Celts are the only Indo-European-speaking people to adopt the Old European cult of the great mother as their dominant divinity, creating in the fourth century BC the La Tene complex in response to contacts with Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.

Topics course. Ursula K. LeGuin is arguably the most important writer of science fiction and fantasy in the second half of the twentieth century and certainly one of the best. Although the course will stress her experiments with the novel form, we?ll also consider other genres in which she writes?short story, ?suites? of longer stories, essays, poetry. We?ll study the formal experiments of her fiction and its accompanying thought-experiments with gender, identity, the good society, and the promise and fear of the other.

?Why hath this lady writ her own life?? asked Margaret Cavendish in 1656, a time when a woman needed a plausible, if sometimes fabricated, reason for doing so. We?ll consider a range of women writers from the early modern period to the present, as they construct the narratives of their own lives or those of their families, out of fact, fiction, romance, exaggeration, and equivocation; representing themselves sometimes as respectable, sometimes as heroic or roguish, using enabling fictions to shape their accounts.

Topic: Willa Cather's Fiction
A study of the work and career of one of 20th century America's most significant writers, with particular attention to her development as a writer, to her characteristic narrative strategies, and to her relation to the cultural transformations associated with modernism.

Nineteenth-century revivals and transformations of medieval literature, arts, and social institutions; the remaking of the Middle Ages in the image of Victorian desires and aspirations. Arthurian legend in medieval and nineteenth-century England, the Gothic revival in British art and architecture, the cult of Chaucer, controversies over women's education, and the idealization of medieval communities in Victorian social theory.

Stanley Kunitz has said: ?Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.?
In this course, we will examine poetry in action. This class is designed for those who would
like to explore poems from countries, cultures, and centuries that they have not studied before;
for those who would like to study reading strategies appropriate for poetry; for those planning
to teach poetry on any educational level; for those who like literature but have ?poetry anxiety?;
and for anyone who likes poetry and wants greater immersion. We will study a range of strategies

What do these three pursuits, both the respectable and the disreputable, have in common? Jonathan Swift, the greatest prose satirist in English literature, the "madman" who proposed eating babies as the solution to Irish poverty, was joined in the "Scriblerus Club" by Alexander Pope, the greatest satiric poet in the English tradition. Pope celebrated the heroic cutting of --a lock of hair. At the club meetings, John Gay picked up hints for his "Beggar?s Opera?.

Same as CLT 255.

His art and his social and literary background. Emphasis on the Canterbury Tales. Students should have had at least two semester courses in literature. Not open to first-year students.

Major writers of the 1909 to 1940 period, with emphasis on Modernism and the desire to "Make it new." Innovative fiction by Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and Zora Neale Hurston. Modernist poetry by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Edna Millay, Robert Frost and others.