Intensive courses - Spring 2026

AJL15088/AJL25004: Eyes on the Prize: the Nobel in American Literature

George Bishop

Schedule (all blocks in G33):
April 21 (Tuesday) - 10.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 16.00
April 22 (Wednesday) - 10.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 16.00
April 23 (Thursday) - 10.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 16.00
April 24 (Friday) - 10.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 16.00

The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan ten years ago prompted re-evaluation of our contemporary notions of what constitutes “literature.”  This intensive seminar will look to the pertinence of the Nobel to American writers and readers, and will examine a sample of works by laureates William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, and Louise Gluck, among others.