April 10, 2013 at 1:29 pm
In view of CC202’s intellectual dabbling in Jane Austen’s works, the Core presents an article that argues Emma is in certain ways better than Persuasion. Here is an extract: Published posthumously, it [Persuasion] has an almost skeletal feel, like an outline in which only the most salient points about each character are noted, as if […]
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Tagged better, Emma, Jane Austen, novel, Persuasion, posthumous, skeleton, structure, style, text
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April 5, 2013 at 11:45 am
Relating to CC102’s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Inferno. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/14TfLgu. To view Dali’s illustrations for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT, and for Paradiso, visit bit.ly/17vAa9P.
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Relating to CC202’s study of Blake’s work, here is an image from ‘The Tyger’
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Tagged CC202, Enlightenment, Humanities, image, Modernism, photo, William Blake
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March 28, 2013 at 2:25 pm
E.E. Cummings’ style remains unconventional half a century after his death. Below, is a beautiful example of this- his poem titled ‘[l(a]’. l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness To read an interesting discussion of this work, visit bit.ly/11RNSo2
March 28, 2013 at 2:13 pm
In his article for the Guardian, Richard Evans discusses the late Eric Hobsbawm’s posthumous collection of essays, and how they reflect the changes in the historian’s views over time. Here is an extract: What Hobsbawm’s Marxism also did, however, was to turn him from a lifelong optimist – while it was still possible for some to think, […]
March 27, 2013 at 1:54 pm
In his article titled ‘An A from Nabokov’, Edward Jay Epstein recounts his experience from Lit 311 at Cornell University, where he studied many of the works that the Core explores in CC202. Here is an extract: The professor was Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré from tsarist Russia. About six feet tall and balding, he stood, with […]
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Tagged CC202, class, Enlightenment, funny, modern, Modernism, strict, teacher, Vladimir Nabokov
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March 25, 2013 at 11:39 am
Relating to CC201’s study of The Renaissance is the essay ‘One Of Us’ by John Jeremiah Sullivan on animal consciousness, in which he discusses Descartes’ views on the topic. Here is an extract: Descartes’ term for them [animals] was automata—windup toys, like the Renaissance protorobots he’d seen as a boy in the gardens at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, “hydraulic statues” that […]
