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Spring 2013 English BC3998 section 006 SR SEM: STUDIES IN LITERATURE SR SEM: EROS IN RENAISSANCE | |
| Call Number | 04674 |
| Day & Time Location |
M 2:10pm-4:00pm 405 Barnard Hall |
| Points | 4 |
| Approvals Required | Department |
| Instructor | Anne L Prescott |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. OFFERED SPRING 2013 This course studies some Renaissance writers who explore how Eros relates to a variety of human situations and dilemmas. Eros himself is a complex and contradictory god and Renaissance writers tend to be complex and contradictory when allowing him to influence what they think and say. Eros, moreover, is not always the enemy of other gods or God, so we will also consider how some have treated his relation to the religious imagination. Eros can even support "family values," so we will also look at how he can energize one's hopes to marry and procreate, but sometimes Eros expresses same-sex love. Eros is a complex energy; so are the texts that express him, whether comic, tragic, funny, or poignant, and whether in dialogues, sonnets, stories, satires, or plays. Writers include Plato, Ovid, Petrarch, Gaspara Stampa, Rabelais, Ronsard, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Richard Barnfield, and Tom Nashe. |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | English @Barnard |
| Enrollment | 7 students as of 11:25PM Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| Subject | English |
| Number | BC3998 |
| Section | 006 |
| Division | Barnard College |
| Open To | Barnard |
| Campus | Barnard College |
| Note | eBEAR LOTTERY 10/30 - 11/6; RESULTS POSTED 11/7 |
| Section key | 20131ENGL3998X006 |
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