<p>Seminar, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or English as a Second Language 36. Designed for College Honors students. Examination of three works by Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American writer, teacher, translator, lepidopterist, and composer of chess problems. Nabokov’s eclectic writings lend themselves well to precepts of cognitive criticism—way of understanding world through relationship between literacy and thought. Reading and writing about art and science built into course. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

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Nabokov and Reading Minds

HNRS63W

5 units