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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2017 |
Registration ID | ENGLH260A001 |
Course Title | In the American Grain: Traditions in North American Literature |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Zwarg,Christina |
Times and Days | TTh 01:00pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | HLL7 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1711 The course conceptualizes American literature as a comparative literature whose traditions emerged from certain inalienable forces released as English became the dominant political language of North America. Theories of translation and language. Readings in Derrida, Certeau, Barthes, Shakespeare, Cabeza de Vaca, Behn, Rowlandson, Mather, Wheatly, Equiano, Franklin, Goethe, Nat Turner, Poe. The course concludes with a review of the drifting, searching world aboard Melville’s Pequod in Moby-Dick. Satisfies the pre-1800 requirement. ; Enrollment Limit: 30 Div: III; Humanities (HU) |
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