ENGL 407
Studies in Texts and Cultures
Fall 2026 · ENGL 407 LEC A1: Studies in Texts and Cultures: The Traumatic Event; K. Ball · Course preview
Topics
- Trauma theory
- Witnessing
- Literary representation
Readings
- White, Hayden. “The Modernist Event.”
- Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
- Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved.
- Sebald, W. G. Austerlitz.
- Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace.
- Robinson, Eden. Traplines.
- Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric.