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ENGL 213 - Desire and Literature

FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Erotic desire is one of literature’s great and perennial themes. This course will explore some of its permutations in texts from the classical to the contemporary: from Ovid to Junot Diaz, from Shakespeare to Zora Neale Hurston, from vampires to Marilyn Monroe. We will pay special attention to the role of desire in self-construction. How are selves imagined in relation to loss, absence, and otherness? How do our articulations of desire locate us in time, space, genders, bodies, and communities? What do the literatures of desire tell us about who we are and who we want to be? This course is required for the Arts of Desire StudiOC Learning Community. 
Prerequisites & Notes: Field Trip(s) Required. 


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