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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | ENGLH228B001 |
Course Title | Topics in Early Modern Literature: Literature and Sleep Before Modernity |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Parris,Benjamin C. |
Times and Days | W 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | STO119 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2304 This course investigates the status of sleep in literature and philosophy before the Enlightenment, considering its physiology as well as dreams and threshold states of consciousness as sites of poetic creativity. Readings include Plato, Aristotle, Ovid, Seneca, Augustine, Chaucer, Spenser, Nashe, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, Descartes.; Enrollment Limit: 25 Humanities (HU) |
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