Literature, Aesthetics, and Democratic Society |
Project Description: Project will be a reconsideration of craft, literature, quality, and aesthetics in relation to liberal theory's understanding of the needs of a democratic society. In place of aesthetics as intuitive/transcendent or aesthetics as ideology, I will explore the necessary function aesthetics plays in a progressive society. |
Student Roles/Responsibilities: Student will help with recording oral histories of community members, may help with editorial duties, and will help with library research tasks. Student will compile a thorough, annotated reading list of works on liberal theory, communitarianism, and aesthetic theory. |
Minimum Qualifications: A senior in ETS or Political Science major. Exceptional junior may qualify as well. |
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Modern British Drama |
Project Description: I am currently doing a study of modern British drama 1900-present. I would like to share the work on this project with a student who likes to do online and library research. The student will learn much about the subject. Individual writers will be discovered, their work explored and evaluated. A historical context will also be informative for the student. |
Student Roles/Responsibilities: Library and online research on the subject. Weekly meetings with me as we build a research hoarde and a document. |
Qualifications: I prefer and Arts & Sciences student, with research experience. I expect about 10 hours per week of work from the student. |
Benefit: Will learn practical research. Preparing manuscripts for publication. |
Sponsor: Professor Sandy Sternlicht,
429 HL; x9480; e-mail address: svsternl@syr.edu |
Updated 05/02/2003
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