| source Harvard (X) |
level |
department English (X) |
Examines a wide range of poets and prose writers, men and women, in a cultural milieu (1600-1660) extraordinarily rich in literary achievement and intellectual ferment. Primary attention to four major poets Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell and to the development of genres (love poetry, religious meditation, essay, others) for analyzing the literary self.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
null
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
The nineteenth century American literary career, with attention to the development of fictional modes (sketch, tale, romance, novel), exigencies of publication (the periodical press, transatlantic distribution networks) and evolving notions of fiction's place in American culture. Emphasis on Hawthorne, Melville and James but some attention to other authors.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
A survey of plays, poetry, essays and fiction written from the beginning of the Irish Revival to the time of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Authors include Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, Beckett, O'Casey, Flann O'Brien, Friel, Trevor, and Heaney. Readings will focus on the preoccupation of these writers with Irish history, myth, and the literary construction of a national identity.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Books by relatively new American Poets whose work rewards sustained attention, likely including Angie Estes, Ange Mlinko, Terrance Hayes, Liz Waldner, Allan Peterson, Tracy Philpot, Jasper Bernes, D.A. Powell.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
In any long-form nonfiction (essay, memoir, travelogue, journalism), there are countless ways of structuring and telling a true story. In this workshop, students examine various techniques for giving nonfiction material dramatic and suspenseful energy: chronology, argument, juxtaposition, retrospection, evolving revelation. In addition to workshopping student writing, we discuss examples of the genre by writers such as Julia Blackburn, Truman Capote, Spalding Gray, and Janet Malcolm. Assignments include two 10-15 page narratives, an extensive revision, and typed critiques of classmates' work.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
In any long-form nonfiction (essay, memoir, travelogue, journalism), there are countless ways of structuring and telling a true story. In this workshop, students examine various techniques for giving nonfiction material dramatic and suspenseful energy: chronology, argument, juxtaposition, retrospection, evolving revelation. In addition to workshopping student writing, we discuss examples of the genre by writers such as Julia Blackburn, Truman Capote, Spalding Gray, and Janet Malcolm. Assignments include two 10-15 page narratives, an extensive revision, and typed critiques of classmates' work.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Members of the advanced fiction workshop will aim to raise their levels of performance on the page, largely through guided revisions and continued reading to see the ways outstanding writers solved similar problems. Two complete stories with revisions are required during the term, as well as weekly critiques of colleagues' work.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Members of the advanced fiction workshop will aim to raise their levels of performance on the page, largely through guided revisions and continued reading to see the ways outstanding writers solved similar problems. Two complete stories with revisions are required during the term, as well as weekly critiques of colleagues' work.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Writers will become familiar with more sophisticated aspects (technical and conceptual) of writing fiction, beginning with short exercises and moving toward the completion and revision of original work. Readings include Munro, Welty, Diaz, Lahiri, and others, and we will explore how practicing writers negotiate character, narrative structure, setting, voice, etc. Individual reading assignments are also devised on a per project basis. As the term continues, increasing amounts of time are devoted to the discussion of student work. Students in this course will be expected to revise work often and to a very high standard.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Writers will become familiar with more sophisticated aspects (technical and conceptual) of writing fiction, beginning with short exercises and moving toward the completion and revision of original work. Readings include Munro, Welty, Diaz, Lahiri, and others, and we will explore how practicing writers negotiate character, narrative structure, setting, voice, etc. Individual reading assignments are also devised on a per project basis. As the term continues, increasing amounts of time are devoted to the discussion of student work. Students in this course will be expected to revise work often and to a very high standard.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
This workshop-based course offers students a chance to consolidate previous skills and explore new approaches to developing full-length works. We will combine intensive weekly writing exercises with reading, play analysis and dramatic theory. Students will be asked to experiment with form and content in order to develop their own unique theatrical voices. All students will complete a full-length play in addition to shorter pieces.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
This workshop-based course is for advanced playwrights who have already completed a full-length or one-act play. Students will write a new play, developed through several drafts in a collaborative process that models professional practice. Each student will be paired with a director, actors, and a graduate dramaturge from the Advanced Institute of Theatre Training (I.A.T.T.), culminating in rehearsed public readings of the plays as part of the annual Harvard Playwrights' Festival.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Open by application to undergraduates and graduates. This is an advanced workshop devoted to critical analysis and revision of poems. We will discuss student work in light of central problems in poetics, with particular emphasis on the relationship between voice (evidence of human presence) and description (evidence of world).
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Open by application to both undergraduates and graduates. Please submit a portfolio including a letter of interest, ten poems, and a list of classes (taken at Harvard or elsewhere) that seem to have bearing on your enterprise. Class lasts 3 hours and includes the study of poetic practice in conjunction with the discussion of student work.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
The author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was a prolific poet, essayist, travel writer, and master of the short story. Cut short by lung disease, his bohemian life was as adventurous and romantic as his fiction. Follow his meandering path from Edinburgh to France, from California to the South Pacific, where his literary interests turned anthropological, and where death was waiting.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
A lecture course surveying the shifting socio-historical context of American playwriting after WWII. Playwrights covered include Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Arthur Kopit, Neil Simon, The Living Theater, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, Maria Irene Fornes, Eve Ensler, Tony Kushner, Chuck Mee, Paula Vogel, August Wilson, John Guare, Lynn Nottage, and many others.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Colloquium open to all graduate students working in the area of American literature and culture. Papers delivered by students writing seminar papers or dissertations, faculty members, and visiting scholars.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
An introduction to 20th-century literary theory. We examine the principal trends in 20th-century literary criticism, including New Criticism, phenomenological criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, semiology, the Frankfurt school, French structuralist and post-structuralist thought, new historicism, and multiculturalism. Readings may include Auerbach, Adorno, Curtius, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Spitzer, Gadamer, Frye, Eco, Freud, Lacan.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Some time aroung the twelfth century, Europeans began to fall in love-or so literary and cultural histories tell us. But what was love like before love? How were passionate attachments represented in literature? Building on the grammatical knowledge acquired in English 102, we translate various Old English texts concerning erotic relations. Secondary reading is supplemented by other medieval texts in translation.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Introduction to the language and culture of England before 1066, with special attention to heroic poetry and its narrative and social foundations. By the end of the term we will have read a handful of the noblest poems in the English language, among them The Wanderer and The Seafarer and gained some insight into the so-called "heroic code" and its verbal products.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate theprincipal cultural forces (e.g. religious, political, social) that shaped England in particular. We will look to the ways in which those vibrant yet opposed forces find expression in the shape, or form, of literary works.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
A study of central genres of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern literature in tandem with the development of ideas of nation and community, with a special emphasis on poetic narratives. Key texts include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and The Pilgrim's Progress.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
An introduction to major works in English literature from Beowulf through the seventeenth century, the course will explore various ways that new identities are created through the cultural forces that shape poets, genres, and group identity. We will hone close reading skills and and introduce rhetorical tropes. Our study of the language will culminate in a new text of a Middle English play, which the class will produce and perform.
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page
An introduction to writing from Asia and the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand (in English or translation), that exemplifies intercultural dialogue, including fiction by Gao Xingjian, Shashi Deshpande, Aravind Adiga, Patricia Grace, Peter Carey, Alexis Wright and Gail Jones, and some poetry. How do these authors approach language, storytelling and tradition in the indigenous, national and transnational dimensions of their writing?
Score: 7.58077 Details | Listing | Web page