Literature of Protest and Complaint
COL 115
Fall 2005
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01
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This seminar will explore literary expressions of resistance, revulsion, and protest - not only in a political sense (though that too will be considered), but especially in the ways that literature can turn private or local grievance into a much larger opposition to cosmic injustice. Our approach will be both historical and rhetorical. We will trace, first of all, how such writing has developed from the Bible to the twentieth century. But we will also ask broader questions about how literature seeks to persuade us in its objections, in its refusal to accept the world as it stands. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Speaking, Speaking, Writing, Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings will be chosen from among the following: the books of Job and Ecclesiastes, Sophocles's Antigone, King Lear, Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Melville (Bartleby the Scrivener), Ibsen (A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People), Hardy (Jude the Obscure), Kafka (The Trial), short stories by Beckett, and recent fiction by J.M. Coetzee.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will be asked to write three short papers, spaced out evenly through the term. Each student will also give a brief in-class presentation, based on a particular week's reading. Participation in discussion is a major part of the course. There are no exams in this seminar. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Since this is a First Year Initiative seminar devoted to literary expression, there will be many opportunities for students to develop their own writing - both in conversation with the instructor and through exchanges with other students in the course. |
| Instructor(s): Matz,Aaron Times: .....F. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: BTFDC210; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 19 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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