RUS3410

Literature and phenomenology: De Sade, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy

S M Vladiv-Glover

8 points - 3 hours per week - First semester - Clayton - Prerequisites: Any second-year language or literature subject

Objectives As for RUS2410 with the additional objective of being able to give a critical analysis of a set theoretical text.

Synopsis As for RUS2410.

Assessment Seminar paper (1500 words): 25% - Essay (3000 words): 45% - Examination (1.5 hours): 30% - Third-year students will be required to select different essay topics and demonstrate a wider reading relative to the second-year students

Prescribed texts

Dostoevsky F M The brothers Karamazov Penguin
De Sade M The 120 days of Sodom and other writings Arrow Books, 1990
Nietzsche F Human all too human: A book for free spirits tr. Marion Faber with Stephen Lehmann, U Nebraska P, 1966
Tolstoy L Anna Karenina Penguin
Tolstoy L What is art? Penguin
Benjamin W 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' in Illuminations: Walter Benjamin - - essays and reflections ed. Hannah Arendt, Schocken Books, 1968

Recommended texts

Merleau-Ponty M Phenomenology of perception tr. C Smith Routledge, 1994

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