ENGL 263 - Crime and Punishment in Literature

Institution:

Davis & Elkins College

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Description:

3 semester hours This course explores the importance of crime and the criminal to the Western literary tradition, from Sophocles's Antigone in the 5th century B.C.E. to acknowledged classics by Aeschylus, Dante, Dostoevsky, Poe, and Kafka, to philosophical treatises by Hugo, Wilde, and Malcolm X, to the more contemporary works of Camus, Sartre, O'Connor, Capote, and others.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.dewv.edu

Phone Number:

(304) 637-1900

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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