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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
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