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Politics and Literature

The novelist, playwright and poet are uniquely qualified to present the agony, tragedy and exhilaration of politics. Political thought has a rich tradition of employing fiction for political insight -- Plato’s Dialogues, for example. This course uses fiction to examine the reality of politics from the point of view of the individual actor, be it the person with power or the victim of that power. Readings will be drawn from Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor, Thornton’s Imagining Argentina, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and selected English poets from World War I.

This class is not available at this time.

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