ENGL 381 - English Seminar

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2016/17a: The Literature of Friendship. This seminar explores the treatment of friendship in a wide range of texts, mainly literary but also historical and philosophical, from antiquity through the present, including works by Aristotle, Cicero, Tu Fu, Po Chu-I, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Dr. Johnson, Keats, Oscar Wilde, Frederick Douglass, Jorge Luis Borges, Anna Akhmatova, W.H. Auden, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bishop, Groucho Marx, Adrienne Rich, Michael Harper, Alex Miller, Toni Morrison, and Carol Smith-Rosenberg. Ronald Sharp.