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Comparative Literature Sophomore College Courses

COMPLIT 12SC. Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want From Us

Anxiety about mortality and wisdom about the cultural place of the past in the enduring genre of the ghost story from classical literature to popular film. Memory and regret, mourning and forgetting. Classic authors such as Hoffmann, Poe, James, Joyce, and Ibsen, and more recent authors such Paul Auster, Marie Darrieussecq, Catherine Lim, and Toni Morrison.

2 units, Aut (Berman, R)

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