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INSIGHT SEMINARS at the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Spring 2013
Modernist Fiction
Professor Paul Peppis (English)
Saturdays, April 6, 13, 20, 27 (9:30 a.m.–noon)
Browsing Room, 106 Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid Street
Cost: $99
This seminar will focus on reading key works of fiction of the “Modernist
Movement” of the first half of the 20th century: short stories and novels by
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Nella Larsen. How did
these authors, writing in different places and times, respond to the belief that
the twentieth century demanded new kinds of fiction, not only new stories
about living in a new, modern world, but stories in new, modern forms?
The Sonnet and Its Moments
Professor Leah Middlebrook (Comparative Literature)
Saturdays, May 4, 11, 18, and June 1 (9:30 a.m.–noon)
Browsing Room, 106 Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid Street
Cost: $99
A song meets an argument. Their connection is instantaneous, alchemical,
and of their union is born . . . modern wit! Not your conventional, run-of-
the-mill notion of the sonnet, perhaps. But as this class will demonstrate, the
thirteenth century origins of the sonnet form have something to do with the
flexibility, the astonishing durability, and the perennial “modernity” of this
most conventional, most iconic—and yet so often, this most surprising and
innovative poem. This class will examine contemporary sonnets alongside
earlier examples from the European Renaissance. By the end of the course,
you may feel stirred to compose a sonnet or two of your own.
To register, call 541-346-1889, or online at:
libweb.uoregon.edu/administration/insight.html
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