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Intellectual Life

Freshman Seminar 33x. Complexity in Works of Art: Ulysses and Hamlet

Instructor: Philip Fisher View Site

Mondays, 3-5 pm | Location: Sever 212

Is the complexity, the imperfection, the difficulty of interpretation, the unresolved meaning found in certain great and lasting works of literary art a result of technical experimentation? Or is the source extreme complexity—psychological, metaphysical, or spiritual? Does it result from limits within language, or from language’s fit to...

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Alumni Features and Careers

Leslie Jamison '04

leslie jamison I remember the Barker Center in haunting fragments: the bright Cambridge light, the feeling of walking upstairs eagerly, full of whatever text I was about to discuss; and I remember it so clearly because the English Department was a source of...

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Ethical Reasoning 37. Adam & Eve

Instructor: Stephen Greenblatt
Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Art Museums Deknatel Hall

What is the power of a story? For several thousand years Adam and Eve were the protagonists in the central origin myth of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds. That myth was the arena for ethical reasoning about transgression and innocence, sexuality, gender roles, labor, suffering, and death. Jointly taught by History of Art and Architecture and English,...