Comparative Literature 307F - Splitting Personalities: Doppelgängers, Dolls, and Illusions

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Hamilton College

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Imitation. Simulation. Artificial. Such terms are often used to distinguish an original from its copy, like Pinocchio, Frankenstein's monster, or Rossum's Universal Robots might be from their human archetype. Likewise, these terms invoke a certain anxiety surrounding efforts to create/locate perfection. So what does it mean to (re)produce the human aspect? To confront a subjectivity contingent on our own, which nevertheless marks a decisive split? Works may include those by Bazán, Byron, Capek, Collodi, Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, the Shelleys, and Tiptree, alongside Ovid, Freud, and Haraway. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, Two courses in literature. Maximum enrollment, 20. J Schwartz.

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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