Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Enters deeply into the world of one literary work and explores its reverberations across national and disciplinary boundaries. Topic for Fall 2024: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Topics for Spring 2025: Section A1: Marcel Proust's Swann's Way. Read, discuss, and slowly savor the first volume of Marcel Proust's stunning masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. Taught in English translation and in conjunction with WLL's annual "Big Fat Books" symposium. Section B1: Death in Venice. An in-depth reading of one of the most crafted and allusive short works in modern literature, together with Mann’s diverse sources from Euripides and Plato to Wagner and homoerotic photography; two films and an opera based on Mann’s story. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.

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