COML 3024

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COML 3024
Literature, Trauma, and Culture

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This is an introduction to trauma theory in the context of the concerns of the contemporary world. We will study the unique and enigmatic notion of trauma as it arose in the beginning of the twentieth century in the work of Sigmund Freud, focusing on the temporal structure of trauma as well as the implications of deferred experience for a thinking of history. The course will emphasize the literary dimension of trauma theory but also its relevance for (and modification in light of) current concerns with nuclearism, terrorism, racism, and environmental catastrophe. Texts by Sigmund Freud, Jean Laplanche, Jacques Derrida, Shoshana Felman, Francoise Davoine, Robert Jay Lifton, among others, and some literature and film.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3755

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15954 COML 3024   SEM 101

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