Animal Theories/Human Fictions
COL 238
Fall 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 239, ENGL 252 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Animal Studies, Disability Studies |
The question of "the animal" has become a recent focus of theory, although depictions of nonhuman animals can be traced to the very origins of representation. This course will move between literature, philosophy, art, and theory in an effort to trace the changing conceptions of human-animal difference and human-animal relations from 18th-century fictions of savage men and wild children to current theories of the posthuman. We will consider the ways that the representation of "the animal" intersects with theories of gender and race as it also contests the grounds of representation itself. Authors may include Rousseau, Poe, Sewell, Mann, Colette, Coetzee, Heidegger, Agamben, Derrida, and Harway. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANST-MN)(COL)(CSCT)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature)(FGSS) |
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