keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology
Religion
Jewish History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

de: Religionswissenschaft

uk: Релігієзнавство

en: Religious Studies

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival of the Jews as an ethnic/religious group into the present day. Special attention is given to the partial and fragmentary nature of our information about the past, and the difficulties inherent in decoding statements about the past that were written with a religious agenda in mind. It also considers complex events in Jewish history -- from early history as portrayed in the Bible to recent history, including the Holocaust.

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name: Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times


The Economic History of Work and Family

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

addressCountry: US

addressLocality: Cambridge

addressRegion: Massachusetts

type: Organization

Anne McCants

honorificPrefix: Prof.

type: Person

keywords:
Humanities
History
Economics
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Social Anthropology
Labor Economics

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

de: Volkswirtschaftslehre

uk: Економіка

en: Economics

de: Geschichte

uk: Історія

en: History

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

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

de: Biologie

uk: Біологія

en: Biology

de: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

uk: Бізнес та економіка

en: Business and Economics

description: This course will explore the relation of women and men in both pre-industrial and modern societies to the changing map of public and private (household) work spaces, examining how that map affected their opportunities for both productive activity and the consumption of goods and leisure. The reproductive strategies of women, either in conjunction with or in opposition to their families, will be the third major theme of the course. We will consider how a place and an ideal of the "domestic" arose in the early modern west, to what extent it was effective in limiting the economic position of women, and how it has been challenged, and with what success, in the post-industrial period. Finally, we will consider some of the policy implications for contemporary societies as they respond to changes in the composition of the paid work force, as well as to radical changes in their national demographic profiles. Although most of the material for the course will focus on western Europe since the Middle Ages and on the United States, we will also consider how these issues have played themselves out in non-western cultures.

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Seminar in Historical Methods

keywords:
Humanities
History
Comparative History
Historical Methods
Historiography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental issues and debates in the writing of history. It will feature innovative historical accounts written in recent years. The class will consider such questions as the words historians use, their language, sources, methods, organization, framing, and style. How does the choice of each of these affect the historian's work? How does the author choose, analyze, and present evidence? How effective are different methodologies?

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Modern History
Comparative History
Historical Methods
Historiography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject is designed to give 21H majors and minors an introduction to the methods that historians use to interpret the past. We will focus on two areas: archives and interpretation. In our work on archives, we will ask what constitutes an archive. We will visit one or two local archives, speak with archivists, and assemble our own archive related to life at MIT in 2003. Once we have a better understanding of the possibilities and limitations of historical archives, we will turn to the task of interpreting archival findings. We will discuss a series of readings organized around the theme of history and national identity in various parts of the world since the end of the eighteenth century.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. The books we read have all made significant contributions to their respective sub-fields and have been selected to give as wide a coverage in both field and methodology as possible in one semester's worth of reading. We examine how historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, how they structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic, and what are the advantages and drawbacks of their various approaches.

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Readings in American History Since 1877

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
Modern History
Comparative History
Historical Methods

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This seminar aims to develop a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major works. The reading covers a broad range of topics - political, economic, social, and cultural - and represents a variety of historical methods.

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Nature, Environment, and Empire

keywords:
Science
Humanities
History
Earth Science
Biology
Environmental Science
Modern History
Ecology
Intellectual History

de: Geowissenschaften (ohne Geographie)

uk: Науки про Землю(крім географії)

en: Geosciences (excl. Geography)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

description: This class examines the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and exploration and exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Gender

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Gender Studies
Social Anthropology
American History
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

description: This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems.

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Gender: Historical Perspectives

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It also investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Historical Methods
Historiography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: We will doggedly ask two questions in this class: "What is history?" and "How do you do it in 2010?" In pursuit of the answers, we will survey a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the last several decades. We will examine how these historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, how they structure the narrative and analytical discussion of their topic, and the advantages and limitations of their approaches.

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name: Theories and Methods in the Study of History


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject examines some of the many ways that contemporary historians interpret the past, as well as the multiple types of sources on which they rely for evidence. It is by no means an exhaustive survey, but the topics and readings have been chosen to give a sense of the diversity of work that is encompassed in the discipline of history.

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Food in American History

keywords:
Science
Humanities
History
Health and Medicine
Earth Science
Energy
Business
Globalization
Technology
Health and Exercise Science
American History
Climate
Sustainability

de: Betriebswirtschaftslehre

uk: Бізнес-адміністрування

en: Business Administration

de: Humanmedizin/Gesundheitswissenschaften

uk: Медицина / Науки про здоров'я

en: Human Medicine / Health Sciences

uk: Науки про Землю(крім географії)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

uk: Бізнес та економіка

description: This course will explore food in modern American history as a story of industrialization and globalization. Lectures, readings, and discussions will emphasize the historical dimensions of—and debates about—slave plantations and factory farm labor; industrial processing and technologies of food preservation; the political economy and ecology of global commodity chains; the vagaries of nutritional science; food restrictions and reform movements; food surpluses and famines; cooking traditions and innovations; the emergence of restaurants, supermarkets, fast food, and slow food. The core concern of the course will be to understand the increasingly pervasive influence of the American model of food production and consumption patterns.

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Writing About Literature

Wyn Kelley

honorificPrefix: Dr.

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors themselves. Through the ways they engage with their own texts and those of other artists, sampling, remixing, and rethinking texts and genres, writers reflect on and inspire questions about the creative process. We will examine Mary Shelley's reshaping of Milton's _Paradise Lost_, German fairy tales, tales of scientific discovery, and her husband's poems to make _Frankenstein_ (1818, 1831); Melville's redesign of a travel narrative into a Gothic novella in _Benito Cereno_ (1856); and Alison Bechdel's rewriting of Oscar Wilde's _The Importance of Being Earnest_ (1895) in her graphic novel _Fun Home_ (2006). Showings of film versions of some of these works will allow us to project forward in the remixing process as well.

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keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Fiction Drama Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is designed around analyzing _intimate bonds_ and the permutations of _heartbreak_. Through the analysis of a set of relations in novels, short stories, poetry, music videos, and live theatre, we will consider the transformative states of the lover’s (un)becoming, for how consciousness is constituted by bonds yet how the lover transcends crisis in the moment of the epiphany that surfaces in love’s very failure; indeed, love itself becomes narcissistically yet optimistically illuminating, even in its oppressive hold.

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name: Writing About Literature: Writing About Love


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
Classics
Comparative Literature

de: Philosophie

uk: Філософія

en: Philosophy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: As we read broadly from throughout the vast chronological period that is "Homer to Dante," we will pepper our readings of individual ancient and medieval texts with broader questions like: what images, themes, and philosophical questions recur through the period; are there distinctly "classical" or "medieval" ways of depicting or addressing them; and what do terms like "Antiquity" or "the Middle Ages" even mean? (What are the Middle Ages in the "middle" of, for example?) Our texts will include adventure tales of travel and self-discovery (Homer's _Odyssey_ and Dante's _Inferno_); courtroom dramas of vengeance and reconciliation (Aeschylus's _Oresteia_ and the Icelandic _Njáls saga_); short poems of love and transformation (Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ and the _Lais_ of Marie de France); and epics of war, nation-construction, and empire (Homer's _Iliad_, Virgil's _Aeneid_, and the Anglo-Saxon _Beowulf_).

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name: Foundations of Western Culture:  Homer to Dante


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
Classics
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th century. In this course, we will explore human culture in its myriad expressions, focusing on the study of literary, religious and philosophical texts as ways of narrating, symbolizing, and commenting on all aspects of human social and material life. We will work comparatively, reading texts from various cultures: Mesopotamian, Greek, Judeo-Christian, Chinese, Indian, and Muslim. Throughout the semester, we will be asking questions like: How have different cultures imagined themselves? What are the rules that they draw up for human behavior? How do they represent the role of the individual in society? How do they imagine 'universal' concepts like love, family, duty? How have their writers and artists dealt with encounters with other cultures and other civilizations?

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name: Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts


keywords:
Humanities
Ethics
Literature
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
International Literature
Comparative Literature

de: Ethik

uk: Етика

en: Ethics

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 the nature of mankind's ethical and political life in the West since the renaissance. It will deal with the change in perspective imposed by scientific ideas, the general loss of a supernatural or religious perspective upon human events, and the effects for good or ill of the increasing authority of an intelligence uninformed by religion as a guide to life. The readings are roughly complementary to the readings in 21L001, and classroom discussion will stress appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent the cultural heritage of the modern world.

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name: Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity


Foundations of Western Culture II

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
Complementary to 21L.001. A broad survey of texts - literary, philosophical, and sociological - studied to trace the growth of secular humanism, the loss of a supernatural perspective upon human events, and changing conceptions of individual, social, and communal purpose. Stresses appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent the common cultural possession of our time. Enrollment limited. HASS-D, CI.

Readings this semester ranging from political theory and oratory to autobiography, poetry, and science fiction reflect on war, motives for war, reconciliation and memory. The readings are largely organized around three historical moments: the Renaissance and first contacts between Europe and America (Machiavelli, Cortés, Sahagún); the European age of revolutions (Voltaire, Blake, Williams); the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery (Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln). Readings from the twentieth-century include poetry by Lowell and Walcott and fiction by Ondaatje and O.S. Card.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Comparative Literature
Comparative History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the growth of individualism in a world no longer understood to be at the center of the universe. The texts chosen for study exemplify the emergence of a new humanism, at once troubled and dynamic in comparison to the old. The leading theme of this course is thus the question of the difference between the ancient and the modern world. Students who have taken Foundations of Western Culture I will obviously have an advantage in dealing with this question. Classroom discussion approaches this question mainly through consideration of action and characters, voice and form.

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name: Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Classics
International Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This class continues our study of the foundational texts of human culture, focusing on early modernity until the recent past. In many ways, this includes several questions such as: Why did these works achieve the fame and influence they achieved? How do they present what it means to be a human being? How do they describe the role of a member of a family, community, tradition, social class, gender? How do they distinguish between proper and improper behavior? How do they characterize the members of other groups? However, in several ways, these texts are also iconoclastic, breaking with centuries of established tradition to shed light on previously unexplored subjects, such as the status of women in society or the legacy of the colonial expansion of European countries. They also question well-established social beliefs like religion, monarchical rule and human nature in general.

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name: Foundations of World Culture II: World Literatures and Texts


Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores the form, content, and historical context of various works of fiction specifically through the thematic lens of "dysfunctional families." We will focus primarily on questions pertaining to the structure, language, story, and characters of these fictional works.

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Reading Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course introduces prose narrative, both short stories and the novel. It examines the construction of narrative and the analysis of literary response.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Reading Fiction is designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels focusing on the theme of "the city in literature," we will learn about the various elements that shape the way we read texts - structure, narrative voice, character development, novelistic experimentation, historical and political contexts and reader response.

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Introduction to Fiction

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fiction
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between art and war in a diverse selection of works.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles, traditional and innovative, western and non-western, and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms.

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Reading Fiction: Imaginary Journeys

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Great works of fiction often take us to far-off places; they sometimes conduct us on journeys toward a deeper understanding of what's right next door. We'll read, discuss, and interpret a range of short and short-ish works: The reading list will be chosen from among such texts as "Gilgamesh," Homer's _Odyssey_ (excerpts), Bunyan's _The_ _Pilgrim's Progress_ (excerpts), Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_, Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_, Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_, Saleh's _Season of Migration to the North_, Woolf's _To the Lighthouse_, John Cheever's "The Swimmer," Coetzee's _The Life and Times of Michael K_, Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Toni Morrison's _Jazz_, H. G. Wells' _The Time Machine_, Twain's _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, Beckett's _How It Is_, Calvino's _Invisible Cities_, Forster's _A Passage to India_. As a CI-H class, this subject will involve substantial practice in argumentative writing and oral communication.

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Major Poets

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject follows a course of readings in lyric poetry in the English language, tracing the main lines of descent through literary periods from the Renaissance to the modern period and concentrating mostly on English rather than American examples.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to techniques of persuasion and of honest evidenced sequential argumentation. Poets to be read will include William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and some contemporary writers.

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Reading Poetry: Social Poetics

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Society
African American Studies
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The central concern of this class is the historical relationship between the social lives of everyday people and U.S. American poetics, with a special emphasis on what June Jordan once termed the “difficult miracle of Black poetry in America.” How does poetry help us to know one another? And how might we better understand the particular role of poetry, of poiesis, for those historically barred from the very practice of reading or writing, from ownership (even of one’s own body), and various generally recognized forms of belonging? For this course, these will be some of our animating questions.

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Reading Poetry

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: "Reading Poetry" has several aims: primarily, to increase the ways you can become more engaged and curious readers of poetry; to increase your confidence as writers thinking about literary texts; and to provide you with the language for literary description. The course is not designed as a historical survey course but rather as an introductory approach to poetry from various directions – as public or private utterances; as arranged imaginative shapes; and as psychological worlds, for example. One perspective offered is that poetry offers intellectual, moral and linguistic pleasures as well as difficulties to our private lives as readers and to our public lives as writers. Expect to hear and read poems aloud and to memorize lines; the class format will be group discussion, occasional lecture.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
Criticism
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: How do you read a poem? Intuition is not the only answer. In this class, we will investigate some of the formal tools poets use—meter, sound, syntax, word-choice, and other properties of language—as well as exploring a range of approaches to reading poetry, from the old (memorization and reading out loud) to the new (digitally enabled visualization and annotation). We will use readings available online via the generosity of the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. We will also think collectively about how to approach difficult poems.

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Introduction to Drama

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

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

en: Art, Art Theory

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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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fine Arts
Performance Arts
Classics
International Literature
Drama
Theater

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

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

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Classics
American Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
International Literature
Nonfiction Prose

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
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

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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

es: Práctica


Atanarjuat Quiz: Questions

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Quiz on the film, "Atanarjuat."

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After Columbus

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
International Literature
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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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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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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

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da: Video

nl: 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

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Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
International Literature
Comparative Literature

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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

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en: Media Science

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uk: Медіазнавство

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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

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description: Final exam questions.

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description: Text for memorization exercise.

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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

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

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 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: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

uk: Медіазнавство

de: Biologie

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 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

de: Geschichte

en: History

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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

de: Kurs

en: Course


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

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cs: Matematika

de: Mathematik

fi: matematiikka

uk: Математика

en: Mathematics

fr: Mathématiques

da: Matematik

es: Matemáticas

nl: Wiskunde

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

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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: Philosophie

en: Philosophy

de: Betriebswirtschaftslehre

uk: Бізнес-адміністрування

en: Business Administration

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

de: Volkswirtschaftslehre

en: Economics

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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

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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

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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

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Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
Creative Writing

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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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Bestsellers: Out for the Count

keywords: Humanities Literature Fiction

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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

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Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Nonfiction Prose
Biography

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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

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Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Comparative Literature

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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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description: Guidelines on close reading.

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de: Übung

en: Drill and Practice


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

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

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

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

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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

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

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

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

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: Musikwissenschaft/-geschichte

uk: Музикознавство/Історія музики

en: Musicology/History of Music

de: Musik, Musikwissenschaft

uk: Музика, музикознавство

en: Music, Musicology

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: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

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

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

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.

de: keine Anmeldung erforderlich

uk: вхід без авторизації

en: no login required

de: Kurs

en: Course


Darwin and Design

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

de: Philosophie

en: Philosophy

de: Psychologie

uk: Психологія

en: Psychology

de: Geschichte

en: History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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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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

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: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

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.

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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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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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uk: Гуманітарні науки

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

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

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

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

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

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Soziologie

uk: Соціологія

en: Sociology

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