Browsing Literature (21L) - Archived by Issue Date
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21L.001 Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante, Spring 2000
(2000-06)Studies a broad range of texts essential to understanding the two great sources of Western conceptions of the world and humanity's place within it: the ancient world of Greece and Rome and the Judeo-Christian world that ... -
21L.421 Comedy, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Austen, and Chaplin. From ... -
21L.472 Major European Novels, Fall 2001
(2001-12)A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes of the heroic and romantic ideals. The motif of the outsider as a means for depicting social reality. Readings in Cervantes, ... -
21L.486 20th Century Drama, Fall 2001
(2001-12)In this course we will sample the range of mainstream and experimental drama that has been composed during the past century. Half of these plays are now acknowledged to be influential "classics" of modern drama; the other ... -
21L.421 Comedy, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, MoliSre, Austen, and Chaplin. From ... -
21L.485 20th-Century Fiction, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and ... -
21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002
(2002-12)In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. ... -
21L.501 The American Novel, Fall 2002
(2002-12)The theme for this class is "American Revolution." We will read authors who record, on the one hand, the failures of the American revolution, with its dream of democracy and freedom for all, and on the other hand the ... -
21L.006 American Literature, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This is a HASS-D CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also ... -
21L.010 / 21W.730-5 Writing About Literature, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This is a HASS –CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also ... -
21L.423 / 21M.223J Introduction to Anglo-American Folkmusic, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This subject will introduce students to scholarship about folk music of the British Isles and North America. We will define the qualities of "folk music" and "folk poetry," including the narrative qualities of ballads, and ... -
21L.004 Major Poets, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Emphasis on the analytical reading of lyric poetry in England and the United States. Syllabus usually includes Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Marianne Moore, Lowell, Rich, and Bishop. From ... -
21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.845 Theory and Practice of Non-linear and Interactive Narrative, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This class covers a range of topics including hypertext, interactive cinema, games, installation art, and soundscapes. It examines the potential for dynamic narrative in traditional media like novels and films and as well ... -
21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This subject focuses on the ways in which we read, providing an overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century. The course is ... -
21L.703 Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Churchill, Spring 2004
(2004-06)What is the interplay between an event and its "frames"? What is special and distinctive about stage events? How and why do contemporary dramatists turn back in time for their settings, models, and materials? How do they ... -
21L.002-3 Foundations of Western Culture II: Modernism, Spring 2004
(2004-06)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 ... -
21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.845J Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course explores the properties of non-linear, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they have evolved from print to digital media. Works covered in this course range from the Talmud, classics of non-linear ... -
21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.845J Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course covers techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. The course studies the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with ... -
21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2006
(2006-12)An introduction to narrative film, emphasizing the unique properties of the movie house and the motion-picture camera, the historical evolution of the film medium, and the intrinsic artistic qualities of individual films. ... -
21L.007 World Literatures: Contact Zone, Fall 2006
(2006-12)World Literatures will focus on the concept of the contact zone. What happens when cultures with different ideologies and norms come into contact with each other through exploration and colonization? We will examine how ...