Literature and Political Order: Homer, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky

5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Seminar, three hours. Designed for College Honors students. Examination of political order and questions of violence, power, leadership, and ideology through close readings of literary texts, specifically Iliad by Homer, Julius Caesar and Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare, and Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. P/NP or letter grading.