Word: english
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrative is told through David Lurie, a divorced, passionless professor of English Literature whose seduction of one of his colored students precipitates a train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses...
...this time, most of the candidates have abandoned campaigning for classes. Dreyfus traverses the Yard one more time to get to his class at Emerson Hall. The lecture for Historical Study B-27, "The English Revolution," is his only Monday class, but he will spend the bulk of the afternoon in meetings at Hillel, where he is annual events coordinator, and doing work in his Quad dorm room will consume most of his evening...
What's the difference between consonance and assonance? Can someone point out a metaphor in Stephen Crane's poem? It is first block English class at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School (CRLHS) as about 20 juniors try to get psyched about English literature perhaps only minutes after rolling...
...students to analyze and personalize Crane's use of figurative language. Soon, even the sleepiest students are volunteering to read aloud and to offer their own interpretations. By day, "Mr. Arribas" commands the respect and attention of these teenagers. By night, he doubles as Lucas Arribas Layton'00, an English concentrator living in Adams House...
Each weekday morning since early September, Layton has arisen before 7 a.m. He spends these days student teaching freshman and junior English classes at CRLHS. He then returns to Harvard to take classes from...