The Real McCoy: Constructing Identity
RUSS 232
Fall 2007
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We are what we read: the critical reader has the ability to form his/her identity consciously, while literary characters are destroyed by failing to recognize the forces and assumptions shaping them. Active interpretation of texts allows the reader to become an author instead of a character. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Writing
Three short papers will be peer-reviewed and rewritten; they will be submitted with the first drafts, which are to be signed by the reviewers; both the editing and the rewriting will be evaluated. Papers will be exercises in close reading, topics will be chosen by the student.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RUSS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (REES-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings from Greek, English, Danish, American and Russian literature:
Sophocles, OEDIPUS REX
Shakespeare, HAMLET
Ernest Jones, HAMLET AND OEDIPUS
Richard Wright, BLACK LIKE ME
Philip Roth, THE HUMAN STAIN
Vladimir Nabokov, THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "RAPPACINI'S DAUGHTER"
Tom Stoppard, THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND
Nikolai Gogol, "THE DIARY OF A MADMAN"
Saul Bellow, THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH, HERZOG
Isak Dinesen, "THE FLOOD AT NORDERNY"
Vladimir Nabokov, PALE FIRE
Andrei Bitov, "LIFE IN WINDY WEATHER"
Zinovy Zinik, "A CHANCE ENCOUNTER," "CRICKET"
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three four-page papers, one term paper |
| Instructor(s): Meyer,Priscilla Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK312; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 19 |
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