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FYSP 117 - The Forms of Dialogue


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, Wri

An interdisciplinary study of dialogue in drama, poetry, fiction, film, philosophy, religion, political debates, interviews and conversations—including our class discussions. Readings will be from scenes by Sophocles, Chekhov, and Pinter; fiction by Austen, Dickens, Hemingway and Roth; films by Howard Hawks and Woody Allen; theories of dialogue by the philosophers Bakhtin and Ricoeur and the sociolinguists Goffman and Tannen. Enrollment Limit: 14.

Instructor: J. Hobbs


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