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Academic Year 2002/2003

Emigration as a Device
RUSS 274 SP
Crosslistings:
REES 274

Life is a permanent emigration: from past to present, from this world to another, from a wife to a lover, from life to death. Emigration prompted by political causes served for many authors as a dramatic device to highlight the wider conflict between divine inspirations and human limitations. We will read authors who create new imaginative continents out of a distorted vision of an alien world.

MAJOR READINGS

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Durrell, Vladimir Nabokov, Somerset Maugham, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Peter Kropotkin, Eduard Limonov, Graham Green, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Mavis Gallant, V.S. Naipaul, Muriel Spark.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two papers, one final exam.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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