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‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’ . For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats , 1976, p.51 )
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PROJECTS
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SUBJECTS, TOPICS
1. The first project is to be an exploration of the relation
between place and the life and works of a famous person associated with the
universities of Texas, Oxford,
Cambridge, Salamanca, Paris, Bologna, or Heidelberg, especially how the spirit
or legacy of the famous person is embodied in the campus as a place.
2a. The
second project can be a continuation of the first, or an exploration of another
famous person along the same lines, or an imitation of a literary account of
college life applied to U. T. such as the projects in the categories, Lewis Carroll
does U.T., Thomas Hardy does U.T., Max Beerbohm does U.T.
2b. In the
second option, parodies or imitations must be focused on your own experiences
of this class, U. T. academic life, and your own experiences of places that we
have or will visit. You are to work in as many exact quotations as possible
from the original (with quotation marks and documentation) and by thoughtful,
insightful parallels or comparisons between the experiences in the literary
account and your U.T. experience (again with documentation).
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