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| | Fall Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Written assignments will include several responses to discussion questions, a short presentation on a fictional slave narrative from the nineteenth century (not already included in the syllabus), one graded exercise involving textual explication, and three mid-sized (5-7 pgs) papers with outlines and revisions. |
 | | An introduction, in sum, to the pleasurizing intensities of sustained reading during the age of cyber-immediacy and virtual intimacy: the visceral texture it offers, the analytic trenchancy (including capacity for contradiction) it demands, the repartee it solicits, the essaying that honors it, and the kinship of word and thought it ultimately inspirits. |
 | | More particularly (as the title of the course suggests), we will examine the dis-organized array of "war zones" this globalizing project constitutes as its counterpart to the formal network of colonies and protectorates fundamental to a "civilizing" imperialism. |
| www.duke.edu /web/english/undergraduate/courses-fall/courselist.htm (9721 words) |
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