ENGLISH 236c - PostApocalyptic Literature

Institution:

Hobart William Smith Colleges

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Description:

This course explores literature that imagines societal and individual life in the aftermath of nearterminal and apocalyptic events. It considers biblical, postnuclear, postholocaust, and culture destroying experiences and responses to them: despair, recovery, redemption, regeneration, and continuance, and the ways they are figured in a variety of comparative literatures. (Weiss, offered alternate years)

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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