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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry
Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field
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May 04, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 25: Jeff Nunokawa visits to discuss Wilde’s ”Ballad of Reading Gaol”
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May 01, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 24: The Rhymers’ Club: Fin de siècle poetry, towards Wilde and Yeats
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 23: Amy Levy, Robert Bridges and... Kipling
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 22: A bit more Stevenson, George R. Sims, and the amazing Alice Meynell
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 21: Later Victorian Forms: Stevenson, Guggenberger, MacDonald
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 20: George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 19: Swinburne and Hopkins
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 18: A touch of Fitzgerald and Hopkins; more on Meredith and Swinburne
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 17: Some Meredith, then we begin The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 16: A little Patmore, then the rest of Goblin Market
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 15: D.G. and C. Rossetti
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 14: D.G. Rossetti and pre-Raphealitism
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 13: Concluding class on Clough’s ”Amours de Voyage”
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 12: Mainly Clough plus some narrative theory
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 11: ”Long ago he was one of the singers” (Edward Lear) plus a little Clare
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 10: ”The Hunting of the Snark” and some Clare
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 9: ” ’Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ ”
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 7: more on Aurora Leigh and then some Robert Browning
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 6: mainly Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 5: E. Brontë, dialect, the amazing William Barnes
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 4: Some filiations (Barnes, Hardy, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, &c.); then ”TITHONUS”
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 3: Tennyson’s technique, Tennyson’s despair
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 2: The weirdness of Tennyson
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Victorian Poetry 1 -- Intro with poems by R. Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, C. Rossetti
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Poetry Episode 24: Last class, mainly on finishing Elisa Gonzalez’s ”Notes Toward an Elegy”
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Poetry course 23: kind of whacky but more on Bishop and then Elisa Gonzalez
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Poetry: A Basic Course 22: Tennyson, Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, Hemans, Bishop
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Poetry A Basic Course episode 21: Beauty and truth in Dickinson and Keats
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Poetry Episode 20: Chiefly ”The Emperor of Ice Cream”
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Poetry a basic course episode 19: Some villanelles, mainly
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Poetry Episode 18 Mont Blanc Concluded
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Poetry Class Episode 17: Mont Blanc part 2
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Poetry episode 16: More on metaphor, especially Shelley’s Mont Blanc: part 1 of a discussion of that poem
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Class 15: More sonnets, and more on the relation of sonnet to metaphor
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Episode 14 -- some sonnets
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Poetry A Basic Course Episode 13 More Pope, Milton, Wyatt
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Episode 12: Some Paradise Lost, some Pope, some more on meter, prime numbers
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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More on the theology of Paradise Lost (Episode 11)
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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A day that turned out to be an intro to Paradise Lost (Episode 10)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Different sorts of stresses (Episode 9)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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What all poems are always about; ”We are Seven” (Episode 8)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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More on lines
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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What makes a line?
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Rhyme. And dialogue -- alternation and conflict in ballads
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Rhyme: Making the Arbitrary Make Sense
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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More on rhyme and meter
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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some more on ”b o d y” and then on Alice Notley’s ”The Comfort”
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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First episode of Poetry: A Basic Course:James Merrill’s
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 28, Friday May 1 2020--LAST CLASS. Dolabella and Cleopatra's dream
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May 04, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 27 April 30 2020 -- The Death of Antony
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May 01, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 26, Tuesday April 28 2020: Act IV and Antony's Extravagance
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 25, Friday April 24, 2020: Act III concluded: Knowing Antony and knowing Cleoipatra
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 24, Tuesday April 21, 2020: Act III continued: Antony profuse wastefulness
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 23 Friday April 17 2020 -- dramatic perspectives
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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Bonus aria on Wittgenstein
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 22 Tuesday 4/14/20 Leaders and advisors and news management
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 21 Friday 4/3/2020 Messengers
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 20 Tuesday 3-31-20 She did make defect perfection (Continuing Act II)
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 19 Friday 3-27-20 Act I concluded
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 18 Friday 3-20-20 Antony and Cleopatra Act I continued
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 17. Antony and Cleopatra 2.1: the soothsayer and Cleopatra's women
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 16 Being Mark Antony
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 15, 3-10-20 Ages of the characters -- Shakespeare's temporal preferences
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 14 3/6/2020 Opening of Antony and Cleopatra
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 13 - March 3, 2020 Last class on Macbeth: sonnets and then "My way of life is fallen...."
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 12 Feb 28 2020 Poetic form and Yes Fear ShakeFear
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 11 2/25/20 Interiorizing time
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 10 Class of 2/14/20
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 9 2/11/20: Remorse and repentance
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 8 2/7/20 Being a character and daemonization
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 7 2/4/20 Friendship and love in Shakespeare
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 6 1/31/20 -- witches and soothsayers and messengers o my
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 5 1/28/20 De Quincey Knocking at the Gate
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 4 Friday 1/24/19 -- knocking at the gate, &c
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 3 1/21/20: Macbeth, conflict, Coleridge on puns
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare 2 1/17/20
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Advanced Shakespeare Episode 1 1/14/20
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Early Romantics XXVII 5-10-19 LONG Last class on Coleridge
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May 11, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XXVI Climbing Mt. Snowdon in Prelude XIII
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May 04, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXVII Wed 5-1-19 Last class: managing desire
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May 02, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XXV 4-29-19 -- The Prelude and Wordsworth in general
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May 01, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXVI Mon 4-29-19 Preference, loss aversion, anxiety
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXV Thurs 4-18-19 maguffins and the management of longing
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XXIV Wednesday 4-17-19
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXIV Wed 4-17-19 Stories of gambling
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XXIII Monday 4-15-19 Home and homelessness
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXIII Mon 4-15-19 How endings shape desires
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXII Loss aversion - Thaler
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XXII Wednesday 4-10-19 Intimations Ode, Prelude, Nature
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXXI -- poker, money, chips, macguffins, loss aversion
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XXI Monday 4-8-19 More Intimations Ode
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXX Mon 4-9-19 MacGuffins
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXIX Hyperbolic Discounting
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XX Wed 4-3-19
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXVIII Wed 4-3-19 Hyperbolic Discounting and such
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XIX Monday 4-1-19 Bouncing around the Prelude
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXVII Mon 4-1-19 Common Knowledge and poker
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXVI Thursday 3-27-19 Mainly on cultural capital
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XVIII Wednesday 3-27-19 Henry Crabb Robinson on Blake on Wordsworth
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXV Wed 3-27-19 Common knowledge and such
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XVII Mon 3-25-19 -- Intimations Ode 1-4 and opening of Prelude
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXIV Monday 3-25-19 How heterogeneous values are like gifts
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XVI Wed 3-20-19 Mainly Lucy, mainly "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXIII Thursday 3-21-19
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXII Wed 3-20-19 Prisoner's Dilemma
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XV Monday 3-18-19 How Wordsworth is like Milton is like Blake
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XXI Wed 3-13-19 Adam Smith on Beauty and Utility
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XIV Wed 3-13-19 Mainly WW: "We Are Seven" with "Lines Written in Early Spring, and "Two April Mornings"
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Early Romantics, XIII, Monday 3-11-19 Lyrical Ballads -- Goody Blake and Harry Gill
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XX 3-11-19 Mandeville, Hume, Inflation
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XIX Thursday 3-7-19 More Mandeville and value of honor and altruism
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XII Wed 3-6-19 Blake's Milton with special guest
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XVIII Wed 3-6-19
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XVII Th Feb 28 2019 Mainly Mandeville
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Early Romantics XI Wed 2-27-19 A class on Orc, Urizen, and Los
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Imagning Money XVI Wed 2-27-19: More on the Gift
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Early Romantics X Monday Feb 25 2019 Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XV Monday Feb 25 2019
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XIV Thursday 2-15-19 Mainly Merchant of Venice and the Bible
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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Early Romantics IX Wed 2-13-19: Book of Thel
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XIII Wednesday Feb 13 2019, mainly about usury
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Early Romantics VIII Monday Feb 11 2019 mainly on most of Thel
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XII Feb 10 2019 Kawabata, Exodus, Shakespeare
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Early Romanticism VII -- more Blake
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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Imagining Money XI, Thursday 2-7-19 Game theory: Keynesian Beauty Contests, Stampedes and Panics
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Imagining Money X Wednesday February 6 2019 -- Merchant of Venice and Ezra Pound
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Romanticism VI 2-4-19 Blake's There is no Natural Religion, and some songs of Experience
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Imagining Money IX Monday February 4, 2019
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Imagining Money VIII Thursday January 31 -- Mostly Marx
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Romanticism, Class V: Mainly on "All Religions Are One"
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Imagining Money VII Wednesday Jan 30 2019
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Romanticism Class IV: Songs of Innocence
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Imagining Money VI 1-28-19
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Imagining Money V Thursday Jan 24 2019 -- Midas and money
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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Romanticism, class III: Nurses Songs, Milton
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Imagining Money IV Wednesday Jan 23 2019
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Imagining Money III 1-22-19
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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English Romanticism: Blake, WW, STC second class 1-22-19
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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Imagining Money II 1-17-19
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Imagining Money (Literature and Economics) 1-16-19
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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English Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge 1/16/19
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Soyinka - Death and the King's Horseman (1a-32 = last class)
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May 03, 2016 |
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Print the Legend: The Man Shot Liberty Valance -- 1a - class 31
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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O'Connor -- the Violent Bear it Away (1a-30)
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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29 -- A class on Waiting for Godot: Godot as MacGuffin
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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Second and last class on Invisible Man (1a, class 28)
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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27a A section that was really a lecture, mainly on Stevens and Whitman
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Apr 13, 2016 |
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27 - First real class on Invisible Man
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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26 Mainly Whitman, with some Dickinson, but a bit of Ellison - 1a
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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25. Dickinson and a touch of Emerson - eng 1a
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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24. A kind of catchup day on James, Joyce, Woolf. Then Dickinson
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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Free Indirect Discourse (with some mention of Joyce's "The Dead") (1a-23)
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Mar 23, 2016 |
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22 First class on James's Aspern Papers (English 1a)
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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21. Second and last class on Jane Eyre
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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20. First of two classes on Jane Eyre (English 1a)
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Mar 16, 2016 |
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19. Shelley and Wordsworth in The Triumph of Life. Mont Blanc and the Sublime
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Intro to Lit 18: Intimations Ode
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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Episode 17 of Intro to Lit -- Wordsworth, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Lear: How to like literature
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Mar 04, 2016 |
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16 -- Lyrical Ballads. Ballads. Lyric. (English 1a)
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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Intro (1a) class 15: How to write. More Blake -- The Chimney Sweeper
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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Pope and then Blake (14th episode of Intro to Lit)
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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Lit 1, episode 13: Rape of the Lock
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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Into to Lit, episode 12: Last class on Paradise Lost: The real unreality of our lives
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Lit 1, part 11: Invocation to Book 7; Calliope and Orpheus; the Fall
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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Intro to Lit 10: Catching up on Milton
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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Milton on free will; ordering of the story; invocation and voice; light
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment
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Feb 02, 2016 |
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More on the sublime: Burke and Satan
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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Lit analysis 6: First class on Paradise Lost = Blake and Shelley...
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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Intro to Lit 5: Lear, Tate, Addison, Johnson, Freud
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Intro, class 4: Testing in Lear; parallax; doubling; the Fool
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Jan 23, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and window characters
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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Intro to lit 2: Love personified from Surrey to Bishop
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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Introduction to Literary Studies - 1: Carroll, Jonson, Yeats
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Jan 13, 2016 |
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26. Milton: freedom and necessity, the tyrant's plea
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May 07, 2014 |
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19. Last film class: Peeping Tom and lots of psychoanalytic talk about scopohilia
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May 05, 2014 |
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25. Some more on Paradise Lost
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May 05, 2014 |
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24. First class on Milton
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Apr 28, 2014 |
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18. Peeping Tom, sort of but mainly Freud on instincts, pleasure, unpleasure, and scopophilia
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Apr 28, 2014 |
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23. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (briefly) and then "The Unfortunate Lover"
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Apr 22, 2014 |
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18. Vertigo and Freudian repetition
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Apr 22, 2014 |
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22. Marvell - The Garden
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Apr 17, 2014 |
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21. Marvell: Damon the Mower and The Garden
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Apr 09, 2014 |
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16. Other worlds and other minds in Source Code and Groundhog Day
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Apr 05, 2014 |
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20. Last class on Herbert: The Forerunners; The Pulley
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Apr 05, 2014 |
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19. George Herbert: Jordan (I), The Flower, Easter Wings, etc.
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Mar 31, 2014 |
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15. Source Code
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Mar 31, 2014 |
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14. Groundhog Day
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Mar 28, 2014 |
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18. First class on George Herbert
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Mar 28, 2014 |
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13. Skepticism and Zeno's paradoxes, again
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Mar 26, 2014 |
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17. 17th century poetry: a class on Robert Herrick
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Mar 26, 2014 |
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16. 17th c poetry, mainly Jonson's Cary-Morrison Ode
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Mar 26, 2014 |
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12. Film and Philosophy: Akerman's La Captive
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Mar 14, 2014 |
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11. Film and Philosophy
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Mar 12, 2014 |
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15, 17th Century Poetry: Ben Jonson, mainly "The Hourglass"
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Mar 12, 2014 |
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14. 17th C Poetry: Ben Jonson's songs
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Mar 09, 2014 |
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10. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley and Beckett's
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Mar 05, 2014 |
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13. 17th C Poetry: Trinity and then Ben Jonson
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Mar 05, 2014 |
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12. 17th c poetry: Done with Donne
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Mar 04, 2014 |
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9. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley
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Mar 04, 2014 |
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8. Film and Philosophy Plato's Cave
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Feb 28, 2014 |
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11. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 Concluded and Some Holy Sonnets
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Feb 28, 2014 |
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10. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen")
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Feb 24, 2014 |
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7. Film and Philosophy -- Mainly on Dark City
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Feb 13, 2014 |
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9. 17th C Poetry: Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning
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Feb 13, 2014 |
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8. 17th century poetry: Donne's "To His Mistress Upon Going to Bed" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
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Feb 08, 2014 |
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6. Ontology and the image, from Plato to Cavell
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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7. Seventeenth Century Poetry: Donne's poem "Love's Alchemy"
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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6. 17th Century Poetry -- Donne's "Ecstasy" and "Love's Alchemy"
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Feb 01, 2014 |
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5. Film and Phil: Bazin on Theater vs. Film - clip of rear window
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Feb 01, 2014 |
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4. Film -- A couple of scenes from Out of the Past, and discussion of La Jetée
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Jan 29, 2014 |
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5. 17th Century Poetry Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Ecstasy"
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Jan 29, 2014 |
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4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne's secular poems against fidelity
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Jan 25, 2014 |
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Film 3. Aura and Maguffin. Close viewing of Out of the Past
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Jan 24, 2014 |
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3. 17th century poetry
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Jan 22, 2014 |
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2. 17th century poetry. Why death? - more on Donne's "At the round earth's imagined corners"
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Jan 18, 2014 |
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2. Philm (get it?) - versions of continuity
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Jan 17, 2014 |
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Intro to Film and Philosophy: their reciprocity, Marclay's Telephones
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Jan 15, 2014 |
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Selfhood in 17th century poetry: Some Donne
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Jan 15, 2014 |
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Keats' Odes to Psyche and to a Nightingale
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May 04, 2013 |
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Last class on The Triumph of Life
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May 01, 2013 |
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Second Class on The Triumph of Life
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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Adonais and the opening of The Triumph of Life
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Apr 24, 2013 |
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The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn
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Apr 22, 2013 |
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Keats and Hyperion: the young poet
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Apr 19, 2013 |
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LR. First Class on Keats: Eve of St. Agnes
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Apr 12, 2013 |
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Last class on Prometheus Unbound
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Apr 05, 2013 |
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Resistance and knuckling under
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Mar 27, 2013 |
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More on Mont Blanc and Prometheus Unbound
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Mar 20, 2013 |
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"The Two Spirits: An Allegory", Mont Blanc and an Introduction to Prometheus Unbound
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Seeing souls in Frankenstein
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Mar 14, 2013 |
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Frankenstein, again, Prometheus, and Satan
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Mar 06, 2013 |
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10. Frankenstein via Byron and The Witch of Atlas
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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The Witch of Atlas: Phosphor reading by her own light
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Mar 02, 2013 |
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Don Juan, Canto 5
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Feb 18, 2013 |
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LR 7: Don Juan Cantos 3-4
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Feb 14, 2013 |
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LR 6: Don Juan Canto 2: Juan and the Narrator
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Feb 06, 2013 |
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Later Romantix 5: First Class on Don Juan
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Feb 02, 2013 |
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4 How to talk about the Byronic Hero
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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Shelley and Byron on Byron
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Jan 27, 2013 |
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Later Romantics 2: Wordsworth and Milton
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Jan 19, 2013 |
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1. The Later Romantics: Introduction on Shelley and Wordsworth
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Jan 16, 2013 |
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Infinity 24: Last class: review and final explication of Zeno
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Dec 13, 2012 |
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Diagon Alley
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Dec 11, 2012 |
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Infinity 22: Newcomb's problem; Shelley
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Dec 06, 2012 |
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Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley
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Dec 04, 2012 |
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Infinity 20: Kant on Perception and Free Will
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Nov 30, 2012 |
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Infinity 19: Hume on induction, Kant on space and time, especially space
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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Infinity 18: Descartes, Gibson, Turing Tests
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Infinity 17: Etherization
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Nov 13, 2012 |
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Infinity 16: Making Prisoner's Dilemma Vivid
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Nov 10, 2012 |
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Infinity 15: Pascal
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Nov 07, 2012 |
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Infinity 14: Polls and other minds
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Nov 05, 2012 |
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Infinity 13: Elementary probability and the philosophy of probablity
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Oct 27, 2012 |
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Pascal, the anthropic principle, what counts in philosophy
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Oct 24, 2012 |
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Infinity 11: by addition, by division, one-to-one correspondence, Macbeth, and time
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Oct 18, 2012 |
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Infinity 10: Augustine on time and language
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Oct 16, 2012 |
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Infinity 9: Something of a change of pace
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Oct 12, 2012 |
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Infinity 8: Philosophical questions
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Oct 11, 2012 |
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Infinity 7: Aristotle and the reality of space and time
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Oct 05, 2012 |
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Parmenides, Anaximander, Hilbert, the Fifth Postulate
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Oct 02, 2012 |
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Infinity 5: Extension and intension and interesting numbers
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Sep 22, 2012 |
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Sets and counting
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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Infinity 3: God's Point of View
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Infinity 2: Borges
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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First class on Thinking About Infinity
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Sep 06, 2012 |
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Last class - Milton
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May 04, 2012 |
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Last class on Merrill's Book of Ephraim
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May 02, 2012 |
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Marvell
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May 02, 2012 |
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Ephraim 4/26/12
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Satan, God, Adam and Eve
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Keeping them down on the farm
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Ephraim 4/23/12
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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Book of Ephraim, con't 4/19/12
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Apr 21, 2012 |
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Milton
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Book of Ephraim, con't 4/18/12
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Paradise Lost introduced yet once more
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Who or what we took Ephraim to Be
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Ephraim, 2nd class
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Apr 08, 2012 |
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Crashaw, Cowley, interiority, counter-reformation, Poetry to God and metaphysical conceits
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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Book of Ephraim
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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A last class on Herbert
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Last class on Turn of the Screw
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Turn of the Screw, part 6
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Apr 03, 2012 |
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Herbert: second class
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Turn of the Screw, part 5
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Herbert: first class
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Turn of the Screw, Part 3: Dworkin again
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Turn of the Screw, part 3
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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Herrick
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Mar 24, 2012 |
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Turn of the Screw, Part 2: Permutations
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Mar 24, 2012 |
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Ben Jonson
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Turn of the Screw, Part 1: the frame narrative
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Childe Roland, Concluded
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Mar 16, 2012 |
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First class on Browning's Childe Roland
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Second class on Donne
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Some poems of Donne's
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Mont Blanc, concluded
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Mont Blanc continued: Brain or Sky
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Mar 11, 2012 |
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Songs from the Plays: Nashe, Kenneth Koch, Daniel
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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Mont Blanc: which is to be master
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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More on Astrophel and Stella; then some Shakespeare
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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Paradise Lost, The Intimations Ode, Mont Blanc
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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Last class on the Intimations Ode
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Continuing on with the Intimations Ode
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Mar 03, 2012 |
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Astrophel and Stella, part 2
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Mar 03, 2012 |
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First class on Astrophel and Stella
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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Intimations Ode rebooted and general remarks on the Romantic sense of Milton 2_27_12
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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Vacation bonus: talk at UCLA
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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Wordsworth reboots the Intimations Ode
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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Southwell and Marlowe - 2.13.12
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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The Intimations Ode proper - 2.13.12
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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Heavy as Frost 2-9-12
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Feb 12, 2012 |
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Some moments from the Faerie Queene 2-8-12
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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Versions of the Intimations Ode
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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A desultory class on Spenser 2/6/12
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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Poetry and the personification of Love - 2/6/12
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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The burning boy: Metaphor and personification 2-2-12
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Feb 04, 2012 |
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Two poems of Surrey: "The Soote Season" and "Ye Happy Dames"
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Feb 02, 2012 |
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More on Blake's speakers and Bishop's version of Casabianca 2/1/12
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Feb 02, 2012 |
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Some versions of Petrarch and the allegory of love
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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More on Blake and the play of voices in his poems
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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Close reading: the Nurse's Song from Songs of Experience 1-26-12
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Jan 29, 2012 |
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Skelton's rhymes, Cole Porter's, Wyatt's
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Jan 27, 2012 |
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Tripartite relations in lullabies
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Jan 27, 2012 |
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Last class on Lullaby 1-23-12
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Love (III) as a version of They Flee From Me 1-23-12
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Close reading 1-19-11 Auden and Yeats
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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Renaissance Poetry - First Class: Wyatt
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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Close reading: lullabies
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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Last class: Samson, blindness, closet drama
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May 12, 2011 |
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Temptation in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained
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May 10, 2011 |
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How human think things through
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May 05, 2011 |
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Moral typologies
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May 03, 2011 |
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Dreams, allegory, other minds
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May 01, 2011 |
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Prayer and Invocation
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Apr 19, 2011 |
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Paradise Lost, 5
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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Who judges God's ways?
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Apr 13, 2011 |
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Paradise Lost, III
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Apr 11, 2011 |
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Paradise Lost, II
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Apr 11, 2011 |
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First class on Paradise Lost
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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Comus, rape, and freedom
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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Lycidas, concluded, and Comus
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Contrasts and debates in Milton
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Mar 31, 2011 |
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First class on Milton: Lycidas
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Mar 30, 2011 |
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Scopophilia and narrative
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Mar 27, 2011 |
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More on Book VI as Pastoral
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Mar 25, 2011 |
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Variety and uniformity
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Mar 21, 2011 |
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Justice and Courtesy
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Mar 17, 2011 |
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Varieties of justice
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Mar 15, 2011 |
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The Temple of Venus
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Mar 14, 2011 |
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The friend as second self in Book 4
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Mar 10, 2011 |
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Faerie Queene, Book IV: Love and Friendship
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Mar 09, 2011 |
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Matter and form in the Garden of Adonis
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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What it's like to live in the Land of Faery
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Mar 04, 2011 |
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Amoret and Belphoebe, and what the House of Busirane is for
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Mar 03, 2011 |
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More on Book 3
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Mar 01, 2011 |
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Faerie Queene III Britomart and allegory
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Feb 27, 2011 |
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Faerie Queene, Book 3, beginning
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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A lovely lay and the Bower of Bliss
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Feb 16, 2011 |
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Temperance and self-restraint
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Feb 13, 2011 |
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Temperance and certainty
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Feb 10, 2011 |
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Spenser: allegory and character
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Feb 02, 2011 |
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Allegory and character
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Jan 27, 2011 |
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Second class on Spenser: I. 1-4
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Jan 26, 2011 |
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First real class on Spenser, with attention to Milton
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Jan 23, 2011 |
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Last 18th c poetry class: Pope and retrospective
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798: Frost at Midnight and Tintern Abbey
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Last class on Paradise Lost and of the Semester
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Freedom of conscience and guilt in Paradise Lost
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Dec 02, 2010 |
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Burns, Blake, and perspectives on the innocent
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Dec 02, 2010 |
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Paradise Lost I: Antecedents
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Nov 29, 2010 |
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Barbauld and Baillie
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Nov 29, 2010 |
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Goldsmith and Cowper
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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Paradiso and Paradise Lost
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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Paradiso and the universe and everything
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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Christopher Smart: Prayer and Praise
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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Young, Gray, and the advent of Romanticism
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Purgatorio and beginning of Paradiso
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Purgatorio part two
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Nov 11, 2010 |
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Thomson and Collins
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Nov 11, 2010 |
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Inferno and start of Purgatorio 11-5-10
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Nov 07, 2010 |
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Doctor Johnson
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Nov 07, 2010 |
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Last class on Pope
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Nov 04, 2010 |
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Second class on Dante: More on the Inferno
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Nov 04, 2010 |
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Pope's satires and To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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First class on Dante -- 10/29/10
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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Last class on Virgil - his versions of Homer
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Oct 27, 2010 |
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Third class on Pope: How pure poetry becomes topical
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Oct 27, 2010 |
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2nd class on Virgil: his sublimity
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Oct 24, 2010 |
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Pope: Essay on Criticism concluded, Eloisa to Abelard and Rape of the Lock begun
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Oct 24, 2010 |
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First class on Pope, 10/19/10
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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Virgil and Homer. Ovid.
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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Ovid and the Ovidian Milton
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Oct 17, 2010 |
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Swift on himself, to Stella, and to the world, 10/12/10
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Oct 14, 2010 |
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Plato's Socrates and Aristophanes's - 10/12/10
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Oct 14, 2010 |
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Second class on Plato: the Cave, Socrates's argument with poetry early and late
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Oct 09, 2010 |
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First Swift class-NSFW: very scatalogical
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Oct 09, 2010 |
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Rochester NSFW 10/5/10 2nd and Last class
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Oct 07, 2010 |
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Plato, 10/5/10: first of two classes
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Oct 07, 2010 |
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Rochester 10/1/10 First class
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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Odyssey 4, 10/01/10, Conclusion
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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! First lecture, RECOVERED, from 9/7/10 on Absalom and Achitophel
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Sep 29, 2010 |
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! Beginning, recovered, of first (9/17/10) Odyssey Class
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Sep 29, 2010 |
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Concluding lecture on Dryden
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Sep 25, 2010 |
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Odyssey part 3: Why Odysseus is No Man
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Sep 25, 2010 |
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Dryden's subtlety
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Sep 22, 2010 |
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Odyssey, part 2: the use of oral formulae
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Sep 22, 2010 |
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Absalom and Achitophel, and Religio Lacici, concluded
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Sep 19, 2010 |
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First lecture on the Odyssey: Hospitality and Gift Giving
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Sep 19, 2010 |
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Achilleus, Patroklos, Hector, Priam, and the laws of hospitality
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Sep 15, 2010 |
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Religio Laici and poetic expertise about politics and theology
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Sep 15, 2010 |
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Hektor frightens Astyanax, Achilleus plays the lyre
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Sep 08, 2010 |
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3. Background to Absalom and Achitophel and its Preface
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Sep 03, 2010 |
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3. Iliad, mainly Book 6
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Sep 03, 2010 |
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Dryden on Oldham; Oldham on Sodom; Dryden's scatology
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Aug 31, 2010 |
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Homeric simile in the Iliad
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Aug 31, 2010 |
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Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry
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Aug 28, 2010 |
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Thamyris and Homer in Milton and Dante
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Aug 28, 2010 |
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Things new born: conclusion of Winter's Tale and of course
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May 01, 2010 |
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The Winter's Tale, Part 1 (Things Dying)
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Antony and Cleopatra concluded
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Apr 23, 2010 |
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Antony and Cleopatra, third of 4: Antony
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Apr 21, 2010 |
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Antony and Cleopatra, part 2 of 4
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Apr 14, 2010 |
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Antony and Cleopatra Part 1
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Apr 09, 2010 |
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Third talk: Amimetobios on Tense, narration, and loss in Proust; followed by discussion
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Apr 03, 2010 |
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Second Talk: Nicolas de Warren on Aspects of the Imagination in Proust
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Apr 03, 2010 |
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First Talk: Dick Moran on The Proustian Involuntary
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Apr 03, 2010 |
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April Vacation Bonus: Proust and Philosophy, Introduction
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Apr 03, 2010 |
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Macbeth concluded; 2-week vacation hiatus
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Mar 27, 2010 |
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Macbeth Part One
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Mar 23, 2010 |
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King Lear Part 3 - Conclusion
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Mar 17, 2010 |
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King Lear, second lecture
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Mar 13, 2010 |
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King Lear: Part 1
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Mar 11, 2010 |
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Hamlet, part 3: conclusion
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Mar 03, 2010 |
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Hamlet part 2: Hamlet, Laertes, Introspection, and Drama
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Feb 27, 2010 |
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Hamlet, Lecture 1
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Feb 24, 2010 |
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Feb vacation bonus: How to Fix Literary Darwinism
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Feb 14, 2010 |
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Merchant of Venice
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Feb 10, 2010 |
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Midsummer Night's Dream, concluded
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Feb 06, 2010 |
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Richard II conclusion & Midsummer Night's Dream Intro
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Feb 03, 2010 |
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Richard II, part 3
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Jan 30, 2010 |
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Second lecture on Richard II
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Jan 27, 2010 |
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First lecture on Richard II
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Jan 23, 2010 |