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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | ENGLH239A001 |
Course Title | Art Against Fascism |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Sessions,Gabriel |
Times and Days | TTh 11:30am-01:00pm
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Room Location | STO301 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2793 The threat of catastrophe forced consciousness in the 1930s to shape itself around an enduring question: how to reconcile art, personality, and intellectual inquiry with political vision and activism. The writers we will study tried to fight rising militarism, totalitarian states, and imperial autocracy with prose and poetry, never sure it was possible to do this, and never conceding that it wasn’t. Could an activist writer rely on beauty, form and rhythm? What about irony and satire? How aware should art be of contemporary issues like appropriation, wokeness, and structures of power? If, as Virginia Woolf puts it, “writing is our fighting?,” is this only a metaphor? Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, B, A) |
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