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Academic Year 2004/2005
Doubles in Literature
RUSS 222 SP
We will trace the evolution of the idea of the literary double from its origins in German Romanticism, observing the degradation of the opposition between Ideal and Real into the struggle of Good versus Evil. The entire
process is parodied in Nabokov's LOLITA.
MAJOR READINGS
THE LITTLE MERMAID, H.C. Andersen
TALES, E.T.A. Hoffmann
FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley
THE NOSE, Nikolai Gogol
THE DOUBLE, Fyodor Dostoevsky
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, Stevenson
WILLIAM
WILSON, E.A. Poe
THE GOLEM, G.
Meyrink
THE SECRET SHARER, J. Conrad
DESPAIR, V. Nabokov
THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT, V. Nabokov
LOLITA, V. Nabokov
THE DOUBLE, J. Borges
TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM, Schelling
ROMANTICISM AND ANTI-SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS,
G. Hartmann
FILMS: The Student of Prague; The Golem; A Stolen Life
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three short papers. One term paper.
For the final paper, students will be asked to write their own tale of a Doppleganger.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Oral presentation
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RUSS
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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