2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 511 - Tragic Vision


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

A course in the readings of the tragic in drama, fiction, and poetry. The course will examine versions of the tragic experience, pathos in contrast to tragedy, the hero, and the possibilities of transcendence in tragedy. The course will study the tragic vision in Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Yeats, and Beckett. It will look for the tragic in, for example, the fiction of Conrad and Mann, and in, for example, the poetry of Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Dickinson, Yeats, and Plath.


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