Winter 2025
Meeting:
MTWTh 2:30pm - 3:20pm / SMI 102
SLN:
11890
Section Type:
Lecture
Joint Sections:
RUSS 260 A , GLITS 251 A
Instructors:
Barbara Henry
Svetlana Ostroverkhova
SAME AS GLITS 251A AND RUSS 260A
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):
Underworlds are both real and metaphoric: subways and coalmines, Hades and Hell, criminal subcultures, political undergrounds, horror-movie basements and windowless office cubicles. Stories of these underworlds address the most profound questions of our lives: what happens after we die? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are our responsibilities to our world, each other, ourselves? This class looks at works of art and literature from Russia, the US, and Europe, set in many different underworlds, which intersect with and shape our perceptions of the world around us today. You will learn to recognize the mythic underworld and understand how it functions not only in art, but in your own life.
Catalog Description:
Reading and analyzing literature based upon rotating themes such as love, sex, and murder, haunted houses, and dreams and memory. Selections drawn from European, English, and American literature, not limited to period and genre.
Department Requirements Met:
Pre-req to Declare Literature Major
GE Requirements Met:
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
November 27, 2024 - 2:15 pm