CPLT 284 - Magical Realism

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Wellesley College

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Description:

Weiner (Russian) NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course examines fictions whose basic reality would be familiar if not for the introduction of a magical element that undermines commonplace notions about what constitutes reality in the first place. The magical element can be a demon, talisman, physical transformation, miraculous transition in space or time, appearance of a second plane of existence, revelation of the un-reality of the primary plane of existence, etc. Students will read Kafka's Metamorphosis, Queneau' s The Blue Flowers , Bulgakov ? The Master and Margarit a, Marquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitu de, Calvin o's If on a Winter Night a Trave ler, Pynch on's The Crying of Lo t 49, Murak ami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Sok olov's School for Fools, and short stories by Borges, Cortazar, and N abokov. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Uni

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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