ENG 2059 - Crime in 19/20 Century Fiction

Institution:

Yeshiva University

Subject:

English (Undergraduate Men)

Description:

Interrelations of law, criminality, guilt, punishment, and identity through the prism of literature. Topics: transgression, confession, the criminal and the detective, identity and social order in law and literature. Sophocles/Anouilh, Kleist, Foucault, Kalka, Dostoevsky, Zola, Poe, Capote, Ellroy, Freud, Films: Heavenly Creatures, The Silence of the Lambs, I Confess.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 960-5400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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