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Like all worthwhile things in life—college, employment, gun ownership—your Hist and Lit career begins with an application. It sounds intimidating at first, but once you are accepted into the fold and its cozy nook in the Barker Center, you are joining an old family (seriously old—it’s celebrating its centennial this year).Like the Grape Nuts phenomenon, History and Literature is neither History nor Literature—at least not exclusively. Rather, it uses history to contextualize and draw conclusions about literature, and vice versa. Daily Hist and Lit...
...professor who came to Harvard last year and is a world-renowned art historian. His fame comes from incredible intelligence as well as uncanny incoherence and a remarkable ability to invent words. You’ll also meet professor Neil Levine, who last year taught the core course, Lit and Arts B-34, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb.” Professor Levine is exceptionally anal about letting his students out exactly on time, which is great, and almost begins to make up for his extreme outbursts of anger at the innocent slide...
Hardly anyone denies it: any Core area can come around to bite you in the ass if you aren’t careful. Some take a lot of planning to make them manageable (Lit and Arts C is full of landmines that’ll have you tackling the genesis of the archetypical peasant in Russian literature for a semester), but a few Core areas aren?...
...most of us, Lit and Arts A—primary literary texts and literary analysis—falls into the second category. While you’re sure to find some Lit and Arts A classes that don’t appeal to you, a large selection of relatively straightforward courses takes a lot of the sting out of this Core area...
...Most Lit and Arts A classes will require you to write a few papers that display some level of proficiency with literary criticism, close reading, and textual analysis. But don’t worry: you probably won’t be up against English or Hist and Lit concentrators who do this kind of thing all the time, and the professors and TFs will (or at least should) provide plenty of guidance for every assignment...