Literature and Opera
Professor: J. Paris
Section: 103
Meeting: M 6:00 pm - 9:05 pm

This seminar explores using literature as a way into understanding opera, a major Western art form throughout the past 400 years. Operas under consideration for the course (in part or whole) along with the associated works of literature (or film) include the following: Don Giovanni (Mozart) and the Don Juan legend; Carmen (Bizet) and "Carmen" (Merimee); "The Ring of the Nibelung" (Wagner), "Opera and Drama" (Wagner), and the Star Wars (Lucas) and Lord of the Rings (Jackson) film cycles; Otello (Verdi) and Othello (Shakespeare); La Boheme (Puccini) and "Scenes of Bohemian Life" (Murger); Satyagraha (Glass) and the Bhagavad Gita. The course includes a trip to a performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .

Literarute and Film
Professor: R. Lynch
Section: 105
Meeting: R 6:00 - 9:05
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Literature and Medicine
Professor: D. Fleischer
Section: 455 eLearning
Section: 453 eLearning

This course examines the relationship between literature and medicine by focusing on important literary works, fiction and non-fiction, and relevant films. These works reveal how medical issues underlie many of the vital questions of our age. Among the subjects considered are the conflict in the medical profession between achieving wealth and popularity as opposed to maintaining one's courage and integrity; urgent public health questions; medicine as art as well as science; the daily realities of a family doctor's life; eugenics and euthanasia; and physician-assisted suicide.

Tales of King Arthur
Professor: D. Donahue
Section: 003
Meeting: T 4:00 - 5:25, R 2:30 - 3:55

King Arthur and his Knights is a survey of the historical and fictional roots of the Arthurian legend and a reading of major texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth through Malory. Individual poems dealing with the coming of Arthur, and the adventures of Lancelot, Tristan and Isolde, Merlin, Parzival, and Gawain will be read. The courses will conclude with a study of the Alliterative Morte Arthure and selected tales from Sir Thomas Malory's work. The class is a seminar; students will be responsible for leading at least half of the discussions. Two short papers, a midterm, and a number of in-class essays are required.

British Drama
Professor: J. Curley
Section: 101
Meeting: M 6:00 pm - 9:05 pm

The post-WWII British stage became a testing ground for innovative dramatic techniques new representations of class and cultural attitudes, and radical visions of social discontent.  The emergent voices were both indebted to various world dramatic traditions and exemplified modern, experimental, and often defiant strategies for representing the world.

This class will survey some of the significant playwrights of British drama in the late twentieth century and explore how they perform their cultures and crises. A look at some of their precedents will be further complemented by evaluating their dramatic legacies.

Virginia Woolf
Professor: E. Alexander

Section: 001
Meeting: M 8:30 - 11:25