ENGL 3860

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ENGL 3860
Philosophic Fictions

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

"Fictions" of thought and language abound in all good writing, especially in works that deliberately test and play with ideas: dialogues, satires, parables, philosophic tales, and "thought-experiments." Students will write critically about such works and will experiment with writing in similar forms in order to argue flexibly, ridicule vice and folly, or involve readers in pleasingly or disturbingly insoluble problems. Readings may include Plato's Gorgias or Republic, Swift's "Modest Proposal" and Gulliver's Travels, parables by Jesus and  Kafka, dystopias by Caryl Churchill and George Saunders, science fiction by Octavia Butler and the Wachowski brothers, short stories by Jorge Luis Borges and Flannery O'Connor, and essays by Richard Rorty and Terry Eagleton. See http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/sad4449/3860/.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8283 ENGL 3860   SEM 101

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