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Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand: An Investigative Reading (H338)

H – Literature

We read the acclaimed Ayn Rand tome Atlas Shrugged. During our readings, we consult her appointed heir Leonard Peikoff’s work on Rand’s writing. We investigate the meaning of Rand’s Objectivism philosophy as it shapes the novel’s events and characters.

Required text: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Deborah Alvarez

ALVAREZ, DEBORAH — Ph.D., English (composition studies), University of Wisconsin, Madison. Retired from the University of Delaware, department of English where she taught narrative writing, teaching of writing to adolescents, grades 4-12 and English grammar and rhetorical structures in English. (H338)

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