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21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
(2009-12)
In the Origin of Species (1859), 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 ...
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.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.005 Introduction to Drama, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
Drama might be described as a game played with something sacred. It tells stories that go right to the heart of what people believe about themselves. And it is enacted in the moment, which means it has an added layer of ...
21L.471 Major English Novels, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the ...
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.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.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.003 Reading Fiction, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
This course offers students ways to become more engaged and curious readers for life. By learning the language of selected short stories and novels, students learn the language of literary description. There will be a ...