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Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time

21L.325 · Literature · Undergraduate · Fall 2010

Prof. Noel Jackson

MIT · Tier 1

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, co…

Visual ArtsMedia StudiesLiteratureArt, Design & ArchitectureHumanities

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Prof. Noel Jackson. 21L.325 Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time. Fall 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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