Study of an Author | Humanities & Social Sciences

Study of an Author

Course Number: 
HSL631
LTP structure: 
3-0-0
Discipline: 
Literature
Philosophy
Credit: 
3.0

Pre-requisite

N/A

Course Objective

To introduce students to some of the major works of a single author and to discussions elicited by these works. The course will train students to gain a thorough understanding of the trajectory of the given author, the intellectual context of their writing, and to be conversant with debates and questions surrounding their work. The author could be a novelist, poet, philosopher, or literary theorist.

Course Content

The course will introduce students to the work of a single author who could be a novelist, poet, writer, philosopher, or a literary theorist. Students will learn how to examine a text through close reading, critical evaluation of oeuvre, situating the text in its socio- historical context. Examples of authors who may be considered in this course include: Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, B.R. Ambedkar.

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