Word: bercovitch
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Phillips says she is very interested in American literary traditions. She cites Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch's "Myth of America" course, and Powell and Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan Heimert's English 70, as important influences. (She has also been a teaching fellow for both courses.) Other dystopian novels that have interested Phillips include Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, West's The Day of the Locust and Pynchon's The Crying...
This semester, Professor Sacvan Bercovitch has had to contend with dozens of rude students in his Literature and Arts A class, the Myth of America. Many of them sleep or chat with their friends during his lectures, or rustle their papers and books loudly as they leave fifteen minutes early. Santa will wire every seat in Science Center B to an eject switch at the podium. Then Professor Bercovitch can blast those who do not wish to pay attention clear out to Loker Commons...
...class, taught by Sacvan Bercovitch, Carswell professor of English and American literature and language, explores the various meanings of America and the American dream in major literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries...
Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch's "Myth of America," an English class making its first appearance in the Core, Pulled into the number nine spot with 328 students...
Once a popular English Department's class that drew concentrators and non-concentrators alike, Bercovitch's revamped "Myth" interprets major American literary works in a socio-historical light...