ENGL 246
The Love of Literature Spring 2017
Division I Writing Skills
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If love “makes the world go ’round,” then literature, love’s chronicler, may contain the key for understanding this world-formative passion. In this seminar, we will explore representations of love in works of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from antiquity to the present. From the philosophical love extolled in Plato’s dramatic dialogue The Symposium to the courtly love of Chrétien de Troyes’ errant knights; the jealous love of Shakespeare’s Othello to the literarily induced lust of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and beyond, we will see how love, like literature, at once reflects and produces historically significant changes in the ways that human beings relate to one another, to themselves, and to the world in which they live. In addition to the authors already mentioned, readings may include works by Augustine, Dante, Goethe, Wordsworth, Woolf, and Mann.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3260
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation based on three papers of 4, 6, and 8 pages; weekly posts and general participation
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: those interested in majoring in English
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Attributes: ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses

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