READING MAJOR TEXTS (“’Twas Here My Summer Paused”: Six Classics Considered) | Walker | TTh 12:00-2:10 | 10967 |
In an 1856 letter to R. W. Emerson, Walt Whitman wrote, “As for me, I love screaming, wrestling, boiling-hot days.” I can’t promise such weather in the coming months, but I can promise literature that addresses (or is set in) summertime. We’ll pass the long days with Shakespeare’s rude mechanicals, Whitman’s roughs, Lewis Carroll’s dormouse,
Emily Dickinson’s Tropic Bride, Virginia Woolf’s flower-seller, and Joan Didion’s hippies. Expect a great deal of reading, writing, and conversation
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