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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | LATNB350001 |
Course Title | Topics in Latin Literature-Epistolography |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Languages |
Instructor | Conybeare,Catherine |
Times and Days | Th 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | OL118 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1512 This is a topics course. Course content varies.; Current topic description: Ancient letter-writing is suddenly garnering scholarly attention. Letters are being read by those with literary and philosophical interests, not simply for historical detail. While this course will attend to various categories of letters - embedded letters, inscribed letters, letters primarily for literary display - our principal focus wil be letters which were actually sent, and particularly correspondence of which both sides survives to us. We shall cover a wide chronological range, from the first century BC to the fifth century AD; our most sustained investigation will be of the letters of Cicero, Pliny, and Augustine, though we shall encompass many others along the way. In addition to the specific circumstances in which the letters were sent, we shall also address wider questions: how do letters negotiate the absence of their addressee? what ideas of friendship, or other affective connection, do they perform? what ideas of the self are entailed? how are ancient ideas of public and private letters played out? Finally, does it even make sense to speak of a separate genre of epistolography? The wide range of the course should make for some exciting answers. Cross listed as CSTS 663 Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Cap: 15; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Permission of Instructor; |
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