Concentrating, Minoring, or Majoring in 21L Literature
John Hildebidle
Thu Jan 18, 04-06:00pm, 14E-304
Single session event
Considering Concentrating in Literature? Musing about Minoring in Literature? Mulling over Majoring in Literature? What do you do with a Literature degree, anyway? Come find out the answers to this and other fascinating philosophical questions. Meet Literature faculty and majors. Refreshments will be served.
Contact: Briony Keith, 14N-407, x3-3581, lit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
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Pleasures of Poetry: Readings and Discussion of Memorable Poems
Literature Faculty , David Thorburn, Julie Saunders
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
Reading and discussion of major poems by members of the Literature Faculty (with help from literary friends). Handouts of poems and series schedule available at each session, and from the Literature Headquarters, 14N-407, lit@mit.edu, 3-3581.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/iap.html
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x3-3581, lit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
Pleasures of Poetry
John Peck
John Peck will read and discuss poems by Goethe.
Mon Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
David Thorburn will read and discuss poems by Gascoigne, Nashe, and Ralegh.
Tue Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
James Buzard
James Buzard will read and discuss poems by Tennyson.
Wed Jan 10, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Howard Eiland
Howard Eiland will read and discuss poems by Browning.
Thu Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
William Corbett
William Corbett will read and discuss Exile's Letter by Li Po (Ezra Pound translation)
Fri Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
James Paradis
James Paradis will read and discuss poems by Arnold.
Tue Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Helen Lee
Helen Lee will read and discuss poems by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Wed Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Andrea Walsh
Andrea Walsh will read and discuss Song for the Old Ones by Maya Angelou.
Thu Jan 18, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Ina Lipkowitz
Ina Lipkowitz will read and discuss various translations of Mallarme's poem.
Fri Jan 19, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
John Hildebidle
John Hildebidle will read and discuss poems by Rich.
Mon Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Christina Klein
Christina Klein will read and discuss poems by Lois-Ann Yamanaka.
Tue Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Travis Merritt
Travis Merritt will read and discuss poems by Rich.
Wed Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Stephen Alter
Stephen Alter will read and discuss The Bear by Galway Kinnell.
Thu Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Wyn Kelley
Wyn Kelley will read and discuss poems by Melville and Poe.
Fri Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Steven Cramer
Steven Cramer will read and discuss poems by Coleridge and Bishop.
Mon Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Irving Singer
Irving Singer will read and discuss poems by Stevens.
Tue Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Stephen Tapscott
Stephen Tapscott will read and discuss poems by Blake.
Wed Jan 31, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Peter Donaldson
Peter Donaldson will read and discuss poems by Shakespeare.
Thu Feb 1, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Pleasures of Poetry
Alvin Kibel
Alvin Kibel will read and discuss poems by Wordsworth.
Fri Feb 2, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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The Tenth Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Tue Jan 30, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, "5000 Fingers of Dr. T." An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Contact: Henry Jenkins, 14N-437, x3-3068, henry3@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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