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Apr 16, 2024
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2017-2018 HillBook (Class of 2021) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 100/126 - Love and Other Difficulties (Core/First-Year Seminar)Three or Four Credits
Fall 2017
What does it mean to desire something-or someone? What is the nature of the relationship between the enamored and the object of desire? In this course, we will explore love and desire as fundamental aspects of identity and self-awareness as well as central themes of literature across diverse cultures and historical periods. Through readings in poetry, drama and fiction, we will examine desire in its many forms, from desire for friendship and familial connection to romantic and libidinal desire, to the desire for material goods and power. Authors to be considered may include Plato, Ovid, Shakespeare, Keats, Brontë, Freud, Rilke, Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, Wilde, Mann, Duras, Neruda, García Márquez, and Morrison.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 126 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
ENG 126, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
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