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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: "Jamie Graham"
<jamiecg@MIT.EDU></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: New 21L Literature classes -
please distribute to your students</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:32:36
-0400</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Dear Undergraduate
Advisors,</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Please let your
students know of three exciting new classes we are offering this
semester!</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Visiting Associate
Professor</font> <a
href="http://lit.mit.edu/people/jpicker.php"><font
face="Arial"><b>John Picker</b></font></a><font face="Arial"> from
Harvard University will be teaching two Literature courses.
</font><a
href="http://lit.mit.edu/program/fall09_samplings.php#21L325"><font
face="Arial">21L.325 Small Wonders</font></a><font face="Arial"> (R
10am-1pm) is a short class that focuses on short novels: well-known
works that take an uncluttered measure of the individual's place in
modernity. Students will examine the ways that these texts articulate
the human consequences of urban and rural alienation, domestic and
imperial rupture, and gender and racial strife. In</font> <a
href="http://lit.mit.edu/program/fall09_seminars.php#21L705"><font
face="Arial">21L.705 Major Authors: Charles Dickens</font></a><font
face="Arial"> (MW 2:30-4), students will focus on Dickens's
self-presentation as the supreme entertainer of his day, a title he
dearly coveted and even died trying to uphold.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Martin Luther King
Artist/Scholar<b> Ricardo Pitts-Wiley</b> of Mixed Magic Theatre and
Cultural Events will be co-teaching</font> <a
href="http://lit.mit.edu/program/fall09_intermediate.php#21L512"><font
face="Arial">21L.512 American Authors: Classics
Remixed</font></a><font face="Arial"> (MW 11-12:30) with Wyn Kelley.
This course explores the arts of adapting classic works in new forms.
Inspired by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley's urban hip-hop theatrical
production<i> Moby-Dick: Then and Now</i> (see<font color="#000000">
http://www.mixedmagictheatre.org/</font>), it begins with classic
American novels and the ways they creatively remixed materials in
their own historical time.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Thank you very
much!</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Best
regards,</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Jamie
Graham</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial">---</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Jamie Graham<br>
Administrative Assistant for Undergraduate Academic
Administration</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Literature Section @
MIT<br>
14N-407<br>
T. (617) 258-5629<br>
F. (617) 253-6105</font></blockquote>
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