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May 15, 2024
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2015-2016 HillBook (Class of 2019) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 256 - Madness and Insight: Modernist PsychopathologyThree Credits
Spring Semester
What do we learn about ourselves from looking through the lens of madness? This course will explore how narratives of insanity from the 18th century to the present have shaped our understanding of human cognition, perception, emotion, desire, and the unconscious. Authors to be considered Descartes, Poe, Dostoevsky, Gilman, Schnitzler, Woolf, Kafka, Breton, Didion, Pynchon and DeLillo.
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