SHUM 4508

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SHUM 4508
Fictions for New Worlds

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In The New Science, Vico posits that all nations are "poetic in their beginning." In this course we will read works of literature that imagine themselves at the beginning of a new nation or polity: such works as Virgil's Aeneid, Thomas More's Utopia, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Toni Morrison's A Mercy, and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names.  We will reflect upon each of these works in its specific historical and geopolitical context.  But we will also imagine how, collectively, these literatures might tell a different history of civil society than the one we are accustomed to.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4708

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17495 SHUM 4508   SEM 101

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