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Jul 31, 2025
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2023-2024 Hill Book (Class of 2027) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 256 - Madness and Insight: Modernist PsychopathologyThree Credits
Periodically or As Needed
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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