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The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability, Spring 2008
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The Art of the Probable" addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thematic, and rhetorical features that imaginative literature shares with texts in the history of probability. These shared issues include (but are not limited to): the attempt to quantify or otherwise explain the presence of chance, risk, and contingency in everyday life; the deduction of causes for phenomena that are knowable only in their effects; and, above all, the question of what it means to think and act rationally in an uncertain world. Our course therefore aims to broaden students’ appreciation for and understanding of how literature interacts with--both reflecting upon and contributing to--the scientific understanding of the world. We are just as centrally committed to encouraging students to regard imaginative literature as a unique contribution to knowledge in its own right, and to see literary works of art as objects that demand and richly repay close critical analysis. It is our hope that the course will serve students well if they elect to pursue further work in Literature or other discipline in SHASS, and also enrich or complement their understanding of probability and statistics in other scientific and engineering subjects they elect to take.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
Mathematics
Philosophy
Religious Studies
Statistics and Probability
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Kibel, Alvin
Raman, Shankar
Date Added:
01/01/2008
Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain, Spring 2003
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An examination of eighteenth-century English writers in their historical context. Authors vary but all address issues of capitalism and class mobility; romantic love and the re-definition of femininity and masculinity; the beginnings of mass culture; colonialism and international travel.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
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Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
01/01/2003
Major English Novels: Reading Romantic Fiction, Spring 2002
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Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen, Scott, Dickens, the Bront%s, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad. The class alternates between eighteenth and nineteenth century topics, and may be repeated for credit with instructor's permission.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
01/01/2002
Romantic Poetry, Spring 2005
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Close readings of the major British Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, Shelley, Keats), perhaps including some of the period's important fiction writers (e.g. Mary Shelley, Walter Scott). Some attention to literary and historical context. Lecture/discussion; at least two papers.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
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Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time, Fall 2010
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The "small wonders" to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual media of the modern age: newspapers, novels and stories, poems, photographs, films, etc. We will move between visual and verbal media across a considerable span of time, from eighteenth-century poetry and prose fiction to twenty-first century social networking and microblogging sites, and from sculpture to photography, film, and digital visual media. With help from philosophers, contemporary cultural historians, and others, we will begin to think about a media practice largely taken for granted in our own moment.

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Creative and Applied Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
01/01/2011
Studies in Poetry - British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind, Fall 2004
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Extensive reading of works by a few major poets. Emphasizes the evolution of each poet's work and the questions of poetic influence and literary tradition. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication. Topic for Fall: Does Poetry Matter? Topic for Spring: Gender and Lyric Poetry.

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Anatomy/Physiology
Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Life Science
Literature
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Full Course
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MIT
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Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
01/01/2004
Studies in Poetry: What's the Use of Beauty?, Fall 2005
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Extensive reading of works by a few major poets. Emphasizes the evolution of each poet's work and the questions of poetic influence and literary tradition. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication. Topic for Fall: Does Poetry Matter? Topic for Spring: Gender and Lyric Poetry.

Subject:
Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Philosophy
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
01/02/2009