Humanities 328 - Shapes of Openness:The Novel as a Discipline of Thought

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Colgate University

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M. Leone This course is shaped by the question of how the novel thinks, or whether it thinks at all. Is the novel a discipline of thought in its own right According to Plato, artistic expression lacks "intellect"; while for a practitioner like Lawrence, it lacks honesty: "artists are hopeless liars," he claims. Yet both philosopher and novelist agree that out of art's duplicity "forms of wisdom" somehow emerge. This course explores some of the directions that literary thought has taken, and focuses particularly on attributes of the novel that Bakhtin calls "dialogic," or open-ended and liberating. By examining narratives that address human urgencies, or crises of being and becoming, the course cuts across boundaries of language, culture, and history. Mostly contemporary novelists of numerous traditions are read in translation, including Hareven (Israeli), Schulz (Polish), Carpentier (Cuban), Darrieusseqc (French), Susskind and Schlink (German), and Tolstoy (Russian). Plato, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, and others provide a critical fra

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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