Open to Honors students. Section 001 - Something of Value. G.B. Shaw's St. Joan, and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Our main concern will be to discuss what we value, and why we value it, and how we arrive at such determinations. Meets one long evening a week, chez moi.
Honors sophomores only.
Each with a distinctive style, the major writers of the period reflect the impact of these phenomena, and it is in their works that one finds the crucial cultural implications underlying the enigmatic Italian ethos. Readings will include novels and short stories by Elio Vittorini, Carlo Levi, Alberta Moravia, Ignazio Silone, Guiseppe Tomaso di Lampedusa and Italo Calvino. Introductory lectures, class discussion, individual and group projects. This course will be concerned with reading and critical discussion of major Contemporary poetry in the English, American, and modern European traditions, supplemented by readings in the work of major critics who have concerned themselves with verse. The special focus of the course will be lyric poetry and we will study, in a comparative manner, different approaches to the perceptive reading and analysis of works of this genre.