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HOW TO FAIL IN LITERATURE: A LECTURE BY ANDREW LANG. PREFACE. This Lecture was delivered at the South Kensington Museum, in aid of the College.
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• Selecting relevant materials
• George Stuart Gordon - Wikipedia
• 'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read

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Poetry and prose of Byron, Shelley, and Keats with emphasis on both their differences and their common qualities. Special attention is given to the complex interactions of these poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge. WR , HU Th pmpm. This course studies the emergence of the modern novel as an event in the history of emotions. The long eighteenth-century saw the rise of the novel as we know it as well as a major intellectual shift in how the passions and emotions were conceptualized.

We investigate the relationship between these developments, particularly as they converged in the cultural movement of sentimentalism. The persistent impulse in Western culture to imagine the end of the world and what might follow. Social and psychological factors that motivate apocalyptic representations. Differences and constant features in apocalyptic representations from the Hebrew Bible to contemporary science fiction. Attitudes toward history, politics, sexuality, social class, and the process of representation in apocalyptic texts.

HU T amam. Examination of how people with disabilities are represented in U. Ways in which these representations, along with the material realities of disabled people, frame society's understanding of disability; the consequences of such formulations. Various media, including fiction, nonfiction, film, television, and memoirs, viewed through a wide range of analytical lenses. Nonhuman life forms in fiction and poetry from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, including plants and animals, monsters and viruses, intelligent machines, and extraterrestrial aliens.

The complexity and variety of nonhuman ecology. Issues of faith examined through poetry, with a focus on modern Christian poems from to the present. Some attention to poems from other faith traditions, as well as to secular and antireligious poetry. HU Th pmpm. Following recent theoretical turns in media studies, music theory, African American studies, and literary studies, this course teaches close listening to the soundscapes of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. We study both written and performed texts across genres, as well as musical lyrics, to ask what social and aesthetic value lies in the production and reception of sound.

Additional topics include the relation of voice and gender, sonic expressions of colonialism and migration, and the influence of recording technology on poetry and its performance traditions. WR , HU W amam. An eclectic approach to stories and storytelling for and by children. In most course meetings, we also spend some time discussing a selection of picture books on reserve featuring children of color. A study of autobiographical writings from Mary Rowlandson's Indian captivity narrative to the present.

Classic forms such as immigrant, education, and cause narratives; prevailing autobiographical strategies involving place, work, and photographs.

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This seminar explores the diverse cultural manifestations of war, empire, and militarism in Asia and the Pacific during the long Cold War roughly the ss. A portion of the course is devoted to iconic literary and cultural figures who came to prominence through cultures of militarism e. We consider important genres privileged by cultural imperialism and soft power e.

We also read more faddish and less canonical writers e.

Important topics for the course include refugee migration, the model minority, global education reform, and the belated resurgence of reparation movements. A study of literature that responds to a changing post—World War II Britain, with attention to the problem of who "belongs" and who is an "outsider. Questions concerning the structure, style, narrative form, and symbolic meaning of these two exceptionally ambitious works are engaged and we also consider the critical controversies and interpretative challenges that Ulysses and Omeros have generated and continue to provoke.

This course focuses on the literary and visual cultural productions that took shape around national efforts at reconciliation in three African contexts: post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide Rwanda, and post-civil war Nigeria. These disparate case studies examine the impact on cultural productions of differing judicial and political formations, as well as the role that literature and film have played in shaping reconciliation law and policy.

Our primary readings include novels, memoir, theater, and film, in addition to legal documents from reconciliatory justice systems. Our secondary readings include theories of reconciliation from the fields of law, political science, and cultural studies. This seminar examines key texts in the Toni Morrison canon that resonate as literary masterworks, innovative in narrative and aesthetic structure as well as content, and also as historical studies, expansive and probing in their interrogations of past struggles and future possibilities for African American communities and the American body politic more broadly.

We consider how her novels explore the ongoing disasters that were and are settler colonialism, the Middle Passage and the Atlantic slave trade, the systemic violence of Jim Crow segregation, the violence of patriarchy, the traumas of war and American empire, and the insidious presence of misogyny in the everyday lives of her characters. But, we also look closely at the richness of love and intimacy, the radical roots of self-fashioning, and the insurgent potentiality of mobility and aesthetic creativity coursing through the lives of her protagonists who cut a fugitive path out of slavery, ride the waves of Reconstruction, the Great Migration, Civil Rights era hope and organizing, and post-Soul searching.

Survey of the British film tradition, emphasizing overlap with literature, drama, and art; visual modernism; documentary's role in defining national identity; "heritage" filmmaking and alternative approaches to tradition; and auteur and actors' cinema. Study of the Bible as a literature—a collection of works exhibiting a variety of attitudes toward the conflicting claims of tradition and originality, historicity and literariness. Fundamentals of the craft of fiction writing explored through readings from classic and contemporary short stories and novels.

Focus on how each author has used the fundamentals of craft. Writing exercises emphasize elements such as voice, structure, point of view, character, and tone. An introduction to reading and writing poetry. Classic examples from Shakespeare and Milton, the modernist poetics of Stein, Pound, Moore, and Stevens, and recent work in a variety of forms and traditions.

Students develop a portfolio of poems and write an essay on the poetic craft of poets who have influenced their work. HU TTh pmpm.

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An intensive introduction to the craft of fiction, designed for aspiring creative writers. Focus on the fundamentals of narrative technique and peer review. A seminar workshop for students who are beginning to write poetry or who have no prior workshop experience at Yale. From its earliest days, the horror genre, although often denigrated, has had a persistent presence in American literature and culture.

This course investigates the reasons for this hold on the American imagination and what its social function has been. We explore how the genre is a way that people can navigate questions concerning identity, gender, sexuality, and ethics, as well as grief, loss, and the fear of isolation. We look at the fraught representations of violence, subjectivity, and otherness these works provide.

Texts include novels, short fiction, and films. The course is an exciting blend of creative and critical writing. Students write short creative responses and present on specific films and literary texts. This allows students to work with the ideas in ways that most suits their strengths and interests.

Exploration of ways in which the environment and the natural world can be channeled for literary expression.

George Stuart Gordon - Wikipedia

Reading and discussion of essays, reportage, and book-length works, by scientists and non-scientists alike. Admission by permission of the instructor only. Students interested in the course should email the instructor at alan. A few paragraphs describing your interest in taking the class.

A non-academic writing sample that best represents you. WR W amam. A workshop on journalistic strategies for looking at and writing about contemporary paintings of the human figure. Practitioners and theorists of figurative painting; controversies, partisans, and opponents. Includes field trips to museums and galleries in New York City. Introduction to journalistic reporting on performances as current events, with attention to writing in newspapers, magazines, and the blogosphere. The idea of the audience explored in relation to both a live act or screening and a piece of writing about such an event.

Students attend screenings and live professional performances of plays, music concerts, and dance events. Crafting the television drama with a strong emphasis on creating and developing an original concept from premise to pilot; with consideration that the finest television dramas being created today aspire to literary quality. Students read original scripts of current and recent critically acclaimed series and create a series document which will include formal story and world descriptions, orchestrated character biographies, a detailed pilot outline, and two or more acts of an original series pilot.

A course on the craft of fiction writing for young adult readers. At the start of the semester, we read widely in the genre to identify the principles of craft at the sentence—and narrative—level, with the aim of creating a style that is original and a story narrative that is powerful.

'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read

Open to writers of all levels and abilities. M pmpm. Skills essential to humor writing, with an emphasis on texture, tone, character, and narrative. Students read the work of classmates and pieces by professional humor writers with the goal of generating an ever-expanding set of techniques for both reading humor and writing humorously. WR MW ampm. Writing about food within cultural contexts. Through reading essays written by the luminaries of the food world, students explore food narratives from many angles, including family meals, recipes, cookbooks, restaurant reviews, memoir, and film.

WR TTh ampm. The esteemed choreographer Merce Cunningham once compared writing about dance to trying to nail Jello-O to the wall. This seminar and workshop takes on the challenge. Taught by a dance critic for the New York Times, the course uses a close reading of exemplary dance writing to introduce approaches that students then try themselves, in response to filmed dance and live performances in New York City, in the widest possible variety of genres.