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PSCI 3300

Politics and Literature

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

A study of imaginative prose in which political ideas and/or political settings dominate. Literature as political communication, the impact of literature upon politics, the peculiar value of literature in the study of politics and its shortcomings.

Undated

Topics

  • Introduction; watch part of film in class
  • . Repression and Censorship
  • . Identity and Community
  • Identity and Community, continued; In-Class
  • Social Crisis and Disorientation
  • Social Crisis and Disorientation, continued.; In-Class
  • War and its Impacts

Readings

  • Nikolai Gogol, The Government Inspector, from beginning to end of Act Two.
  • Gogol, The Government Inspector, from Act Three to end.
  • Müller, Herta. “Censorship of the word does not end on paper, but on the skin of human beings,” Trans. Kate McNaughton, Index on Censorship, 47, 3 (2018): 67-69.
  • Lydia Chukovskaya. Sofia Petrovna. Bath, UK: Persephone Books, 2023.
  • Chinua Achebe. No Longer at Ease. Portsmouth, NJ: Heneimen, 1960.
  • Sarah Gallardo, January. (1958) Trans. Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2023. Chapters 1-5.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing. Lectures three hours a week.

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