Course Description

Comparative Literature and Culture 271F/G Nineteenth-century Culture

The development of Western literature, philosophy, and aesthetics during the second half of the nineteenth century, in the context of music, painting, and social movements. Authors studied may include: Leopardi, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Marx, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Strindberg, Freud.

Prerequisite: Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department.

3 lecture hours, half course.

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