ENGL 3335

Sing the Rage

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

Taking heroic rage in Homer's Iliad as a starting point, we will examine works from Europe and America that consider anger and resentment as not pathological but moral passions of social and political justice.  As we read epic, tragedy, satire, sermons, and fiction as well as critical essays, we will address such issues as: divinely sanctioned wrath; anger, violence, and collective responsibility for injustice; outrage in sexist and feminist, racist and antiracist discourses; forgiveness and reconciliation; the commodification of anger in social media (Facebook).  Works might include Euripides' Medea, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Melville's Billy Budd, Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, Woolf's A Room of One's Own and speeches by militant suffragettes, Baraka's Dutchman, hooks' Killing Rage, Anderson's White Rage, Traister's Good and Mad.

When Offered Fall or Spring.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, LA-AS)
Satisfies Requirement This course counts toward the post-1800 requirement for English majors.

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