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		<title>Nabokov &amp; His Literature Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his article titled &#8216;An A from Nabokov&#8217;, 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essay as Reality Television</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Kirsch discusses whether or not essays are &#8220;extinct&#8221; as a form of writing, and references Michel e Montaigne, whose work is studied in CC201. Here is a sample: The essay, traditionally, was defined by its freedom and its empiricism—qualities that it inherited from its modern inventor, Montaigne. “What do I know?” Montaigne asked, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Confucian Ethics to International Relations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In view of CC102&#8242;s study of the Analects of Confucius, the Core presents an interesting discussion of Confucian ethics when applied to international relations. Here is a sample: Chinese ethics is a deontological system that has a continuity spanning a range from personal to public concerns, without differentiation. A good society, a good state, and [...]]]></description>
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