HNRS 63W

Main Course

Nabokov and Reading Minds

Description

Seminar, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or English as a Second Language 36. Designed for College Honors students. Examination of three works by Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American writer, teacher, translator, lepidopterist, and composer of chess problems. Nabokov's eclectic writings lend themselves well to precepts of cognitive criticism-way of understanding world through relationship between literacy and thought. Reading and writing about art and science built into course. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

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  • Required: ENGCOMP 3

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  • Required: ESL 36

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