COLT 2820I - Literature and the State of Exception

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Brown University

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Description:

This course takes as its point of departure Walter Benjamin's famous diagnosis of modernity as a paradoxical condition under which the exception has become the rule. We will consider the aesthetic and political implications of such a state of exception in nineteenth- century literature. Authors include Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Arnold, Melville, Whitman, Benjamin, Derrida, Nancy and Agamben.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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