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Comparative Literature 1B, Spring 1996
Shall I Project a World? Reading, Ethics and the NovelIn this class we are going to think about a superhero, a monster, a vampire, a very paranoid executrix of a very complicated will, a Hitler Studies professor, and a few other complicated fictional characters. What the texts we are going to study all have in common is that they don't have happy endings, and that they don't allow for very easy ethical positioning for the reader: Are these characters representations of certain kinds of evil? What is a reader supposed to do with them? What is a representation of evil? What function does it have in a text? And what happens if monsters and vampires and superheroes end up being less, or more, of what we thought they would be?
Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Films Nosferatu Requirements for the course There will be one diagnostic paper (2-3 pages), three papers of increasing length (from 4-6 pages to a final paper of 8-10 pages) and a group panel presentation or creative project. Shall I Project a World? Reading, Ethics and the Novel
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