COML1060 - The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines
Term
2022C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML1060401
Course number integer
1060
Meeting times
MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Meeting location
WILL 1
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Liliane Weissberg
Description
Do we still believe in spirits and ghosts? Do they have any place in an age of science of technology? Can they perhaps help us to define what a human being is and what it can do? We will venture on a journey through literary texts from the late eighteenth century to the present to explore the uncanny and fantastic in literature and life. Our discussions will be based on a reading of Sigmund Freud's essay on the uncanny, and extraordinary Romantic narratives by Ludwig Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel 125wthorne, Prosper Merimee, Villiers de Isle-Adam, and others.

Section 401 is the lecture. Students must registration for Recitation section 402 or 403.
Course number only
1060
Cross listings
GRMN1060401, GRMN1060401, GSWS1060401, GSWS1060401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
Yes