CLS2420

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

(ART)

Millicent Vladiv-Glover

6 points + 2.5 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton

Synopsis: A study of four seminal authors whose works have transformed European aesthetics and European literature in a fundamental way: De Sade, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Tolstoy. The investigation (through the thought of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and psychoanalysis) into the phenomenological aesthetics of the set of authors will lead to a revision of the concept of literary 'realism'.

Assessment: Seminar paper (1500 words): 25% + Essay (2000 words): 45% + Test (60 minutes): 30%