PMA 2680

Desire

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Language is a skin, the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. Sexual desire has a history, even a literary history, which we will examine through an introductory survey of European dramatic literature from the Ancient Greeks to the present, as well as classic readings in sexual theory, including Plato, Freud, Foucault, and contemporary feminist and queer theory.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, D-AG, LA-AG), (ALC-AS, SCD-AS)

Exploratory Studies (EUAREA)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2021SP, 2020SP, 2019SP, 2017SP

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