Literature 3033 - Toward Moral Fiction

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Bard College

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Human Rights Each text in this course grapples with ethical issues through fictive means. In navigating the texts, students assess the way in which literature can create, complicate, or resolve ethical dilemmas-or eschew morality altogether. The course also attends to craft, investigating how authors' concerns may be furthered by formal considerations. Works studied include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas, Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter, J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Edie Meidav's Crawl Space, Martin Amis' s Time'Arrow, J. G. Ballard's Crash, Elfriede Jelinek's Wonderful, Wonderful Times, Russell Banks's Continental Drift, Norman Rush's Mating, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child, and Michael Tournier's The Ogre, among others. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

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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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