Finding Time: Proust and Comparative Literature
COMPLIT 241X
Subject & Catalog Number
Jointly Offered with:
Faculty of Arts & Sciences as GERMAN 241
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Description
The seminar provides an opportunity to read through, absorb, and reflect upon Marcel Proust’s monumental novel, In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913–1927), considered alongside key essays by French, German, and English literary critics and theorists. Major themes include but are not limited to: involuntary memory; topologies of time; love, sexuality, jealousy, and manipulation; aesthetics of music, literature, and the visual arts; nature and the mind; individuality and social hierarchies.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Comparative Literature
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
