The Dead and the Living

Readings in literature, theory, psychoanalysis, philosophy and law examine how the relation between the dead and the living shapes the concerns of modernist narrative and thought. Topics include "Living with the Dead," " Haunting and Knowing," "Writing Lives," "Dreaming and Waking," and "Picturing the Dead." Readings include Joyce, Conrad, Woolf, Forster, and Greene as well as Freud, Lacan, Benjamin, and Barthes.