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RUSS222

Doubles in Literature RUSS222 SP

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       22      0         22

Next Offered in 9798 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. For the final paper students will be asked to write their own tale of a Doppelganger.

MAJOR READINGS

THE LITTLE MERMAID, H.C. Anderson
TALES, E.T.A. Hoffman
FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley
THE NOSE, Nikolai Gogol
THE DOUBLE, Fyodor Dostoevsky
DR. JEKYL AND MR. HYDE, Stevenson
WILLIAM WILSON, E.A. Poe
THE GOLEM, G. Meyrink
DESPAIR, V. Nabokov
THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT, V. Nabokov
LOLITA, V. Nabokov
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.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RUSS

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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