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Jul 11, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
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ENG 100/159 - Twice Told Tales3 Credits
Offered periodically
The title of this course is fittingly repurposed from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales (1837), a collection of short stories containing a variety of his own previously published works. Throughout the semester, students will read a series of republished and retold narratives as a way of considering the stakes of literary genre, narrative voice, cultural capital, and publication histories. By exploring narratives that have reverberated across multiple genres-drama, film, fiction, and poetry-students will explore how form shapes and contains the kinds of stories artists are able to tell. Reading closely for the ghost plots and literary echoes that haunt these “twice told tales,” students will contemplate the aesthetic significance of repetition and revision and will examine the political and ethical stakes of recuperating lost stories.
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Language, Arts, and Humanities
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