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SCAND ST 428

MEMORY AND LITERATURE FROM PROUST TO KNAUSGARD

3 credits.

Investigates the relations between theories of memory, both individual and collective, and modern literary representations of remembering. Survey seminal conceptions of memory in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, investigating topics such as nostalgia, trauma, personal and cultural identity, war and Holocaust, sites of memory, and autobiographical narrative. Through the avenues opened up by these theoretical frameworks, consider the narrative forms as well as the ethical and political dimensions of remembering in major novels by Marcel Proust, W. G. Sebald, and Karl Ove Knausgard.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze literary texts in terms of how they represent memory processes such as traumatic recollection, involuntary memory, forgetting, and nostalgia. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and examine major features of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of memory, both individual and collective, including concepts such as sites of memory, collective memory, and postmemory. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Reflect creatively on how memory functions in their own individual experiences and socio-cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze literary texts in terms of how they represent memory processes such as traumatic recollection, involuntary memory, forgetting, and nostalgia. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and examine major features of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of memory, both individual and collective, including concepts such as sites of memory, collective memory, and postmemory. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Reflect creatively on how memory functions in their own individual experiences and socio-cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate

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