Eng430 Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience 2009 MIT
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MIT
21L.701 (Spring 200()
Instructors:
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
Level Undergraduate
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Literature and the urban experience come together as a man reads his book on the subway. (Image courtesy of JanneM on flickr.)
Course Features
Course Description
Alienation, overcrowding, sensory overload, homelessness, criminality,
violence, loneliness, sprawl, blight. How have the realities of city
living influenced literature's formal and thematic techniques? How
useful is it to think of literature as its own kind of "map" of urban
space? Are cities too grand, heterogeneous, and shifting to be captured
by writers? In this seminar we will seek answers to these questions in
key city literature, and in theoretical works that endeavor to
understand the culture of cities.
Course Resources
Citation: administrator. (2009, September 28). Eng430 Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience 2009 MIT. Retrieved September 07, 2010, from Free University Courses OCW Courses OpenCourseWare Freeversity Foundation Web site: http://www.freeversity.org/liberal-arts-1/cla-special-topics/eng430-literary-interpretation-literature-and-1.
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