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Past Courses
Writing just before and just after the second world war, Margaret Mitchell and Simone de Beauvoir depicted two types of feminism in two types of text. De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) combines...
Foreign policy has been central to the national experience of the United States, despite over being overlooked or misunderstood. In this course, designed to be the 2nd in a series of 3, we will look...
The essential embodiment of Italian Romantic nationalism, Giuseppe Verdi's 27 operas form the cornerstone of the international repertory. In this course, we will explore Verdi's seminal early works as...
Essentially defining the culture of the nineteenth century, the operas of the Italian Giuseppe Verdi and the German Richard Wagner continue to form the most stable theatrical repertory of the present...
Short shorts, flash fiction, fables, parables, prose poems – literary gems that invite re-reading, re-thinking, re-imagining. All strange and unsettling enough to be called “Kafkaesque.” Along with a...
Unlike the film/play, the original novel Les Misérables is a sophisticated work that combines history, philosophy, and literature, crossing genres in a way that is true of perhaps only Tolstoy’s War...
This course is a close engagement with a handful of Woolf’s most beloved and impressive long fiction works: Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Between the Acts.
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In the follow up to her classic A Room of One's Own, Woolf's "Three Guineas" offers an ahead-of-its-time account of the impact of ideals of masculinity on society, by way of pondering how women might...
In this follow up to her classic A Room of One's Own, Woolf's "Three Guineas" offers an ahead-of-its-time account of the impact of ideals of masculinity on society, by way of pondering how women might...
Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen, a cycle of four mythology-steeped music dramas written over the course of 26 years, is the largest single most wide-ranging work in the common repertory. In...