9:05-9:55A     MWF     BH238

Above section open to honors students only
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Above section COAS intensive writing section and also
Requires registration is COAS W333
Above section meets with WEUR W210

Italy has long been a place of fascination for non-Italians and this
fascination has made it the leading country for two types of writing:
travel writing and fictional writing set in the country but written by
non-nationals.  In this course we will read and discuss some of this
literature attempting at the same time to place it in its appropriate
historical and geographical setting.  We will start with Goethe's
Voyage in Italy, and work our way through Stendhal, Mark Twain, Henry
James, D.H. Lawrence and others.  For the more recent past we shall
look at some contemporary American travel writers and journalists as
well as several British and American movies set in Italy.  The course
will be conducted primarily as a colloquium and class time will be
basically devoted to three activities:  lectures by the instructor
(about one per week), discussions of the week's reading assignment
(preceded by short factual quizzes), and discussion of the student's
written assignments.