ENG 320 - Literary Cross Currents

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Wellesley College

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Rosenwald Topic for 2009-10: Literature, Nonviolence, Violence. A study of how writers represent and experience the relations between nonvi-olence and violence, in epics, sacred texts, fictions, plays, poems, films, and essays. Possible works and authors: the Bhagavad-Gita, John Woolman's Journal, the Book of Mormon, Stowe' s Uncle Tom's Cabi n, Tolstoy 's Resurrect ion and some study of Tolstoy's life, Sh aw's Major Bar bara, John Buc han's Mr. Stan dfast, Erich Maria Rema rque's All Quiet on the Western Front, B recht's Mother Courage , Camus' The Just Exec utioners, Willia m Wyler's Friendly P ersuasion, Norma n Mailer's Armies of the Night, Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Caton sville Nine, Patri cia Barker's Ghost Road Trilogy; a broad range of war and antiwar poems; texts in political theory by Gandhi, Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Barbara Deming, William Vollman. Opportunity for both creative and c ritical work. Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors who have taken two literature courses in the department, at least one of which must be 200 level, or by permission of the in-structor to other qualified students. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Sprin

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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

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Semester

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