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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LIT 386 Literary Philosophers



This course examines the creative and philosophical works of “literary philosophers.”  Writers in this category demonstrate a deep understanding of “literarity.”  They also position literature against the metaphysical limits of philosophical discourse, transforming the relationship between imaginative language and denotative language.  Writers may include, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Don Delillo, Marilynne Robinson, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Alain Badiou among others. Prerequisite: WRT 102  and WRT 202 .

3 credit hours