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ENGL 12007 - LLC: Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets

Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
This class will explore moments in which the encounter with another culture, gender, or place unleashes sexual and literary awakenings, along with transformations from youth to adulthood. We will begin with one of the most influential texts on literary transformations, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as we explore the traumatic entry into experiences of dreams, poetry, and sexual passion. Texts will likely include the contemporary Caribbean play, Dream on Monkey Mountain, the sixteenth-century British play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the medieval Arabic collection, The One Thousand and One Nights, and the contemporary transnational novel, The Moor’s Last Sigh. [AH]