Apr 16, 2024  
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) 
    
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

ENG 120 - “The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet”: Metaphor and the Unconscious

Three Credits
Spring Semester

This course explores the connections between reading strategies encouraged by lyric poetry, fairy tales, and Freud’s account of the operation of dream narratives. Texts to be examined include drama, fiction, and essays by such authors as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, Sigmund Freud, and Angela Carter, as well as poetry by W.H. Auden, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Adrienne Rich, and William Carlos Williams. We will also look at films from Alfred Hitchcock, David Kaplan, and Wes Craven.

Fulfills the Cornerstone Literature Requirement.