2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 25, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENG 3390 - Literature of the Grotesque


Credit(s): 3

This course includes historical, literary, philosophic and aesthetic approaches to the grotesque, especially examining the mix of humor and horror so essential to the genre. Rabelais, Swift, Poe, Dostoevski, Baudelaire, Beckett, Nathanael West and Flannery O’Connor, among others, will be studied, as well as slides of grotesque art works, from Hieronymous Bosch to Salvadore Dali.

Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

Offering Location: Johnson Campus



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