COM 570 - Special Studies in Modernism - Exilic Time

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Princeton University

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Exile by definition entails a wrenching relocation in space, but exile also can disarrange, by fracturing, the sense of time. This course will examine the double time of exilic life, what Nabokov in [Pnin] calls physical time and spiritual time. Physical time accentuates the pangs of inhabiting a present so radically different from the familiar but quickly receding past. Spiritual time is more mobile and more creative; it can recall a vanished world back into existence and even project a future return. We will explore the theme of exilic time from Conrad's [Under Western Eyes] and Joyce's [Ulysses] to Sebald's [Austerlitz].

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0.00 - 4.00

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

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(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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