CLL 151 - (LT) Studies in Literature

Semester Hours: 3

Fall, Spring

Designed to treat special subjects or authors at the discretion of the department, but with the student’s interest in view. Such subjects as existentialism, death, and the literary imagination, love in literature, or subjects of a like nature have been topics of recent analysis.

CLL 151 DL - Realism and Human Value:

Literature is one of many ways that human beings can represent their perception of reality and what is most significant and valuable in their lives. As perception and values undergo changes, often the form of literature changes as well. In the nineteenth century, one of the most important forms of literature is Realism. This course will look at several realist texts to develop an understanding of what defines the genre. We will also look at the way that these nineteenth century writers think about the way people use language to represent reality in order to construct ways of understanding identity and human value.

CLL 151 - Ghostbusters! Hauntological Explorations of Ghost Stories in World Literature:

This course introduces an international selection of ghost stories in literature (and film) as a means of understanding literary analysis as a model for critical thinking and interpretation with a view across other disciplines. Using a philosophical notion of ‘hauntology,’ the course will raise questions about the existence an elusive Other or Others beyond surface appearances. The course explores each text or work as a haunted house in order to find out what’s hidden out of sight in the upper or lower ‘stories’! The answers vary with the setting and intellectual-historical context(s), whether psychological, social, economic, political or historical or related to issues of class, race, family, sexuality, trauma, etc. in the near or distant past. Consistent with Comparative Literature as a discipline, the works will range through World Literature and from ancient to modern ghosts.

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May be repeated when topics vary.

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CLL 151 - (LT) Studies in Literature