Doubles in Literature
RUSS 222
Spring 2008
| Section:
01
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| Crosslisting:
REES 222 |
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. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation, Writing
Students will learn how to do a motif study and to identify/interpret subtexts, both in class work and in writing papers using those methods. These are essential literary interpretive tools, which heighten student awareness of authorial presence/purpose in a text. The course teaches the relationship of carefully ordered (initially invisible) details to the deepest levels of meaning through close reading and re-reading.
Three short papers will be peer-reviewed and rewritten; they will be submitted with the first drafts, which are to be signed by the reviewers; both the editing and the rewriting will be evaluated. Papers will be exercises in close reading, topics will be chosen by the student.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RUSS |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (REES-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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
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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. |
| Instructor(s): Meyer,Priscilla Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK305; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 20 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 20 |
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