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Performing Revenge
| Course Number: | LIT 136 |
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| Title: | Performing Revenge |
| Day & Time 1: | MW 02:30PM 03:45PM |
| Instructor I: | Bahr S |
| Credit: | 1.00 |
| Course Description: | Explores literature & film of 3 cultures fascinated by spectacles of revenge: Ancient Greece, Renaissance England, contemporary Hollywood. In these works, murder, mutilation, cannibalism, torture, and rape not only motivate revenge, but become its means. Is this only fitting or a gross paradox? What is the morality of vengeance-taking or its relationship to justice? What are the consequences for the individual and society? Texts include The Oresteia; Medea; The Spanish Tragedy; Titus Andronicus; The Duchess of Malfi; Arden of Faversham; The Crow; Sweeney Todd; Kill Bill. |
| Comments: | Open to First-Years Only. Not open to students who have taken a writing-intensive course at the 100 or 200-level in the LIT dept. |
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