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...Tibetan to English. In Chicago, Sara M. Berliner ’98 began her college career at Harvard like the majority of her classmates. As a freshman, she chose what she called one of the more “classically Harvard concentrations”—history and literature??but found herself drawn more toward her electives. Now, nearly nine years later, Berliner says that she could not have predicted that concentrating in folklore and mythology with visual and environmental science would have led her to her current occupation—running Star Farm Productions, a storytelling...
...Case for Literature,” a collection of essays and lectures inspired by the 2000 Nobel Lecture of Gao Xingjian—the only Chinese author ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature??is in many ways the author’s literary manifesto.Gao, an intellectual who wrote his most well known novel, “Soul Mountain,” while in exile after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is a self-described non-Communist, non-democratic, non-traditionalist non-modernist author. Rejecting the ideological dogmatism that defined the nation of his birth, Gao argues...
Furthermore, such action defies a judgment by those experienced in dealing with children’s literature??the Newbery Medal committee. Their opinion should have more weight than those of librarians, yet the latter are clearly giving themselves the benefit of the doubt...
...Matthew Pearl ’97, author of “The Dante Club,” a murder mystery novel that includes Longfellow and his literary cadre as characters. In an interview with The Crimson, Pearl said Longfellow served as “an ambassador for fine literature?? at Harvard. Even though the poet was not a professor of literature, he “transformed the educational culture that surrounded foreign subjects” and cut a path for the study of texts within the context of other cultures. Longfellow resided at the famous Craigie House, which...
According to the Core program, only four courses in the English Department and one course in Scandinavian can provide the “variety of critical and analytical approaches to literature?? needed to satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement. Likewise, tutorials, some of the hardest classes at Harvard, don’t count because they lack a final exam. And because only pedagogical technique matters in Core-world, the material covered has become increasingly specific and trite...