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Academic Year 2005/2006
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
H. C. Andersen, THE LITTLE MERMAID
E. T. A. Hoffmann, TALES
Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN
Nikolai Gogol, NEVSKY PROSPECT
Nikolai Gogol, THE NOSE
Fyodor Dostoevsky, THE DOUBLE
Stevenson, DR. JEKYLL AND MR.
HYDE
E. A. Poe, WILLIAM
WILSON
G. Meyrink, THE GOLEM
V. Nabokov, DESPAIR
V. Nabokov, THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT
V. Nabokov, LOLITA
J. Borges, THE DOUBLE
Schelling, TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM
G. Hartmann, ROMANTICISM AND
ANTI-SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
FILMS:
The Student of Prague; The Golem; A Stolen Life
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three short papers. One term paper. Oral presentation. For the final paper, students will be asked to write their own tale of a Doppleganger.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RUSS
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Meyer,Priscilla
- Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK305;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 20)
- SR. major: X Jr. major: X
- SR. non-major: X Jr. non-major: X SO: X FR: 20
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
- FYI: FYI Seminar
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