Text Box: Sound Poetics Professor Loss Glazier MW 5:00 - 6:20 Reg. No. 069272 Text Box: 204 Text Box: Course description available from the Department of Media Study, 231 Center for the Arts. Text Box: Writing Prose Fiction Louis McAuley MW 7:00 - 8:20 Reg. No. 434855 Text Box: 205 Text Box: Course description not available at this time. Text Box: World Literature 1 Professor Max Wickert MWF 9:00 - 9:50 Reg. No. 284171 Text Box: 221 Text Box: We will read, in a modern translation, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, an amazingly rich, impressive, profound, moving and varied three-part poem from medieval Italy, the nearest equivalent in words to what the great Gothic cathedrals do in stone. Its subject is life after death, in the three forms envisioned by medieval Christians: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven. Dante imagines a fabulous journey through all three, during which he encounters and converses with the damned or blessed souls of hundreds of actual, historical people. The result is both encyclopedic and dramatic. To appreciate this poem requires substantial effort, and I require students in this course to make it. Do yourself a favor and read student evaluations from past semesters before committing yourself to this course. Regularly some of my students catch on too late that it involves more work than they care for and then voice resentment at my demands on their time and memories. But those who are willing to work usually find Dante as eye-opening a master of world literature as they could wish for. Although a true appreciation of Dante’s qualities calls for leisurely, minute attention, we will have to march through the entire poem at the rate of three cantos per class. I have, however, left several classes for review--or for catching up if we get a little behind.