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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | ENGLH363A001 |
Course Title | Topics in American Literature: Trauma and Its Others |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Zwarg,Christina |
Times and Days | W 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | STO16 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2224 This course will expose students to recent trauma theory and the segregated traditions of literary history. Thinking about trauma theory before and after Freud, we will look again at authors attempting to bring together (and sometimes keep apart) cultural traditions irrupting into literary form from the late 18th to the early 20th century. We will also explore how forms of satire, comedy, and humor cross wires with traumatic experience. The role of heightened emotional states, including fugue or hypnotic experiences, and the shifting currency of the words "terror,” “freedom,” and “shock” will be part of our focus.; Prerequisite(s): two 200-level English courses or instructor consent; Enrollment Limit: 15 Div: III; Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, B, A) |
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