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Following the Brown decision of 1954 and challenges to Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement began to dominate the politics of the South, both in its promotion and backlash. This course will consider...
It is said that when Death of a Salesman was first performed on Broadway, grown men wept in the aisles. Arthur Miller is arguably America’s foremost playwright as well as one of our fiercest social...
Sir David Hare is arguably England’s most prestigious writer of political and social theatre. Chiefly noted for his carefully crafted satires examining British society in the aftermath of World War II...
When asked what his plays were about, Harold Pinter famously replied, "The weasel under the cocktail cabinet." Even though he later came to regret this comment, there is truth to it as his work, which...
Richly poetic and raw, filled with flawed human beings and cries from a battered heart, Tennessee Williams’ brilliant plays burned brightly on the American stage and set him apart as one of the finest...
The third great scripture of the Abrahamic tradition and the foundation of Islam, we will discuss the Qur'an from a secular, literary perspective to gain an initial understanding of it and its...
What can fiction teach us about international relations? Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" invites readers to consider issues of foreign policy and their global consequences. Set in 1956, an...
Few developments can claim to have had as much of a broad, lasting, and global impact as the emergence of capitalism. Today's issues of globalization, inequality, climate change, and economic...
Explore the political, social, and constitutional formation of Western culture from the Great War to the present. This final course in a three-quarter sequence examining the "crisis" of Western...
In the 21st century, few issues have caused as much controversy as the central role of conspiracy and conspiratorial thinking in democratic life. A portion of the course will focus on recent...