ENGL 523 - Madness in Literature

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University of New Hampshire-Main Campus

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How various writers depict insanity and how they approach the problem of determining what attitudes and what behaviors are truly insane. Emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century works, but works from earlier periods also considered. Euripides’ Th e Bacchae, Shakespeare’s KingLear, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Hoff man’s Th e GoldenPot, Dostoevsky’s Note from the Underground, Robbe- Grillet’s Th e Voyeur, Nabokov’s Pale Fire and other texts.Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.

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8.40

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www.unh.edu

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(603) 862-1234

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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