Senior Seminar: Narrative and Ethics

Subject Code: 
COMPLIT
Course Number: 
199/367
Crosslisted as: 
JEWISHST 149/347
Description: 

Major terms of narratology; how different literary, cinematic, and popular culture narratives raise ethical issues, stir public debates and contribute to understanding human values. Readings include Biblical texts, Antigone, Kleist, Kafka, Coetzee, V for Vendetta, South Park, Kant, Arendt, Nussbaum, Rorty, and Levinas. For Senior Comparative Literature majors and minors only.

Instructor: 
Amir Eshel
Term: 
Win
Academic Year: 
2012-13
Day/Time: 
TTh 9:30a-10:45a