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Course Code LALIBL Spring 2012 Gleacher Center $345 Early registration ends March 21 $375 Regular registration Section 12S1 Wednesdays March 21–May 9 1–3:30 pm Section 12S2 Wednesdays March 21–May 9 6–8:30 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 20 What Jane Austen Read– “House Beautiful”: The Great Country Manor in British Literature The manor has stood at the center of British culture since the 18th century, when ancestral homesteads turned into emblems of social stability to ward off the growing threat of urbanization. British literature, from the Regency to the present, idealized the country estate as a unifying metaphor for a humane order; the results have been the best British novels and movies ever created. Our multimedia class will study country-house masterpieces of fiction and cinema by Austen, James, Forster, Sackville- West, Bowen, Waugh, Fellowes, and Altman, and examine their historical and cultural contexts. Elisabeth Lenckos Ms. Lenckos holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. She coauthored a book on Barbara Pym and is writing one on Jane Austen. A Fulbright scholar, Ms. Lenckos has taught in the United States and Europe. Course Code BPOWJH Spring 2012 Gleacher Center $415 Early registration ends March 21 $445 Regular registration Section 12S1 Tuesdays April 3–June 12 10 am–1:15 pm Section 12S2 Wednesdays April 4–June 13 10 am–1:15 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 33 Please read Mansfield Park for the first class. Letters from Prison This course will focus on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison, written during his 1943–45 imprisonment for participation in a conspiracy to overthrow Hitler. The prison correspondence had a profound influence on resistance to apartheid in South Africa, and helped shape “engaged theology” in the second half of the 20th century. In addition, we will examine work by Antonio Gramsci, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr., all of whom made time to write (as Saul Alinsky suggested) while they did time for resistance. Steven Schroeder See bio under Freedom Charters. Course Code BPOLFP Section 12S1 Spring 2012 Gleacher Center $415 Early registration ends March 21 $445 Regular registration Wednesdays March 28–June 6 6–9:15 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 33 Summer 2012 Colette—The Invention of the Modern Woman The French author Colette is often thought of as the first modern woman. Her frank, funny novels shocked belle époque France and became immediate bestsellers. We will read from her “Claudine” novels, written in a short period between 1900 and 1903 when Colette was in her twenties. Sensuous, observant, charming, and humorous, Claudine at School explores the themes that make Colette famous to this day: the joys and pains of love, female sexuality in a male-dominated world, and the rapier wit of the French salon. We will explore Colette’s analysis of desire and the dynamics of power that shaped modern society. Irina Ruvinsky See bio under Balzac. Course Code LALICO Summer 2012 Gleacher Center 10 Humanities Texts & Contexts $335 Early registration ends June 13 $365 Regular registration Section 12U1 Tuesdays June 19–August 7 10 am–12:30 pm Section 12U2 Tuesdays June 19–August 7 6–8:30 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 20 James Joyce’s Ulysses Ulysses incarnates the wanderings of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus about Dublin in 1904, but also reflects Joyce’s response to Homer’s Odyssey. Biographer Richard Ellmann quotes Joyce’s remark: “The most beautiful, all-embracing theme is that of the Odyssey. It is greater, more human, than that of Hamlet, Don Quixote, Dante, Faust. . . . ” Loosely patterned on the Odyssey, deeply resonant with it, Ulysses is a book of commonplaces and soul’s truths, a reinvention of language and an archaeology of meaning. It is readable, unforgettable, to be reveled in. We will explore it to the best of our abilities. Claudia Traudt Ms. Traudt holds a BFA in painting from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, and an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. Her art-making, research, and teaching explore modes of creation and perception in word and image. Course Code BPUJJU Section 12U1 Summer 2012 Gleacher Center $415 Early registration ends June 13 $445 Regular registration Mondays June 25–August 13 10 am–3 pm (one-hour lunch break) Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 32
James Joyce’s Dubliners James Joyce’s 15 Dubliners short stories are jewels: detailed, radiant, edge-cut. Joyce’s capturing of Irish—and human—psychology; of nationalist, religious, and family webs; of nuances of language is all so provocative that he had to fight for nine years to get the Dubliners 1914 collection published. From the funny—and fraught—youthful stories through “Araby,” the middle tales’ longings and dashings through middle life, to the senses of truth, loss, time, and mystery found in the crowning “The Dead,” Joyce’s epiphanies reveal great Art, and great Life. Claudia Traudt See bio under James Joyce’s Ulysses. Course Code BPUJJD Section 12U1 Summer 2012 Gleacher Center $335 Early registration ends June 13 $365 Regular registration Tuesdays June 19–August 7 10 am–1:15 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 24 Novels of Thomas Hardy I: Under the Greenwood Tree and Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy, younger contemporary of George Eliot, can easily be called the greatest British novelist of the end of the 19th century. Standing out for the depth of his characterizations and his powerful treatment of place, Hardy’s novels are imbued with a deep critical social and philosophic consciousness that is anti-Victorian, and, in the case of his later novels, provoked extreme controversy that eventually forced him to give up writing fiction. We will begin our study of Hardy by pairing one of his early novels, Under the Greenwood Tree, with one of the late masterpieces, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Clare Pearson See bio under Heidegger’s The Principle of Reason. Course Code BPUNTH Section 12U1 Summer 2012 Gleacher Center $210 Early registration ends June 13 $240 Regular registration Wednesdays June 20–July 25 (no class July 4) 10 am–1:15 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 15 Please read the Preface and first two parts of Under the Greenwood Tree for the first class. William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust and Light in August We will engage in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County’s Light in August and Intruder in the Dust, intriguingly different in tone. In the first, we will trace the love, grief, hatred, grace, violence, and uncertainty in self-hunting Joe Christmas, pregnant and trusting Lena Grove, innocent Byron Bunch, Abolitionist-descended Joanna Burden, and the complex Reverend Hightower’s—and other Jefferson denizens’—attempts to live. In the latter, we will explore—often laugh, sometimes cringe—as a young black and young white boy, a salty spinster, and his own ramrod righteousness work to clear black McCaslin descendant Lucas Beauchamp of a wrongful murder charge. Claudia Traudt See bio under James Joyce’s Ulysses. Course Code BPUWFI Section 12U1 Summer 2012 Gleacher Center $335 Early registration ends June 13 $365 Regular registration Wednesdays June 20–August 15 (no class July 4) 10 am–1:15 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 24 Humanities Before the Cemetery: Eco’s Early Novels Once upon a time, an internationally respected literary scholar and professor of semiotics “wanted to poison a monk,” in Umberto Eco’s own words explaining why he began a new career as a novelist. Thirty years later, Eco’s novels continue to incarnate the same philosophical questions as his scholarship, and (most recently with The Prague Cemetery) intrigue millions of readers with their testing of the boundaries between images and ideas, fantasies and realities. This summer we will explore the new worlds created in Eco’s first three novels: The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before. Michaelangelo Allocca Mr. Allocca has been a journalist, chef, classicist, linguist, and theologian. He has taught and traveled in Alabama, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Chicago, in disciplines including algebra, Sanskrit, Shakespeare, Santeria, and Scholastic philosophy. He received the 2010 Graham School Excellence in Teaching Award for the Basic Program. Course Code BPUBCE Section 12U1 Summer 2012 Gleacher Center $250 Early registration ends June 13 $280 Regular registration Wednesdays July 11–August 8 10 am–1:15 pm Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 18 Please read through the end of the Second Day in The Name of the Rose for the first class. Residual Statements and Volatile Truths: Reading Thoreau’s Walden Novelist John Updike observes that Thoreau’s Walden is in danger of being as revered—and unread—as the Bible. This course is intended to rectify that deficiency. We will engage in a close, slow reading of the text, a work that Updike further describes as the one that, of all the “densely arisen” classics of the mid- 19th century, has contributed most to America’s sense of self. Texts & Contexts 11
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