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Tag: literature

Topic: Literature and Books

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“So these Lines may reach to future times”: Pandemic Teaching with John Davies’ Triumph of DEATH

By Nichole DeWall, Professor of English, McKendree University When I casually mentioned during my Fall 2020 undergraduate Shakespeare course that I’d written a dissertation on early modern plague writing, my …

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Practicing Publishing: Fairy Tale Anthologies

Submitted in 2016 by Juli McLoone, Curator, Special Collections Research Center at UMichigan IntroductionThis advanced class uses published fairy tales from a range of eras and countries to introduce students …

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