Usually offered every second year. Last offered in the fall of 2000. Augustine's Confessions and Teresa of Avila's Life provide models. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 2001.
Class consists of lectures, discussions, in-class presentations of scenes, and frequent papers.
Considers such issues as narrative, literary realism, and the manipulation of the grotesque and the sublime in representative works of Dickens and Dostoevsky. Because Dostoevsky was an avid reader of Dickens, we shall address questions of influence, particularly with regard to their shared thematic interests. Usually offered every second year. This course focuses on texts that show the New World emerging from the collision and collusion of Native, African, and European imagining. Usually offered every third year.