Literature 2404 - Fantastic Journeys and the Modern World

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Bard College

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The modern period has been characterized as a time of unimaginable freedom, as well as existential angst, exile, and loss. It is a time when barriers of all sorts began to crumble-barriers between past and present, foreground and background, high and low culture, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. This class examines the response of writers from America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. In their fantastic parallel worlds, machines take on lives of their own, grotesque transformations violate the laws of science, and inversions of normality become the norm. Readings include The Marvelous Land of Oz ( L. Frank Baum), "The Metamorphosis"(Kafka), R.U.R. ( Capek), War with the Newts (Capek), The Street of Crocodiles ( Schulz), Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass ( Schulz), Envy ( Olesha), and "The Bedbug" (Mayakovsky).

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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