LIT-124 The Literary Animal

Humans have always been deeply interested in animals, and literature reflects this interest in many ways. We’ll examine the complexity of representing animals in literature by reading poetry, novels, and plays that reflect the human/animal divide, imagine being animal, or use animals as symbols. We’ll also discuss how these texts reveal philosophical and moral issues that arise from our relationships with animals. Texts include Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, London’s Call of the Wild, and Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone. We’ll also read a range of poetry.

Maximum Enrollment

Proseminar (16)

(Proseminar, First Year Course, Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Notes

(Genre and SSIH)