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This version of Text and Theory will focus exclusively on controversial literature from the standpoint of reading, criticizing and teaching. We will start with the sexual issues in Shakespeare's sonnets, move to the current school controversy around language and meaning in Huckleberry Finn, consider the charges of racism against Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the religious debate around Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the changing face of Nabokov's Lolita, both book and film. We will finish up with the storm that greeted Ted Hughes' The Birthday Poems, along with its context in the poems of his wife Sylvia Plath. All texts will be read in their entirety along with critical materials that will lead to overall questions of aesthetic theory, censorship, and the politics of reading and writing. In view of the Secondary Language Arts program, the course will consider the problems of teaching controversial literature, and will offer the opportunity for students to prepare and lead class discussions as well as writing two critical papers.
Level: Intermediate. *HS*
William Carpenter
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