Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Intro. To Literary Study: Global Novel
Term
2019C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML100401
Course number integer
100
Meeting times
MW 05:00 PM-06:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rita Barnard
Description
Literature does not exist for your protection. So dangerous is it, that Socrates argued poets ought to be banned from his ideal Republic. And Socrates himself--one of the most subversive of all poetic thinkers--was condemned to death for corrupting the young with his speeches. All great literature is unsettling and alarming. Along with its beauty and delicacy and rhetorical power and ethical force, it can be terrifyingly sublime and even downright ugly: full of contempt and horror and grandiosity and malice. From Socrates' day to our own, countless writers have been jailed, exiled, and murdered, their works censored, banned, burned, for daring to say what others wish would remain unsaid--about religion and the State; sexuality, gender, and the body; art, science, and commerce; freedom and order; love and hate--and for saying it in ways that are aesthetically innovative, surprising, seductive, ravishingly unanticipated. See COML website for current semester's descripton:
Course number only
100
Cross listings
ENGL100401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No