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Shakespeare: The Tragedies — LIT2217.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: M/Th 8:00AM-9:50AM
Credits: 4

We will spend the term immersed in in-depth reading and analysis of the plot, structure, and language, and cultural context of six Shakespeare tragedies: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. We will focus on the themes of power, corruption, betrayal, revenge, despair, and madness, among others. We will also spend considerable time discussing representations of gender, race, and old age in Shakespeare.

Reading & Writing Poetry: Experiments in Multimedia — LIT4615.01

Instructor: An Duplan
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

“When I combine imagery and text, I'm really just trying to surprise myself,” writes poet Diane Khoi Nguyen. In fact, there are many pathways to surprise when we start to experiment with multimedia. Certainly the result must have been surprising when the late John Giorno, in 1968, developed the phone-based, poetry performance project, Dial-a-Poem.