who, he would be stunned to find his words on a university syllabus. However, he would not be surprised at the way we will be using those words in this class, because the study of rhetoric was essential to all education in his day. At Oxford, William Gager argued that drama allowed undergraduates "to try their voices and confirm their memories, and to frame their speech and conform it to convenient action": in other words, drama was _useful_. Shakespeare's fellow playwright Thomas Heywood similarly recalled:

In the time of my residence in _Cambridge_, I have seen Tragedies, Comedies, Histories, Pastorals and Shows, publicly acted…: this is held necessary for the emboldening of their Junior scholars, to arm them with audacity, against they come to be employed in any public exercise, as in the reading of Dialectic, Rhetoric, Ethic, Mathematic, the Physic, or Metaphysic Lectures.

Such practice made a student able to "frame a sufficient argument to prove his questions, or defend any _axioma_, to distinguish of any Dilemma and be able to moderate in any Argumentation whatsoever" (_Apology for Actors_, 1612). In this class, we will use Shakespeare's own words to arm _you_ "with audacity" and a similar ability to make logical, compelling arguments, in speech and in writing.

Shakespeare used his ears and eyes to learn the craft of telling stories to the public in the popular form of theater. He also published two long narrative poems, which he dedicated to an aristocrat, and wrote sonnets to share "among his private friends" (so wrote Francis Meres in his _Palladis Tamia_, 1598). Varying his style to suit different audiences and occasions, and borrowing copiously from what he read, Shakespeare nevertheless found a voice all his own–so much so that his words are now, as his fellow playwright Ben Jonson foretold, "not of an age, but for all time." Reading, listening, analyzing, appreciating, criticizing, remembering: we will engage with these words in many ways, and will see how words can become ideas, habits of thought, indicators of emotion, and a means to transform the world.

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The Film Experience

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Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Film and Video

name: Lecture 15: American Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007)

name: Lecture 16: American Film in the 1970s, Part II (2007)

name: Lecture 17: Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism

name: Lecture 18: Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937)

name: Lecture 19: Italian Neorealism, Part I (2007)

name: Lecture 10: Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window

name: Lecture 20: Italian Neorealism, Part II (2007)

name: Lecture 21: Truffaut, the Nouvelle Vague, The 400 Blows

name: Lecture 23: Summary Perspectives - Film as Art and Artifact

name: Lecture 5: Film as Global & Cultural Form; Montage, Mise en Scène

name: Lecture 8: The Work of Movies; Capra & Hawks

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uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema. It explores the work of Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Capra, Hawks, Hitchcock, Altman, Renoir, DeSica, and Kurosawa. Through comparative reading of films from different eras and countries, students develop the skills to turn their in-depth analyses into interpretations and explore theoretical issues related to spectatorship.

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Lecture 1: Introduction (2007)

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cs: Video

de: Video

fi: Video

uk: Відео

en: Video

fr: Vidéo

da: Video

nl: Video

es: Video


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Lecture 11: The Musical

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Lecture 12: The Musical (continued)

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Lecture 13: The Western

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Lecture 14: The Western (continued)

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Lecture 2:  Keaton (2007)

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Lecture 22: Kurosawa and Rashomon

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Lecture 3: Chaplin, Part I (2007)

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Lecture 4: Chaplin, Part II (2007)

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Lecture 6: German Film, Murnau

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Lecture 7: The Studio Era

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Lecture 9: Alfred Hitchcock

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The Film Experience Lecture Notes

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description: Detailed lecture notes taken by an MIT student during the 2006 version of 21L.011 The Film Experience.

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Fall 2013 Lecture Outlines

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description: Outlines of each lecture from the Fall 2013 semester of 21L.011 The Film Experience.

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Forms of Western Narrative

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
International Literature
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course examines some leading examples of major genres of storytelling in the Western tradition, among them epic (Homer's _Odyssey_), romance (from the Arthurian tradition), and novel (Cervantes's _Don Quixote_). We will be asking why people tell (and have always told) stories, how they tell them, why they might tell them the way they do, and what difference it makes how they tell them. We'll combine an investigation of the changing formal properties of narratives with consideration of the historical, cultural, and technological factors that have influenced how tales got told. In keeping with its CI-H and HASS-D label, this course will involve substantial attention to students' writing and speaking abilities.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Criticism
Fiction
International Literature
Comparative Literature

de: Medienwissenschaft

uk: Медіазнавство

en: Media Science

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have shaped both fantasies and perceptions, making certain understandings of experience possible through the selection, arrangement, and processing of narrative material. Surveying the field chronologically across the major narrative genres and sub-genres from Homeric epic through the novel and across media to include live performance, film, and video games, we will be examining the ways in which new ideologies and psychological insights become available through the development of various narrative techniques and new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on the generic conventions of story-telling as well as on literary and cultural issues, the role of media and modes of transmission, the artistic significance of the chosen texts and their identity as anthropological artifacts whose conventions and assumptions are rooted in particular times, places, and technologies. Authors will include: Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Christian evangelists, Marie de France, Cervantes, La Clos, Poe, Lang, Cocteau, Disney-Pixar, and Maxis-Electronic Arts, with theoretical readings in Propp, Bakhtin, Girard, Freud, and Marx.

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finalexam.pdf

uk: Медіазнавство

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

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uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Final exam questions.

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description: Text for memorization exercise.

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uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: An exercise related to class readings.

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Introduction to Media Studies

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Criticism
Comparative Literature

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

uk: Медіазнавство

de: Biologie

uk: Біологія

en: Biology

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description:
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture. Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens, the course defines "media" broadly as including oral, print, theatrical, photographic, broadcast, cinematic, and digital cultural forms and practices. The course looks at the nature of mediated communication, the functions of media, the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media's place in society.

Over the course of the semester we explore different theoretical perspectives on the role and power of media in society in influencing our social values, political beliefs, identities and behaviors. Students also have the opportunity to analyze specific media texts (such as films and television shows) and explore the meaning of the changes that occur when a particular narrative is adapted into different media forms. We look at the ways in which the politics of class, gender and race influence both the production and reception of media. To represent different perspectives on media, several guest speakers also present lectures. Through the readings, lectures, and discussions as well as their own writing and oral presentations, students have multiple opportunities to engage with critical debates in the field as well as explore the role of media in their own lives.

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uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of media. Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens, the course defines "media" broadly as including oral, print, performance, photographic, broadcast, cinematic, and digital cultural forms and practices. The course looks at the nature of mediated communication, the functions of media, the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media's place in society. This year’s course will focus on issues of network culture and media convergence, addressing such subjects as Intellectual Property, peer2peer authoring, blogging, and game modification.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
European History
History of Science and Technology
International Literature
Drama
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Geschichte

uk: Історія

en: History

description:
This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Milton and Ford. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing.

The primary theme of the class is to explore how England in the mid-seventeenth century became "a world turned upside down" by the new ideas and upheavals in religion, politics, and philosophy, ideas that would shape our modern world. Paying special attention to the "theatricality" of the new models and perspectives afforded by scientific experimentation, the class will read plays by Shakespeare, Tate, Brecht, Ford, Churchill, and Kushner, as well as primary and secondary texts from a wide range of disciplines. Students will also compose and perform in scenes based on that material.

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name: Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Mathematics
Probability and Statistics
Criticism
History of Science and Technology
Comparative Literature
Intellectual History

cs: Matematika

de: Mathematik

fi: matematiikka

uk: Математика

en: Mathematics

fr: Mathématiques

da: Matematik

es: Matemáticas

nl: Wiskunde

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

description:
"The Art of the Probable" addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences _per se_ nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thematic, and rhetorical features that imaginative literature shares with texts in the history of probability. These shared issues include (but are not limited to): the attempt to quantify or otherwise explain the presence of chance, risk, and contingency in everyday life; the deduction of causes for phenomena that are knowable only in their effects; and, above all, the question of what it means to think and act rationally in an uncertain world.

Our course therefore aims to broaden students' appreciation for and understanding of how literature interacts with – both reflecting upon and contributing to – the scientific understanding of the world. We are just as centrally committed to encouraging students to regard imaginative literature as a unique contribution to knowledge in its own right, and to see literary works of art as objects that demand and richly repay close critical analysis. It is our hope that the course will serve students well if they elect to pursue further work in Literature or other discipline in SHASS, and also enrich or complement their understanding of probability and statistics in other scientific and engineering subjects they elect to take.

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name: The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fiction
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject serves as a broad introduction to the field of European and Latin American fiction. It is designed to help students acquire a general understanding of major fictional modes. We will pay attention not only to the literary movements these works represent, but also to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific literary forms. The books we read in this course are compelling, and film versions of five of the works we read give variety to the course and time to think about the interplay of film and print.

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name: Introduction to European and Latin American Fiction: Great Books on the Page and on the Screen


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Language
Economics
Social Science
Political Science
The Developing World
Society
Business
Globalization
Anthropology
Philosophy
Global Poverty
International Relations
World History
Political Philosophy
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

de: Betriebswirtschaftslehre

uk: Бізнес-адміністрування

en: Business Administration

de: Philosophie

uk: Філософія

en: Philosophy

de: Volkswirtschaftslehre

uk: Економіка

en: Economics

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

de: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

uk: Бізнес та економіка

en: Business and Economics

description:
This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student presentations, we will study the cultural, linguistic, social and political impact of globalization across broad international borders.

We will pay attention to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific ways of life. The materials for the course include fiction, nonfiction, audio pieces, maps and visual materials.

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name: Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between


Comedy

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Classics
American Literature
Fiction
Creative Writing
Comedy

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

description: This course is designed around analyzing what’s so funny and why is it that we laugh when we do. How is comedy characterized on the fictional page, the screen, and the stage? And what might the comic teach us about the self and culture(s), especially when we come to understand its patterns of transgression as confounding social norms through jokes and laughter? Tracking a history of comedy, beginning with the first Greek humorists, Aristophanes and Plautus, we will traverse genres, periods and cultures to reflect on various types of humor: satire, farce, slapstick, love, tragedy, parody, and screwball.

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keywords: Humanities Literature Comedy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
Comedy, that most elastic literary and performance mode, skewers artifice, topples authority, and reverses expectations, not with the fatal outcomes of tragedy but with laughter and festivity. This class examines both deep roots and current forms of comedy, with a particular focus on comic insubordination. And food.

We will revel in Greek, Roman, and Shakespearean drama; explore Aphra Behn’s eighteenth-century feminist rakes and sexual adventurers in *The Rover*; investigate social satire in Jane Austen, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde; peek under the covers of small-town family life in Alison Bechdel’s *Fun Home*; and probe the uneasy relationship between farce and romantic love, violence and redemptive humor, satire and festivity in comic art. Discussion will draw on examples of popular and contemporary forms, including film and sketch comedy.

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Bestsellers: Detective Fiction

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
Creative Writing

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course focuses on works that caught the popular imagination in the past or present. It emphasizes texts that are related by genre, theme or style. The books studied in this course vary from semester to semester, and the topic for Fall 2006 is Detective Fictions.

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de: Kurs

en: Course


Bestsellers: Out for the Count

keywords: Humanities Literature Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This class uses a range of literary texts to trace the growth of the vampire trope from its first appearance in English-language fiction in the early years of the nineteenth century. Centering on classic works by Lord Byron, John Polidori, Sheridan le Fanu, Bram Stoker, and others, we learn about the formation of the modern literary canon, the folklore of the undead, and the creation of one of the most prolific popular culture genres—vampire fiction—which reached its first apotheosis in Stoker’s masterwork, _Dracula_.

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Bestsellers: The Memoir

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Nonfiction Prose
Biography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
What is a "life" when it's written down? How does memory inform the present? Why are memoirs so popular? This course will address these questions and others, considering the relationship between biography, autobiography, and memoir and between personal and social themes. We will closely examine some recent memoirs: Tobias Wolff's _This Boy's Life_, Barack Obama's _Dreams From My Father_, Edwidge Danticat's _Brother_, _I'm Dying_, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's _Infidel_, and Alison Bechdel's _Fun Home_. Students will write two brief papers: a critical essay and an experiment in memoir.

As a "Sampling," this class offers 6 units, with a strong emphasis on close reading, group discussion, focused writing, and research and presentation skills.

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Prizewinners: Nobelistas

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This half-semester Samplings course, worth six instead of the typical twelve credits, drew attention to the thirteen female Nobel laureates. As the [MIT Literature website](http://lit.mit.edu/curriculum/samplings/) explains, Samplings serve students looking for "a less intensive, more discussion and reading oriented way of continuing literary study." Secondly, "they allow the Literature Faculty to offer occasional subjects that cannot be permanently and regularly offered. Finally, they are a site of experimentation—a way of trying out new authors and new themes."

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Prizewinners

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This 6-unit subject gives students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the poetry of two living Nobel Laureates: the Caribbean poet, Derek Walcott, and the Northern-Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. We will begin and end the semester with their magnificent epic works: Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, and Walcott's Omeros (a modern epic set in the West Indies). Between these major narrative poems, we will read a rich selection of their shorter poems, as well as some of their reflections in prose on what poetry does, on what other poets do, and what it means to write in English from the historical and political situation of Northern Ireland (for Heaney) or the Caribbean (for Walcott).

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Guidelines on close reading.

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de: Übung

en: Drill and Practice


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This resource contains a take-home exam on Heaney.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This resource contains an in-class quiz on Healey.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This resource contains a take-home exam on Walcott.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This resource contains guidelines and instructions for the Walcott Quiz.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This resource contains an in-class quiz on Walcott.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Film and Video
Fiction
Comparative Literature
Periodic Literature

uk: Медіазнавство

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

en: Art, Art Theory

description: The "small wonders" to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual media of the modern age: newspapers, novels and stories, poems, photographs, films, etc. We will move between visual and verbal media across a considerable span of time, from eighteenth-century poetry and prose fiction to twenty-first century social networking and microblogging sites, and from sculpture to photography, film, and digital visual media. With help from philosophers, contemporary cultural historians, and others, we will begin to think about a media practice largely taken for granted in our own moment.

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name: Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time


Small Wonders: Staying Alive

de: Medienwissenschaft

uk: Медіазнавство

en: Media Science

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course closely examines a coherent set of short texts and/or visual works. The selections may be the shorter works of one or more authors (poems, short stories or novellas), or short films and other visual media. Additionally, we will focus on formal issues and thematic meditations around the title of the course "Staying Alive." Content varies from semester to semester.

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Literary Studies: The Legacy of England

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
International Literature
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Topic: The English sense of humor. This course examines English literature across genre and historical periods. It is designed for students who want to study English literature or writing in some depth, or to know more about English literary culture and history. Students will also learn about the relationships between literary themes, forms, and conventions and the times in which they were produced. Materials include: Medieval tales, riddles, and character sketches; Renaissance lyrics and a play, 18th-century satires in words and images, 19th century irony, modern stories and film.

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Comedy

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Comedy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course looks at comedy in drama, novels, and films from Classical Greece to the twentieth century. Focusing on examples from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Molière, Wilde, Chaplin, and Billy Wilder, along with theoretical contexts, the class examines comedy as a transgressive mode with revolutionary social and political implications. This is a Communications Intensive (CI) class with emphasis on discussion, and frequent, short essays.

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Tragedy

keywords: Humanities Literature Classics Criticism Fiction Drama

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
"Tragedy" is a name originally applied to a particular kind of dramatic art and subsequently to other literary forms; it has also been applied to particular events, often implying thereby a particular view of life. Throughout the history of Western literature it has sustained this double reference. Uniquely and insistently, the realm of the tragic encompasses both literature and life.

Through careful, critical reading of literary texts, this subject will examine three aspects of the tragic experience:

1.  the scapegoat
2.  the tragic hero
3.  the ethical crisis

These aspects of the tragic will be pursued in readings that range in the reference of their materials from the warfare of the ancient world to the experience of the modern extermination camps.

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keywords:
Music
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Music History

de: Musik, Musikwissenschaft

uk: Музика, музикознавство

en: Music, Musicology

de: Musikwissenschaft/-geschichte

uk: Музикознавство/Історія музики

en: Musicology/History of Music

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course examines the production, transmission, preservation and qualities of folk music in the British Isles and North America from the 18th century to the folk revival of the 1960s and the present. There is a special emphasis on balladry, fiddle styles, and African-American influences. The class sings ballads and folk songs from the Child and Lomax collections as well as other sources as we examine them from literary, historical, and musical points of view. Readings supply critical and background materials from a number of sources. Visitors and films bring additional perspectives.

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name: Introduction to Anglo-American Folk Music


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fiction
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: In this course, we will investigate popular culture and narrative by focusing on the relationship between literary texts and comics. Several questions shape the syllabus and provide a framework for approaching the course materials: How do familiar aspects of comics trace their origins to literary texts and broader cultural concerns? How have classic comics gone on to influence literary fiction? In what ways do contemporary graphic narratives bring a new kind of seriousness of purpose to comics, blurring what's left of the boundaries between the highbrow and the lowbrow? Readings and materials for the course range from the nineteenth century to the present, and include novels, short stories, essays, older and newer comics, and some older and newer films. Expectations include diligent reading, active participation, occasional discussion leading, and two papers.

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name: Popular Culture and Narrative: Literature, Comics, and Culture


keywords:
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Art History
Digital Media

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Serial Storytelling examines the ways the passing and unfolding of time structures narratives in a range of media. From Rembrandt's lifetime of self-portraits to The Wire, Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers to contemporary journalism and reportage, we will focus on the relationships between popular culture and art, the problems of evaluation and audience, and the ways these works function within their social context.

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name: Popular Culture and Narrative: Serial Storytelling


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fiction
International Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course takes a deep look at a big subject. We ask where Fairy Tales come from and we examine the structure of Fairy Tales. We'll also look at how Fairy Tales are conditioned by oral transmission and inherited story-telling techniques.

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name: Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale


Popular Narrative: Masterminds

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Criticism
Fiction

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Our purpose is to consider some of the most elaborate and thoughtful efforts to define and delineate "all-mastering," and to consider some of the delineations of "all-mastering the intellect" in various guises - from magicians to master spies to detectives to scientists (mad and otherwise). The major written work of the term will be an ongoing reading journal, which you will circulate to your classmates using an e-mail mailing list. The use of that list is fundamental - it is my intention to generate a sort of ongoing cyberconversation.

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Understanding Television

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Anthropology
Film and Video
Drama
Cultural Anthropology

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is "American Television: A Cultural History." The class takes a cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation, considering television as a system of storytelling and myth-making, and as a cultural practice, studied from anthropological, literary, and cinematic perspectives. The course focuses on prime-time commercial broadcasting, the medium's technological and economic history, and theoretical perspectives. There is much required viewing as well as readings in media theory and cultural interpretation.

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Shakespeare, Film and Media

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Film and Video
Criticism
Drama

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description:
Filmed Shakespeare began in 1899, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree performing the death scene from King John for the camera. Sarah Bernhardt, who had played Hamlet a number of times in her long career, filmed the duel scene for the Paris Exposition of 1900. In the era of silent film (1895-1929) several hundred Shakespeare films were made in England, France Germany and the United States, Even without the spoken word, Shakespeare was popular in the new medium. The first half-century of sound included many of the most highly regarded Shakespeare films, among them -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Henry V, Orson Welles' Othello and Chimes at Midnight, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, Polanski's Macbeth and Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. We are now in the midst of an extremely rich and varied period for Shakespeare on film which began with the release of Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in 1989 and includes such films as Richard Loncraine's Richard III, Julie Taymor's Titus, Zeffirelli and Almereyda's Hamlet films, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and Shakespeare in Love. The phenomenon of filmed Shakespeare raises many questions for literary and media studies about adaptation, authorship, the status of "classic" texts and their variant forms, the role of Shakespeare in youth and popular culture, and the transition from manuscript, book and stage to the modern medium of film and its recent digitally inflected forms.

Most of our work will involve individual and group analysis of the "film text" -- that is, of specific sequences in the films, aided by videotape, DVD, the [Shakespeare Electronic Archive](http://shea.mit.edu/), and some of the software tools for video annoatation developed by the MIT Shakespeare Project under the [MIT-Microsoft iCampus Initiative](http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/projects/i-campus/).

We will study the films as works of art in their own right, and try to understand the means -- literary, dramatic, performative, cinematic -- by which they engage audiences and create meaning. With Shakespeare film as example, we will discuss how stories cross time, culture and media, and reflect on the benefits as well as the limitations of such migration.

The class will be conducted as a structured discussion, punctuated by student presentations and "mini-lectures" by the instructor. Students will introduce discussions, prepare clips and examples, and the major "written" work will take the form of presentations to the class and multimedia annotations as well as conventional short essays.

The methodological bias of the class is close "reading" of both text and film. This is a class in which your insights will form a major part of the work and will be the basis of a large fraction of class discussion. You will need to read carefully, to watch and listen to the films carefully, and develop effective ways of conveying your ideas to the class.

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Darwin and Design

keywords:
Science
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
Metaphysics
Intellectual History

de: Psychologie

uk: Психологія

en: Psychology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Geschichte

en: History

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description:
This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the immediate intellectual antecedents and some of the implications of the ideas animating Darwin's revolutionary _On the Origin of Species_. Darwin's text, of course, is about the mechanism that drives the evolution of life on this planet, but the fundamental ideas of the text have implications that range well beyond the scope of natural history, and the assumptions behind Darwin's arguments challenge ideas that go much further back than the set of ideas that Darwin set himself explicitly to question - ideas of decisive importance when we think about ourselves, the nature of the material universe, the planet that we live upon, and our place in its scheme of life. In establishing his theory of natural selection, Darwin set himself, rather self-consciously, to challenge a whole way of thinking about these things. The main focus of attention will be Darwin's contribution to the so-called "argument from design" - the notion that innumerable aspects of the world (and most particularly the organisms within it) display features directly analogous to objects of human design and, since design implies a designer, that an intelligent, conscious agency must have been responsible for their organization and creation. Previously, it had been argued that such features must have only one of two ultimate sources - chance or conscious agency. Darwin proposed and elaborated a third source, which he called Natural Selection, an unconscious agency capable of outdoing the most complex feats of human intelligence.

The course of study will not only examine the immediate inspiration for this idea in the work of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus and place Darwin's _Origin_ and the theory of Natural Selection in the history of ensuing debate, but it will also touch upon related issues.

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de: Philosophie

en: Philosophy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain and our mind. This course covers social development, social behaviour, social cognition and social neuroscience, in both human and non-human social animals. Topics include altruism, empathy, communication, theory of mind, aggression, power, groups, mating, and morality. Methods include evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology and anthropology.

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End of Nature

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the growth of ideas about nature and the natural environment of mankind. The term _nature_ in this context has to do with the varying ways in which the physical world has been conceived as the habitation of mankind, a source of imperatives for the collective organization and conduct of human life. In this sense, nature is less the object of complex scientific investigation than the object of individual experience and direct observation. Using the term "nature" in this sense, we can say that modern reference to "the environment" owes much to three ideas about the relation of mankind to nature. In the first of these, which harks back to ancient medical theories and notions about weather, geographical nature was seen as a neutral agency affecting or transforming agent of mankind's character and institutions. In the second, which derives from religious and classical sources in the Western tradition, the earth was designed as a fit environment for mankind or, at the least, as adequately suited for its abode, and civic or political life was taken to be consonant with the natural world. In the third, which also makes its appearance in the ancient world but becomes important only much later, nature and mankind are regarded as antagonists, and one must conquer the other or be subjugated by it.

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Literature and Ethical Values

keywords:
Humanities
Ethics
Literature
Philosophy
Classics
Comparative Literature

de: Ethik

uk: Етика

en: Ethics

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to bring to bear the viewpoint of those works on the study of classic works of literature. This subject will trace the history of ethical speculation in systematic philosophy by identifying four major positions: two from the ancient world and the two most important traditions of ethical philosophy since the renaissance. The two ancient positions will be represented by Plato and Aristotle, the two modern positions by Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. We will try to understand these four positions as engaged in a rivalry with one another, and we will also engage with the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, which offers a bridge between ancient and modern conceptions and provides a source for the rivalry between the viewpoints of Kant and Mill. Further, we will be mindful that the modern positions are subject to criticism today by new currents of philosophical speculation, some of which argue for a return to the positions of Plato and Aristotle.

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Introduction to Literary Theory

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Philosophy
Film and Video
Criticism

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century, paying special attention to poststructuralist theories and their legacy. The course is organized around specific theoretical paradigms. In general, we will: (1) work through the selected readings in order to see how they construe what literary interpretation is; (2) locate the limits of each particular approach; and (3) trace the emergence of subsequent theoretical paradigms as responses to what came before.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Classics
Political Philosophy
Intellectual History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Roman Literature of the Golden Age of Augustus Caesar, produced during the transition from Republican to Imperial forms of government, was to have a profound and defining influence on Western European and American societies. These writings ultimately established lasting models of aesthetic refinement, philosophical aspiration, and political ambition that continue to shape modern cultures. This class will be exploring the Golden Age of Latin Literature from an historical perspective in order to provide an intensive examination of the cultural contexts in which these monumental works of classical art were first produced. Readings will emphasize the transition from a Republican form of government to an Empire under the rule of Augustus Caesar and the diversity of responses among individual authors to the profound structural changes that Roman society was undergoing at this time. Particular attention will be devoted to the reorganization of society and the self through textuality, the changing dimensions of the public and the private, the roles of class and gender, and the relationship between art and pleasure. Writings covering a wide variety of literary genres will include the works of Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, with additional readings from Cassius Dio for background.

de: keine Anmeldung erforderlich

uk: вхід без авторизації

en: no login required

name: Classical Literature: The Golden Age of Augustan Rome


The Bible

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Religion
Ancient History

de: Religionswissenschaft

uk: Релігієзнавство

en: Religious Studies

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is an introduction to major books from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Particular attention has been given to literary techniques, issues resulting from translation from the original Hebrew and Greek, and the different historical periods that produced and are reflected in the Bible. Investigation of the Bible as influence in later narrative, philosophic, and artistic traditions.

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de: Kurs

en: Course


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Medieval History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The course explores the literary masterworks of three of the most celebrated authors of the Middle Ages in their original literary and historical contexts. The various themes they take up - the importance of writing in the vernacular; the discourse of love as a form of discipline practised upon the self; the personal and political aspirations of the self in society; the constitution of ideal forms of social organization; the role of religion in the life and works of lay authors - transformed the course of much of Western literature for the next five centuries. Readings will include the entire _Divine Comedy_, generous selections from the _Decameron_, and all of _Troilus and Criseyde_ in the original Middle English, together with samplings from the _Troubadour tradition_ and the _dolce stil nuovo._

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name: Medieval Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer


Medieval Literature: Legends of Arthur

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: As a quasi-historical, quasi-legendary figure of consistently great popularity, King Arthur has been subject to an extraordinary amount of reinvention and rewriting: as a Christian hero and war-leader; as an ineffective king and pathetic cuckold; and as a tragic figure of noble but doomed intentions. As we trace Arthur's evolution and that of principal knights, we will ask what underlies the appeal of this figure whose consistent reappearance in western culture has performed the medieval prophecy that he would be _rex quondam et futurus_: the once and future king.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Periodic Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: It is easy to think of love as a "universal language" - but do ideas about love translate easily across history, culture, and identity? In this course, we will encounter some surprising, even disturbing ideas about love and sex from medieval writers and characters: For instance, that married people can never be in love, that the most satisfying romantic love incorporates pain and violence, and that intense erotic pleasure can be found in celibate service to God. Through Arthurian romances, Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, love letters, mystical visions, and more, we will explore medieval attitudes toward marriage, sexuality, and gender roles. What can these perspectives teach us about the uniqueness of the Middle Ages—and how do medieval ideas about love continue to influence the beliefs and fantasies of our own culture?

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name: Medieval Literature: Love, Sex, and Marriage


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Society
Women's Studies
Criticism
International Literature
Medieval History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century) from the perspective of women writers from a variety of cultures, social backgrounds, and historical timeperiods. Though much of the class will be devoted to exploring the evolution of a new literary tradition by and for women from its earliest emergence in the West, wider historical and cultural movements will also be addressed: the Fall of the Roman Empire, the growth of religious communities, the shift from orality to literacy, the culture of chivalry and courtly love, the emergence of scholasticism and universities, changes in devotional practices, the persecution of heretics, the rise of nationalism and class consciousness. Authors will include some of the most famous women of the period: Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise of Paris, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Joan of Arc, Margery Kempe, along with many interesting and intriguing though lesser known figures.

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name: Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers


Renaissance Literature

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The Renaissance has justly become both famous and notorious as an age of discovery, and its voyages took place in many realms. This semester, we will read several history making narratives of early modern travel: first-hand accounts of discovery, captivity, conquest, or cultural encounter. As Europeans came to acquire experience of unfamiliar places, literary texts of the period began to assimilate this experience by describing imagined voyages across real or fantastic landscapes. Finally, voyages of exploration served Renaissance writers as a metaphor: for intellectual inquiry, for spiritual development, or for the pursuit of love. Among the literary genres sampled this semester will be sonnets, plays, prose narratives, utopias, and chivalric romance. Authors and travellers will include Francis Petrarch, Amerigo Vespucci, Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Hernán Cortés, John Donne, Francis Drake, Mary Rowlandson, Francis Bacon.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
European History
Metaphysics
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: When John Locke declared (in the 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding) that knowledge was derived solely from experience, he raised the possibility that human understanding and identity were not the products of God's will or of immutable laws of nature so much as of one's personal history and background. If on the one hand Locke's theory led some to pronounce that individuals could determine the course of their own lives, however, the idea that we are the products of our experience just as readily supported the conviction that we are nothing more than machines acting out lives whose destinies we do not control. This course will track the formulation of that problem, and a variety of responses to it, in the literature of the "long eighteenth century." Readings will range widely across genre, from lyric poetry and the novel to diary entries, philosophical prose, and political essays, including texts by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Mary Astell, David Hume, Laurence Sterne, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Hays, and Mary Shelley. Topics to be discussed include the construction of gender identities; the individual in society; imagination and the poet's work. There will be two essays, one 5-6 pages and one 8-10 pages in length, and required presentations.

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name: Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain


keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Though the era of British Romanticism (ca. 1790-1830) is sometimes exclusively associated with the poetry of these years, this period was just as importantly a time of great innovation in British prose fiction. Romantic novelists pioneered or revolutionized several genres, including social/philosophical problem novels, tales of sentiment and sensibility, and the historical novel. Writing in the years of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the early industrial revolution, these writers conveyed a spirit of chaos and upheaval even in stories whose settings are seemingly farthest removed from those cataclysmic historical events. In this year's offering of "Major English Novels," we will read of plagues, wars, hysterics, monsters and more in novels by authors including William Godwin, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Walter Scott. In the final weeks of the semester, we will read one major novel of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens's _Great Expectations_, in light of these earlier texts. There will be two essay assignments, one 5-7 pages and one 8-10 pages in length, and required presentations.

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name: Major English Novels: Reading Romantic Fiction


Major English Novels

name: Topics for take-home exam on Austen, Mansfield Park

name: Topics for take-home exam on Brontë, Wuthering Heights.

name: Take-home exam on Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

name: Take-home exam on Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

name: Take-home exam on Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course studies several important examples of the genre that between the early 18th century and the end of the 20th has come to seem the definitive literary form for representing and coming to terms with modernity. Syllabi vary, but the class usually attempts to convey a sense of the form's development over the past few centuries. Among topics likely to be considered are: developments in narrative technique, the novel's relation to history, national versus linguistic definitions of an "English" novel, social criticism in the novel, realism versus "romance," the novel's construction of subjectivities. Writers studied have included Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Take-home exam on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

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de: Übung

en: Drill and Practice


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Take-home exam on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Take-home exam on Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Take-home exam on George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Optional take-home exam on James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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description: In this class, you will read, think about, and (I hope) enjoy important examples of what has become one of the most popular literary genres today, if not the most popular: the novel. Some of the questions we will consider are: Why did so many novels appear in the eighteenth century? Why were they—and are they—called novels? Who wrote them? Who read them? Who narrates them? What are they likely to be about? Do they have distinctive characteristics? What is their relationship to the time and place in which they appeared? How have they changed over the years? And, most of all, why do we like to read them so much?

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Major European Novels

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
International Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject traces the history of the European novel by studying texts that have been influential in connection with two interrelated ideas. (1) When serious fiction deals with matters of great consequence, it should not deal with the actions of persons of consequence—kings, princes, high elected officials and the like—but rather with the lives of apparently ordinary people and the everyday details of their social ambitions and desires. To use a phrase of Balzac's, serious fiction deals with "what happens everywhere". (2) This idea sometimes goes with another: that the most significant representations of the human condition are those dealing with persons who try to compel society to accept them as its destined agent, despite their absence of high birth or inheritance.

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Romantic Poetry

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Fiction Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course examines readings of the major British Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, Shelley, and Keats) and important fiction writers (Mary Shelley and Walter Scott). Attention is also given to literary and historical contexts.

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Victorian Literature and Culture

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Social Science
Anthropology
European History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

de: Biologie

en: Biology

description: The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria's long reign, 1837-1901. This was the brilliant age of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson – and many others. It was also the age of urbanization, steam power, class conflict, Darwin, religious crisis, imperial expansion, information explosion, bureaucratization – and much more.

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Modern Fiction

keywords: Humanities Literature Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes include the role of the artist in the modern period; the representation of psychological and sexual experience; and the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character. Works by Conrad, Kipling, Babel, Kafka, James, Lawrence, Mann, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Nabokov.

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Modern Drama

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Drama
Theater

de: Medienwissenschaft

uk: Медіазнавство

en: Media Science

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

en: Art, Art Theory

description: This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka, Hwang, Churchill, Wilson, Frayn, Stoppard, Deveare Smith, and Kushner. The class particularly considers performance, sociopolitical and aesthetic contexts, and the role of theater in the world of modern multimedia.

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Modern Poetry

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
Criticism
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
This course considers some of the substantial early twentieth-century poetic voices in America. Authors vary, but may include Moore, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, and Pound.

We'll read the major poems by the most important poets in English in the 20th century, emphazinig especially the period between post-WWI disillusionment and early WW II internationalism (ca. 1918-1940). Our special focus this term will be how the concept of "the Image" evolved during this period. The War had undercut beliefs in master-narratives of nationalism and empire, and the language-systems that supported them (religious transcendence, rationalism and formalism). Retrieving energies from the Symbolist movements of the preceding century, early 20th century poets began to rethink how images carry information, and in what ways the visual, visionary, and verbal image can take the place of transcendent beliefs. New theories of linguistics and anthropology helped to advance this interest in the artistic/religious image. So did Freud. So did Charlie Chaplin films.

We'll read poems that pay attention both to this disillusionment and to the compensatory joyous attention to the image: to ideas of the poet-as-language-priest, aesthetic-experience-as-displaced-religious impulse, to poetry as faith, ritual, and form.

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keywords: Humanities Literature Philosophy Criticism Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies is a thing of the past. Its sway within the global political arena is weak. Its command over Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is broken or threatened. What have novelists made of all this? What are they writing as the old empire fades away and as new social and political formations emerge? These are the questions that will concern us in this course.

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name: Contemporary Literature: British Novels Now


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Social Science
The Developing World
Society
Sociology
Philosophy
Social Justice
Political Philosophy
Criticism

de: Soziologie

uk: Соціологія

en: Sociology

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: Central to our era is the gradual movement of all the world's regions toward a uniform standard of economic and political development. In this class we will read a variety of recent narratives that partake of, dissent from, or contribute to this story, ranging from novels and poems to World Bank and IMF statements and National Geographic reports. We will seek to understand the many motives and voices – sometimes congruent, sometimes clashing – that are currently engaged in producing accounts of people in the developing world: their hardships, laughter, and courage, and how they help themselves and are helped by outsiders who may or may not have philanthropic motives. Readings will include literature by J. G. Ballard, Jamaica Kincaid, Rohinton Mistry, and John le Carré, as well as policy documents, newspaper and magazine articles, and the Web sites of a variety of trade and development commissions and organizations.

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name: Contemporary Literature: Literature, Development, and Human Rights


Contemporary Literature

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
International Literature
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This semester, Contemporary Literature (21L.488) deals with Irish literature, a subject broad and deep. To achieve a manageable volume of study, the course focuses primarily on poetry and prose, at drama's expense, and on living writers, at the expense of their predecessors. Each class session follows a discussion format, often with students assigned to lead-off or summarize the day's topic.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: In this class we will focus on the connections between urban exploration and reading, attending to such shared concerns as pacing, legibility, transgression, attention and distraction, tracing and retracing, and memory. This idea of re-reading cities will be both a theme centering our discussions and a guiding principle of the course design, as we continuously loop back, returning to haunt texts we left behind earlier in the semester.

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name: Contemporary Literature: Street Haunting in the Global City


The American Novel

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
American History
Criticism
Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores the metaphorical, historical, social, and psychological value of ghosts in the American novel. Using the theme of "haunting" as a flashpoint for class discussion and a thematic center for our readerly attention, this course examines the American novel in the context of the various histories which might be said to haunt fictional characters in the American novel, to haunt the American novel itself, and ultimately to haunt us: America's colonial past, its slave past, and other memorable and painful chapters in its past.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Classics
American Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course covers works by major American novelists, beginning with the late 18th century and concluding with a contemporary novelist. The class places major emphasis on reading novels as literary texts, but attention is paid to historical, intellectual, and political contexts as well. The syllabus varies from term to term, but many of the following writers are represented: Rowson, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Wharton, James, and Toni Morrison. Previously taught topics include The American Revolution and Makeovers (i.e. adaptations and reinterpretation of novels traditionally considered as American "Classics"). May be repeated for credit with instructor's permission so long as the content differs.

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name: The American Novel: Stranger and Stranger


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Society
Gender Studies
African American Studies
American Literature
Criticism

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities. Discussions will focus on some of the following questions: What does it mean to act black, white, privileged, or underprivileged? What do these artists suggest are the implications of performing (indeed playing at or with) racial identity, ethnicity, gender, and class status? How and why are race and class status often conflated in these performances?

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name: Race and Identity in American Literature: Keepin' it Real Fake


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Society
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
American Literature
Criticism

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present. It aims to introduce a number of literary genres and styles- the captivity narrative, slave novel, sensational, sentimental, realistic, and postmodern fiction- and also to address significant historical events in American women's history: Puritanism, the American Revolution, industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, the 60s civil rights movements. A primary focus will be themes studied and understood through the lens of gender: war, violence, and sexual exploitation (Keller, Rowlandson, Rowson); the relationship between women and religion (Rowlandson, Rowson, Stowe); labor, poverty, and working conditions for women (Fern, Davis, Wharton); captivity and slavery (Rowlandson, Jacobs); class struggle (Fern, Davis, Wharton, Larsen); race and identity (Keller, Jacobs, Larsen, Morrison); feminist revisions of history (Stowe, Morrison, Keller); and the myth of the fallen woman (take your pick). Essays and in-class reports will focus more particularly on specific writers and themes and will stress the skills of close reading, annotation, research, and uses of multimedia where appropriate.

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name: American Authors: American Women Authors


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
Criticism

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: What is a "life" when it's written down? How does memory inform the present? Why are autobiographies and memoirs so popular? This course will address these questions among others, considering the relationship between biography, autobiography, and memoir and between personal and social themes. We will examine classic authors such as Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Mark Twain; then more recent examples like Tobias Wolff, Art Spiegelman, Sherman Alexie, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Edwidge Danticat, and Alison Bechdel.

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name: American Authors: Autobiography and Memoir


Old English and Beowulf

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Language
Fiction
Periodic Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is an intensive introduction to Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon), the ancestor of modern English that was spoken in England *ca.* 600–1100. In the first half of the term, students use short prose texts to study the basics of Old English grammar. They go on to read short poems, and conclude by tackling portions of the epic *Beowulf* in the last third of the term. Assessment is based upon translation work, daily vocabulary quizzes, and three exams.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

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name: Lecture 2: Pronunciation, Grammar Review, the Case System, and Word-Formation

de: Video

en: Video


Lecture 3: Pronouns

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lecture 4: Nouns

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lecture 5: Verbs, Part 1

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

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name: Lecture 6: Mock Exam, Verbs, Part 2, and Adjectives


uk: Гуманітарні науки

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name: Lecture 7: Numerals, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Concord, and Word Order


Lecture 8: Syntax, Part 1

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

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name: Lecture 9: Syntax, Part 2, and Sight Translation (20:02 - 25:18)


The New Spain:1977-Present

keywords:
Humanities
History
Language
Society
European and Russian Studies
European History
Modern History
Spanish

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: In this class we will come to understand the vast changes in Spanish life that have taken place since Franco's death in 1975. We will focus on the new freedom from censorship, the re-emergence of movements for regional autonomy, the new cinema, reforms in education and changes in daily life: Sex roles, work, and family that have occurred in the last decade. In so doing, we will examine myths that are often considered commonplaces when describing Spain and its people.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
International Literature
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: In this seminar we'll read individual poems closely within a set of questions about the moral and political position of poetry -- and of intellectuals -- in different cultural contexts. Of course, part of the divergence in the social positions of poetry \[and of 'the aesthetic'\] depends on the dominant paradigm of the social, political and literary culture; part of the divergence derives from the momentum of literary development in the culture \[how did the culture experience modernism?, for instance\], and part depends on the different attitudes toward traditional form. We read poets from North America (Whitman, Williams, Lowell, Plath, Bishop), from South America (Neruda), from Western Europe (Yeats), and Eastern Europe (Akhmatova, Szymborska); we conclude with a month dedicated to the work of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel Prize for literature (the first to win from a position of exile) in 1980.

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name: Literary Interpretation: Beyond the Limits of the Lyric


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Criticism
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
This seminar offers a course of readings in lyric poetry. It aims to enhance the student's capacity to understand the nature of poetic language and the enjoyment of poetic texts by treating poems as messages to be deciphered.

The seminar will briefly touch upon the history of theories of figurative language since Aristotle and it will attend to the development of those theories during the last thirty years, noting the manner in which they tended to consider figures of speech distinct from normative or literal expression, and it will devote particular attention to the rise of theories that quarrel with this distinction.

The seminar also aims to communicate a rough sense of the history of English-speaking poetry since the early modern period. Some attention will be paid as well to the use of metaphor in science.

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name: Literary Interpretation: Interpreting Poetry


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Photography
Poetry

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course introduces the practice and theory of literary criticism. The seminar focuses on topics such as the history of critical methods and techniques, and the continuity of certain subjects in literary history. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication is a major component of the course. Other components include theory and use of figurative language and reading poetry.

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name: Literary Interpretation: Literature and Photography: The Image


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Urban Studies
Philosophy
Criticism
Comparative Literature

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: Alienation, overcrowding, sensory overload, homelessness, criminality, violence, loneliness, sprawl, blight. How have the realities of city living influenced literature's formal and thematic techniques? How useful is it to think of literature as its own kind of "map" of urban space? Are cities too grand, heterogeneous, and shifting to be captured by writers? In this seminar we will seek answers to these questions in key city literature, and in theoretical works that endeavor to understand the culture of cities.

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name: Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Society
Women's Studies
Criticism
Fiction
Drama
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: How does one writer use another writer's work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What difference does it make if she's a groundbreaking twentieth-century feminist and the writer she values has come to epitomize the English literary tradition? How can a novelist borrow from plays and poems? By reading Virginia Woolf's major novels and essays in juxtaposition with some of the Shakespeare plays that (depending on one's interpretation) haunt, enrich, and/or shape her writing, we will try to answer these questions and raise others. Readings in literary criticism, women's studies, and other literary texts will complement our focus on the relationship--across time, media, and gender--between Shakespeare and Woolf. As a seminar, we will work to become more astute readers of literature within its historical, artistic, and political contexts, and consider how literature both reflects and contributes to these societal frameworks. Central texts will include Shakespeare's _Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline_, and _The Winter's Tale_, and Woolf's _A Room of One's Own_, _Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, To the Lighthouse, The Waves,_ and _Between the Acts_. This subject is an advanced seminar in both the Literature and the Women's Studies Program.

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name: Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
Criticism
Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: What has been said of _Moby-Dick_—that it's the greatest novel no one ever reads—could just as well be said of any number of American "classics" like _The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin_, or _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_. This course reconsiders a small number of nineteenth-century American novels by presenting each in a surprising context.

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name: Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ by Harriet Beecher Stowe and _The Adventures of_ _Huckleberry Finn_ by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.

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name: Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Criticism
Drama
Comparative Literature
Theater

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Shakespeare "doth bestride the narrow world" of the English Renaissance "like a colossus," leaving his contemporaries "walk under his large legs and peep about" to find themselves in "dishonourable graves." This course aims in part to correct this grave injustice by surveying the extraordinary output of playwrights whose names have largely been eclipsed by their more luminous compatriot: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Ford, among others. Reading Shakespeare as just one of a group of practitioners -- many of whom were more popular than him during and even after his remarkable career -- will restore, I hope, a sense not just of the richness of English Renaissance drama, but also that of the historical and cultural moment of the English Renaissance itself. This course will examine the relationship between theatre and society through the lens of the drama produced in response to these changes. However, we will not try to map the progress of drama directly onto the social world, as if the former can simply read off the latter. Rather, focusing on discrete issues and problems, we will try to understand the ways in which a particular text not only reflects but responds to and shapes aspects of the culture from which it derives, developing an aesthetic that actively engages its world. The topics addressed over the course of the semester will be wide-ranging but will include: gender and class dynamics in Renaissance society; money, trade, and colonialism; the body as metaphor and theatrical "object"; allegory and aesthetic form; theatricality and meta-theatricality; the private and the public.

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name: English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare


Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Criticism
Drama
Theater

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Taking as its starting point the works of one of Britain's most respected, prolific—and funny—living dramatists, this seminar will explore a wide range of knowledge in fields such as math, philosophy, politics, history and art. The careful reading and discussion of plays by (Sir) Tom Stoppard and some of his most compelling contemporaries (including Caryl Churchill, Anna Deveare Smith and Howard Barker) will allow us to time-travel and explore other cultures, and to think about the medium of drama as well as one writer's work in depth. Some seminar participants will report on earlier plays that influenced these writers, others will research everything from Lord Byron's poetry to the bridges of Konigsberg, from Dadaism to Charter 77. Employing a variety of critical approaches (both theoretical and theatrical), we will consider what postmodernity means, as applied to these plays. In the process, we will analyze how drama connects with both the culture it represents and that which it addresses in performance. We will also explore the wit and verbal energy of these contemporary dramatists…not to mention, how Fermat's theorem, classical translation, and chaos theory become the stuff of stage comedy.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Criticism
Drama
Theater
Intellectual History

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Molière. The class compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing.

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name: Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War


keywords:
Humanities
Ethics
Literature
Fine Arts
Philosophy
Performance Arts
Criticism
Drama
Theater

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We'll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the "obscene", as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves.

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name: Studies in Drama: Too Hot to Handle: Forbidden Plays in Modern America


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will explore some of that poetry, and consider how later poets, especially female poets, tried to come to grips with, or escape from, that dominance. As a seminar, the subject will place special emphasis on student involvement and control. I will ask you to submit one ten-twelve page essay, two shorter (five page) essays, and to accept the role of "leadoff person," perhaps more than once, That role will demand that you choose from among the assigned readings for that session the poem we should focus upon, and to offer either a provocative articulation of what the poem is about, or a provocative question which the poem confronts, and which we should grapple with, as well.

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name: Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats


keywords:
Science
Humanities
Literature
History
Social Science
Cognitive Science
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Psychology
Intellectual History
Poetry

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

description: Do poems think? Recurrent images of the poet as an inspired lunatic, and of poetry as a fundamentally irrational art, have often fostered an understanding of poets and their work as generally extraneous to the work of the sciences. Yet poets have long reflected upon and have sought to embody in their work the most elementary processes of mind, and have frequently drawn for these representations on the very sciences to which they are thought to stand - and sometimes do genuinely stand - in opposition. Far from representing a mere departure from reason, then, the poem offers an image of the mind at work, an account of how minds work, a tool for eliciting thought in the reader or auditor. Bringing together readings in British poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with writings from the emergent sciences of psychology and the physiology of the brain, this interdisciplinary course will explore the ways in which British poets, in years that witnessed the crucial development of these sciences, sought to capture an image of the mind at work. The primary aim of the course is to examine how several prominent genres of British poetry - the lyric, for instance, and the didactic poem - draw from and engage in this period with accounts of cognition within the sciences of psychology, physiology, and medicine. More broadly, the course aims to give undergraduates with some prior experience in the methods and topics of literary study an introduction to interdisciplinary humanistic research.

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name: Studies in Poetry - British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind


Studies in Poetry: "Does Poetry Matter"

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The landscape we will explore is the troublesome one of the relevance, impact, and importance of poetry in a troubled modern world. We will read both poetry and prose by several substantial modern writers, each of whom confronted the question that is the subject's title.

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description: This course introduces students to some of the most important practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, locating them in their historical and social contexts. We will be emphasizing love poetry or amatory verse, by combining close reading of selected poems with an investigation of the contexts of English verse.

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name: Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Society
Gender Studies
Criticism
International Literature
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The core of this seminar will be the great sequences of English love sonnets written by William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth. These poems cover an enormous amount of aesthetic and psychological ground: ranging from the utterly subjective to the entirely public or conventional, from licit to forbidden desires, they might also serve as a manual of experimentation with the resources of sound, rhythm, and figuration in poetry. Around these sequences, we will develop several other contexts, using both Renaissance texts and modern accounts: the Petrarchan literary tradition (poems by Francis Petrarch and Sir Thomas Wyatt); the social, political, and ethical uses of love poetry (seduction, getting famous, influencing policy, elevating morals, compensating for failure); other accounts of ideal masculinity and femininity (conduct manuals, theories of gender and anatomy); and the other limits of the late sixteenth century vogue for love poetry: narrative poems, pornographic poems, poems that don't work.

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name: Studies in Poetry: Gender and Lyric -- Renaissance Men and Women Writing about Love


keywords: Humanities Literature Philosophy Criticism Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of beauty could, however indirectly, make you a more humane person. Readings extend widely across literary and non-literary genres, including lyric poetry and the novel, philosophical prose and essays.

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name: Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?"


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
Criticism
Fiction
Comparative Literature

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description: This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author's distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work "great." Students will get an opportunity to research an author in depth, as well as making broader comparisons across the syllabus.

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name: Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
American Literature
Criticism
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries radically changed Western science, orienting philosophies of natural history to more focused fields like comparative anatomy, botany, and geology. In the United States, European scientific advances and home-grown ventures like the Wilkes Exploring Expedition to Antarctica and the Pacific inspired new endeavors in cartography, ethnography, zoology, and evolutionary theory, replacing rigid models of thought and classification with more fluid and active systems. They inspired literary authors as well. This class will examine some of the most remarkable of these authors—Herman Melville (_Moby-Dick_ and "The Encantadas"), Henry David Thoreau (_Walden_), Sarah Orne Jewett (_Country of the Pointed Firs_), Edith Wharton (_House of Mirth_), Toni Morrison (_A Mercy_), among others—in terms of the subjects and methods they adopted, imaginatively and often critically, from the natural sciences.

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name: Major Authors: America's Literary Scientists


Major Authors: John Milton

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
In 1667, John Milton published what he intended both as the crowning achievement of a poetic career and a justification of God's ways to man: an epic poem which retold and reimagined the Biblical story of creation, temptation, and original sin. Even in a hostile political climate, _Paradise Lost_ was almost immediately recognized as a classic, and one fate of a classic is to be rewritten, both by admirers and by antagonists. In this seminar, we will read _Paradise Lost_ alongside works of 20th century fantasy and science fiction which rethink both Milton's text and its source.

Students should come to the seminar having read _Paradise Lost_ straight through at least once; this can be accomplished by taking the IAP subject, _Reading_ _Paradise Lost_ (21L.995), or independently. Twentieth century authors will include C. S. Lewis (_Perelandra_, _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_) and Philip Pullman (_His Dark Materials_), as well as assorted criticism. Each week, one class meeting will focus on Milton, and the other on one of the modern novels.

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Major Authors: Melville and Morrison

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Society
Women's Studies
American Literature
Criticism
Fiction

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni Morrison, 1931-) who, using lyrical, radically innovative prose, explore in different ways epic notions of American identity. Focusing on Melville's _Typee_ (1846), _Moby-Dick_ (1851), and _The Confidence-Man_ (1857) and Morrison's _Sula_ (1973), _Beloved_ (1987), _Jazz_ (1992), and _Paradise_ (1998), the class will address their common concerns with issues of gender, race, language, and nationhood. Be prepared to read deeply (i.e. a small number of texts with considerable care), to draw on a variety of sources in different media, and to employ them in creative research, writing, and multimedia projects.

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