Tagged: Modernism

From The Conversation: Guide to the Classics–Michel De Montaigne’s Essays

November 19, 2016 at 12:14 pm

Montaigne is perhaps the most widely celebrated essayist in the Western Canon. And it is his essays that have also elevated him to classic status not only in literature but also philosophy. The two are often thought to go together harmoniously, yet literature shows a tact which philosophy often brusques aside for concatenation. Montaigne is […]

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William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’

April 1, 2013 at 9:10 am

Relating to CC202’s study of Blake’s work, here is an image from ‘The Tyger’      

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Nabokov & His Literature Class

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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Professor Abigail Gillman publishes “Viennese Jewish Modernism”

December 6, 2010 at 12:58 pm

In her recently published new book, Viennese Jewish Modernism, Professor Abigail Gillman — associate professor of Hebrew and German, and instructor in the Core Humanities — takes a novel approach to exploring Jewish Modernism that goes beyond identity as Jewish or non-Jewish. Instead, Prof. Gillman focuses on the works of Sigmund Freud, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, […]

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