Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Comparative Literature and Culture 2103A/B
THE GROTESQUE
The course focuses on the grotesque imagination in literature and the arts from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The grotesque - whose limits are humor and horror, as well as the fantastic and the realistic - will be illustrated with works by Apuleius, Rabelais, da Vinci, Baudelaire, Tanizaki, Kafka, Borges, etc.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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CATEGORY B
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Subject Code: COMPLIT
Comparative Literature and Culture 2103A/B
THE GROTESQUE
The course focuses on the grotesque imagination in literature and the arts from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The grotesque - whose limits are humor and horror, as well as the fantastic and the realistic - will be illustrated with works by Apuleius, Rabelais, da Vinci, Baudelaire, Tanizaki, Kafka, Borges, etc.
Extra Information: 3 hours.