Fall 2023 English BC3159 section 002

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Call Number 00473
Day & Time
Location
T 4:10pm-6:00pm
405 Barnard Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Rachel Eisendrath
Type COLLOQUIA
Course Description Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Renaissance colloquium we will examine English and European imaginative and intellectual life from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Defined by humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and revolution, this was a period of ideological struggle on many levels. Long-held ways of ordering the world came under increasing strain-and sometimes ruptured irreparably. Writers discussed and debated the aims of human knowledge, retooled old literary forms for new purposes, scrambled to take account of an expanded awareness of the globe, and probed the tension between belief and doubt. Throughout this process, they experimented with new literary styles to express their rapidly changing worldviews. This is an intensive course in which we will take multiple approaches to a variety of authors that may include Petrarch, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, More, Rabelais, Luther, Calvin, Montaigne, Spenser, Bacon, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn, among others.
Web Site Vergil
Department English @Barnard
Enrollment 14 students (14 max) as of 2:07PM Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Status Full
Subject English
Number BC3159
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Campus Barnard College
Note JR BC ENGLSH MAJR/FUTURE ENGLSH MAJR JR TRANSFR STUDNT ONLY
Section key 20233ENGL3159X002